Year 1-4 Swim Safety Lessons Weeks 3 & 4

Kia ora whanau, 

Next Tuesday Year 1-4 start our Swimsafe program at Pioneer pool for the next two weeks. 

Your child will need to bring the following for the Weeks 3 and 4 of this term. 

1) Togs (no bikinis please)

2) Clean dry towel

3) A  named suitably sized swimming bag (this will need to fit their shoes and their uniform in it while they are swimming)

4) Fitted goggles 

Caps are not required but can be worn by preference. We encourage anyone with long hair to please have it tied back. 

Please make sure you name all  your child's belongings clearly. 

Parent Help

Thank you to all those whanau who have volunteered to help support the children at the pool. This will require whanau meeting us at the pool because the buses are very full already. Buses will depart school at 

Year 1/2: 11:45

Year 3/4: 12:45

Please meet us at the pool at the following times:

Year 1/2: 12:00

Year 3/4: 1pm 

You role is to assist students as they are changing into and out of their togs. This is a supervising role. We are encouraging children to be independent as they change. The routine for changing is everything comes out of their bag, shoes go into the empty bag, then each piece must go into the bag as they take it off, so that the children come out of the changing room with a bag full of their own clothes, and in their hands they have their towels and googles. 

Here are the following parents who volunteered to help and the days that they can help on. 

Year 1/2 parent helpers: 

Tues27thToni Ryan, Emily Simpson, Lucia Nuttall, Natalie Doering, Yanshan Wu, Qian Ye, Lou van Tongeren, Helen Johsnon, Charlite Bachelor9 parents
Wed 28thEmily Simpson, Yanshan Wu, Charlie Bachelor3 parents
Thursday 29thCarla Laaman, Katherine Christenson, Natasha Mazlan, Yanshan Wu, Joanne Hurford, Charlie Bachelor6 parents
Monday 2ndRachel Elliot, Kate Stallworthy, Toni Ryan, Emily Simpson, Caroline McKean, Pru Campbell, Rebeckah Hanmer, Natasha Mazlan, Lucia Nuttall, Natalie Doering, Yanshan Wu11 parents
Tues 3rdToni Ryan, Emily Simpson,Lucia Nuttall, Natalie Doering, Yanshan Wu, Qian Ye,Lou van Tongeren, Helen Johnson, Charlie Bachelor9 parents
Wed 4thCharlie Batchelor, Yanshan Wu, Katherine Christensen, Emily Simpson,4 parents
Thurs 5thCarla Laaman, Katherine Christensen,Natashia Mazlan, Yanshan Wu, Joanne Hurford, Charlie Batchelor7 parents
Fri 6thRachel R, Carla Laaman, Ruth Blane, Cristal devereux, Caroline McKean, Charlie Batchelor5 parents


Year 3/4 parent helpers: 

Tues27thCarolyn Aitken, Sally Wood, Kelly Turner-Gower, Toni Ryan, Kerryn Allan, Natasha Woods, Sarah Henderson, Richard Scott, Helen Johnston, Kate Rutherford, Raynor Kauta
Wed 28thNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Richard Scott, Katey Gibling, Mary Winchester, Kelly Turner-Green, Raynor Kauta
Thursday 29thNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Kate Stallworthy, Martin Barr, Raynor Kauta
Monday 2ndNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Sally Wood, Carolyn Aitken, Raynor Kauta , Kate Stallworthy, Kelly Turner- Green,
Tues 3rdCarolyn Aitken, Sally Wood, Kelly Turner-Gower, Toni Ryan, Kerryn Allan, Natasha Woods, Sarah Henderson, Richard Scott, Helen Johnston, Kate Rutherford, Raynor Kauta
Wed 4thNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Kelly Turner-Green, Richard Scott, Katey Gibling, Mary Winchester, Raynor Kauta
Thurs 5thNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Kate Stallworthy, Martin Barr, Raynor Kauta
Fri 6thNatasha Wood, Kerryn Allan, Sarah Henderson, Kate Rutherford, Raynor Kauta


Please let Laura (Year 3/4) or Amber (Year1/2) know urgently if you are unable to help on one of these days. We would like a minimum of 4 parent helpers per session. As you can see some days there are many more helpers which is great, and on some days we only have 4 so we need to know that you will available to help. 

amber.donovan@beckenham.school.nz 

laura.williamson@beckenham.school.nz 

Team Kahikatea

Athletics NEXT Friday 30th October

Kia ora whanau, 

Whole Kura Athletics Day - Friday 30th October

Postponement Date: Tuesday 3rd November

Our whole kura athletics day provides an opportunity for our tamariki to participate in an athletics event. Our PE focus in the lessons leading up to this event is on the movement skills required to participate safely and to the best of our ability. The focus of the event is on fun and inclusion. Years 0 to 4 will be participating in a range of games that develop the fundamental movement skills of run, jump and throw. 

