HBT - The Year That Was 2018

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A celebration of achievement in Hawke’s Bay Schools to The Year That Was. This an annual project Hawke’s Bay Wiselcome

recognition and continue to do so at a very rapid pace. As centres of learning excellence we see enthusiastic children, motivated staff and a huge range of learning, social, sporting and cultural activities designed to challenge our youngsters.

This publication celebrates their successes and provides invaluable information to help the wider community learn about the exceptional young people, and their teachers, who represent the future of our region.

Outdoor learning is part and parcel of the complete learning experience whether at the beach, at camp, at the local reserve or on the ocean. Children are encouraged to be active explorers and there’s plenty of fun incorporated into the curriculum and fun generally equates to learning.

Today supports with enthusiasm. It’s a great pleasure to produce this publication which is focused solely on supporting schools and giving them the opportunity to ‘brag’ to the community at large.

Our schools, city and country based, also strive to produce caring, helpful, honest, friendly, responsible and socially aware children. This is in addition to equipping them with the many skills necessary to compete and succeed in today’s world.

The world of education has changed beyond the imagination of many of our readers who are perhaps beyond child rearing days and now enjoy the pleasures of grandchildren. A visit to any school today is an inspiration in itself as teaching methods have changed beyond

Interactive technology has been embraced to support learning and the results are quite astounding with children happily accepting technology as a learning resource which has opened up even greater avenues for structured learning and fun.

Life isn’t all about technology and iPads and our schools celebrate success in the full gamut of activities including sports, the arts, the environment, culture, and of course academically.

There’s also a great focus on developing meaningful, respectful and caring relationships and taking responsibility for self. Communication skills are part and parcel of a child’s life from the time they start early childhood education and throughout their school life.

When brought together all the skills, knowledge and communication ability give our students the best opportunity to succeed.

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Frasertown School Principal – Tangi Geary 13 Staff, 128 Students Principal’s Message This year we celebrated 150 years of our awesome school. The history of the school has been intertwined in learning and events throughout the year and the children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the past, but also looking ahead to the possibilities for themselves and our school as we move ahead.

Our awesome 5 year old’s Basketball team

Although it has been a busy year, it has been thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our students participated in district and regional activities, which are perfect opportunities to challenge and stretch themselves physically, culturally and academically.

Our students have enjoyed many successes across the year and learnt a lot from their failures.

With the support of their teachers and our support staff, students have learned to embrace failure as an opportunity to reflect and learn, making them stronger and more likely to succeed in the next opportunity.

Wai te Kauri Cooper shares his learning with Nanny Makere during one of our termly learning expos.

In Term Four we tackled our Jubilee week which began with our school hosting the Wairoa District Kapa Haka Festival, welcoming more than

1000 people onto our school. What a special day that was. Following that, we had our annual Pet and Flower Day, which is a highlight for many. We finished off the week with a three day jubilee celebration over the weekend. It was an exhausting, but absolutely fabulous week.

Looking back over the year to acknowledge all that we have achieved is somewhat overwhelming. I am so proud of our students for their commitment to be at their best, celebrating where we have come from and looking ahead to set new goals for themselves.

This year would not have been the success it was without the support of our amazing staff and Board of Trustees, and also the parents and community.

We have achieved a lot as a community this year and I am so grateful for all stakeholders who truly have our students at the heart. We work hard to ensure our students get the best and enable them to be their best!

Best wishes to you all for the remainder of 2018 and heading into 2019, another exciting year of learning – Have fun!

Tangi Geary

Sophie and Montana present Frazy news during Term 3’s Wellington Camp. A great experience for our Year 5 and 6 students!

Our junior Kapa students take the stage. It was an awesome day for our District Kapa Haka Event.

Paige and her canine friend attend our Annual Pet and Flower Day! Dont they look cute?

Ex Principal Alan Russek and past student, parent and board Member Dennis Munro plant our Jubilee Tree – The pohutukawa.

Long term Frasertown School Community member Joyce Brownlie cuts our Jubilee Cake with youngest student Peter Swann and 5th Generation Frasertown student True Rhythm Nahona.

Cake was made by Lissina Bestford.

