However, if your child does need to bring a mobile phone, or other digital device for a family reason, it must be handed in to their classroom teacher upon arrival at school (before 8.50am) for safekeeping. The device will then be available for collection after 3.00pm. Your child is not allowed to use their phone on the school grounds unsupervised. 

Cybersafety agreements will be issued to all students this term. Parents will also be provided with cybersafety information.

We ask parents/caregivers to carefully monitor their children’s use of social media, email and messaging accounts. Unfortunately, we have had to deal with some irresponsible and disrespectful use of digital devices in the past which has occurred outside of school hours. This behaviour has a negative effect on student relationships and interferes with our learning programmes. We appreciate your vigilance and support with this issue.

A waste-free lunch means only packing items that can be composted or recycled. That means, no plastic wrap, no foil, no zip lock bags, and no packaged foods.

Hobsonville School only has organic waste bins. The waste is composted or fed to our worms to help support the growth of our vegetable gardens and fruit trees in our school garden. Through this process, we are teaching the ākonga to be responsible for the waste they create, and how they can make a difference in the environment we love. If ākonga bring waste to school, we ask them to please take this home.