Hebron Happenings

Newsletter No.24 Friday 17th August 2012 Dear Parents Welcome We welcome Eden van der Vlugt to our New Entrant class. Eden can speak English and Dutch as his father is from Holland and his mother is from Dutch-speaking Suriname (I’m sure you know Suriname is a country in South America just above Brazil). Eden’s family attend Mt.Albert Baptist Church so he already knows some of the children in the class from his church.

Blast from the Past We often have past students pop into school and reminisce about their associations with Hebron from past years. This week, Rachel Arbuckle popped in with her mum, Nicola, to say “Hi”. Rachel started attending our school in 1994. She has been studying at the Auckland Law School and is about to further her studies in San Diego, USA. (Rachel’s grandfather, Dr John Thompson, an obstetrician, delivered my two eldest daughters!) School Olympics The primary school have been focussing on the Olympic Games this term and there has been many reading, writing, social studies and science projects emanating from this international event. Both the Junior and Middle School Departments have organised their own Mini Olympics as the following photos show:

The Olympic torch arrives in the stadium The Handstand Competition

Tossing the Dead Chook Competition Hockey time

Middle School Results were: EVENT FIRST SECOND THIRD Hula hoop Faith Deng Peter Luo Thelma Magengezha Quoits Year7-8 Peter Biondic Brendon Matthew Austin Hamada-Zhu Quoits Year 4-6 Morrison Perich Tino Garakara Freeman Abrahams Chicken Throwing Yr 7-8 Brendon Matthews Tukua Raea Logan Griffiths Chicken Throwing Yr 4-6 Luka Crosbie Sam Murphy Matthew Boyd Egg & Spoon Race Year 7/8 Thomas Garner Sun Jin Kim Sophia Hamada-Zhu Egg & Spoon Race Year 4-6 Freeman Abrahams Yuyang Liu Justin Zhao Bike Slalom Cole Henderson Rebekah Cummins Tukua Raea Handstand Year 7/8 Justin Low Thelma Magengezha Faith Deng Handstand Year 4-6 Molly Taylor-Dayus Hannah Rauch Kanako Tanako Skipping Year 7/8 Joel Collecutt Isabella Elima Luda Lin Skipping Year 4-6 Samuel Murphy Bianca Roberts Hayley Mulu Sprints Year 7/8 Josiah Atkins- Lam Oliver Butler Luda Lin Sprints Year 4-6 Luka Crosbie Bianca Roberts Hayley Mulu Sack Race Year 7/8 Oliver Butler Josiah Atkins- Lam Theodore Heeringa Sack Race Year 4-6 Hayley Mulu Ethan Cave Molly Taylor- Dayus Hockey Team 9 Team 6 Team 4

Junior School Mini Olympics

Junior school Results were: EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE Sprints R6 Girls Trinity Timaloa Hannah Tomlinson Victoria Oltay R6 Boys James Taylor-Dayus Jehoshaphat Poon Macauley Perich R7 Girls Veronika Bilos Cinzia La Volpicella Charlotte Paton-Simpson R7 boys Isaiah Fale Joel Sagala Thomas McMillan R8 Girls Catherine Chen Madeleine Sisarich Olivia Fale R8 Boys Eden van der Vlugt Daniel Squirrel Aaron Harrison Sack Race R6 Girls Trinity Timaloa Jacqueline Jiang Hannah Tomlinson R6 Boys Macauley Perich Rei Fung James T & Jonathan S R7 Girls Jaime Sisarich Sienna Mulu Cinzia La Volpicella R7 boys Isaiah Fale Joshua Timaloa Daniel Tomlinson R8 Girls Alisha Li Catherine Chen Eva Timaloa R8 Boys Eden van der Vlugt Aaron Harrison Noah Ling Bean Bag R6 Girls Trinity Timaloa Lydia Rauch Hannah Tomlinson R6 Boys Daniel Shi Samuel Doss James Taylor-Dayus R7 Girls Cinzia La Volpicella Sienna Mulu Veronika Bilos R7 boys Joshua Timaloa Isaiah Fale Joel Sagala R8 Girls Eva Timaloa Madeleine Sisarich Olivia Fale R8 Boys Aaron Harrison Daniel Squirrell Eden van der Vlugt Egg & Spoon R6 Boys Trinity Timaloa Lydia Rauch Victoria Oltay R6 Boys Macauley Perich Daniel Meruga Daniel Shi R7 Girls Charlotte Paton-Simpson Veronika Bilos Fiona Luo R7 boys Isaiah Fale Joshua Timaloa Chris Conway R8 Girls Madeleine Sisarich Luna Sun Alisha Li R8 Boys Daniel Squirrell Aaron Harrison Eden van der Vlugt Relays Yellow Blue Red Pass the Chicken Blue Yellow Red Roll the Ball Yellow Blue Red Rowing Blue Green Yellow Baton Blue Yellow Green