Kobey Mete Grant looks on as Ahleah Westcott starts the next stage of the course at Adrenalin forest in Wellington.

Past and current students participated in 2018 Waka Ama Nationals at Karapiro.

Brooke and Emma Powdrell took out the best dressed prize for our Annual Daffodil Day Mufti.

This drew the crowds at our Bi-annual Monster Garage Sale! Splat the Teacher with a wet sponge – but only if your aim is right!

The whanau were enthralled in the Fire Snake experiment shared during a learning expo by student, Callum Spence.

Our Epro8 team of Montana, Will, Maisy and Connor gave this years challenge a good nudge.

We entered the Year 5 and 6 girls only soccer tournament held in Napier this year.

What a blast the girls had!

Our school motocross team, Luke Taylor, Emily Swann, Ashlin and Shawna Swann. Well done Team!

Our students enjoy the Autumn leaves.

Principal’s Message “Lay Well Thy Foundation” is our school’s vision. We believe the primary school years are a key period of time to provide the best possible start in literacy and numeracy. We ensure the skills of thinking, creating and collaborating are nurtured and children prepare positively for the future.

Thank you to all who have contributed to a fantastic 2018.

Everyone within our school community assist in different ways and this is what helps create a vibrant school culture and ensures “The Best Possible Start” for the children of Napier Central School.

To all our senior students who are now moving on to Intermediate.

We hope you take away many happy memories of your primary school years. All the best for the future.

Napier Central School is a key focus for a vibrant Napier Hill community. We have a strong partnership with parents and family.

They are involved in a wide range of school activities throughout the year. We appreciate and encourage this participation.

Ross McLeod

Principal Napier Central School

I would to congratulate the PTA on achieving their goal of producing an outstanding school cookbook. “Neighbourhood Eats”. This can be purchased on the website of the same name.

Waipukurau Visits All throughout the year we have many concerts revolving around This year for the first time ever Napier Central entered into the Digi Awards. The children in the senior school entered into two categories, short movie and stop motion. Soon the four classes had come up with many movies and after judging, a handful were selected for the actual event. The remaining movies were judged once more and after thinning out the competition again, the movies deemed the best were nominated for the finals. On the night of the finals the teams behind the movies turned up in school uniform and awaited the judging. Many of our school’s movies did well and placed on the podium. At the end of the night we had won both categories and received some second and third placings. This year we did incredibly well but hopefully we will do even better next year!

Choir, Orchestra and Kapa Haka but my favourite has always been the Waipukurau visits.

This year for 2018 we were the hosts of the trip which meant they came to our school. For the first time we did a powhiri to welcome them into our school and the Kapa Haka performed two amazing waiata.

Once both the schools were in the hall the two choirs sang. Napier Central sang Baby Shark and Fight song. Waipukurau sang This Is Me and This Is Our Defining Moment.

The main event in the concert is when the two orchestras from each school join as one to play a piece of music all together, this year we played This Land Is Your Land.

Sam Kilmister. Rm 6 Yr 6

Camp Staring out of the damp bus window the view was amazing. The creaky, old bus clambered up the hillside and I took one last glance out over the fields as we came to a halt. Camp had already been full of adventures and now I was going to go rafting down the river, with some friends, for the day. The river was full of surprises, there were bumps from rocks below us and branches hitting us in the head but I didn’t mind at all.

A couple of hours later we pulled over and climbed up the small hill to have morning tea. Munching on my chips I thought about how we had gone horse riding the other day.

Chilli was my horse and she was beautiful. It was scary at first but good fun when I became more confident. We also did archery where I was the first to get a bull’s eye!

Continuing down the river we eventually got to an area where we got to jump out of the raft into the water.

I expected it to be a lot warmer!

Later on in the day we came to the end of our journey and had to stop. I couldn’t wait to get back to the main camp to tell everyone all about my day.

Waste aware This year Waste Aware was introduced as an inquiry topic spread over a term at NCS. The school started the topic hoping that we would learn what was best for our planet, and change habits in our everyday lives. We went on 3 school trips.

After everyone had sung their songs and played their instruments both of the schools got to eat some lunch and play with each other.

