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DATES TO REMEMBER Monday 18 to Thursday 21 June Book Fair Monday 25 June Paid Union Meeting—See below
Tuesday 26 June Choir Performance at Alandale Wednesday 27 June Strike Performance Tuesday 3 July Performance of Alandale Singers and Horsham Downs Choir at School
20/06/18
A View FROM THE TOP.
Ag Day Changes this Year Owing to the spread of mycoplasma-bovis in some farms across the country, including the Waikato, the Ag Day Committee has decided to suspend the inclusion of calves at our school Ag Day this year. This decision was not taken lightly and consideration was given to the many factors, viewpoints and implications this has. The Board of Trustees and Management at the school wholly supports this decision which is precautionary, proportionate and for 2018 only. We will review this for 2019. The remainder of the Ag-Day programme will go ahead as normal. School Zone Changes on 23 July As you will be aware, our school zone is changing on 23 July – details can be found on our school web-site. If you have any questions or concerns around this change please contact Raewyn in the school office so that we can clarify things for you. Please let us know of any children you intend to enrol at our school over the next couple of years if you have not already done so. This helps us greatly when planning classroom composition. A Reminder of the Upcoming Teacher’s Union Meeting on 25 June The NZEI Primary Teachers’ Union Meeting (PUM) is being held on Monday 25 June at Claudelands. The meeting is for teach-ers throughout Hamilton and the wider Waikato to consider the terms of the collective agreement/pay settlement and re-sourcing of the education sector, currently being negotiated with the Ministry of Education. Our school will remain open for supervision, however we ask that as many of our families as possible pick up their children at 12:30pm so that the maximum number of teachers possible can attend the PUM. For our families registered for after school care with YMCA we are able to confirm that supervision will begin at 1:30pm at no additional cost to families. Thank you in anticipation of your assistance with this. Teaching Team Changes Mrs Nicole Jones will be assuming the leadership role in Tima Tahi from early Term 3 when Miss Waikari goes on maternity leave. Room 14 will be taught by Mrs Bridget McLaughlin to the end of 2018. What Is Fortnite?
Simply the most popular video game around at the moment. It is a free-to-play online video game for up to 100 partici-pants. Children (and many adults) love it. Why might this be proving a problem? The game is highly addictive, with many features being built in to make it very attractive to play. Some of our families have been asking us what is a ‘reasonable’ amount of time to spend playing the game. That is impossible to answer. As with any use of digital devices or phones please remember that parents and carers are the ‘adults’. It is perfectly reasonable to restrict play to a sensible number of hours for your own family circumstances. By the same to-ken we encourage parents to check browser histories, social media accounts and if all else fails just switch off the wi-fi. Your children may not like it but please remember that you are the adults! Children developing ‘square eyes’ will be advised accordingly! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale Steve Dunsmore Principal
HDS SPORT RESULTS Netball HDS Rockets drew 9-9 against Ham east Flyers 2 . Player of the day - Caitlin Wright. (7/6) HDS Rockets lost 1-29 against SC Kiwi. Player of the day—Yiran Jiang. (14/6) HDS Flyers lost 2-10 against Glenview. Player of the day - Abbie-Rose Jeffery. (7/6) HDS Flyers won 9-4 against Deanwell. Player of the day—Angel Miller (14/6) HDS Hot Shots lost 7-10 against Hamilton Junior high. Player of the day—Ami Thompson (9/6) HDS Hot Shots lost 4-27 against Karioi Mystics. Player of the day—Hayley Dawbin (16/6) Hockey HDS Flames won 2-0 against Rototuna. Player of the day—Ruby Cook (9/6) HDS Flames won 1-0 against Silverdale. Player of the day Hunter Gorrie (16/6) HDS Strikers won 1-0 against Gordonton Anchor Blue. Player of the day—Addison McLeod (9/6) HDS Strikers lost 3-5 against Nawton—Player of the Day—Lewis Chieng (16/6) HDS Steelstix lost 0-7 against Hukanui Quicksticks. Player of the day—Poppy McConnell (9/6) HDS Steelstix won 8-0 against Hukanui Shooters. Player of the day—Abi Lanigan (16/6) The HDS Steelstix will now be playing in the Watson Cup HDS Flickstix lost 0-3 against Silverdale Tigers. Player of the day—Arna Kovaleski (9/6) HDS Flickstix lost 0-2 against Hamilton East Geckos. Player of the day—Alisha Roberts (16/6) HDS Warriors won 3-1 against Homeschool Tigers. Player of the day—Ella Pollard HDS Warriors lost 0-3 against Hamilton East Kiwis. Player of the day—Isabelle Stockdale (16/6) HDS Sneaky Sticks won 2-1 against Glenview Flyers. Player of the day—Kale Ganley HDS Force won 5-0 against Matamata Blue. Player of the day— Ian Preston (9/6) HDS Force won 6-0 against Cambridge Middle School. Player of the day—Danica Newport (16/6)
A note to those students who have signed up for ICAS exams this year: The sitting dates are listed below. If you are absent on one of these days, I try and let you do a catch-up test on another day. It does need to be within a couple of days as I have to post the test papers back to Australia to be marked. English Tues 31 July Maths Tues 14 August These dates are also on the school website http://www.horshamdowns.school.nz/ under Calendar of Events. Thanks, Mrs Poultney
Along with the winter weather has come the mud! We try to keep our fields open as much as possible to give our students a chance to have a run round at break times. However, accidents occasional-ly happen and we recommend that students have a change of clothes in their bags—even older students!!
