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Hororata Primary School Tel (03) 3180 803 · Fax (03) 3180 682

Email: [email protected]

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Diary Alert

Term One Began

Monday 1 February 2016

AQUATICS PROGRAMME

Began Wednesday 3 February on...

PTA MEETING Wednesday 24 February

MALVERN TOP TEAM Friday 26 February (GLENTUNNEL)

PTA SCHOOL PICNIC Friday 26 February (HORORATA)

MIDDLE ROCK WALK/RUN/CYCLE Sunday 28 February (WINDWHISTLE)

CANTERBURY TRIATHLON Wednesday 2 March (PEGASUS)

HORORATA SWIMMING SPORTS Friday 11 March

WEETBIX TRYATHLON Sunday 13 March (CHRISTCHURCH)

TERM ONE ENDS Friday 15 April 2016

COUNTRY KIDS CARE

Childcare for country kids after school. Hours 2.45pm—6pm Contact Abbi on 0278657029 By text or call for further information Abbi also will look after your children in your own home during the evenings.

BABY SITTING/CHILD MINDING

Pippa Foster is an experienced and much valued child minder and is available now for baby/ sitting or child minding day or night from now on. Please phone Pippa on 318 0801 Also Abbi Thornley 318 0 038

&POOL PARTY AND MORE… This Friday afternoon 4.30pm at The pool. Bring along your

extended family and neighbours.

See you there!

Newsflash...

And The Beat Goes On!

Into Week Four already. It is amazing how

our children quickly learn the sign language

for our National Anthem. This is only performed

at weekly Assembly. Well done to the pupils of

Hororata Primary School.

Welcome to 4 Year Olds

A Wednesday Session for our Four Year olds has begun. Please contact the school office if you would are able to come along on a Wednesday. Friday sessions will also continue to run. Welcome to Trinity, Hunter and Lexi.

Picnic Afternoon Do come along Friday afternoon 4.30pm on

for late afternoon fun of pool party, cricket,

games and more! Please bring your own food to

BBQ and whatever else you need!

This Friday 26 February 2016

More For Friday 26 February Friday morning senior children will be

visiting Glentunnel for the annual Malvern Top

Team challenge. However they will be back in

time for our Friday afternoon Assembly.

So, see you then.

Busy Times We have had a very busy past three weeks and

this week continues to be just as active, not only

for the children but for the teaching staff also.

Reminder... The PTA (Parent Teacher

Association) meeting tonight. Do come along,

AGM date to be set.

Hororata Primary School’s Official Newsletter (24.02.16)

Kia ora Koutou

Quote of the week… ‘Failure is the opportunity to begin again

more intelligently - Henry Ford

Our Active Culture…

Hororata Swimming Sports… After the success of 2015, the annual Hororata Swimming Sports will again be split between two venues this year on Friday 11 (PP14) March 2016. The programme once again be divided into two sections i.e., Recreation (Beginners) and Competitive. The Beginners section will be held at Greendale School utilising their smaller pool from 9.30 – 11.00am, after which we will return to Hororata for the Competitive section, from 11.30am onwards.

An entry form has been attached to this newsletter and is due back at school by Friday 4 March 2016. Students have the choice of a variety of strokes in both sections. The Under Water Plunge will be limited to c competitive swimmers, while the fun pool activities like walking, starfish etc will be limited to the recreation swimmers. Parents are encouraged to talk to their children about their choice of events to ensure the maximum enjoyment and participation. A swimming programme, including rules, race times etc will be available to school families in the week leading up to this event.

Hororata Harriers… The Hororata Harriers will begin in full force next week, with a focus on preparing children for the upcoming local and regional multisport events. We are currently preparing for the upcoming Weet-Bix TRYathlon, Canterbury Triathlon, MacDonalds Duathlon and City 2 Surf fun run/walk. We welcome parents to run with the kids… many legs make light work! We will be running between 12.40 – 1.00pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (all ages).

Our Learning Culture…

Maths Buddy… As part of our strategy to provide remedial and enrichment opportunities for our young mathematicians we offered students and families access to Maths Buddy in 2015. This online resource was provided to all students at the school’s expense. Acknowledging the many issues that surround accessing online resources for families and the poor uptake, we have decided not to continue with this programme at a school level this year. Students and families however can continue to use the resource at their expense. We recommend all parents take the time to explore the resource at www.mathsbuddy.co.nz. This may well be your best spent 30 minutes in support of your child’s mathematics future.

