Things are ticking along nicely in our Intermediate Hub. The children have settled well into the routine of self-directed learning at the start of each day. It is great to see so many BYOD devices coming to school each day. On Friday Sandy sent out a newsletter with details of learning conferences in the last week of term. Please note that you need to allow 30 mins for a Year 7 & 8 conference.

Congratulations

Otis has been taken on as an illustrator for Toitoi, a magazine that publishes the work of young people. Over 1000 submissions were entered for the upcoming issue. What a fantastic achievement.

Henry H has been awarded 1st place in the Year 7/8 category in the Speaking 4 the Planet competition for his speech on increasing biodiversity in farming practises.

https://sustainablechristchurch.org.nz/speaking-4-the-planet-2020/results/

Rosie has been awarded 2nd place in the School for Young Writers monologue competition. Grace H achieved a Highly Commended for her monologue.

It is fantastic to see so many children showing a love of learning and challenge and putting their work out there. What great courage this shows.

Uniform

With colder days we want the children to be warm at school. The hub is very cosy and they also need to be warm when outside. School uniform jackets and polar fleeces rather than non-uniform items need to be worn. A back thermal under their red shirt is a great way to add a layer of warmth. Hoodies should not be worn to school.

Sport starts this Thursday

Our zone winter sport competition starts this Thursday. Many thanks to the parents who are taking/supporting teams; we couldn't do this without you. It will be exciting to be underway with this new local competition. If your child is involved in this competition, please read the important info from Jenny at the end of this post.

Cross Country

Yes, it is that time again - cross country training. A chance to get out around our beautiful neighborhood for a light jog, to get the heart rate up and do the body lots of good! We encourage all children to give their best effort, with the baseline being - run a lamp-post, walk a lamp-post, run a lamp-post, etc. One teacher runs with the children and we also power-walk at the back, encouraging the children at the end of the pack. If for any reason your child is medically unfit to run, please send a note or email your child's teacher. Please also make sure your child brings suitable shoes for running. The school cross country is on June 16th.

If you are available to help Marshal on the 16th, please email Jenny.

Early start on Tuesdays

Just a quick reminder that all Year 7 & 8s need to be at school by 8:30am on Tuesday to catch the bus to technology. We will no longer be dropping children, who turn up late, off by car. If they miss the bus, they will spend the morning at Beckenham.

Ski Day

Our team ski day is all booked in for Friday August 28th. With a lesson time of 11:30, we will need to leave school by 7:30am and should return close to 6pm. As part of the schools deal the children get skis, boots, poles and a helmet. Soon we will be sending home a form that explains clothing requirements and how we can support families to get the clothing their child needs. At this stage, we need to know who can come along on the day as a parent helper. Please read and complete this form if you can help us out.

High Schools Information: Shirley Boys' High School

Scholarships now open:
CV Gallagher Academic - Creative Shirley - Spartan Sports
Registrations close 19th June

ENROLMENTS FOR 2021 NOW OPEN
Visit shirley.school.nz/parents/enrolment/for more information
ENROLMENTS CLOSE 31ST JULY

Information for Competitive Winter Sport players

Thank you for your patience as we work through a competitive winter sport option for Years 5 - 8.

Competitive winter sport starts this Thursday and will run for three weeks.

Development Players

Children who are not in a competitive team will have a training session and fun games on a Thursday afternoon at school. The options available for these children are netball, hockey, football, table tennis, badminton and chess.

Game Locations

• All hockey games will be at Beckenham Park.
• All football games will be at Hansens Park 
• Netball games will be held at local schools, including Beckenham, Thorrington, St Martins, Hillview and Steiner. Each team will likely go to a different venue each week. 

All travelling teams will be walking to their game. They will be accompanied by teaching staff and/or parents. A huge thank you to the parents who have volunteered their time for this. If you have offered your time as children supervision, it is looking highly likely that we will need your support. I will be in touch soon with the finer details.

Games start at 1:50. This means that, unlike our usual winter sports programme, the morning learning time will not be affected.

Covid- 19 Guidelines

We will be recording names of all children and adults that are at each venue to allow for contact tracing if necessary. If you wish to spectate a game, please ensure that you check in with the Beckenham adult at that venue.

Safety Gear and uniforms

Uniforms will be issued by Anne Chin at the library this week. Instructions will be given via the daily notices.

Essential safety gear

• Hockey - mouth guard and shin guards are essential
• Football - shin guards and football boot
• Netball - short nails and no jewellery

If your child needs, shin guards or football boots, please ask them to see me as soon as possible next week. Hockey players will also be able to borrow a hockey stick if needed.

ALL CHILDREN WHO CARRY PERSONAL MEDICATION, SUCH AS AN ASMTHA INHALER MUST CARRY THIS WITH THEM TO THEIR GAME. ANY MEDICATION USUALLY HELD AT THE OFFICE WILL BE COLLECTED BY A TEACHER.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Jenny. 

Photo Gallery:

What a great first week we have had back at school. After a rather chatty Monday, the children quickly settled into the new routines. Yes, new routines. Following five weeks of learning at home, both teachers and children reflected on what we liked about the learning at home way of doing things and what we could change about our programme. One of the main changes is that we start each day with 40 minutes of self-directed learning. This gives the children greater agency, allows us to check in with individuals about their learning more frequently than before, and helps the children develop their self-management skills. With this new approach, it is really important for all children who BYOD to remember their device every day.

Headphones / Earbuds

All children need to have headphones or earbuds. These were on the stationery list at the start of the year. Not many of the children have these at school and they all need them.

Sport this term

Cross Country: We start training for cross country next week, with our cross country event taking place in the last week of term.

