Hōpara 2021

Kia ora e te whānau, End of year Assessment:  Over the coming weeks students will be posting their end of year assessments. Each student has been asked to provide a sample from the beginning of the year, end of year, and reflect on their personal progress. Each sample will have a teacher comment which relates directly to the progress of that child. Please take the time to look at these samples and comment.  WAINUI CAMP 2022: All parents who registered their interest in coming to camp will have received an acceptance or declined letter today (via email). We thank everyone for putting their name forward, we had 20 in total! We are still waiting on a number of health forms for students PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THIS! Check your alerts for this notice! 2022 MATAWARA BEGINNING OF YEAR CAMP (YEAR 6'S ONLY): Thank you so much to all of you who have completed the Jotform for your child attending our Team Building Camp next February. If you have not done so, please get this done A

  Week 5 Blog Post November 19 2021 This Week in Hopara Hōpara Times The children have finalised their newspaper reports using the online Canva tool. These reports have used the information from their whānau interview. They are a fascinating read and we will be collating them all into one newspaper. Team Tūhura and Hōpara Scratch Alex and Oskar planned Scratch workshops and delivered these to both teams on Wednesday. They surveyed the team to find out that Broadcast and Receive was the next skill that everyone wanted to focus on. The workshops were a great success and most children completed their Scratch game. Tennis On Thursday Hopara took part in our annual tennis tournament. There was some wonderful Rallies from multiple students, Ben stockton and Jemmah Gaston taking the honors. Honorable mentions goes to Jackson Clark, Bradly Cowles, Louisa Miller and Mila Chamberlain.  2022 MATAWARA BEGINNING OF YEAR CAMP (YEAR 6'S ONLY)  Thank you so much to all of you who have completed th

Kia ora e te whānau  Once again, the week has just flown!  Our main focus for this week has been completing our writing/inquiry project and reviewing our maths concepts. Week 5 is the final week for CHILL projects, please catch up with your tamariki about their progress.  BAKE SALE SUCCESS  -  Thank you for your baking contributions, we raised $453.80 towards our 2022 camp. A special thanks to Krissie C, Paula H, Michelle B, and Kerry C for your help and organisation. We are still looking for helpers for our two sausage sizzles - please go to the fundraising doc and put your name down if you are available.  Sun Hats  -  Please make sure your child has a NAMED sun hat ready for school tomorrow. The weather is heating up and we need to stay sun safe!  Mask wearing  -  We would appreciate all parents/caregivers wearing a mask inside our classroom, we understand if you have an exemption you will not have to.  Reminders: Week 5 -   Tuesday -  Milo and Cookie Fundraiser  Thursday -  Ag flowe

Kia ora e te whānau  We have had an awesome week in Hōpara!  This week we began writing our Taonga Newspaper articles, we would like to thank you all for supporting this task at home! We can't wait to share our Hōpara Times Newspaper with you all!  Yr 4/5 CAMP 2022 BAKE SALE - Please bring all baking to Hōpara on TUESDAY morning for our bake sale! It would be helpful if the baked items could be sold/wrapped individually.    Kapa Haka  Well done to Caiyu for stepping up and taking on a leadership role in kapahaka today, you really showed us your strength and mana! Band - The class band has been up and running for the last few Thursdays. Everybody seems to be having fun and learning some cool music.  Sun Hats  -  Please make sure your child has a NAMED sun hat ready for school tomorrow. The weather is heating up and we need to stay sun safe!  Mask wearing  -  We would appreciate all parents/caregivers wearing a mask inside our classroom, we understand if you have an exemption you wi

Kia ora e te whānau  We have had a wonderful week in Hōpara!  Thursday Science   This Thursday we started a series of investigations made by the New Zealand Transport agency. The purpose of these investigations is to gain a better understanding of what happens when a car is in a crash. This week we looked at side on, rear end and head to head impacts using marbles to simulate cars in crashes.  CHILL CLUBS:   All Hōpara students now have a new set of CHILL tasks that they have personally designed or were given. As a team, we continue to refine this program to ensure it is student-led and driven but also ensure there is accountability. Please check in with your child about how they are tracking with these tasks, they are due at the end of week 5. Kapa Haka We were lucky enough to have Halle Pitama-Taite join our kura today to support us with Kapa Haka. We loved her passion and energy. Sun Hats  - Please make sure your child has a NAMED sun hat ready for school tomorrow. The weather is he

Kia ora e te whānau  Welcome back to Term 4!  Athletics Day was a huge success for all Hōpara students! It was pleasing to see everyone pushing themselves and striving for personal excellence.   Our new writing project called "Our Story, Our Taonga" started this week. We collaboratively constructed 10 interview questions to gather information about a story that has been foundational to us or our whānau. Over the next week, Hōpara students will conduct the interview and begin to construct their articles.  We have started a new round of chill clubs. Some students required more structure based on their presentation results last term, hence their projects being designed for them. Please have a chat with your children about what their projects are and how you can best support them. Reminder - Below are the topics we will discuss in sexuality this term:  Sun Hats  - Please make sure your child has a NAMED sun hat ready for school tomorrow. The weather is heating up and we need to s