Celebration Assembly... Every Friday afternoon from 1:50pm our school comes together for our School Assembly. Our Assemblies included values education, awards and presentations and performances from by our talented students.. all welcome. Twice a term we hold a Celebration Assembly, including presentations from all classes, special awards and an opportunity to celebrate the success we have achieved up to that point in the school year. Our first Celebration Assembly this year will be held on Friday 4 March, at 1:30pm… please come along a see a snap shot of what our awesome kids have been up to this year.

Finally, regular and enjoyable physical activity benefits everyone. It can improve physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and, for New Zealand students and young people everywhere, it should be part of daily life. Schools, in particular, play a critical role in fostering young people’s physical activity, in teaching the skills and attitudes needed to participate, and in providing a safe venue for the activity to take place.

In the past few years our school has worked hard to develop an Active Culture whereby students and adults are encouraged to make active choices about how they use their recreation time. Our Active Culture is part of our special character and is promoted as our point of difference within the education community.

Once again our Active School Programme will be sponsored by Min Cookson and PGG Wrightsons. Min’s support, coupled with support from Canterbury Plains Water Limited (CPWL), KiwiSport funding provided by the Government and fundraising from the PTA allows us to provide Hororata students with a large array of activities, without hitting on parent pockets every week.

Thanks for supporting our school

Marty Gameson (Principal)

Ps. Has anyone seen our school bus which, was stolen on Thursday last week?

Piwakawaka (Yrs 0-2) Miss Raybould

Hi everyone.

Just a couple of things to help the day run smoothly. The children need to bring their book bag to school every day with their reading book and notebook inside it. Sometimes the children tell me “Mum took it out and didn’t put it back”, so I usually remind them that they come to school, not mum, so it is their job to do it.

Also, at the end of last year many children took their publishing folder home so they could take out last year’s stories. Please send this back to school empty so we can add our new stories.

Many thanks Julia

Kea (Yrs 2-4) Miss Stewart

Hello all,

Well everything is well under way now. We are starting to put up some of our work on the walls so please come in and have a look at our amazing talent. We have officially started homework this week and already have at least two pictures up on our Homework Wall Of Fame!

We also have a making table in our class this year and are looking for small sized cardboard boxes so we have something to work with for our creations.

It has been great to catch up with so many of you over the last few days. If you haven’t been able to make a time please just drop in after school or send me an e-mail.

Megan

Tui (Yrs 4-6) Mrs Foster

Hello Everyone.

it is great to be back at school. Thank you to Mrs Baker for looking after Tui in my absence.

This week we have been busy re-establishing routines, homework was sent home on Monday along with spelling and reading books. Please encourage your child to read every night.

Swimming continues to happen every day – well done to the children who bring their togs every day.

Good luck to all those who are going to Canterbury Triathlon next week.

Cheers Jenni

See you on Sunday at the Hororata Parish Bike Run Walk

10am—4pm Middle Rock Farm 1160 Coleridge Road Windwhistle see www.hororataparish.co.nz

Community Noticeboard

PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION Canteen will resume again this week.

Pies $ 2.00

Hot Dogs $ 2.00

Cookies $ 1.00

Please send along orders in pre-used envelope with your child’s name and order written on it and of course, the money inside.

Donations are welcome through the PTA with their Bank account for direct donations being : 12 3441 0048484 00.

Next meeting TONIGHT Wednesday 24 February 2016 7.30pm in the school library. Please all come along for the first meeting of the year.

Keep Friday 26 February free for an afterschool Picnic!

Pool party and more...BYO everything.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Thanks to Amanda for attending this week’s Board of Trustee meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 31 March 2016 so please mark it down in your calendar now. Reminder to visit www.trustee-election.co.nz because we need a great board of trustees to lead our great school. We need informed people from the parent and wider community with a balance of skills and experiences on our board to step forward. Potential trustees may be in the school parent community, or, in the wider community, but everyone needs information to make the choice to stand and noters need information to exercise their vote. If you can share your skills you can be a trustee. Step forward. Piki ake

CHILDREN’S DAY SUNDAY 6 MARCH 2016 Rolleston Community Centre, Rolleston Drive, Rolleston Bring your picnic and enjoy a fun FREE afternoon out with free activities such as: Bouncy Castles, Face Painting, Roaming Fairy and Clown, Sports Suzie’s Super Circus show at 1.30pm, Skate Jam, Farmyard Animals, Mega Slide, Army MHOV Vehicle, Sports Activities, music Sausage Sizzle and much more. There will also be a CAR BOOT MARKET as part of this event. Thanks to our supporters who have assisted Selwyn Parenting Network in bring this 2016 Children’s Day Celebration to Selwyn

PLANTER BOXES FOR SALE $20-$40 All made from recycled pellets. For everyone sold $5 is

donated to the Hororata Primary School. Thanks Tim. You can see photos on the Hororata Buy Sell Facebook page. Pre-made planters available but Tim can make to your measurements. Phone 0273947696.