Winter Sport: Our winter sport competition will get underway in a couple of weeks. Children can opt to be in a competitive team or a development team. We need parent helpers to make this possible; please click here to see if you can help.

• Competitive teams develop their technical skill and have a competition focus. They play games against other teams from our zone on a Thursday afternoon.
• Development teams develop their technical skill and have a focus on fun. This option allows for increased variety and trying out new sports and activities on a Thursday afternoon.

Technology

We are off to tech again from this coming Tuesday. Remember that children need to be at school before 8:30. Buses will be running as usual and sanitising practises at South Intermediate are the same as here at school. At this stage, the canteen is not open. The children will be finishing projects from last term before switching to a new technology.

40 Hour Famine 

We are starting to fundraise for the World Vision 40 Hour Famine. The dates for the Famine are 5-7 June. This will be a paperless fundraiser this year so you can donate online by going to the link below. The World Vision Leaders this year are Zoe-A, Zara M and Emma. They are organising a short presentation that will be videoed and put on Tuesday's daily notices for the students to view. Start thinking of ways your family can get involved. There's only 2 weeks to go! Thank you in advance for your support!
https://my.worldvision.org.nz/ss/0W9KVd/beckenham-te-kura-o-puroto

High School Information: Cashmere High

Like other high schools, due to Covid-19 restrictions, Cashmere High School will not be holding an Open Night this year.

Photos from our week...

Key reminders for Kauri students:

Please make sure you bring to school every day:

• Your named water bottle - everyone
• Your device (we need all children with a BYOD to bring these to school every day)
• Your headphones or earbuds - everyone

Kauri welcome back video :

Level 2 information for students. Please view this with your child before Monday.

Level 2 information for parents:

High School Information:

At this time of each year, we start to get information from high schools for our Year 8 students and their families. We will pass this information on to you as we receive it.

Hagley College

Please note that due to the Covid-19 crisis, and in line with all Christchurch secondary schools, we will be unable to hold an open evening for prospective Year 9 students in Term 2.

We are still very happy to provide information about Hagley for 2021 to all interested parents, caregivers and students.

Our 2021 Junior College Lookbook is now available on our website at https://www.hagley.school.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2021_Junior_Prospectus-web.pdf.

Families are also welcome to contact Suzanne Waters (Director of Students) with any questions about learning in Year 9 at suzanne.waters@staff.hagley.school.nz.

To request an enrolment pack, or for any other enquiries, parents/caregivers should contact lisa.amer@staff.hagley.school.nz.

Kia ora everyone,

This week has seen a greater uptake with video-conferencing across our Kauri learners. 

• It was fabulous to see so may faces at our 'camp concert' yesterday afternoon. Despite a few tech issues, with lagging, there was a great vibe during the concert and we loved watching so much talent on show. 
• Our daily social Zooms will now always be at 11am. The numbers are growing and we are enjoying a variety of games.
• Writing and maths Zooms are also growing. It was interesting reading the children's feedback from the survey we put out today and hearing that video-conferencing can bring so much clarity and understanding when previously there may have been some confusion. 
• In order to join one of these Zooms, the process is: 1. Watch the daily video to see what Zooms are happening that day, there are also listed on the Learning at Home page. 2 Email a teacher - Nicky, Hannah or Megan and say you would like to join a Zoom meeting. 3. We will sign you up to the Zoom and you will get an email with the code, just before the meeting is scheduled to start. 4. At the start time, click on the code and you are in. 

Assembly

Cyber Safety (when using school Google Logins)

Kia ora everyone,

We are aware, from our phone calls with you over the past fortnight, that being in Level 4 is playing out in many different ways for our Kauri families. Some families are loving the opportunity to spend more time together and their children are thriving under the self-direction of learning at home and others are at their wit's end and can't wait for it to be a distant memory. And then there is everyone in-between.

We have enjoyed touching base with you and being able to do our bit to support the learning at home. This is looking different in different homes and that is just fine. The phone calls from us will taper off now, as we focus more on providing feedback and support so that our tamariki can get the most out of the learning we are putting on-line. This said, please do not hesitate to contact us (via email) if you have questions or need support with your child's learning. We can then give you a call as required. Keeping lines of communication open is very important to the success of this 'at home learning' approach.

Connecting

A number of children have been joining us at 11am each school day for a social catch-up. We now have a sizeable bunch of 'regulars', showing that this form of connecting is making a difference. If your child would like to join the fun, they just need to send Hannah an email sometime between 8am and 10:45 to join with 11am catch-up.

Show-time

We are looking forward to our 'camp' concert via Zoom on this coming Thursday at 4pm. Entries for items are dribbling in. We know there is lots of great talent out there. If your child would like to perform (and anyone in your bubble is welcome to join them) please encourage them to fill in the form on the Kauri Google Classroom by the end of Tuesday. 

Level 3 Changes

A small group of Kauri children will be part of the two school 'bubbles' when we hit Level 3 on Tuesday. Those families will be getting information from Sandy. Jenny is one of the 'bubble' teachers. This will mean that some of the children in Te Tai home-group will be getting learning feedback and support from either Hannah, Megan or Nicky, instead of Jenny. We will be sorting this out on Tuesday, our teacher only day, and letting you know of any changes in arrangements. 

Daily Routines for Learning at Home

In order to be getting the most out of our learning at home programme, your children should be:

• Going to our 'learning at home' page (via school website or google classroom) each morning to view the daily video and scan through any page updates
• Checking their emails every day
• Accessing learning via Google Classroom
• Emailing their teacher if they have questions about anything

Video Conferencing

A different way of giving feedback

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