Kia ora, e te whānau,
A warm welcome to this week's Koru Team blog post. It's been a very busy fortnight, filled with lots of amazing learning, as well as the whole school Book Character Dress Up day last Friday and, of course, today's Cross Country event. The children did incredibly well during their Cross Country run today, showing 'We Love Challenge' (completing the course, and doing their best to show determination and stamina) and 'We Get There Together' (encouraging their classmates if anyone was finding the running challenging). We thank our Year 7 and 8 Kauri students who supported the Koru team tamariki as they ran today.
Kiss and Drop:
As the number of children in our Koru Team becomes ever higher, our hub can feel a little overwhelming for some tamariki in the morning. Please aim to "kiss and drop" your child off at the door, rather than entering the hub with them. This will help set your children up for a calm, quiet, and successful transition in the morning. Thank you so much for your support with this!
Learning Conferences:
We’re looking forward to meeting with you all at our learning conferences which are coming up on Tuesday, June 10th and Wednesday, June 11th, after mid-year reports are shared on Friday, June 6th. These meetings are a valuable opportunity to celebrate your child’s progress, talk about their current learning and next steps, and explore how we can work together to support them both at school and at home.
To make a booking, please go to:
https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code and use the following code: r3wt9
Literacy folders:
A reminder to please stress with your children that they need to unpack their Literacy folders every morning and take them indoors to their group's Literacy folder box. This is incredibly important for the smooth running of our Literacy programmes. The contents of the folders are used during the Literacy lessons and are topped up at times throughout the week with new letter cards, heart words and, as children become ready for the challenge of reading books, with the Pip and Tim texts. Many thanks for helping us in this way.
Cyber Safety:
Staying Safe Online - Bullying
One in five young people in New Zealand have been the target of online bullying – it can happen to anyone, and it can be hard for parents and whānau to deal with. Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto takes online bullying seriously and would encourage you to chat to your tamariki’s teacher if you have any concerns about online bullying.
Readathon and Book Character Dress Up day:
We know that the children all enjoyed the Readathon's Stop, Drop, and Read, which helped to support some great reading habits. Thank you so much to those of you who were able to collect sponsors to help raise funds for our school.
If you still have sponsorship money to collect, this can be transferred directly to the PTA account 12-3148-0244558-00 using 'Readathon' as a reference.
The costumes on Book Character Dress Up day were absolutely adorable.
Check out the selection of photos below for some of the 'characters' who arrived at school last Friday!
We hope you have a very happy and relaxing weekend and we look forward to seeing the tamariki, bright-eyed and eager, next week.
Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou,
Katie, Stacey, Niquita and Elizabeth
katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz
niquita.dalley@beckenham.school.nz
stacey.mclachlan@beckenham.school.nz
elizabeth.drummond@beckenham.school.nz
