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Cheese Rolls Fundraiser

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 Year 7 & 8 are making and selling delicious cheese rolls to help fund our amazing camp at Wainui. Please click here for details and to order your rolls.  If you would prefer to order in a paper form, these are available at the school office. 

This form must be submitted or the paper form completed and handed into the Beckenham School office, by Friday the 26th of March. Orders will be made up on April 8th and will be ready for collection after school. We care for our environment and would love it if you could provide your own container. Please clearly name it and drop it off into the collection box outside the hall from March 29th. 

Many thanks for your support.



Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 1 Week 7

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 In this post:

  • Cheese rolls fundraiser
  • School-Based Vaccination Programme
  • Science fun
  • Passion Friday
Good luck to our zone swimming competitors who are racing at Jellie Park on Thursday.

Cheese Rolls

We are underway with our first fundraiser to help fund the fabulous week we experienced in Wainui. All the details about our cheese roll fundraiser are on this order form. We would love it if you could collect orders beyond your family. These tasty treats usually sell very easily, so please ask your work colleagues, extended family, friends and neighbours if they would like some. We will also send home a paper order form with space to collect multiple orders on the back if that works better for your family. 

If you can help with providing equipment or a little time, please complete this form.

School-Based Vaccination Programme (SBVP)

Earlier this term Year 8 children brought home a pack about the School Based Vaccination Programme (SBVP). If you are yet to return your form, please get this in on Monday.

Science Fun

On Thursday last week, each home-group enjoyed a session at the Science Roadshow. We learnt about the molecular structure of carbon, including constructing a clever model, and were wowed by the science of forces. 











Passions on Friday

A highlight of each week in the Kauri Hub is Friday afternoon's when we have our 'passion' time. It is fabulous having Lara as part of our passion teaching team this term. If you have a particular passion that you would like to share with a small group of children on a Friday afternoon next term, please email us. The children gain so much from small group experiences with a knowledgeable person. 

Testing 'blood' samples.

Making ice-cream.

Being a leader. 





Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 1 Week 6

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  • Triathlon sign-up
  • Science
  • Camp

    Triathlon

    If your child is keen for a physical challenge, the Canterbury Triathlon might be of interest. Click here for details and sign up.

    Science

    On Thursday this coming week, we have a Science Roadshow from Canterbury University visiting us at school. Each class will get an hour-long session of science. Our timetable and break times will be altered that day.

    Wainui Wrap-up

    No doubt your child came home on Friday full of stories from our fabulous week away. What a time we had! This camp was made all the more special by the amazing group of parent helpers who worked tirelessly for five days, creating nutritious and delicious meals and snacks, helping out at activities and supporting the children. We are currently gathering photos together and plan to create a camp photo-book that you can purchase as a memory of our week away. We have a collection of lost property and a number of chilly-bins to collect at school. Below is a small selection of camp pics.





























    Kauri Whānau: Final Wainui Camp Reminders

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     Only two more sleeps and we are off to Wainui! Below are our final key reminders.

    Camp is nut free! Please make sure there are no nuts in any baking.


    Be at school at 8am:

    1. Gear on buses (Eastern Tce)
    2. Food donations and pre-prepared meals to the maker-space
    3. Hand medications in labelled zip-lock bags to home-group teachers. Children with inhalers keep these
    4. Go to homegroups with day-pack, ready to show teachers; raincoat, sunhat, sunscreen, lunch, water bottle

    Be prepared:

    • 2 sunhats if possible (a spare in case one goes missing)
    • Raincoat - rain is forecast on Thursday and activities outside will go ahead
    • Old lace-up shoes for water activities
    • A book and a small game 
    • Plenty of thermal clothing
    • If sleeping bag is thin, bring an extra blanket
    • And everything else that is on the gear list!
    • Get plenty of sleep over the weekend
    • Our first activity is tramp to camp, so be dressed for this on Monday


    Don't bring:

    • Sweets, bags of chips etc - we have plenty of food and with such a full programme do not want mid-night feasts planned, as sleep is so important.
    • Any technology. Children can use our phones to call home if needed. If your child needs to bring a phone, then make sure you have communicated with their home-group teacher about this. 

    Emergency contact:

    If you need to get hold of us during the week, call Nicky on 0276229403

    Transport:

    We have made some changes to the transport arrangements that we explained to the children on Friday. See below for the updated plan.