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Staff for 2012

 

 

Maree Stavert

Principal

marees@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted"
Albert Einstein

 

Linda Meleisea

Associate Principal - Junior Learning Community (Year 1-3)

lindam@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Experience is a wonderful thing.
It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again...!"

 

Lis Keal

Teacher 

Room 16 - Head Start

elisabethk@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget"
Alfred Mercier
 

 

Monica Muir

Teacher

Room 15 - Year 1

monicam@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Jess Rankin

Teacher

Room 17 -Year 1

jessicar@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Tracey Matthews

Teacher

Room 13  Year 1/2

traceym@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Friendship... is not something you learn at school.  But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali

 

Janine Favier

Teacher

Room 12 - Year 2

Reading Recovery Teacher

janinef@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Shoot for the moon; even if you miss it you will land among the stars"
Les Brown

 

Kira Hastings

Teacher 

Room 12 - Year 2

Reading Recovery Teacher

kirah@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being.  I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.  If you are kind, that's it."
Roald Dahl

 

Janine Tepania

Teacher

Room 5 - Year 2

janinet@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Wendy Ness

Teacher
Junior Learning Community Team Leader

Room 9 - Year 2/3

wendyn@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"If you look like your passport photo...
you probably need the trip!"

 

Mike Chatfield

Teacher 

Room 19 - Year 3

mikec@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"It is difficult to know what fish talk about,
but you can be sure it isn't about water...!"
Unknown

 

Anabelle Lewis

Teacher

Room 4 - Year 3

anabellel@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Children are born with wings
Teachers help them to fly"

 

Jenny Orsler

Associate Principal - Senior Learning Community (Year 4-6)

jennyo@hendersonvalley.school.nz 

"Intelligence is knowing what to do
when you don't know what to do"
Art Costa

 

Philip Martin

Teacher
Saturday hockey 

Room 3  Year 3/4

philipm@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"If at first you don't succeed...
skydiving is probably not for you!"

 

Emma Howard

Teacher

Room 8 - Year 4

emmah@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it"
William Arthur Ward

 

Brett Grant

Teacher

Room 7 - Year 4/5

brettg@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"The wise man travels to discover himself"
James R Lowell

 

Christine Khan

Teacher
Senior Learning CommunityTeam Leader

Room 11 - Year 5/6

christinek@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere"

 

Olivia Gibbs

Teacher
Information and Communication Technology

Room 1 - Year 5/6

oliviag@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Everyone makes mistakes
The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking"

 

George Te Tai

Teacher
Sports, Kapa Haka

Room 2 - Year 5/6

georget@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Susan Manuel

Teacher 
Sports

Room 10 - Year 5/6

susanm@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Watch out for people who are acting strange...
they may not be acting"

 

Trudy Calder

Part-time Teacher
Education for Sustainability  Co-ordinator
International Student Manager
Learning Support

trudyc@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Many small people and many small places doing many small things can change the world" 
Margaret Mead

 

Millie Locke

Music Teacher
Part-time

milliel@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"The mind that is not baffled is not employed
The impeded stream is the one that sings"
Wendell Berry
 

 

Moira Stanley

Music Teacher
Part-time

moiras@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Sarah Thomas

Kiwisport Activator

saraht@hendersonvalley.school.nz

 

Janice Walsh

Office Manager

janicew@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Life isn't about finding yourself;
Life is about creating yourself"

 

Michelle Kent

Office Assistant

michellek@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"The difference between knowledge & wisdom is this:  
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a
fruit salad"

 

Carolyn Davis

Library Manager

carolynd@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"One of the great things about books
is sometimes there are fantastic pictures!"

 

Heather Tran

Support Staff

heathert@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Thoughts become things
Choose the good ones"

 

Val Waru

Support Staff

valw@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Don't assume -
It makes an ass out of you and me...!"

 

Kim Swindells

Support Staff

kims@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"Don't drive faster than your
guardian angel can fly...!"

 

Jo Stuart

Support Staff

 

Sam Hopewell

Caretaker

samh@hendersonvalley.school.nz

"A can-do attitude goes a long way"

 

Chelsea Wills

Teacher
On leave in 2012 

Perfect the art of looking innocent
Then you can get away with anything...

 

Haley Seymour

Teacher
On leave in 2012

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom"