Yesterday, HPS was lucky enough to have the NZ Opera visit and perform for us! They performed the Elixir of Love, an Opera that has been adapted to suit children.

TV3's News Hub came to HPS to film some of the performance and interviewed some of our students afterwards. The story will air either this Saturday or Sunday, so make sure you tune in at 6pm both nights to see if you recognise any familiar faces! 

Woohoo! It's a long weekend! 

Remember - we have Friday, Monday and Tuesday off! 

Have a lovely Easter! If you're going away travel safely! 

See you all next week :) 

Lots of Socks Day!

Remember - Monday is Lots of Socks Day! Come to school in mufti and funky socks with a gold coin donation. All the money raised goes to the Auckland Down Syndrome Association. 

Senior team sports tomorrow!

So don't forget your sports gear! Whanau points going for the whanau that brings all their sports gear!

Howick Primary 2016 Swimming Carnival!

Yesterday was the 2016 swimming carnival! We had all been waiting for this day( well most of us!) The weather was beautiful and just looking at the pool made us feel excited and nervous!

Once we all arrived to school the first thing we did after the bell rang was...get changed.Later when we were all changed we made sure that EVERYONE had sunblock on to protect us from the sun, and of course we went to the bathroom! We were also told what group we were in! The three groups were Marlins,Dolphins and Seals!

Then it was finally time to swim,to have fun and to try our best! But sadly the whole Senior school had to sit on the hot concrete in the sun and were given the instructions on how the Swimming carnival was going to work! Then it was actually time to swim,have fun and try our very very best!

The event started with the year five marlins! They were all swimming against the same gender as them to make the races fair!! The year five Marlins did very well and looked like they all tried their hardest!

After a lot of cheering and supporting it was the Dolphins turn! Luckily for them the got to swim a shorter distance! As well as the Seals too!!!

To finish all that competitive swimming each class got to do a fun race! room Three did...you guessed it a NOODLE RACE!!!!!!! It was really fun and it calmed room Three down after all that swimming!


Because the Morning Tea bell had already rang we still had a late Morning Tea!Twenty minutes later one of the Staff rang the hand bell, so the whole Middle and Senior school lined up on the courts! It was now Middle Schools turn to swim their hardest and the Seniors got to... DO FUN RACES YAY!!! In our Whanau houses we rotated from one activity to another! There were four activities! My Whanau ( puriri) did spoung races first! We got to throw a spoung at each other! 


So that was the Howick Primary 2016 Swimming Carnival! Thank you for reading:)

Don't forget to make your bookings for three-way conferences! 

Conferences will be held on Tuesday 15th March 3.15 - 4.45 and Thursday 17th March 12.30 - 7.45. 

There are still plenty of spots open so don't forget to book! 

The website is www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and the code you will need is ust2q. Interviews are 15 minutes long.

If you are having trouble making an online booking you can come see Wilbyn in the office for help or phone him on 09 534 6082 and he can assist you over the phone. 

NO SWIMMING TOMORROW 

Swimming tomorrow has been cancelled, so you don't need to bring your togs anymore! 

 Unfortunately, the school pool was vandalised over the weekend - so this means that the pool will be closed until Mr Jackson has finished cleaning it. Hopefully, it will be up and running again in a couple of days!

Senior Team Sports Tomorrow! 

Remember to bring your sports gear! Lets try be the best class by having everyone in their sports gear! 

If you aren't participating for any reason, you must have a note. Otherwise you'll miss out and be writing out your times tables! 


Also, we will be swimming tomorrow! So don't forget your togs either! We will be having a free swim as a reward for being such super stars at the swim carnival today!