Casio Mathex Competition. Every year, as part of Maths Week, The Ministry of Education and Casio sponsors an evening organised by the Auckland Mathematics association. Teams of 4 students from Auckland schools fill the ASB stadium to solve 20 difficult Maths problems in 30 minutes. The answers are taken to the teacher marker by the team runner who has to run fast on a circuit. On Wednesday, one Year 9 and one Year 10 team of 4 students entered to represent Hebron. On Thursday, two Year 7 teams and two Year 8 teams competed against 66 other schools. While no Hebron teams completed the twenty questions, or won a prize, it was exciting for their parents and their teachers, Mrs Scott and Mr Richardson, to watch the students enthusiastically participating in such a stimulating, vibrant event. Commendations go to the following students for their amazing efforts: Year 7 teams: Noah Gozali, Stefanie Mah, Theo Heeringa, Luka Crosbie, Sam Murphy, Isabella Elima, Rachel Ling, Jamie Ngo. Year 8 teams: Oliver Butler, Lafi Aso, Luda Lin, Sophia Hamada-Zhu, Logan Griffiths, Josiah Atkins-Lam, Justin Low, Brendon Matthews Year 9 team: Ryan Primrose, Joshua Scott, Jethro Nacario and Zac Turner Year 10 team: Michael Nuysink, Ernest Hidalgo, Ross Porter and Kazu Yasuda. Thanks to all the parents who endured rush hour traffic to ferry their children to the stadium and to cheer Hebron on. New Website The new school website (www.hebron.ac.nz) is “live” and available for the world to see! I have received a number of comments congratulating us for the new site. One mother said, I have just had a quick look at the amazing new Hebron website. It is 100 times better than the old one – so much more professional! Excellent work! More information, photos, video clips, etc are being added every day so, as they say, Watch this space!” PS Please let me know if there is any information missing that you would like included. Food Show This term Year 10 Food Tech students are developing new products. To help them learn about the technological processes of developing and marketing a new food product, they spent a few hours at the Food Show. While a lot of the time was spent eating and drinking, they also talked to people, some of them from food shows on TV, who had designed, manufactured and promoted food products. I have never seen so much excitement among year 10 girls during class time.

Fundraising

Coming Up

Careers Advice

Musical News – Star of Persia We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the musical Esther: Star of Persia, which will be performed at Liberty Christian Church, Avondale on Friday 31st August and Saturday 1st September…2 weeks time! Eight tickets have now been distributed to every school family and it is our hope that each family will buy and/or sell these tickets and even order more to sell to friends, relatives and neighbours. Stop Press…a Hebron teacher sold 20 tickets on the first night they were issued!!!!!!! Rehearsal for Monday: 8.30am-9.00am All COURTIERS, ADVISORS, KING XERXES, HAMAN, ESTHER 3.30pm-5.00pm KING XERXES, HAMAN, ZERESH, ESTHER, MORDECAI, WOMAN 7, CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD and his SOLDIERS Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme The keeping Ourselves Safe programme discussed at our last parent meeting is now organised for Weeks 8-11 and letters have been sent to parents explaining the course with the invitation to attend class meetings next Monday 20th August for further clarification and a chance to ask questions. Primary Speech Finals Our annual Primary Speech Finals will be held next Wednesday in the school hall and parents and friends are invited to hear the speeches. Times and finalists are: Junior Primary Starting at 9:00am Year 3 Suhyun Kim, Timothy Hidalgo & Rei Fung Year 4 Hannah Tomlinson, Alex Horst & Hermann Retzlaff Senior Primary Starting around 9:30am Year 5 David Scott, Natania Thomas & Chloe Polglase Year 6 Damita Mathew, Nikhil Chauhan & Noah Turner Intermediate Starting around 10:00am Year 7 Madeline Schnell, Jamie Ngo & Logan Griffiths Year 8 Rebekah Cummins, Luda Lin & Oliver Butler

