Term 4, Week 6 

What a whirlwind week we've had with just three days! We are zooming through our final term of the year, and there is some great learning going on in the hub. The arrival of our first school chicks has been very exciting. All of the children have had a chance to pop in and see them in the office. We got to pet the wee chicks and feel how soft they are. 

Paired Reading 

This week, we began using a new strategy during our reading sessions. The "Paired Reading, Paragraph Shrinking" strategy focuses on reading fluency and comprehension. The children work in pairs to read through passages of text. We have practiced how to help each other when the reading gets tricky. The children are settling into the new routine, and we hope to hear smoother, more fluent reading in the coming weeks. 

Kapa Haka

Our children have been working really hard to learn a haka with Whaia Cath during our Friday Kapa Haka sessions. We are ready to share this with you and will be performing in the assembly on Friday, 21st November. Assembly starts at 10am and is usually finished around 10.30am. We hope to see you there. 

We hope you all have a lovely long weekend!

Kendall, Amber, Sarah and Talia

Kia ora e te whānau,

What a wonderfully busy week we've had in Team Kahikatea. We have had several events and have more coming up. Here is the latest news from the Kahikatea team.
Thank you for coming along to support your child/ren during our school athletics day yesterday. We have some photos from the day in our blog this week. 

PTA - Colour Run 

Fri 21 Nov - PTA Colour Run (1:30pm-3:00pm Fundraiser Event)

Information for this will come home with your oldest or only child. 

Team Kauri Raffle 

Team Kauri are excited to announce our Luxury Hamper Raffle Fundraiser! 

Our generous Team Kauri families have donated some amazing treats, beautifully packaged into 7 stunning hampers — each filled with luxury goodies perfect for a picnic, a romantic weekend getaway, or simply indulging yourself during a busy week. 

Grab your raffle tickets from our awesome parent volunteers outside the hall this Friday morning and afternoon!

$3.00 per ticket, 2 tickets for $5 or 5 tickets for $10!!!

The draw for these awesome prizes will take place at the Kauri Quiz Night on 1st November. You do not have to attend this evening to be a winner of the draw, so get in a buy your tickets!!!

Don’t miss your chance to win something special while supporting Team Kauri!

✨ Good luck and thank you for your support! ✨

Tuesday Dance Sessions

Our tamariki are really enjoying our dance session being held in our school hall every Tuesday. This is the music that we've been using to learn our dance. Your child may want to show you the dance they are learning, and you may want to join in!

Music HERE 

Athletics Photos 

Have a safe and happy weekend! Feel free to contact any of the team if you have any questions, queries or clarifications about what's happening at kura. 

Ngā mihi nui,

Team Kahikatea 

 Kia ora whānau,

Our tamariki have had a busy and wonderful start to the final term of the year! 

We are well underway with our athletics practices, we have had a ponds visit and we have started ukulele and dance sessions on a Tuesday. 

A reminder for sunhats for Term 4 please.

Some dates for your diary:

Thursday 23rd October-Teacher Strike action, school is closed.

Thursday 30th October: Whole school athletics day. Kahikatea aim to run ours 11:00am-12:15pm, on the park.

Tuesday Arts:

We have been fortunate enough to receieve some funding to promote some performance arts sessions in the Year 1-4 classrooms. This means that on a Tuesday each homegroup has a 30minute ukulele session with our whānau worker Paerau (also a member of One Drop Nation) and a hip hop dance session with Steph from Legacy Dance. How lucky are we?!

Kia ora whānau, 

Wow, this term is flying by. Can you believe it’s already Week 8? Kahikatea has been full of learning, creativity, and new experiences these past couple of weeks. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been up to:

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS)

Constable Meg visited us to teach important lessons about how we can keep ourselves safe. Our learning has included:

• How to identify Police officers and understand that their job is to keep us safe.
  
  

• What to do if we get lost, and how to recognise adults we can trust.
  
  

• Learning the correct names for body parts.
  
  

• Marching and saluting.
  
  

• Understanding what consent means and practising role-plays where we confidently say no.
  
  

Here’s a short video to continue these conversations at home: Consent for kids

Clay Art

Our clay skills are growing every week! Nicky has been showing us how to make and shape pots, which has been both fun and challenging. This project has been a wonderful way to live our school value: We Love Challenge.

Here are some photos of our process, from shaping to painting our unique clay pots! 

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Maths – Statistics and Graphing

In Maths, we’ve been learning how to use tally charts and collect data. Next week, we’ll take the next step by exploring graphs – learning how to read them and create our own based on the data we’ve gathered.

You can support this learning at home by encouraging your child to collect data on something that interests them (e.g. favourite fruit in the family, colours of cars passing by, or types of toys they have). They can then organise their results in a tally chart and even try creating a simple graph to show what they found.

Trees for Survival

We are excited to share that Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto has been chosen as the first urban school in the South Island to take part in the Trees for Survival programme! 🌱

Trees for survival is a Charitable Trust started by Rotary​ and works in partnership with Regional Councils,​ schools, sponsors and volunteers. I​t is an environmental programme which works with school students to grow​ and then plant​ native trees on sites such as wetlands, hillsides, stream edges, to increase​ biodiversity, stabilise soil and help improve water quality. 

This week, our ākonga planted our very first seedlings. We learned how to care for the seedlings properly and keep ourselves safe while working with potting mix. We are super excited to watch these grow and continue looking after our seedlings!

Find out more about Trees for Survival here: https://www.tfsnz.org.nz/