Welcome to the very special learning community that is
St Matthew's Primary School.
We like to keep our Concerns and Complaints Process up in front of
everyone. Please click on the link below or pop into the school office
to view it.
https://stmatthewsprimary.schooldocs.co.nz/ConcernsComplaintsFlowchart.pdf?zoom_highlight=complaints#search=%22complaints%22
Update September 12
Our new Principal, Andrew Eagle
It is with pleasure that I can announce that the Board of Trustees has appointed
Andrew Eagle to the permanent position of Principal of St Matthew’s Primary School, beginning on the 14th October 2019. This appointment has the unanimous support of the BoT.
Andrew has served in several schools
within Hawkes Bay. He is currently Deputy Principal of Waipukurau School and prior to that was Deputy of St Joseph’s School, Central Hawkes Bay. Andrew has a depth of experience. Prior to his teaching career, he served as a tutor in the Corrections
Department, the NZ Red Cross, in the
communications industry, and the NZ Army.
I am looking forwarding to working with Andrew as we continue to develop our school and enrich the lives of our children. Please uphold Andrew in your prayers as he prepares for this new and vital role.
The Reverend Alister G. Hendery
Chairperson – St Matthew’s Primary School Board of Trustees
Tim Anderson's Farewell
We farewell our current principal on
Friday 27th September at the end of term prize giving at 11:00am in the church. We will have our normal Prize giving and this is where we will say our formal farewell to Mr Anderson. A very warm invitation is made to all whanau, old pupils, old staff, old board members and Family and Friends members to join us for this farewell. After the farewell you are also invited to join the school for lunch and some relaxed time with the children in school. We will be having a sausage sizzle and hopefully an Umu – so lunch is available for all.
Grocery Raffle
At the Fair we are planning to have a huge grocery raffle. Could you find something non-perishable at your next grocery shop and donate it to school? Please take it to the office.
Mathletics Competition
Congratulations to our senior maths teams who represented us at the Year 7 & 8 Small and Country Schools Hastings and District Mathletics Competition.
Silver Award, 8th place for Year 7 Team: Archie Stevens, Adit Kishor, Kate
Trowbridge and (reserve) Ariel Sajan.
Bronze Award, 12th place for Year 8 Team: Dave Nguyen, Kheva van Onselen, Nicco Swensson, and (reserve) Torgan van Onselen
van Onselen.
Free Holiday Camp
2-5 October
We have the opportunity for children aged 10 and over to have a FREE camp in the school holidays. We have partnered with YMCA Hawkes Bay and are running a FREE camp at Guthrie Smith Outdoor Education Centre at Lake Tutira. The dates are October 2nd to 5th, which is the first Wednesday to the Saturday of the holiday.
We can also consider taking older siblings, as the organisation can take up to 16 year olds.
Forms are coming home today with the children who are interested and there are forms attached to this notice here in Skool Loop.
Please contact Mr Anderson at school if you have any questions, but please consider whether your child could attend this FREE camp during the holidays.
Spring Fair Raffle
At the fair we are planning to have a huge grocery raffle. Could you find something non-perishable at your next grocery shop and donate it to school ? Just get your child to bring it to the office.
Family and Friends
The next meeting is Monday 16th
September at 2:30pm and at 7:00pm
Our Family and Friends is the PTA of the school, that helps with the fundraising. At the moment they are preparing for the St Matthew’s Fair on November 2nd. They have many great ideas, but they do want your help.
Whanau Survey Link
As part of the work we are doing within school and within our Kahui Ako, we would like to get some feedback from you. There is a survey link here-
https://tinyurl.com/StMat-Hastings-Whanau-2019
that leads you to a quick survey from Poutama Pounamu at the University of
Waikato. Would you have time to fill this in please? The link is viable until Friday 16th August, and it would be great to have as many whanau as possible filling it in.
If you are in at school, feel free to use one of the devices in the office to fill it in.
Skool Loop App
Have you downloaded the Skool Loop App yet? Do it today and get all your notices, newsletters, give permissions for activities, let us know if your child is going to be absent, check the school calendar, all on your phone.
Winner of the first free school lunch for using the Skool Loop App is: Sara from Room W3.
There is still chance to win a free canteen lunch. If you haven’t signed up to Skool Loop do it today and go in the draw for a lunch for your child.
25th Anniversary 2020
Next year St Matthew’s Primary School will be 25 years old.
We will be celebrating this Silver
Anniversary during the weekend of 14, 15 March 2020 with a dinner, thanksgiving church service and other events.
The planning group have been working hard on this.
Student User Agreements
The BoT and staff have been reviewing the Student User Agreement that covers our pupils use of Computers and the
Internet here at school. It is stapled to this Chatterbox, and is also available on Skool Loop.
Can you please read it through and sign it—along with your child. If you have any questions about it, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us here at school.
Upcoming Dates
Sep 17th Super Sixes Tournament
Sep 18th Super Sixes Tournament
Sep 19th BoT Meeting 5:30
Sep 20th Quiz Night—Camp Fundraiser
Sep 24th HB Cross Country
Sep 25th Production Performance
Sep 26th Production Performance
Breakfast Club
Breakfast club is up and running, in the Staffroom from 8.10 until 8.45 every morning. All pupils welcome for Weetbix and toast. We are looking for more volunteers to help us in the morning—if you had a spare hour it would be most welcome!
Term dates for 2019
They are as follows:
Term 1 4 Feb to 12 April
Term 2 29 April to 5 July
Term 3 22 July to 27 Sept
Term 4 14 Oct to 19 Dec
Your Chatterbox
Many people get the Chatterbox by email and enjoy reading it on a device. If you would this by email, please let Mr Coyle know at admin@ourplace.school.nz
If you would ONLY like an email version (and not get a paper copy) also please let Mr Coyle know at admin@ourplace.school.nz.
Picking Your Child Up
A reminder please that if you are dropping off your child to school after 9:00am, make sure they come in via the office to sign in.
It would be best if you accompany them.
If you are picking up your child
early from school or for an appointment, please do this from the office as well.
Your child will meet you in the school office.
It is not OK to just meet them in the carpark, you need to let the office know.
Waiapu Kids-Early Childhood Centre St Matthew’s Early Childhood Centre is now taking enrolment's for 2017. There are still places available for 2016. The centre is open from 8:00am to 5:00pm and they cater for children from 0-5 years. Children can attend full time or part time and it is open all year except for three weeks over Christmas. The centre is ideally situated for Mum’s and Dad’s working in the city centre. There are a few vacancies for this year available.
St Matthew's Primary School is an Anglican state integrated school, catering for students from Year 0 to 8, situated in the heart of Hastings. Since its inception in 1995 it has grown to become a small school of just over 130 pupils.
Our motto is "teach our children to use the right path, and when they are older they will remain on it" (Proverbs 22:6). We achieve this by offering high quality values and curriculum based education within a special character context.
We have an open door policy and we encourage all members of our community to be involved in educating our children.
St Matthews Primary School has students from around Hawkes Bay, as well as from around the world.
Our website is aimed at the whole community, students, parents and parish members, to make it an information site to find out what is happening in the school.
Tim Anderson (Principal)