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Dear Parents/Caregivers

The Ministry has just opened a consultation about an enrolment scheme for Hedgehope School.  The enrolment scheme is to assist the Board to manage a situation where there overcrowding or a risk of overcrowding and ensure local students can attend schools in their area.

It’s important that we hear and understand community perspectives before we finalise the enrolment scheme at Hedgehope School, especially geographic, access or community implications.  

All information can be found at http://www.education.govt.nz/have-your-say/hedgehope-school-enrolment-scheme/details

This includes –

Written description of proposed enrolment scheme
Map of proposed home zone
FAQs
Factsheet for Hedgehope School proposed enrolment scheme
 

There will also be some paper copies in the school office.

If you have questions, you can email them to otagosouthland.enrolmentschemes@education.govt.nz.

It’s important that you understand what is proposed and how this will work, so we encourage all families to check out the consultation website.

Consultation will run until Thursday 5 June 2025.

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Consultation about an amendment to the enrolment scheme for Hedgehope School is now open.  Check out the Ministry of Education’s consultation site here for further information and make sure you have your say. Consultation will run until  Thursday 5 June 2025.

Kind regards,

Daniel and The Hedgehope School Board of Trustees

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Two reminders/Action items for you.

A friendly prompt to head over to the forms function of the Skooloop app to indicate your transport preferences for the Eastern Sub Zone 2025 Cross Country held at Browns on the 26th May. 

This is a gentle reminder that the teachers will be participating in a Maths Professional Learning Development day hosted by the Ministry of Education on June 3rd. Hence, we will use this day as a Teacher-Only Day, and the school will be closed for students. 

Have a great week ahead,

Daniel 

What a fantastic start to the term it has been! Piwakawaka have had an exciting two weeks settling back into classroom routines and welcoming two new friends—Leo and Dekota—into our learning community.

In Maths, we've explored a variety of concepts tailored to different learning levels. Our younger students have enjoyed making patterns and exploring wholes and halves with our student teacher Ash. Middle learners are practising counting on from the largest number, while our older students are being introduced to simple multiplication and division.

Structured Literacy continues to be a key focus in our daily programme. Each week, your child’s sound focus will be recorded in their little green book, along with a reader to take home. We’re also learning ‘heart words’—those tricky words that can’t be sounded out and need to be remembered by sight. From time to time, your child might bring home a small activity to practise decoding skills connected to their reading book.

In Writing, the children have thoroughly enjoyed recounting their holiday and weekend adventures. We're working at varying levels to develop independence in sounding out words, using heart words, and checking our writing for sense and punctuation.

We’ve also been keeping active with cross country training. The whole school runs a set track, followed by an energetic game that always gets hearts pumping—so much fun that the kids don’t even realise how much fitness they’re building!

This week’s Reading highlight was a story inspired by The Little Red Hen, where a little duck baked a pavlova. Inspired by the story—and with help from our own chickens' eggs—Piwakawaka baked a pavlova too. What a delicious and hands-on way to end the week!