I’m sure everyone had a great time and met many new people.

I really hope this tradition keeps on going for many years to come.

Meg Gallagher Rm 6 Yr 6

Gleeson Park Planting We walk down the slightly muddy steps ready to plant our first trees. Emma, my best friend, and I, chose our favourite small tree from the pots and strolled off down to a clear spot in the trees. Dirt spread across our faces as we dug our first hole around a massive tree root in the soft soil of the park.

Every year, each class goes down to Gleeson Park to clean up rubbish or plant trees, making the park environment better for everyone. As I thought about this, Emma and I covered the space around our plant with soil.

I am a Year Six pupil, so I was able to make a clay tile to go under the fence near the entrance to Gleeson Park too. They are nature themed and every tile is unique to the person who made it. It’s a tradition at our school that every Year Six student gets to do this before they go to Intermediate.

Mountain Valley Camp was one of many awesome experiences I’ve had this year and I can’t wait for 2019 which I’m sure will bring even more.

Gleeson Park has been a Napier Central School project for many years, creating lots of memories for every child who takes part.

Some children still visit the park many years later, to see how tall their trees have grown.

By Emma Kendall Rm 6 Yr 6

Sophia Westwood Rm 6 Yr 6

For the first one we went to Omarunui Landfill. We learned about what is going into our bins and where they go. We also learned that some of what we throw away can be reused or can be disposed of in an alternative way. Did you know that at Omarunui Landfill they turn methane into electricity that can power up to 1000 homes per year? The second place we went to was The National Aquarium Of New Zealand. Here, we learned about pollution and how waste is affecting our ocean. Our last trip was to HAWK packaging where they turn Hawke's Bay’s paper and cardboard recycling into apple crates. After going on these trips they inspired us to do our own projects to help the environment or alert people about what is happening to our planet. Now our school has compost bins, educational board games, a pick up rubbish group, websites, YouTube tutorials and many more things that the students of Napier Central School have created.

Angalla Carney Rm 6 Yr 6

A New Direction Nau Mai, Haere Mai, Piki Mai. 2018, the year that was a year of new and improved in our stunning slice of paradise. Experiencing change would be an understatement. Here at Waimārama School, we took on bigger challenges, dreamed better dreams and created golden opportunities. We kept the whakatauki of Sir Timoti Karetu close to our hearts, “Kei noho wawata noa… Kia eke!” Don’t let it remain a dream, rise up and achieve it! Well Whanau, we did it! Through intense community consultation the Waimārama BOT, school whanau and local community established a ‘new look’ charter. Next came the recruitment of the new principal. They found me, Esther Geerlings. In mid May, I travelled down from Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and am happy to say, “I am living the dream!”

Our school is full of amazing tamariki, surrounded by loving supportive whanau, in the most educationally exquisite backyard any teacher could wish for. I am incredibly privileged to be leading education in such a special setting. Since the days of the Takitumu landing, Waimārama has been renowned for the unique learning opportunities and establishments available to learners. Our school carries on this tradition. We are nestled amongst a historical church, our Marae, our Kohanga Reo, our own pine forest, sandy dunes, ebbing tides and of course the beautiful Motu o Kura (Bare Island). We are perfectly positioned to reach greater heights. Check out our achievements below in the year that was! Kia ora me arohanui Whanau o Waimārama, this story exists because of you. See you all again next year. Arohanui, Whaea Esther, Principal.

Improved Vision One of the most exciting things we worked on this year is the review and development of our localised curriculum. We are spoilt for choice with access to the beach, creek, bush reserve, forest, orchard, extensive veggie gardens, marae gardens, hills, fields, (sometimes flowery meadows) and large grounds with established gardens and trees but plenty of space for developments. With so many authentic and natural resources at our finger tips it was easy to see that we could capitalise on these by offering our tamariki curriculum rich experiences in real, relevant contexts for learning. Our education outside the classroom has had a huge impact on student engagement and provides unlimited opportunities for discovery, student led inquiry, relationship building and achievement. It has reconnected us with friends of the school and strengthened relationships in our community. Our learning is hands on, collaborative, inclusive and fun!

