14 May 2025

Principal’s Greeting

Kia ora Glenview Parents and Whānau

Welcome back! As we begin Term 2, I extend a warm greeting to all returning families, and a special welcome to those new to our Glenview School community. We are delighted to have you join us and look forward to another exciting and productive term.

Regular Attendance Matters

Regular attendance is essential for student success. Consistent attendance enhances academic achievement, promotes social interaction, and builds a strong sense of belonging. Every school day counts significantly towards your child's overall development. Let’s aim for outstanding attendance this term!

Encouraging Reading at Home

I encourage all parents and caregivers to nurture the joy of reading at home. Spending even a few minutes each evening reading with your child makes a substantial difference in their literacy development, vocabulary, and overall learning. Make reading enjoyable—explore stories, magazines and books together as part of your nightly routine.

Learnership and Habits of Mind for Success

At Glenview School, our commitment to nurturing successful learners involves developing important habits of mind. These habits help students become adaptable, resilient, and thoughtful individuals, prepared for challenges both in and out of school.

Key habits include:

• Persistence – Staying focused and committed, especially when faced with challenges.
• Managing impulsivity – Thinking carefully before acting.
• Listening with understanding and empathy – Valuing others' perspectives.
• Thinking flexibly – Being open to new ideas and adaptable to changes.
• Striving for accuracy – Aiming for quality and precision in tasks.
• Questioning and problem posing – Curiosity-driven learning and critical thinking.
• Applying past knowledge to new situations – Connecting past experiences with new learning.
• Thinking and communicating clearly – Effectively communicating of ideas with clarity and precision.

Let’s continue working together to help our students develop these invaluable habits.

Upcoming Events

We have an exciting term planned, including sports activities, cultural celebrations, and parent-teacher interactions. Your involvement greatly enhances the success of these events. Stay updated by regularly checking our website and following our social media posts for the latest announcements.

Pink Shirt Day Friday 16th of May

A reminder to parents/caregivers that this Friday 16 May is “Pink” shirt day. If students do not have a pink shirt they are more than welcome to wear a shirt or top that represents their favourite colour. At Glenview School we will be further promoting being kind, being BOB and treating others how you would like to be treated, in line with our school values.

Updating Contact Information

Please remember to update your contact details promptly with our office if they change. Accurate information ensures we can quickly reach you if your child becomes unwell or in case of emergencies.

Thank you all for your continued support and active involvement in making Glenview School a wonderful place to learn and grow.

Ngā mihi nui,
Carl Allan
Principal

New Enrolments

Dates to Note for the Upcoming Weeks

Please refer to our website: glenview.school.nz for any up-to-date changes

General School Information

Hero App

Parents/Caregivers: have you downloaded the HERO App? If not, please click here for instructions https://hero.linc-ed.com/parents/

HERO enables you to keep up-to-date with all school communication through a modern computer browser or through the app. Note, Internet Explorer is not supported.

This is our main platform for communicating with parents/caregivers. If you are having any issues logging on, please contact the school office. Please note that your child needs to be enrolled before you can have access to the App.

Facebook

Our link for our school Facebook page is:  https://www.facebook.com/GlenviewPrimarySchoolHamilton.

Nut Allergy

We have children with severe food allergies to peanuts/nuts, eggs and cheese at school.  Any exposure to peanuts, other nuts, cheese and egg may cause a life threatening reaction.

To reduce the chance of this happening, please do not send any food containing peanuts or other nuts to school in your child’s lunchbox.

We also ask that if your child does have any egg or cheese in their lunchbox, it is important that they wash their hands and face straight after eating.

If your child has eaten peanuts, other nuts, cheese or eggs before school, please ensure their hands and face have been thoroughly washed before coming to school.

We appreciate your support of these procedures.

Sports Fees

A reminder to please pay your child's term two sports fees at the school office as soon as possible.

Basketball $35
Netball $50
Junior Hockey $50
Middle & Senior Hockey $70

Or alternatively you can pay online into the school bank account, details are:

Account Name: Glenview School Hamilton (Board)
Account No: 12 3152 0019636 00
Reference: Students Name & Room
Particulars: e.g. Basketball

Many thanks.

Junior Syndicate

J9

The learning inquiry for the Juniors this term is ‘Birds are Beautiful’ with a focus on our native New Zealand birds. I know that J9 have really enjoyed learning around this topic and have already pooled together a lot of collective knowledge around birds and their habitats.

We may not have won the tree ‘pot decoration’ competition last term but we are determined to give the ‘tree growing’ competition a good effort. Our class has the Kauri tree in the spirit of our School House (Kauri) and the tamariki are taking great care of it.

We are off to a great start with our learnership by identifying areas of our learning we want to improve and practicing our learning skills so that we can ‘Better our best’. Each day we are sharing with each other all the ways that we can improve our learning and discussing how we can achieve our set goals. We also celebrate our milestones and achievements with our sticker charts. The J9 tamariki have really demonstrated their positive attitudes towards learning progressions through their literacy in particular and have been challenging themselves by creating a lot of writing stories and sentences during their free time. Tino pai too mahi tamariki maa! Great work!

Birds are beautiful, sticker charts and learning

J1

In J1, we have been exploring our Habits of Mind.

This term, our focus has been on Striving for Accuracy. Striving for accuracy means always doing your best, checking your work and taking the time to make sure it is correct. It’s not about being perfect, but about caring enough to improve and learn from mistakes.

Here are some examples of how we have been striving for accuracy in our learning.

When I was writing, I was striving for accuracy during publishing time.
I had to concentrate and carefully copy out my work.
I tried not to make any mistakes and made sure to remember all my full stops and capital letters.

By Mayumi G

I have been striving for accuracy in maths.
When we do our numbers from smallest to biggest, I need to make sure that I look carefully at all the numbers and not go too fast, otherwise I could mess up.

By Watkin

In handwriting, I have been striving for accuracy because I want to get it right the first time.
I make sure my letters are sitting on the line.
I check that my numbers touch both the top and bottom of the line.
When I write my tall letters, I make sure they reach the top line and sit neatly on the bottom line too.

By Evie

Middle Syndicate

This term, our middle team learners are diving into an exciting inquiry about the Pacific Ocean! They’ll explore fascinating facts about its size, marine life, islands, and importance to people across the Pacific region, including Aotearoa. Through storytelling, art, and science activities, children will make connections between the ocean and their own lives. We’re looking forward to seeing their curiosity grow as they learn about this part of our world.

Here are some descriptive writing pieces about this enchanting area of the world.

Artwork and their story

Senior Syndicate

How I succeed at CROSS COUNTRY

I think of my dad and a good memory of me and him - I run to him like he's there. That’s what really helps me run, because I haven't seen him in a long time.

To practice my best I think of a beat in my head and I try that beat with my legs - that helps me not get that tired right at the start. I try to keep it in my head because I look at a person and I try to go at the same pace.

I have been practising at home, around the block, I’ve been running at playgrounds and I have been training with Mr Kay at school. It’s really good to practise your pace.

Jog before you run, I need to get my head straight and keep my breathing nice and steady, with my arms not past my face. The important part is my feet, so the middle of my foot has to meet the ground.

You have to remember to keep up your mahi  and keep a beat in your head and have fun always. Look at one person and try to get in front of them. And that's the key.

By Oceanaia

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