Term 1, Week 2 10 February 2016

Copeland Road, Hastings Phone: (06) 878-6696 Fax (06) 878-9539 E-Mail: office@hcs.school.nz Website: www.hcs.school.nz

School Mission Statement Hastings Christian School aims to teach pupils the knowledge of God and the world, as revealed in the Scriptures

and to equip the pupils with the knowledge and skills needed to function effectively as Christians and citizens in today’s world.

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Hastings Christian School

NEWSLETTER

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Notices:

Welcome!

A very warm welcome to all of the new students and fami-lies to HCS. We are happy to have you here and hope you

will settle in well.

James Mccaulay (B3) and his parents Matthew and

Natasha

Peter Mitchell (B4) and his parents Simon and Lin-

yan Ezekiel (Y10) and Zachariah (Y9) Nunez and their

parents Anthany and Chantelle

Chiara Stride (E1) and her parents Blaine and Diane

Malachi Thompson (B3) and his parents Marcus and

Anna

Ella (E2) and Seth (B2) Winters and their parents

Geremy and Anne Marie

Welcome back to Rachael Pyatt (Y12) along with her par-

ents Simon and Ann and also to the following siblings of students who have started this year: Isabelle Young (B4),

Caleb Oxley (E2) and Millie Oxley (B2), Olivia Pechy (E3),

Brienna Scott (Y9), Kyle van der Merwe (B4)

NCEA Endorsements Congratulations to all students who passed NCEA this

year. The following students gained an Excellence or

Merit endorsement. (photo back page)

Year 11 Excellence – Jess Henderson, Shiree Stonestreet, Jerome Williams

Year 11 Merit – Bethany Clark, Grace Doak, Miriam Lass-ing, Katie Rolls, Lukas van der Werff, Jack Sanko, Sienna

Stuijt, Max Saathof

Year 12 Merit – Annabelle Major, Nick Nieuwland, Kristen

Lister, Zak Temperton, Anna Winters

Year 13 Excellence – Ezra Palmers

Year 13 Merit – Jacob Doak, Ryan Field, Sam Stanton

Welcome back to what I hope and pray will be another

full and rewarding year for your child here at Hastings Christian School. A special welcome to all our new fami-

lies. We look forward to getting to know you and pray that you and your children will enjoy the blessing of being

a part of the HCS school community.

We also welcome three new staff to our school this year.

Emma Nicoll joins the secondary school technology team and will support the work of Karen Major in the de-

livery of the food and fabric programme. We are also blessed to have two new teacher aides join us this year.

Marie Moore (mother of Teani in B2) will work two after-

noons a week with four of our primary school classes and will assist in teaching about the Maori culture and lan-

guage. Marie has a real passion for helping the students at our school appreciate the heritage, language and cul-

ture of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Lois Morton (grandmother of Christopher Morton in B2)

returns to HCS as a teacher aide after many years living in Australia with her husband Brian. Lois was our learning

support teacher over ten years ago and brings a wealth of teaching experience from both her time in NZ as well as

teaching at a large Christian School in Australia. Lois will

primarily work with our year 5-8 classes in E block.

Another staffing change this year involves our current teacher aides who will all be swapping levels. Carolyn

Sanko will return to working in the junior and middle

school while Willie Koster and Annemiek Meinsma will move to the E block to support the teachers and students

there.

Sadly the holiday period did not see the normal flurry of

building activity here at school that we had hoped. The proprietor of our school had planned to have a new pur-

pose built prefab for the delivery of the fabric pro-gramme ready for the start of the school year. However

due to a hold up with the building consent process our

building will not be completed till at least the end of term one. While we have been able to make internal arrange-

ments for this term we would still ask that you join us in praying for this situation.

2016 looks set to be an exciting event filled year. Already

our year 13 students have been on camp, which from

all accounts sounds to have been one of the most suc-cessful to date.

A few other notable events taking place this term include

a year 8 camp at the Guthrie-Smith Outdoor Pursuit

Centre for a three-day camp (they left today), an Art Deco mufti day, a Home and School picnic dinner

event, an athletics House team competition and an exciting opportunity to have in our school for three days,

Richard Edlin, a man that is at the forefront of Christian Education. More information about all these and other

events can be found in upcoming newsletters.

Our prayer as a teaching staff is that your child will not

only grow in knowledge and character this year as we partner together with you in their education, but that they

will develop into young men and women who think bibli-

cally, serve faithfully and live wholeheartedly for the Lord.

Gavin Clark

Notices:

Student Leadership

The following students have been appointed to leadership positions for 2016.

Head Boy Caleb Whitford Head Girl Kristen Lister

Deputy Boy Max Saathof

Deputy Girl Katie Spurgeon Music Prefects Bethany Clark & Kristen Lister

Sport Prefects Shiree Stonestreet & Jessica Henderson Kowhai House Annabelle Major & Anton Wiehahn

Manuka House Sophie van Seventer & Grace Doak Rimu House Reuben Whyte & Alanah Pratt

Totara House Mollie Robinson & Lukas van der Werff

Home & School Picnic

The home and school are planning a ‘bring a picnic’ dinner for school families on Friday 26th of Feb. More details in

next weeks notices.