WANTED Parents to do some extra reading and writing with children in classes here at school.

MALVERN FUN RUN / WALK / BIKE

Sunday 6 March 2016

Darfield Domain

3km, 6km, 12km, Obstacle Course

All Ages Spot Prizes Entertainment Food

Register on www.sportsground.co.nz/malvernfunrun

Swimming Baths

Sir John Hall bequeathed a sum of money in 1907 for school baths.

An attempt to obtain Government subsidy in commemoration of the Coronation of King George V in 1911 was not successful. In the 1920’s further efforts were made and the funds raised.

The school baths were built and officially opened with a Carnival on 20 December 1924. The ladies wore their new regulation neck-to-knee costumes. Thereafter bathing was segregated with special hours and days for ladies and gentlemen. No record has been kept of when these rules were relaxed!

The water for filling the baths was obtained from a Council water race. The filters did not remove all the foreign matter hidden in the cloudy water, so one would swim with cockabullies' and tadpoles.

In November 1955, after using the services of local water diviners, a well was dug in the old horse paddock (is still there today although we do not have a horse paddock any more).

Many hours of voluntary hard labour were needed before the under-ground stream was reached at 30 feet.

Now we can bathe in sparkling clear water! And everyone looks at the daily temperature!

Keep your eye out for our next instalment!

Happy Holiday Snaps

Children in Kea Classroom had to use their five senses to describe about what they could see and how they were feeling in that one moment.

I was burning like a sausage. I was looking at dolphins jumping in the air. I saw a blue and white dolphin it looked smooth. Brodie

That day it was pouring down with rain. I was stacking up bales. I noticed a flat trailer with a tractor stacked up with bales. Josh T

I noticed it was windy outside and I saw paper blowing around. When I was playing outside it was really windy. It nearly made me fall over. Poppy

I was swimming in the whooshing water. It was a nice sunny day. It felt warm. There was an old ragged fence and a fancy pool. Gracie

It was a sunny hot day. My tummy was bursting with happiness. I noticed a big ginormous waterslide. Then I was going down the waterslide in Hamner Springs. Niamh

I was at Darfield Forest on a sunny Saturday. There were tall pine trees and pinecones. Emily

I felt really excited. The wind was whistling there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was going to a horse show in Christchurch. Horses were neighing. When you stood on the grass it squashed down because it was really soggy. Ellie

The day was bright and boiling hot like summer and as sunny as spring. I was digging up sand near the lake. There were millions of white boats and the sand was boiling hot. Taane

It was a blazing, boiling hot day. I played games at Timezone to win tickets to get awesome toys. There were lots of amazing games to play with and one had a basketball hoop. Charles

It was a boiling hot day. I was so excited we were in Hanmer Springs. I was on the black hole hydroslide. First I saw beautiful gloomy, blue water. It was as if it was looking at me. Jessie

It was a drizzling wet day with pouring rain. It was like the clouds were crying. I was sitting in the car playing on the phone. Mum and Dad were putting the tent up. There were lots of tents and cars. Emily W

It was like a steaming roasting day. I was going rapid speed on the waterslide. I noticed a massive staircase that leads up to a giant waterslide. Xavier

It was a beautiful hot day. It felt like I had no skin. I was cleaning the caravan. I saw the farm and Cage the dog. Miles

It was a hot day with a little bit of a breeze. I looked at the stones and played with them. I saw little stones and big rocks. Josh S

It was a really hot day. I was on a plane going to Australia playing with Jamie’s xbox. I noticed the plane had a little t.v. on the back of the seat. Logan

It was sunny and hot and I was boiling. It was at least thirty degrees. I was biking to a bike park in Wanaka. I saw a dirt track and trees. Dustin

I felt like I was cooking in an oven. I saw the grey, bluey fish swimming along. It is a salmon. I wound the fish into the boat. Seth W

I was as hot as a hot dog. I was at Hornby Pool. I saw two pools and one waterslide. Jackson

It was a beautiful sunny day and it was quite windy. I was on the water skis. I saw jellyfish in the water by the boat and I saw my brother fall off my water skis. Toby

It was a sunny day. It was a warm day. It was Christmas morning. I saw presents under the green Christmas tree. Robert

It was a bright and really sunny day. I was sitting in the pool. There were lots of people from England. Alex

I went on a hot day. The white clouds were like marshmallows. I was zooming around. The grass was green and the trees were all tall. TK

Spotlight on Kea Week 4 Term 1‘16