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Hedgehope School is a full rural primary school with a passion to inspire students from Years 1-8. We are located in Central Southland on the Winton-Hedgehope Highway, a 20-minute drive from Mataura, Winton or Invercargill. Our beautiful rural setting is located not far from the Community Hall, Rural Fire Brigade and Golf Course. At Hedgehope School, learning is grounded in opportunity, nature and community, guided by our core REACH values — Respect, Endurance, Adventure, Compassion and Happiness. These values shape who we are, how we learn, and how we support one another every day.
We are proud of our outstanding school grounds, which provide rich opportunities for exploration and growth. Our environment includes an orchard, chickens, a thriving plant nursery, hot house, tennis courts, a huge school field, a mountain bike track, a giant sandpit, a newly refurbished playground, workshop and our much-loved Treemendous adventure playground. These spaces are living classrooms where students show Adventure in their learning, Endurance in challenges, and Happiness through active, engaged play.
Inside the classroom, learning is future-focused and well supported. Our senior students benefit from 1-to-1 Apple MacBooks, encouraging creativity, collaboration and independence. Our highly experienced staff lead learning with Respect and Compassion, ensuring every child is known, valued and supported to succeed.
Hedgehope School is strengthened by a caring and connected community. Our active PTA fundraises to support student needs and enrich learning opportunities, while our passionate Board of Trustees provides strong governance and strategic direction, ensuring all students are supported to REACH their full potential.
We are proud to be a top-tier Enviroschool, holding Green-Gold status — the highest level. Through our Forest School programme on Channel Road, students develop Respect and Compassion for the environment by predator trapping and environmental restoration, and they bring this real-world learning back into the classroom.
At Hedgehope School, children are encouraged to REACH for greatness — growing as confident, capable learners in a school where values, nature and community come together.
Throughout the year, the students excel in athletics, swimming, touch rugby, cross country, netball, speech competitions and thrive at school camps, pet day, ski trips, winter sports days, science fair, technology challenges, and much more.
I look forward to getting to know your whole family and supporting you to enjoy our school and community. Please contact me or any of the staff at school, we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Kind regards,
Daniel Withington
Principal
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Dear Parents/Caregivers,
Starting on the 19th October, we will be teaching the personal safety programme Keeping Ourselves Safe.
Keeping Ourselves Safe has been designed to give students the skills to cope in situations involving abuse. It has three overall aims:
Keeping Ourselves Safe will be taught by your child’s teacher, with support from the local Police School Community Officer ( Constable Fenton).
To be successful, Keeping Ourselves Safe needs your help and support. Your child may have home activities to work on with you. It is important that you participate as much as possible and talk to your child about what they have been learning. This will reinforce the messages the school is giving, and help your child to use his or her new skills with confidence.
Piwakawaka will be following the Junior Program while Kereru and Tui will be aligning with the Middle Primary Program. More information can be found here. https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/kos-primary-programme-overview-2020.pdf
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your child's teacher or myself.
Thanks,
Daniel
Please send any hi- vis vests back to school with your child tomorrow morning.
We are missing quite a few and each child needs one tomorrow and Thursday for our trips to CSC for production rehearsals.
Thank you!
Dear Parents/Caregivers
A reminder that our production at Central Southland College Hall is on Thursday evening.
Leads: Please arrive at 5:45 pm.
All other students: Please arrive at 6:00 pm sharp.
Show starts: 6:30 pm.
Please be aware that parking will be limited around the school, as half of the car park next to the hall will be unavailable due to the Science Roadshow truck being parked there.
We recommend allowing extra time to find parking and make your way into the hall.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
Unfortunately due to a lack in interest for Touch Rugby for term 4, Hedgehope School has been unable to sign up any teams this term.
Touch rugby will also be running through term 1 next year.
If your child is interested to play touch rugby in term 1 next year, please email the school.
We would love to see Hedgehope back on the Touch field next year!
A friendly reminder that snack orders close tomorrow on our Kindo app (Tuesday the 13th of October).
Snacks are only available for pre- order. There will be no cash purchases on the night of the production.
There are also plenty of tickets available, your family, extended family and friends are more than welcome to come to the show!
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