Kia ora e te whānau,
A very warm welcome back to school for Term 2! It has been a wonderful and wet start to the term with a lot of time spent indoors!
Our School Values
At Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto we have five school values:
We Care - Arohaina te tāngata me te taio
We Get There Together - Mā tatou te waka e hoe
We Love Learning - He taonga te ako
We Love Challenge - Nau mai te wero
We Make a Difference - Nā matou he rerekē te ao
This week, we have focused on our values of 'We Care' and 'We Make a Difference' to ensure that we all have happy days at school. Ngā tamariki have been amazing, showing inclusion, kindness, and consideration towards each other.
Our School Values
Our word of the week is upstander. An upstander is someone who speaks or acts in support of someone who is being mistreated. A fun way to learn about this was to go on an adventure with Oat the Goat. Feel free to let your child show you Oat the Goat's journey. Here is the link.
Concept-Based Curriculum (Inquiry)
Our school-wide concept-based curriculum focus this year is change. During Term 2, we are learning about change in Science.
This week, we learnt that adding ingredients creates change (structure, texture, colour and taste). Our first experiment involved children measuring ingredients to make milk. We then added vinegar to see what would happen. We noticed that the texture changed, and then the milk curdled. Ew!
Here were some of the hypotheses that children came up with before doing the experiment:
"The milk powder will change the colour." - Isla
"The water will go higher when the powder is added." - Frankie
"The water might turn purple." - Mohamed
"Adding vinegar might change the water's colour." - Beau
"There will be an explosion." - Jasper
We hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you next week.
The Koru team
katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz
elizabeth.drummond@beckenham.school.nz
niquita.dalley@beckenham.school.nz
stacey.mclachlan@beckenham.school.nz