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| Our youngest's HIPPY graduation |
It was a happy and sad occasion as our family had a great time with the other families with their 4 - 5 year olds as HIPPY is a 2 year programme that was founded in Israel and has been in NZ for around 20 years but it will no longer be continuing in the area.
I have been a HIPPY parent support for 4 times with my sister in 2000 - 2001, my eldest from 2005 - 2006, our middle child in 2009 (she was amazingly fast!) and now with our youngest from 2015 - 2016. Each year we'd work through 30 booklets and each child gets to keep several books that would be read with activities to go through.
However, we have now been told that HIPPY will no longer be operating in Mangere as there are other communities that will be offering it instead and it is sad to say Goodbye to such a neat programme that supports early English literacy and numeracy for pre-schoolers as they work through each booklet with their parent/caregiver supporter with the help of a tutor.
The graduation was another great occasion as I'd been to each of my child's graduations. Each graduate gets to wear a graduation gown with mortar board, they receive a framed certificate, samples from their workbook, gifts and a nice food table for them to eat and take home afterwards.
My aroha (love) goes to all the staff who will hopefully be redeployed and to all the neat staff in the past whom I've had the pleasure of working with. Thank you and much appreciation as it set up each of our children to do well in their schooling...
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| Saying goodbye to HIPPY |
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