Year 13 Camp

The year 13s had a great time away in Taupo and Waitomo last week. Photos and an article next newsletter!

Itinerant Music Next Week!

Instrumental lessons start next week! Lesson times and

invoices have been sent out today. There may still be l e s s o n s a v a i l a b l e i n : C e l l o a n d d r u m s

We have secured a brass teacher - I would be interested in expressions of interest for anyone wishing to learn a brass

instrument. In most cases I have been able to find places

for students who have requested lessons. If your child is of Primary age and was not able to be placed, please be aware

that there is a primary funded instrumental programme running at Heretaunga Intermediate on Thursdays. Any

queries, please contact Mrs Feyter

Senior Choir (Years 9 -13)

This starts next week. Mr Joe Christensen will be leading it again. Choir will be on Wednesday mornings at 8:00 sharp.

Students will be given the opportunity to sign up tomorrow.

Orchestra

This starts next week. Mrs Mary McHattie will be leading it

this year. Orchestra will be on Friday mornings at 8:15 sharp,

in B1. Students will be given the opportunity to sign up tomorrow.

Black Barn Concert: "Piano in the Vines"

Next Friday NCEA students will be attending a concert at

Black Barn. Four of NZ's best young international musicians will perform music, talk about how they came to be involved

in classical music and give a general workshop. This will be very inspiring for students in year 9 or above. If your child

would be interested in attending this concert with us, please let Mrs Feyter know.

Scholarship Results Congratulations to Ezra Palmers who gained

Scholarship passes in three subjects: Maths with Statistics (outstanding pass), Maths

with Calculus and Physics. This is a

fantastic result and we wish Ezra all the best as he takes up further study at Waikato

University.

Blazers The current blazer material is now out of production. We will

need to source a new material soon but would like to keep

as many of the current blazers for use for the next few years as we transition to the new material. If you have a blazer at

home that is no longer required or you were saving for a younger sibling, could you please email or see Daphne so

she can possibly match you up with someone who needs a

blazer for this year.

Wanted Parents, if you have unwanted newspapers at home that you

would like to get rid of, we can use them in the multiroom.

Please drop them into the office or multiroom. Thanks.

Library Help Do you have a few hours spare (either Monday, Tuesday or

Friday morning) where you could help out in the library with displays and processing books? Please contact Faye if you

can help.

Calling Employers

STAR for senior students Year 12-13 2016 This year we plan to run a STAR programme for selected

year 12 & 13 students. Star is an acronym for Secondary

Tertiary Alignment Resource. The school is allocated a sum of government money to buy in distance learning

programmes and/or place students in work places or complete a course at the local polytech either in school time

or during holidays. With this in mind we would like to create a register of employers from the parent body who would be

willing to take HCS senior students on work experience

placements. Work placements could be as short as a one or two day ‘look and see’ visit, through to a more long term

arrangement eg. one afternoon a week over a school term. If you think you could help please contact the school office

or Mike Pudney.

t he Hom e and Schoo l Com m it t ee have

o rgainsed an Ar t Deco Muf t i Day.

All st ud en t s can com e in m uf t i and w e w ould love

f o r t hem t o com e d ressed in som e Ar t Deco in -

sp ired clo t h ing if t hey are ab le!

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12.2

Further Notices:

Term Dates 2016

Term 1 2 February—15 April Term 2 2 May-8 July

Term 3 25 July-23 September Term 4 10 October-14 December

Pizza & Moosies & Jucies

Available on Fridays for lunch

Order in B1 before school

What’s Happening this term February 10-12 E3 Camp

16th ID Photos taken 18th Weetbix Tryathlon

19th Art Deco Mufti Day

25th Athletics Day 26th H&S Picnic dinner

29-2nd Yr 12-13 Biology Trip

March

14th Yr 7 Vision & Hearing tests 17-19 Richard Edlin visit

21-24 Life Education Caravan 29-1st E1 Optimist Yachting

April

13-14 Yr 11-12 Akld Shakespeare Trip

Tennis Coaching

If you are interested in receiving tennis coaching from Jess Hen-derson (years 4-8) please hand your forms back to the office by

this Friday.

E3 Camp

E3 left for camp today. Please pray for a great time and safety for all involved. They are due back on Friday.

iPad Meeting

A meeting was held last week for parents of the year 11 iPad class. If you require any more information or have questions

please talk to Herman Philipsen.

Uniform

Please ensure your children have all the correct uniform items. Hats must be worn by year 1-8 students and all technology stu-

dents must have covered shoes.

Facebook Page

An HCS page is in the process of being set up. We will let you know more as this progresses.

Website

Have you seen our new look website? This was updated last

year. Please take time to have a look.

Cycling

A reminder to parents and students about cycling to/from school. All students must wear helmets and walk their bikes

around the school grounds and on the footpath in front of the school. We had some incidents last year of cyclists v cars in and

out of the school driveway so we ask all to please be vigilant.