Why we need goals ?

This year New Zealand is celebrating the Rugby World Cup and has gone mad for rugby. The importance of Rugby to New Zealand and even more to our school (Hampton Hill School) is clear to us with our school competing in several matches later this year. 

It builds teamwork, trust, respect for each other and the importance of helping mates.  Many of us dream of breaking tackles like Sonny Bill Williams, making tries like Richie McCaw or wanting to kick the winning conversion like Dan Carter. Rugby

We (Boys are B.O.Y.S) realised that our school has one problem

. . . Our field doesn’t have goals.

This year our school is competing in a mini World Cup Tournament in Porirua and have been invited to compete against Cannon Creeks School. As well we will compete against Greenacres School for the cup in our annual rugby match.

In the past we have had to travel to their ground to play but with goals, would love to have Home advantage with our own crowd.  Imagine playing in front of a massive crowd cheering for us. We would also love just to be able to play rugby during breaks, score a try, walk back and kick the ball over goals.

Boys are B.O.Y.S have learnt that if you help someone, they will help you so we have decided to help get goals for our school by fundraising. Our goal is to get goals for our school.

For us, rugby is an awesome sport where we can just hang out with our friends, run fast, be chased down the field by a mate, make the try and, with your help, kick the winning goal and maybe even one day turn out to be an All Black.

Please watch our fundraising video and share our passion. 

If you are able to help please contact our school :

(04) 232 6509 or  scott.hammer@hamptonhill.school.nz

Where to now ?

Hey welcome back for term 3.

The boys had a great holiday but have come back totally excited to keep working on improving the school community and making Hampton Hill looking great.

We've sat down and decided what we are going to focus on this term.

We are looking at:

* Finish painting the shadehouse and picnic tables.

* Maintain the garden 

* Goal posts for the field.

Our first goal

MAKING IT CLEAN & GREEN

PAINT ! PAINT ! EVERYWHERE PAINT ! on PhotoPeach

Have you seen how great our shade house looks? Wonder how it happened?

Over the holidays, a kind parent trimmed the trees behind the Kiwi block but wasn’t able to move it all because of their size.  When classes returned some of the Year 5/6 boys were asked if they could move the branches to an area where they could be chopped smaller and removed later.

After moving the branches, the boys were asked what ideas they had that would give back to the school community.   So many interesting suggestions - a path and stairs from Kiwi block to field, a mudslide, removing moss and leaves, steps from field to bottom block, developing the Tui block playground, getting goals for the field.  They also suggested helping Mr Starkey (Caretaker) as they could see how the job he was doing around the school was improving how it looked.  The boys were then asked if they wanted to be involved in taking these ideas further.

With all these great ideas to help improve our school community the boys discussed, ranked and then chose three projects they felt could be completed by the end of term. 

Projects –

1. Do up the shade house.

2. Lines on kiwi block court.

3. Clearing leaves and branches around the school.

Over the next few weeks the boys researched the projects using the internet, decided to focus on the shade house becoming a key landmark in our school and developed a procedure showing what they needed and the steps they needed to follow. 

The boys realised that they had a big problem ….. “How to you paint a shade house without paint?” and suggested contacting paint companies.  A letter was sent on their behalf and Bunnings kindly donated 10 litres of paint.

Time to make a nicer looking shade house – the sound of busy boys - Brushing off years of dirt, sanding back old paints, scratching off bird droppings and the rustle of newspaper. 

Six brushes, twelve boys what do you do to get a job done ………. Teamwork. They boys broke the shade house into sections and off to work they went.   Some found it easy, some found it hard, some even worked through their whole lunch break but all gave their best……... and look now a great looking shade house.

And all this came from just moving a few branches.