Strengthening Pathways During the second half of 2018 we implemented a new leadership structure for our students. It generated lots of opportunities that encouraged our tamariki to increase responsibility, demonstrate leadership capabilities, and strive to gain more out of the Waimārama school experience. Our students rose to the challenge of applying for jobs, committing to duties, becoming kaitiaki group leaders, becoming project leaders, learning buddies, PALS, and contributing to school wide events that improved outcomes for all. In Term 3 we began our pre-school transition to school programme with Kohanga Reo o Waimārama and pre-schoolers in our area. It is called Whanau Fridays and goes from 1:30pm to 2:30pm every Friday afternoon. It is a great time to get used to being at ‘big school’ and all pre-school whanau are welcome.

Enhanced Environments Over the course of the year we have had some awesome upgrades to our school property. The adventure playground has been re-barked and edged. We now have brilliant shade sails over the whole area, all made possible with funding from The Lion Foundation. Sport Hawkes Bay partially funded the purchase of our brand new convertible basketball/ netball hoops which were kindly installed by very special friends of our school. Outside of school our children participated in the Mitre 10 tough kids challenge, kapa haka festival, coastal cluster sports day and A&P show day. We have also held several of our own fantastic events that included our beach clean up, powhiri for the new principal, matariki celebration, noho marae, bully free pink picnic and fire wise fun run.

Authentic Experiences In Term 4, with Sport Hawkes Bay funding and school fundraising we purchased a set of school surf boards, leg ropes and wetsuits.

With a surfing principal and surfing teacher aide we have been able to launch Waimārama School’s surf learning programme. It will be fully integrated as part of our localised curriculum by the end of term 4 and is a highly motivating way of delivering many aspects of the New Zealand Curriculum. The kids are chuffed about this development.

If you are interested in any of the programmes we are running at our school please feel free to contact us at principal@waimarama.school.nz

The amazing part of 2018 and every other year are our tamariki. Flaxmere Primary School students continue to make staff and whanau proud by being tamatiki TOA. Together we strive to meet our school expectations/values.

Kia TOA – Be our best Kia ORA – Be well Kia AKO – Be a learner. We are truly blessed to have the support around us. A big thanks to all of the wonderful people that have supported us throughout the year. We celebrate the year that was and look forward to 2019.

It takes a village to raise a child and this is a village we are all am very proud to be a part of.

Robyn Isaacson (Principal)

This year we have had so many amazing things happen as a school – we have laughed together, cried together and taken time to reflect on who we are as students and learners. This year we lost our pou/our manawa (the heart) of our kura. Sadly our Kaumatua Papa Ngatai Konia and Papa Larry Jessup, who was our Board Chairperson for the past 20 years here at Te Kura o Pāharakeke passed away.

We are truly honoured to have had both Papa Ngatai and Papa Larry as part of our Päharakeke whänau.

Kapa Haka

Performing Arts

TOA Councillors Mainstream Classes

Rugby Leadership Opportunities

Celebrating Language Weeks Rumaki Classes

Hockey

Sports Elite

AIMS – Tauranga

Football

Reo Rua Classes

Netball

Art Deco

Pasifika Group

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The environment at Cherry Grove Childcare and Family Centre has been specifically designed to cater for the needs of children from 0-6 years of age. We recognise the importance of providing appropriate group size to allow for more stimulating, responsive, and supportive interactions for infants, toddlers, young children, and their teachers. Whilst our inside spaces are home like and cater for small groups of children our outdoor space is huge, a unique feature of Cherry Grove.

Children have an innate desire to explore and be curious. To support and encourage this learning, a passionate and motivated team of teachers nurture and construct experiences to create wisdom through wonder in an environment that is naturally beautiful, stimulating, and interesting. Our exceptional teacher ratios and the strong whanaungatanga we nurture and build with our Cherry Grove families allow us to support every aspect of each family’s needs and desires. Through working together, children’s outcomes are unquestioned and celebrated widely.

Every week we celebrate fun at Cherry Grove and provide opportunities outside the box for our tamariki to explore and experience. Our community are wonderful supporters of this which allows us to bring in our talented community groups and individuals to share their knowledge with our Cherry Grover’s.

