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 Kōwhai & Kahikatea 

 Kia ora Kōwhai whānau, 

What a whirlwind term it has been! We have had a fantastic last two weeks of term, with visits from the NZ Army Band and enjoying all our Kōwhai talent show performances. The students that chose to attend the football sessions with Cashmere Technical Football Club enjoyed their last session in lovely sunshine on Wednesday. 

Talent Show

The whole school talent show is on tomorrow from 1.45. Due to limited space in the hall with the whole school attending, we are asking only caregivers of the children performing come along to see the show. 

Museum Trip

Please watch out for another blog post tomorrow that has a letter about our upcoming museum trips on the 22nd and 23rd of October. We will need some parent volunteers for this so please email your child's homeroom teacher if you are able to help. 

Calendar Art

Make sure you have placed your order for your child's Kiwiana calendar art. This closes on Monday the 28th of September. 

Water Safety Skills Survey

Keep your eyes peeled for a survey that will come out tomorrow for your to fill in about your child's confidence in the water. 

Discovery 

With the lovely weather we have had over the last week, we have had lots of children exploring outside during Discovery time. The students have been building, making furniture, creating obstacles course. using Beebots to transport things and generally being very creative in their learning.

Upcoming events

Museum Visit  - Thursday/Friday Week 2 Term 4

School Athletics - Friday Week 3, Term 4

Water Safety Skills (at Pioneer Pool)

Noho Marae at Rāpaki Marae

We need parent volunteers for many of these events so please be sure to email your homeroom teacher and let them know if you can help out. 

We hope you have a lovely holidays! 

See you in Term 4.

Nga mihi, 

The Kowhai Team - Rowe, Tracey, Nick and Laura 

 Dear Kōwhai whanau, 

Another busy few weeks in the Kōwhai hub. 

Next term is a busy one! In the first few weeks of Term 4, we have the following events coming up: 

 Kia ora Kōwhai whanau, 

It's hard to believe we are almost halfway through Term 3. Time sure does fly when you are having fun! 

We have started exploring our Planet Earth and Beyond Inquiry topic over the last two weeks. We started this learning with an ignition of a space ship crash in the hall and then the students had to hunt for the different parts of the ship in teams around the school - it was a great way to get us excited about the learning ahead. 

 Kia ora Kōwhai whanau, 

It's been another busy week in our Kōwhai hub. 

Level 2 in Kōwhai Hub. 

Thank you for keeping up with all the information being sent at short notice to your inbox. It is a rapidly changing situation so we appreciate that you remain aware of the information the school is sharing at this time. The school Facebook page is an excellent way to keep up to date. 

Our hand washing, sanitizing and surface cleaning routines will be stepped back up to the gold standard again immediately.We have lots of sanitizer around the school, but if your child needs their own sanitizer, please send it into school with them and let their teacher know. 

Unless it is an emergency, we are asking everyone who are not staff, itinerant teachers or students to stay off site - this means a return to dropping off and picking up at the gate. We will have teachers at the gates to support children to transition into school.

If you do have to come on site for any reason, please visit the office FIRST and sign in using either our digital sign-in register or the paper register. Please ALSO use the national COVID Tracer App to register by scanning a QR code on one of our entry doors.

If your child is unwell, please keep them at home.

Assembly will be cancelled, however BOOK CHARACTER DAY on Friday will still go ahead. We look forward to seeing all the children dressed up as a character from a book in the hub tomorrow. 

If you have a meeting booked with a member of staff, they will be in contact with you to either reschedule this, or book it via a ZOOM.

As we did at Alert Level 2 last time, the CSM Outreach music lessons and band program will continue at school, with distancing as required.

Readathon

We have so many keen readers in Kōwhai - it is great to see! The Readathon forms and money are due back at school next Friday on the 21st of August. 

Maths 

We have started to focus again on Multiplication this week in Maths. Here is a picture of some different ways we are learning to solve Multiplication questions. In the next few weeks we will begin to use our multiplication knowledge to start learning more about Division. 

Beckenham's Got Talent

We have some students who have shown "We love Challenge" by putting themselves forward to audition in a variety of acts for Beckenham's Got Talent. We have been practicing during Discovery time and next week will start some break time practices as well. Auditions will be held in Week 7.

Planet Earth and Beyond

Next week we are starting a new topic focused around Planet Earth and Beyond. We will be learning about Earth and our Solar System. If you or someone you know has a particular interest in this, please contact your child's teacher as we would love you to come into the hub and share some of your expertise. 

We will be ending this area of learning with a visit to the museum "Our Moon' exhibit in early Term 4. More details will come at a later date. 

Nga mihi, 

The Kōwhai Team - Nick, Rowe, Tracey and Laura.