EWCS CROSS-COUNTRY—Full Results 9 Yr Girls Amy Sexton—3rd; Addison McLeod—5th; Jessica Driscoll—9th; Gemma Beveridge—10th 9 Yr Boys Miller Sturm—1st; Quin Ray—10th; Dyarko Kadry—13th; James Hooker—14th 10 yr Girls Lanik Kadry—1st; Sophia Dol—2nd; Caitlin Wright—3rd: Aria Rameka—5th; Mya Kovaleski—6th; Maiya Jhaveri—18th; Sophie Wright—19th 10yr Boys Max Gurnick—1st; Daniel Dawbin—2nd; Luke Campbell—5th; Joshua Barrymore-Uden—9th; Kaden Ashton—10th; Lewis Bennett—11th 11yr Girls Lily Aitken—4th; Kina Rameka—5th; Abby Forster-Smith—7th; Gracie Campell—8th; Georgia Pollard—10th 11yr Boys Jake White—1st; Ian Preston—6th; Riley Binnie—7th; Joshua Stevens—9th; Isaac Jeffery—10th; Oliver Swney—11th 12yr Girls Monique Spedding—2nd; Hayley Dawbin—3rd; Bena Hart—5th; Shontal TUnnicliffe—7th; Samantha Driscoll—8th; Alexis Daly—10th 12yr Boys Charlie Jackson—7th; Cameron White—10th; Boston Tordoff—11th; Jackson Bowcott—13th Congratulation to everyone that competed. It was a very successful day.
Can you help? Room 9 would like some ‘board games’ (monopoly, scrabble etc) or anything you might have that we could utilise on wet days. Anything would be gratefully accepted. Please email Mrs De Vargas on [email protected] Thank you
Trivia Night 2018 – The Good, The Bad, and The … Nearly a month ago (where has the time gone?) the PA organised their annual trivia night. The evening was a great suc-cess, costumes were amazing, questions were challenging, and the desserts were outstanding!! Thank you to everyone who attended, we had so much fun and best of all raised $6200 for the school! To make this happen we have had a great deal of support from those in our community. Thank you to the following businesses. With their help we were able to raffle of some amazing prizes!
Thank you Sarah Chrystall, Dee Jay Wenham and Andy McOnie for also donating prizes for the raffle. Thank you to Liz Burrows for designing the amazing signage for the event. Thank you to the wonderful dessert makers, Sian Bradley, Danelle Franks, Lisa Stockdale, Anna Pollard, Kelly Mitchell, Phillipa Mackenzie, Ginette Musker, and Marcelle Jackson your creations were amazing. It was one of the highlights of my night watching people vie for their favourite. Thank you to Ash Parmar for once again running a great bar, and Megan Owen for being a top MC. Thank you to the helpers on the night, Jenny Barker, Lu Kadry, Carrie Lanigan, James Jeffery, Dee Jay Wenham, Sarah Sweny, Anna and Stefan Pollard, and Lorna Lian the night ran smoothly thanks to you all. On to the important information, the winners! Best Dressed Team: The Greek Gods and Goddesses Best Dressed Female: Sue McConnochie Best Dressed Male: James Phillips Winning Trivia Team: The Dot Dot Dots See you all next year, Jess Colebourne
Pizza Lunch
Horsham Downs Parents Association is having a pizza lunch fundraiser.
To raise funds for Ronald McDonald House, to say thanks to McDonalds for supporting our gala,
by donating the two bouncy castles and a staff member to assist with them.
When Friday 29th
Cost $3 per portion (1 portion = 2 slices)
make sure you complete the google form to secure your child's order .
Please Place money in an envelope with child/children’s name/s and class number/s on it in the purple box marked pa in reception by 3.15pm Wednesday 27th June.
Clink on link below to ORDER NOW or scan QR code.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FDn2cun5_iB51ve6s9JB5Cs0rnPc2vfBB4UEHpgOeUs/edit?ts=5b28af5e
Sorry no change will be given so please make sure you have the correct change in the envelope
Edventure Outdoors- School Holiday Camps These July school holidays we are running 2 awesome camps. Tramping, rock climbing, possum trapping, team build-ing challenges, hot pools and much more Edventure Out-doors Camp, Mt Pi-rongia, July 9-13th Edventure Winter Camp, Aongatete lodge, July 16-20th - 8-14 yr olds - OSCAR available - Pick up/drop off AKL, BOP, Waikato Book at www.edventure.co.nz or email [email protected]
It’s School Holiday Time!!
9th to 20th of July 2018
Check out our active and fun filled
Holiday Programme
at our five fantastic venues:
Hamilton Girls’ High, Southwell, Te Totara,
Bankwood and Leamington Schools
We are OSCAR/WINZ Approved
Programme and bookings www.kellysports.co.nz
Email: [email protected] Phone Kim or Hine 07 839 9017
Text 022 0532425 INZ Approved