Our Family Centre for new parents is absolutely FREE and is a great way to meet people going through the early stages of parenthood. The coffee machine is always ready, the home baking is done, and the environment is set by our facilitator to stimulate your baby so you can relax. As a new parent, you get plenty of advice about babies from everyone and it’s often contradictory.

Along with our Family Centre Facilitators, we have a huge number of specialist contributors that are there to support each family.

Everything from sleep consultants, infant massage, feeding, introducing solids, wrapping, car seats, and where to find the best, cheapest ready-made meal in Hawke’s Bay so you don’t have to worry about dinner!

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Staff: 81 Students: 109 Principal’s message K whai Special School is a leading specialist school in Hawkes Bay, educating 5-21 year old students who have ORS funding. Our growing school community is spread around the greater Hastings and Central Hawkes Bay districts. We have a fantastic set up that allows our students to have a supportive, inclusive education between our Base School and 11 satellite classes in local mainstream schools.This allows our students to have a supportive pathway throughout their education according to their age and ability. Come and visit us and meet our amazing tamariki and see for yourself all the opportunities that happen for students at K whai!

Sarah Roil Principal

www.kowhaispecial.school.nz Celebrating Our Culture InTerm 1 we celebrated Waitangi Day. Wh nau were invited to come and participate in a range of cultural activities and to share morning tea with the children.

The Juniors made a treaty, drawing around their hands and writing their names in the centre of the hand.

Matariki was our big celebration inTerm 2.The High School celebrated Matariki by having a day of Matariki activities.They learnt a dance, had a feast and made crafts. As part of the Matariki NewYear they also talked about what they had learnt and what they would like to learn in the rest of the year.

Construction Projects Our Raureka Satellite had a major remodel, which was completed earlier this year.This included a new bathroom and ceiling hoists which makes daily routines a lot easier for staff and students.

Our Room 5 classroom at Base School also had a new playground constructed, which provides a safe, happy place for the students to interact, learn and play.

Music The use of music throughout our satellites and across the school day is certainly growing. Base students boogie in the break times with favourite music permeating the playground.Tec and High School have been singing their hearts out and dancing up a storm. We have many talented support staff, teachers and music teachers using live music making to enrich our students’ school day. A highlight was the recent concert with Julian Raphael and jazz trio Ol’ King Cole.

Students were both concert goers and participants, and the buzz is still going. We look forward to making next year’s version even better.

Pasifika The biggest highlight forTerm 3 was our K whai Special School Pasifika Festival. Every class in the

school worked hard to prepare an item for the concert.

They enjoyed learning new songs and dance routines.

We had a great turnout and the children performed beautifully. We finished the event with a delicious lunch of Samoan food.

Tae Kwon Do and Special Olympics Many of our older students take part inTae Kwon Do lessons and work towards gaining medals and certificates. We even had two students this year go to Argentina as part of the New ZealandTeam to compete in the Special Needs division at the InternationalTaekwon-Do Federation (ITF) World Championships. It is great to see so many of our students achieving success throughTae Kwon Do. Throughout the year, there have been a range of athletics and swimming events organised by Special Olympics. Our students have participated in these events and performed well in a range of sports.

RDA Once a week four of our Junior classes and some of the students from the Raureka Satellite go to RDA. The equine therapy helps them to relax and begin to use language they may not have used before, as well as strengthening their core muscles.

Classroom Learning Every child in the school has an individual programme, receiving literacy and numeracy instruction at their level. It is always exciting to see the progress our students make through the tailor-made programmes we give them. We also have a large team of wonderful therapists who work with individuals and class groups to provide speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and music therapy programmes.

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Growing young musicians in the Bay Since opening in early 2017 the Napier Music Academy has nearly 400 students and is continually growing.

The private music school brings music education to the Hawke’s Bay community through specialised lessons, workshops, individual and band mentoring, and holiday programmes.

The Napier Music Academy runs lessons in 16 local primary schools, as well as in the studio in Napier city. Its teachers are highly experienced, qualified and professional musicians.

Youth nights are held every second month, showcasing local young talent in Hawke’s Bay.