A reminder that the Career and Courses Open Day at Auckland University is Saturday week, August 25, 9.30am-3.30pm. If you are thinking that you might like to attend Auckland University at some stage in the future and you want to have a look at what is on offer, go along with your mother and father and check it out - you don't have to be Year 13. Booklets outlining what lectures are on with a handy map, are outside the Bursars office - if you are going you may take one, otherwise you can download one from their website. You can also reserve seats on their free buses online - this will save you finding a carpark.

SCHOOL GALA Carolyn Welch is in the process of ringing parents who helped with stalls in 2010 to see if they can look after the same stall again. But also we will be trying to get each class and its parents and students behind a stall and activity this year. So please, parents and children, put the date of the gala (27th Oct) in your diary to help out. We hope this will be a way you can get to know the parents in your kids classes better too. PLANTS Angela Garner is taking charge of the plant stall at the gala this year. Please ring her now if you want to pot plants, cuttings from your own garden and sow seedlings, be it annuals /perennials or summer vegetables for sale. This is a great way we can make a high profit margin at the gala. We will grow some heritage seeds up too as a special aspect of the plant stall. This need to happen now so the new plants will be a good size by October 27.

Miscellaneous

Donations of potting mix and empty plastic pots and seedling trays and yoghurt containers suitable for small seedlings can be bought to the school foyer from next week, every week and this will be passed onto Angela. We will get some classes involved at school growing seedlings and Angela will come in to work with students to do this. If you want to work on the plant stall then ring Angela (ph 520 1935) to give her your name. SECOND HAND CLOTHING Sarah Heeringa is in charge of second hand clothing and is pulling a team together for this purpose. If you have second hand clothing, shoes, bags, jewellery and accessories, please put them in bags or boxes in the school foyer or in the room on the second floor of Rahiri house marked for this purpose for Sarah and her team to sort. Just keep it rolling in everyone, ask friends if they have good quality items to donate and bring theirs as well. TRADE ME AUCTION-CAN YOU HELP We need someone who is Trade Me savvy to volunteer time to putting quality items on auction around the time of the gala and afterwards. There is flexibility with this. Last gala we had some nice new items donated for the auction and they sold well under the price expected because we didn't have the volume of bidders to put the price up. So this Gala we thought we would sell items like this online to get closer to their real worth. TOY STALL-CAN YOU HELP We need a Mum to manage the toy stall and gather helpers from parents in your child's class to share this. HOT BBQ BREAKFAST-BRUNCH-CAN YOU HELP We need a Mum or Dad to gather a team of about 8-10 men and women to cook on BBQ's cooked breakfast brunch, sausages, bacon, egg, baked beans etc to be eaten at school picnic tables from 9.30-1.30 on the day of the gala. If you can help manage the toy stall, trade me auction or BBQ Breakfast/Brunch, please email Carolyn Welch urgently at swishprojects@gmail.com or H 09 8455316 or 021 2980587. TUPPERWARE PARTY FUNDRAISER COMING UP There will be a Tupperware party at the school for Mums and their friends to come and the profits from hosting this will go tot he school. The date and time is Friday 21st September from about 7 pm to 10 pm. Circle this on the calendar and endeavour to come along.

Lynfield Honey Sold Out Sorry folks…but the very wet 2011 Spring and cold and wet summer reduced the honey crop quite substantially and consequently the crop has sold out! Honey lovers will have to buy inferior brands from the local supermarkets until the next crop is harvested in January and ready for sale around mid-February. Enjoy your weekend.

Geoff Matthews Principal