Kia ora koutou,

A huge thank you to those families who assisted with the numerous senior school sports events last week. We really appreciate your support. Thank you to Erica Cranswick and Emily Cooper for their overall organisation.

This week we have Fiona Wilder from IDEAL Literacy working with our Year 3-6 teachers to provide support and enhance our practice. We look forward to her sessions benefiting our students.

Hui

Next Wednesday we have a Whānau Hui from 5:30pm - 6:30pm in the school hall. This is also an opportunity to get some feedback from our community around developing a new localised curriculum. We are interested to know what you want your child at Havelock North Primary to KNOW, UNDERSTAND and DO. There will be a free sausage sizzle on offer.

The order of events will be:

• Welcome from staff and students
• Quick discussion around localised curriculum/feedback from whānau
• Kapa Kaka perform - 3 items
• Karakia Kai /Sausage sizzle

As the Kapa Haka will be performing in the Hall facing out to the Room 24/25 quad, I encourage you to wear something warm. Please RSVP to Tara Wilkins on twilkins@hnps.school.nz

Teacher Only Day

A reminder that Friday 3rd June is a holiday for Havelock North State schools. Lucknow, HNI, Te Mata, Haumoana and ourselves have a day of professional development together.

Pink Shirt Day

This Friday 20th May is Pink Shirt day https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/

This is a nationally recognised day where we encourage students to wear a pink shirt and bring a gold coin to support this very worthwhile cause.

Have a fantastic week everyone.

Ngā mihi

Nick Reed

Principal

Through the Garden to Table programme Te Rito were lucky enough to win seven Urban Mac garden beds. The next stage is to plant kūmara crop. The Year 3 children loved digging up kūmara in the garden at Discovery last week and practised their peeling and slicing skills when making kūmara chips - very tasty! Thanks Mr Gray for your amazing mahi!!

As a staff member, it was such a pleasure to take our HNPS students out to these competitions. We saw .....

• Kids being kind to, and including their team mates
• Kids being kind to the opposition
• Kids making sure everyone on their team had a turn starting with the ball
• Kids looking after their friends who were injured
• Kids playing rugby and handball with their friends from other schools during the breaks
• Kids saying 'thank you' to the referees and their parent helpers
• Kids scoring tries and goals!
• Kids showing resilience when someone from the other team was being unkind to them
• Best of all - sooooo many kids SMILING!

May

19th - Board Meeting 5:30pm

20th - Pink Shirt day

23rd - Home and School Meeting

25th - Whanau Hui 5:30-6:30pm -School Hall (outside)

June

3rd - Teacher Only day

6th - Queen's Birthday holiday

17th - School Photos

24th - Matariki Holiday

July

8th - Last day of Term 2