It’s been an eventful year!

Thomas Cacho-Bevin performs at the mid-year concert in June.

Music Holiday Programme students busked in Emerson Street demonstrating the songs they mastered. Holiday programmes are held in April, July, October and December.

The programmes are packed full of music fun with busking and a performance at the end of the week at Paisley Stage.

Students attended a song writing workshop with Shihad’s singer/frontperson Jon Toogood in June.

The students gained insight into the skills behind successful song writing and riff writing.

Kenya Boerman recording a few songs with James Rochester during our Young Musicians Promo Kit Day.

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Te Hiringa I Te Mahara.• Roll 184 Staff 30 2018 started on a high note for all schools across Wairoa as we came together at Wairoa College for a session of Positive Psychology led by Dr Emma Woodward.

With close to 100 teachers involved - from Early Childhood to Secondary this was a huge event for education in Wairoa, and a catalyst for lots of great things to happen in classrooms for tamariki across the rohe.

Tiaho welcomed new staff member Lyn Wilson at the beginning of the year, Liz Hooper in term 2 and in term 4 Michelle Atkins joined us in a New Entrant teacher role. It has been a pleasure to have them work with us and share their ideas and thinking as the year unfolded.

Early in the first term we held our annual overnight camps at Kaitawa, in the beautiful bush surrounding Lake Waikaremoana.

An amazing opportunity to spend time together with tamariki, teachers and whanau. Bush walks, swims, kayaking, caving, eeling and campfires were a few of the fun events that helped challenge us and bring us together at the beginning of a busy year.

Our learning this year centred around further developing our Learning through play curriculum, Ako rotations (based on the STEM model) and exploring and embedding Mana Enhancement in the school. In our first year as a PB4L School we also took time to explore our school expectations and highlight and embed school values more strongly across the Kura. Our tamariki have embraced this new learning and the opportunities to show how they can stand up tall and “shine”. This really showed in their term 4 Kapahaka performance where they performed with pride and mana!

Term 2 we were joined by tutors from Te Ataarangi who helped us further embed Te Reo across the school. Koka Ollie and later Koka Moira were warmly welcomed and their input hugely appreciated by us all. Tamariki enjoyed their lessons and sharing the learning later in the year with families and whanau during open days at the school.

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Tamariki have been challenged throughout the year with sports events – Rippa, netball, gym, athletics and more , the district Drama / Arts festival, and the district Science Fair which we hosted.

Duffy Books in Homes continues to be a key player at Tiaho and we have enjoyed their assemblies and plays.

An ERO visit in term 2 reaffirmed all that was great at Tiaho.

With Nga Mata Nui o Kahungunu Kahui Ako gearing up for action this year teachers were engaged in collaborative inquiries with peers from across the education sector.

We enjoyed the opportunity to share practice and collectively make sense of some of the achievement challenges of our Kahui Ako. Literacy groups spanned year 1 - Year 10 as we dug into writing and how best to support our learners and excite them as writers. Cross school visits gave us opportunity to share best practice and we are all the richer for this experience. Our Early Childhood and Early Years teachers group had some exciting PLD with David Spragg and Kimberley Chrisp which helped us refine and improve on Learning through Play – the insight from Early Childhood has been of immense help to schools as they make this shift in practice.

Our Expo of Learning hosted by the Kahui Ako and held at Wairoa College at the end of term 3 was an opportunity for all participants in the Kahui Ako, and across the learning community to showcase new and innovative practice and the impact of their inquiries over the year. Again almost 100 teachers assembled to take part in this event – further cementing relationships across the learning community and starting the planning for a pathway of learning to guide tamariki in Wairoa.

Taking our values into the playground Standing tall with Dr Emma Woodward

Cowboy day - fundraising for camp Basketball team - 1st place in their grade.

As 2018 draws to a close we farewell long time Office Nanny Dianne Couper, our RTLit Joce Gregory and our Principal Diane McCallum, who have been with the school since it started in 2005 and will be sorely missed. Our thanks to these amazing ladies, and the BOT and staff, our whanau and families and most of all our incredible tamariki who have worked hard together to make this another outstanding year.

Dianne McCallum Principal

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