Hesket Primary School News
Friday 4th July 2025
Important Dates to Remember
July
Fri 4th July - Last Day of Term Two (2.30pm finish!)
Mon 21st - First Day of Term Three
August
Fri 1st - Parent Teacher Interviews
Mon 4th - Girls Regional Tee Ball (Bendigo)
Fri 15th - Cobaw Athletics (Gr 3-6 (Some Students))
Fri 22nd - Book Week Dress Up Day
September
11th September - School Concert @ Romsey Mechanics Institute - Evening Performance (Save the date!)
17th September - Annie, Princess Theatre Excursion
18th September - Last Day of Term Three
19th September - Curriculum Day
Other Significant Dates
12th – 14th November - Whole School Camp – Phillip Island
From the Students
Knit and Natter - By Stacy and Carys
Knitting has taken off at Hesket! Since last week in Visual Arts we have been doing knitting with different knitting tools. We started with our fingers to finger knit, then we used Knitting Nancys to French Knit, and for the advanced, knitting needles. Everyone has been knitting non-stop in class, including myself.
We have had some amazing projects made by Hesket students, for example, Immanuel has knitted 12.8m on a Knitting Nancy and Ada who is making a knitted skirt. Immanuel was the first student to make a snake of French Knitting taller than himself, then Tarquin and then Hannah A. Alex said he likes knitting because it was ‘easy and addictive, but was not easy in the beginning because it was confusing’. Jasper likes knitting ‘because it is satisfying, it is simple and you can do it pretty quickly. I found it hard when I first started but once I got the hang of it, it got easier’. Immanuel said he liked it because ‘it is easy, fun, fast and addictive. Stacy taught it in a really fun way’.
Thank you to the family members who have come in to help us learn knitting and for the yarn and needle donations. Maggie’s Nana, Ada and Mathilde’s Nanna, Maceo, Esme and Kiki’s Mum, Wilbur’s Great Aunt, Ginevra’s Mum and Nonna, and Bailey’s Mum all came to help us with our French Knitting and we are very grateful for all their help because knitting is HARD when you start. It has been wonderful to see so many of our expert finger knitters assisting others to learn to finger knit, including Stacy. People have even been finger knitting on the bus on the way back to school from swimming, walking around at lunch and even during our morning circle.
Stacy has set a physical challenge for the school holidays to see who can make an item with their knitting and bring it in at the start of Term 3. You might like to make your French knitting into a rug (by sewing it into a spiral), a beanie, a wall hanging, a bracelet, leg warmers or a cup cozy. If you can use knitting needles you might be able to knit a whole scarf, beanie, bag or pencil case.
If you need help to learn to knit, purl, cast on and off, you can watch this video to help you. You can purchase round looms, yarn, crochet hooks, needles and even French Knitting Bees from Spotlight and Lincraft if you would like to continue the hobby over the holidays. You can easily make a Knitting Nancy with a loo roll, pop sticks and masking tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdZrs38U5s
School Swimming by Izzy and Ada
Every year the whole school goes to the Kyneton Toyota Aquatic Centre to develop our swimming skills. We all had fun at the Kyneton swimming pool learning how to rescue people, how to swim in our clothes and how to steer a canoe. On Thursday, we all wore clothes into the swimming pool, and we learnt how to tread water efficiently. On Friday we rode canoes in the big pool and did fun games in the little pool! We had so much fun learning these skills from the swimming teachers; thank you and we look forward to doing it again next year.
On the 19th of June 2025, we had Science. But instead of normal Science, we planted some native plants in the garden near the front of our school for our sensory garden, thanks to Emma from Landcare. We had a blast planting the small plants, and we watered them afterwards. We collected some mulch from the other side of our school to put over the old soil in our garden. We are really happy about the plants, and we look forward to watching them grow over time. We thank Emma for the books that she kindly gave to our school, and we really appreciate the huge help of Sam when planting the plants.
Open Mic in Music by Aurelia and Ariella
On Wednesday 2nd July, all the students at Hesket had an open mic session in their Music class. This was an opportunity to put on a performance for their class if they wanted to. Several students seized the moment to perform, whether they had a polished performance or not. You could use things like pianos, drums, base and mics or bring your own instrument. People could either sing their own song, make up their songs or play with a backing track. Whether you performed or watched, everyone had an amazing time. Students got to see other students’ different talents. Overall, everyone had a great day and all performed very well. Thank you Lizanne for giving us this opportunity!
Debates by Hudson and Ivy
On Wednesday and Thursday this week the Senior grade presented their debates. We were lucky to have Middle D and Middle W as our audience, they were excellent listeners. We were also especially grateful to have Ms Aulich, Stacy, Bri, Dayna, Charlie and Lizanne help out with the adjudicating. The Senior grade have been working their hardest over the past three weeks and over that time they have been focusing as much as possible on researching, drafting and rehearsing their arguments. The first debate was: smoking must be banned. Hudson and Ariella were on the affirmative and Leo and Tarquin were on the negative team. Team affirmative won and the best speaker was Hudson. The next was 16-year-olds should be able to vote in Australia. On the affirmative was Ada, Harvey and Banjo (but sadly he was sick so Amelia stepped in). On the negative was Ivy, Amy and Hillary. The negative won and Harvey got best speaker. Another debate topic was technology should be limited for under fifteens. Emily, Hannah and Caitlin were on the negative, Izzy, Jasper and Immanuel were on the affirmative. The affirmative won and the best speaker was Hannah. And the last debate was alcohol should be limited. On the affirmative was Aurelia and Ayla and on the negative was Amelia and Micah. The negative won and the best speaker was Amelia. Overall, we loved working on and presenting our debates and we all spoke about the sense of pride we got from working hard and having the courage to do something that felt hard, as most of us were feeling pretty nervous before taking the stage!
From the Office
Parent Teacher Interviews have been scheduled for Friday the 1st of August. These interviews are an opportunity to sit with your child's teacher and talk through their Semester One school report.
Please check Seesaw for the link to register for your child/ren's interview.
Run Club
15 Runs - Bjorn
20 Runs - Maceo
45 Runs - Sidney H
50 Runs - Max - Welcome to Run Club 50s
55 Runs - Emily A and Kieran
70 Runs - Micah and Jamie
95 Runs - Hillary
100 Runs - Alex and Hudson - Welcome to Run Club 100s
105 Runs - Caitlin M
120 Runs - Jasper and Emily M
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