WHEN?

Kahikatea &  Kowhai students athletics rotation will run from 11.00am to 12.15pm (approximate finish time). 

WHERE? 

Beckenham Park (near the junior playground) 

Children may wear their house top or their red polo.

Children should also wear shoes and clothes that will be suitable for running and jumping, (running shoes and shorts/leggings are ideal). 

Please ensure that your child has their sun hat and water bottle at school. 

NOTE: please leave your dog/puppy at home if you are planning to come and see your child/children during this time. 

We look forward to seeing lots of you there! 

Teams Kowhai & Kahikatea 

Kahikatea Newsletter T3, Week 10

Clean Up NZ Week, 14-19 September 2020

As part of this national event, each class took turns collecting litter around our hub and playground. We learnt the impact our litter picking up efforts have....cleaner streets, rivers, and waterways, which in turn helps to keep our bird and fish life safe. 
Some students were very keen to make a bigger difference and gave up lunchtimes to collect rubbish.
 

Collected by three children collected in one lunchtime.

Well done Enviro-heroes!



Litter trap creations, made in our Learning Through Play sessions.


Calendar Art (Rainbow Fish)

Each child in Kahikatea created an amazing piece of Rainbow Fish art, that can now be ordered as calendars, diaries, notebooks, cards, and mouse pads. Information with your child specific code was sent home late last week.
Please order calendar art ASAP. 
Orders close Monday 28th September. 

Learning Through Play/Discovery

















Water Safety Skills Survey 

Please keep an eye out for this important survey as we prepare for lessons next term. 

Talent Show 

This is being held in the school hall tomorrow from 1.45pm. Only parents/caregivers of the performer can attend because of limited space in our hall. 

Up-coming events: 

School Athletics Week 3 Friday (Term 4) 
Water Safety Lessons (at Pioneer Pool) 
Visit to Rāpaki Marae


Kia ora whanau

Thanks for all you support this term and we hope you all get to enjoy a break! 

Team Kahikatea  




 


Kahikatea Newsletter Week 8 Term 3

 Kete Awards 

Congratulations to these students who have been awarded a Kete certificate for showing our school values for Week 6 & Week 8: 
  • Noah Webster: We Make a Difference
  • Thomas O'Beirne:We Get There Together
  • Nicholas Reedy: We Love Challenge
  • Andrew Gillespie: We love Learning
  • Joseph Simpson: We Love Learning
  • Walter Stallworthy: We Love Learning


Talent Show 

On Monday afternoon this week Kahikatea students certainly demonstrated it really does have a lot of talent! Congratulations to everyone who showed our school value 'We Love Challenge' by getting up on the stage and giving it your best. Sue, Lisa and Katie have decided to put through three finalists for the school talent show, which will happen in Week 10 (if we move to Level 1). Those three finalists are...

Dance: Lottie & Poppy 

Singing: Art

Instrument: John

Congratulations!

Athletics 

The date for this school-wide event is on the community calendar. Please remember to send your child to school in appropriate footwear and ensure they have a drink bottle full of water as we will be starting practices very soon! Thanks everyone for your support and encouragement as we undertake this new learning challenge. 

Kahikatea & Kowhai Water Skills for Life 

Our tamariki will be participating in a program of learning at Pioneer Pool. These lessons are based on the principles of water skills and do not replace or replicate the swimming lessons your child may already be engaged in. This is an opportunity to learn water safety.  Our students will have 8 lessons starting in late October

Water Skills for Life

Year 3 Football 

Our Year 3's are loving time out on the big field with staff from Cashmere Tech who are running football sessions this term. Please remember to send your child to school each day inappropriate footwear, especially if your child is part of this football session. 

Ako ma te Tākaro - Learning Through Play

We are on the lookout for lots of old bits and pieces for our tamariki to explore using in our Ako mā te tākaro time.  Quite a few tamariki have shown a strong interest in construction and design so we would love some of the following:

- hammers
- screwdrivers
- small saws
- nails and screws
- offcuts of timber or old wooden pellets etc

We really appreciate all the wonderful donations of bits and pieces that are regularly coming in for our tamariki to create with.  Some are in the process of building a 'glasshouse' out of clear 2-litre milk bottles to place over a wee garden outside our hub - this is an ongoing work in progress and we will post photographs on its completion.   


