Koru Team News 2026
Term 1, Week 2
Kia Ora E Te Whānau,
We have had a wonderful and positive first two weeks of school. We have been so impressed with how our tamariki are coming into school and organising their belongings and choosing something fun to do to start their day.
Literacy - Letter Learning
We have started our literacy learning and you may have seen some letter learning coming home and up on the wall. We are practising the letter name and the sound it makes as a key skill for reading.
Kinetic Letters Handwriting
This week, we started our Kinetic Letters Handwriting Program. The first stage of this involves strengthening our bodies, ready for writing. You will see in the photos below that we have been crawling and holding different animal poses to get our muscles strong. Can your child show you the meerkat or gorilla pose? Or maybe the lizard or lion pose? A much-loved part of this program is our monkey friends, Skip and Bounce. Some of you may have had a visit from them already. If not, there will be one soon! The monkeys come with a book, with all the instructions on the front, so you and your child can prepare a story to share with us.
Art
This week we read about Greedy Cat, a cheeky little ginger cat who is always hungry! The tamariki had a lot of great knowledge about colours and mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. We put this into practice, making Greedy Cat's gingery colour for our own paintings.
Friendship List
If you would like your phone number and email address to be included in a friendship list, please email Nicola (nicola.reddecliffe@beckenham.school.nz). This is a great way to get in contact with other families and organise play dates. A new list will come out each term.
Cyber Safety - Staying Safe Online
As our tamariki spend more time online, it’s important parents and whānau help them
Art
This week we read about Greedy Cat, a cheeky little ginger cat who is always hungry! The tamariki had a lot of great knowledge about colours and mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. We put this into practice, making Greedy Cat's gingery colour for our own paintings.
Friendship List
stay safe. Now is a great time to talk to them about how we use the internet and digital
technology.
Netsafe has created an Online Safety Parent Toolkit so parents, families and whānau have
all the information they need to talk about online safety.
If you or anyone in your whānau needs support, you can contact Netsafe.
Have a fantastic weekend. We look forward to seeing all your smiling faces next week.
Ngā Mihi,
Kendall, Nicola, Elizabeth and Stacey
