Our New School Gate

Wow!!! The school frontage is complete. In keeping with our beautiful school fence, we have had a new gate created which is covered in titoki (cabbage tree) and kowhai flower designs.

Nelson Arts Festival Red Square

Every year at Arts Festival time, a huge stage is erected at the top of Trafalgar Street. This is called The Red Square and is used by hundreds of primary and secondary school students to perform. Our Hira School group comprised of some Room 3 and 4 ukulele players and singers. We performed 8 pieces including our Hira School Song. People were singing and clapping along to us and we had a very appreciative audience who were enjoying listening to us as they ate their lunch. Since then we have had lovely comments given to us about how great we looked and sounded and even an email sent from a man in Collingwood who said his wife was over in Nelson for a hospital appointment and by listening to us she was cheered up! The 'Red Square' group are so proud of themselves they are going to stay together as a music group and learn more pieces with Pammie for performing in the future. Congratulations you all - you certainly did us proud!!

Kidpower

Last term Room 3 did the Kidpower training. This is a programme that teaches us strategies for keeping ourselves safe when verbally or physically threatened by others. We learnt assertiveness skills and ways to respond to another when being spoken to in an inappropriate way or when being bullied into doing something we don't want to do. We have found many of these strategies useful in our everyday life at school and we all feel stronger and safer with our peers as a result of completing the programme.

Ukulele Hoolie

A bunch of great ukulele players from Hira School attended the first Ukulele Hoolie recently held at Richmond School. We got together with many other ukulele players from several Nelson schools and played and sang together. We all had so much fun that we're going to assemble and perform again next year.

BFF (Best Friends Forever)

When Room 3 were creating books for Hira School Book Week, everybody took photos of themselves with some of their friends to make up one of the pages in these profile books. We chose 3 or 4 friends and proceeded to do a photo shoot with them somewhere around the school. Here are some of them. If you want to pop into Room 3 and read the books in their entirety - please feel free - they are on display and are beautiful. We are very proud of them.

The Lambs

Hi my name is Grace.I have two lambs Bambi and Angel they lived

with us for four weeks now they are up at the farm in the Glen . They are very cheeky

the first night they ran away only down to the gate I LOVE BAMBI AND ANGEL

By Grace