Kia ora e te whānau,
Wow! We have reached the end of Term 3! What an awesome term it has been! We have celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week). The tamariki have been looking at new kupu (words) and kīwaha (phrases). These have been pasted below, have a go at trying these out at home over the holidays!
Our Beckenham Values:
- He taonga te ako - We love learning!
- Nau mai te wero - We love challenge!
- Mā tātou katoa te waka e hoa - We get there together!
- Nā mātou he rerekē te ao - We make a difference!
- Arohaina te tāngata me te taiao - We care!
Kīwaha (phrases):
- Marama keke - a piece of cake, easy as!
- Kei runga noa atu koe! - you're awesome!
Kupu (words):
- Kōanga - Spring
- Mīharo - wonderful!
Reminders for Term 4:
Sunhats
In Term 4, children are required to wear their sunhats every day. If these are not brought to school, your child will need to stay under the veranda in the shade during Little and Big Play. Hats will be kept in your child's bag (or blue cubby) and taken home and brought back each day. Please ensure hats are named with a first and last name is written clearly on the inside of the hat - sometimes it can be tricky to find your hat when there is no name in it, and we have 500 children (=500 hats) at school! Thanks for your help with this!
Sun cream
Please apply sunscreen to your child before they come to school. We will have a bottle in the hub for children to reapply throughout the day if needed. If your child needs their own sunscreen, it can be brought to school in a named bottle and will be kept on the teaching station.
Lunch boxes
- Please ensure your child is only bringing water to school (no juice or other drinks).
- Do not pack lollies, candy or chocolate in lunch boxes.
- It is important to help teach your child how to open and close their lunch boxes, so they can do this independently at the start and end of eating times.
- Thanks for remembering a spoon for yoghurt, as we do not have spare spoons to offer at eating time.
- Please pre-cut, pre-open or teach your child how to open packets and yoghurt in their lunch boxes (for example, chip packets, twisty yoghurt pouches, museli bars, etc.)
Literacy folders
Please bring literacy folders back every day. New books usually go home on Thursdays for a week.
Library folders and poetry books:
These are needed on Fridays for our new poems, and also so that new library books can be issued.
Changes to contact details
If there have been any changes to your contact details or those of the emergency person you have for your child, please advise the Office so they can be updated.
Staff Car Park
We care about your safety! Please make sure that you enter and exit the school via the Sandwich Road, Eastern Terrace, or Norwood Street entrances. The gate from the car park is out of bounds; no families should be coming in or going out of the school through the car park. Thank you so much for your cooperation with this. The bottom two photos show where the get is, for families to use near the corner of Sandwich Road and Eastern Tce.
Literacy reading books (Pip and Tim books)
We would appreciate you all having a little hunt around at home in the holidays for any literacy story books. Please return ALL books at the start of Term 4 (no matter how long you've had them for), we love to look after our resources and they are very expensive to keep buying and replacing.
Here are some photos of what our tamariki have been up to lately:
We hope you all have a fabulous, safe, and relaxing school holiday. We can't wait to see you all refreshed for a wonderful Term 4!
Nga mihi nui,
Stacey, Katie, Elizabeth and Niquita