ESOL group and Little Garden

Our wonder teaching assistants, Pip and Jeanette, work with our ESOL group each week and are using a 'School Kit' activity to build a garden with the New World little garden seed pots.  If your child would like to bring in 1 little garden unopened seed set to pot, nurture, and grow for our glasshouse, please send them to see Jules at the atrium end of the hub and she will help them get it set up.




  Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Next week is our annual Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and we will be exploring our Pepeha as well as our Turangawaewae - where our ancestors stand.  There are some wonderful resources for practicing Te Reo Māori at home that can be found on the following:

https://kupu.maori.nz/te-kupu-o-te-wiki-2019

https://pepeha.nz/

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/maori-language-week/100-maori-words

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/maori-language-week/365-maori-words


Kia pai ou mutunga o te wiki - enjoy your weekend


Kahikatea Newsletter Term 3 Week 6

 Kia ora koutou,

We have had two fun and busy weeks since our last blog post. The Kahikatea children have been actively engaged in the various programmes on offer, and it has been wonderful to see everyone living our values of 'We Love Learning' and 'We Love Challenge' every day.

It has been fabulous to end the week with the sun shining! It really feels like Spring is just around the corner...hooray!

We miss seeing you in the mornings and afternoons, so we thought it would be nice to share a typical day in the life of a Kahikatea kid to give you insight into what we do each day.

8:55 - The bell rings and the children meet their homegroup teacher in their home space. During this time, the teacher does the roll and shares the daily notices. Sometimes we do a mindfulness activity to get our brains ready for learning. We do the Mystery Bag at this time too. The children are very good at asking open-ended questions to narrow down what could be inside the bag.

9:10 - Reading. We begin reading with a shared Big Book. During this time, teachers models what a good reader sounds like. The teacher prompts children to think about the structure of the text, the language used, the function of the surface features, and together we enjoy a shared story. After this, the teachers read with children in small groups, and when they are not with a teacher they are doing activities that link to the Big Book, practise spelling, select texts from their group boxes to read, and do other literacy-related activities.




10:00 - Handwriting. Our handwriting programme sees some children writing on whiteboards, while some write in books. Bounce and Skip pay careful attention during this time to spot children with great body posture, pencil grip, the correct formation of letters and their concentration and effort. 




10:20 - Morning Tea Snack

10:30 - Morning Tea Play

10:50 - The bell rings, and children return to their homespaces for phonics. Following this, we begin writing. This often involves shared writing, in which the teacher and the children co-construct a text. The teacher also records key words and ideas on the whiteboard for children to refer to. All children do a picture plan in their book to get them thinking about their story. Many children use alphabet, word and blend cards to support them in the crafting of their writing.


11:40 - Maths. We teach Maths collaboratively (Amber & Lisa / Katie & Charlotte). We begin each maths session with a warm-up/hot-spot to switch our brain into maths mode. Two days per week see children involved in small group instruction with a teacher and independent activities that support children with their next steps in mathematics. We have two inquiry days, where children work with a maths buddy to solve open-ended inquiry maths questions. We have a concept day once a week, where we focus in on one particular aspect of mathematics, for example, subtraction or fractions and do a range of activities related to this.

12:20 - Brain Break. This is a chance to move, drink, have a toilet stop and have a snack. Teachers usually read a novel or picture book to the children during this time.

12:40 - Lunch Play

1:20 - The bell rings and children line up to wash their hands with soap and water. They then meet their homegroup teacher in their home space to do the roll and have some quiet, supervised eating time together. After this, we collect our bags from the cubbies and pack our lunchboxes, drink bottles, jerseys and reading folders. 

2:00 - We meet in the pathway to hear our Discovery options for the afternoon. Popular choices often include construction, drawing, making, outside play, craft, drama, quiet reading and board games. This is a lovely time of the day for children to connect with their friends across the hub and spend time working together and immersing themselves in learning through play.















Dates to Note

Monday 31st August - Staff Only Day

Friday 4th September - Wacky Hair Day. This is to support the Child Cancer Foundation. Children can come to school in mufti and wear a wig, hat, or have wacky hair.

Looking Ahead: TERM 4

Next term we have three significant events booked: whole school athletics, water safety lessons and a trip to Rapaki Marae. At level 2 these events can take place, although our wholes school athletics at Level 2 would not include spectators.  

Sandy is planning to send out a parent/caregivers survey regarding these and other events (eg Year 5/6 camp) very soon. Please do look out for it.