Newsletter

Welcome to the last letter for Term 1. Next week is the last week of an 11 week action packed term. Term 2 starts on Monday 28 April. We invite whanau along to school on Tuesday for our Pasifika Day 🌸 Our Cultural Ambassadors have planned some fun activities for everyone and will lead these on the day. Details are in the graphic above and a timetable of the day will be published on Hero. We hope to see you there.

Kia ora whanau. We have had a fun and enjoyable first two weeks back at school and the children have loved getting in the pool on these hot days. A reminder that there is no school on Thursday 6 or Friday 7 February. Welcome to all new families to Hampstead School.

Kia ora whanau. It was great to see so many supporters at our Athletics day! The children really gave everything their best effort and were excellent sports on the day. Please see the attached document with placings. Enjoy the long weekend this weekend. We look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday.

Arohamai whanau for the late delivery of this newsletter. We had a very busy day on Friday with Winter Tournament and also a visit from Tahi, a therapy dog in training. He loved the children and was very welcomed by all staff and students. We hope to see him back for a visit again soon.

Kia ora e te whanau. We have had a lot of exciting things happening at school in the last two weeks, so this is quite a long newsletter.

Kia ora whanau. We hope the children are all enjoying their latest Duffy books. We are grateful to be part of Duffy Books in Homes with the support of Mainfreight who sponsor this. We were treated to a fun Duffy Theatre performance last Friday.

This will be our final Newsletter for 2023. We will post pictures from our End of Year Assembly on Facebook. Details of our last day of school is posted below.

Kia ora whanau. We wish all the children an enjoyable holiday break. This term has been action-packed and gone by so quickly. We look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday 9th October. Please remember to bring your school sunhats back after the holidays as we wear hats daily in Term 1 and 4.

Kia ora e te Whanau. This week has had a safety focus for the children with Road Safety Week and NZ Bullying-Free Week happening this week. We have had a visit from Fran (we know her as Constable Fran) who came with her dog Kobe and taught the children about safety around dogs.

Kia ora Whanau. You may have seen in the media that Primary and Secondary school teachers and principals will be taking strike action on Thursday 16 March. This means our Board of Trustees have made the decision to close our school on Thursday 16 March as we cannot safely open with no teachers available. We understand this is an inconvenience and we appreciate your support with this.

Kia ora whanau. We have had a busy two weeks celebrating Tongan Language Week last week and Maori Language Week this week. Language weeks are a great chance to learn some extra language and also embrace cultural traditions, music and dance as well as learn some history.

This is our last newsletter for the term. Next term, we will trial having a fortnightly Newsletter on a Friday in even weeks of the term. School returns from the July holidays on Monday 25th July.

Kia ora Whanau. It's been a busy few weeks at school. We have also seen a rise in illness over the last two weeks. There seems to be a lot of winter ills about. We appreciate you keeping your tamariki at home and letting us know when they are unwell. At this stage, we have only a small number of active Covid cases, but it is still in our community.

Welcome to our new Newsletter format. You will see this is shared to Facebook too.

Kia ora e te whanau. You may have seen that our shed upgrade is all but complete and is looking great! The main gate on Wellington St is open again for access. Please ensure the gate remains closed as we have children that we have to keep safe. The bike and scooter stands will remain over by the old bike sheds beside Rm 17 and these are also getting a wee bit of a makeover which will improve our storage of bikes and scooters. Please make sure all scooters and bikes are clearly named as we have many that look the same and occasionally these get mixed up and go home with the wrong person.

Kia ora whanau. It's hard to believe it is already the end of the school year! We look forward to seeing you on our last day on Friday 13 December for our Final Assembly at 11am. If you'd like to stay for lunch, please bring a picnic. Kai for Kids will supply children their lunches in a paper bag this year and Talleys are kindly providing ice cream for the students afterwards. We wish all our school community a happy holiday season. We look forward to seeing the children back to school for 2025 on Monday 27 January.

Kia ora koutou. We have made it to the end of another fun and action packed term. Later today, caregivers will receive a notification from Hero to read about Term 3 learning called "Celebrating Learning". We wish everyone a happy and safe holiday break. We look forward to seeing the children back at school on Monday 14 October.

Welcome to the first newsletter for Term 3. We have had a busy first two weeks back. Thank you for making the time to meet with teachers at our learning conferences last week. You can still make a time that suits if you weren't able to make either of those dates.

Kia ora e te whanau. Please see details above for our school Cross Country & Fun Run. We are so grateful to Kai for Kids for putting on a healthy kai for everyone. We hope you can make it along for lots of fun. We will all be in the middle of the field this year.

Kia ora Hampstead School Whanau. It was lovely to see so many new families at our New Whanau Afternoon Tea. We warmly welcome you to our school. Thank you to the many people who completed our survey to find out what community events you would like at school and to find out if anyone would like to be involved. We were pleased with the fantastic ideas put forward and 12 amazing people would like to help. We are holding a Dessert night on Tuesday 12 March from 7pm in our Library. All welcome - please bring a plate of something sweet to share. Children are welcome to play while the adults chat.

Kia ora Whanau. This newsletter is going out a little early, due to our Teacher Only day Thursday and Canterbury Anniversary Day on Friday. It was great to see many of you at learning conferences this week. If you were unable to make it in and would still like a time to meet with your child's teacher, please give the office a call and we can arrange a time that suits. Enjoy the long weekend.

Malo e lelei, we hope you enjoyed celebrating Tongan Language Week. We have 19 children at our school that are of Tongan descent. We have enjoyed learning some new language and dressing up today. Ma'u ha 'aho lelei (Have a nice day).

Kia ora e te Whanau. This term has flown by so quickly. The children have been really engaged in their Space inquiries and I have loved learning lots from the children. We look forward to seeing you at our Learning Conferences and Celebration of Learning Night early next term. All details are contained within this newsletter. We look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday 17 July after the Matariki long weekend.

Kia ora e te Whanau. We've had a great couple of weeks back at school with some lovely autumn weather. It's been great seeing the children challenge themselves in their training for the Cross Country which is coming up on 25th May.

Our thoughts are with the communities in the North Island recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle. Our school went out in support today to raise funds to support the recovery efforts. Thank you for donating generously to this cause. Money raised from our Pool Open Days has also gone towards this. We are proud to announce we have raised $718!

Kia Ora Whanau. With Staff Only Day Thursday (tomorrow) and Canterbury Show Day on Friday, we are sending this newsletter out early. Enjoy the long weekend and hopefully some sunshine.

Mālō e lelei. Next week we celebrate Tongan Language Week. We are proud to have 15 Tongan children at our school. We will celebrate the language and culture of Tonga over the week. I was very fortunate to attend a ceremony in Auckland last week, where the Ministry of Education gifted the Pacific Strategy Resource "Talanoa Ako ~ Make it Happen" to Principals. Malo 'aupito.

Kia Ora e te Whanau. Many thanks to those of you who have provided us with feedback via our Whanau Survey. If you haven't had a chance yet, there is still time. The link to the survey has been emailed and is contained in Class Dojo. Paper copies are available through the office also. Please get in touch if you would like the link sent to you.

Friday 3 June 2022