Kia ora te whanau,

It is wonderful to see ākonga-students engaged in their learning across the school. As the weather gets cooler you may be looking for sweatshirts and jackets belonging to your tamariki . There are at least 50 hanging in ’’lost property’ beside the bike sheds under the admin block. Please come and check.

 

Hamilton East Primary School |Te Kura o Kirikiriroa ki te Rāwhiti, has been successfully funded for the Creatives in Schools programme to create nine tohu | signs to grace the unique grounds by Matariki in term two.

 

Alongside Tamariki this project aims to represent and reflect the mahi of ākonga by enabling a co-creation of tohu/ signage.  Twenty-four kauri students are working with Ngā kaitoi | lead creative Megan Lyon on signage across nine sites which are a response to the taiao of the school, especially Te Ara o Ngāhere, and will be a variety of creative responses to the historical, cultural, ecological, and aspirational aspects of the environment.

 

The whakataukī of Tū Tangata! Tū Maiā Stand tall! Reach high! inspired by the iconic redwood tree, embedded in the school’s vision serves as a powerful metaphor to guide this project.

 

Currently tamariki have been working on prototyping artworks based on their exploration of Te Ara o Te Ngahere/ The Nature Trail.  This concept will be upscaled onto larger wooden rounds, supplied by Tim Newton of Greenfootprint, and installed onto significant native trees within school grounds.  Next up for the project is creating a mural of flags representing all the nationalities we currently have attending Hamilton East School.  We have Wintec visual communication student Grace Batters (Whae Kat’s daughter) on board as our lead designer translating tamariki’s ideas and artwork into the final designs.

 

Creatives in Schools aims to provide creative learning experiences that enhance the wellbeing of students and ākonga and develop their knowledge and skills in communication, collaboration, and creative thinking and practice. It is delivered by Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education in partnership with Te Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Creative New Zealand. 

Ngā mihi,

Pippa Wright

Classes will be taken across to Te Wehenga Park and your child/children can be collected from there.

The bus will leave school at 12.20pm and will do the normal route.

sKids will be available for those children who normally attend from 12.30pm.

Tēnā koutou whānau,

We welcomed our second cohort of New Entrant children last week.  It is great to have them and their whānau here with us and they have settled into their new school life happily.

We have been learning about wai - water as part of our Turangawaewae unit and tamariki - children have been learning about stories of our Waikato river, why water is so important to us and how we can look after it.

The tamariki in Room 5 created these gorgeous sunflowers.

Kia ora whānau,

Thank you all for your support on our Kukutaaruhe Gully trips. Such a wonderful experience for all our students. We were incredibly lucky to have the expertise of Lynn Rogers and the Fairfield Project team. This team are volunteers who gave their time to work with our school. Have a look at their website, they also have a Facebook group.

The Fairfield Project, https://www.thefairfieldproject.co.nz

Room 21 has used mixed media to create their own Kukutaaruhe Gully maps.

Room 20

Kia ora  te whānau,
We are in week 8 already - time is going so fast!! Over the past few weeks we have welcomed some new students to our Kauri team and it has been great seeing our students being so kind and friendly to our new team members. In the Kauri team I am currently working on putting together our Manu Rere group. This is a student leadership group similar to a student council, where those selected will help lead Hui Whakahirahira (assembly) and special events in the school. Our Manu Rere group will be announced at our first Hui Whakahirahira next term and will be presented with their leadership badge. It has been great seeing all the amazing learning happening in classes and I have enjoyed seeing the problem solving in maths happening across the team. - We have some great mathematicians!! Below are some amazing pieces of art by a few of our Kauri students, who have completed their self-portraits. I hope you all get to enjoy some family time over the Easter break.
Ngā MihiWhaea Natalie.

St John’s: This week we have Alicia in from St John’s working with our tamariki on how to respond in an emergency. These skills can be life saving! Ask your child what they learnt and keep practising at home! 

   

   

Registrations for hockey and netball close this Friday the 22nd March. We will not accept any registrations after this time as we need to organise teams. Thank you to everyone who has said they can either coach, manage or umpire a team! We rely on these teams to be run by whānau and appreciate the time and effort that goes into this. If your child would like to play a different winter sport such as basketball or tackle rugby. Please head over to the school's website to see the local clubs they can sign up to. 

We will meet in Room 3 which is on the small junior deck.  Tamariki are welcome and can play outside.

These Hui will be held once a term and are a chance for whānau of our Māori tamariki to come and talk, share ideas about how we can best support our Māori tamariki.

We always start with Whanaungatanga - Getting to know each other and where and who we come from and then go from there.  I am always at the hui and usually one of our Māori Kaiako joins us as well.  Please let me know if you are coming along.  I will send out a reminder closer to the time.

If you have any patai (questions) please let me know.

The FUNdraising team are still seeking donations for an Easter raffle. 

Please deliver your donations to the office over the next 2 weeks.  
Ticket sheets have been sent home with your children today. Sheets are due back Tuesday 26th March.The raffles will be drawn Thursday 28th March.

Keep an eye out on the school facebook page. We will be posting pictures of the baskets that you could win.

Many thanks in advance!

-The FUNdraising team

Are you interested in working 10.00am to 2.00pm one day a week on Wednesday’s as well as providing coverage for our Driving Co-ordinators while they are on leave.

 

Are you:

 

Conveniently located within walking distance from Hamilton East school, why not drop your child off at school, work for a few hours. and then pick your child up at the end of the day.

 

If you’re keen please email your CV to waicrombie@cancersociety.org.nz or if you want to know more, please phone Wai Crombie on 020 413 44439.

The school day finishes at 3pm.

If you need to collect your child early due to a medical appointment or emergency, please sign them out in the office first. These are the only justified reasons for early collection. 

If you have any concerns about this please contact the team leader.

Kōwhai - Trace May tmay@hameast.school.nz

Tōtara - Lynda McKenzie lmckenzie@hameast.school.nz

Kauri - Natalie Sullivan nsullivan@hameast.school.nz