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Beckenham School Special Edition Newsletter Friday 13 October

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Special Edition - Welcome back to Term 4 at Beckenham!

Kia ora koutou

As you will all no doubt be aware, we will have ALL of our students back on our Beckenham site on Monday for the start of Term 4.

Getting around our site has changed again this term with the building progressing and the office now in another new, but temporary, location.

Below is a map that will hopefully help you find your way around.

The Office and staffroom will be located in the old NE classrooms, backing onto the staff carpark. The pedestrian entrance to the office, and to the East Hub (from Sandwich Road) will be via the staff carpark.
The Year 7/8 team have moved into the East Hub, and the Year 5/6 team are in the Sandwich Road end of the West Hub. Both teams have worked tirelessly over the past three days preparing their new learning spaces for the students on Monday.

We will begin classes at the normal time of 8:55am on Monday, then we will all meet in the courtyard between the East Hub and the Office (weather permitting), for our first whole school WELCOME ASSEMBLY since the start of Term 1!
We would like to invite any parents who are able to attend to join us in this assembly.

All of the staff are looking forward to being back on the same site together again after a year of working on two sites. We are very excited about welcoming all of our students back to school and a fabulous term of learning ahead.

Best wishes
Sandy Hastings
Principal - Tumuaki

Important Dates

Upcoming Events

Mon 16 Oct
Term 4 starts.  Classes begin at 8:55am.  Everyone at Sandwich Road site.
Welcome Assembly in the new, East Hub courtyard. EVERYONE very welcome!

Mon 23 Oct
Labour Day - school is closed.

Wed 25 Oct
BOT Meeting - 5:30-8:00pm
PTA Meeting - 7:30-9:30pm

Thu 26 Oct
Yrs 5 - 8 Athletic sports in Beckenham Park.

Wed 1 Nov
Yrs 5 - 8 Long distance races, 1000m & 1200 m

Thu 9 Nov
Special group photos & Hubs 12 & 13.  1:15-3:00pm

Mon 13 Nov
Zone Athletics at Hansens Park

Fri 17 Nov
Canterbury Anniversary Day - school is closed.

Wed 6 Dec
Canterbury Athletics in Ashburton

Mon 18 Dec
Year 8 Leaver's Assembly

Term Dates
Click here to view 2017 and 2018 term dates.

School Notices

Sun Hats are required from Monday

During Term 4 students are required to wear an approved school sun hat (red or black).  Caps are not permitted.
Bucket style sun hats are available from the office for $10 each, sizes M & L.  Wide brimmed hats are available from The Warehouse for $18.

PTA - Sunscreen offer:

Summer is just around the corner and we're all looking forward to some warm days, barbecues, games of cricket, trips to the beach and lots of sunshine!
The Beckenham School PTA is fundraising and promoting sun safety by selling handy 50g tubes of Cancer Society SPF 30+ sunscreen.
Click on the link below to place your order and be sunsmart!
http://bit.ly/2hrlokd

Lunchonline

Hello Lunchonline Families!

We have let Lunchonline know that ALL of our students are now at our Beckenham site so they will be delivering all of the lunches here from Monday.

For your information!  Can you please note that Pita Pit Sydenham has a new menu and it is set up slightly differently – take a look when you next order.

The kids’ sized pitas are now priced at $5.65 which includes three fillings and sauce. The three fillings and sauce are chosen separately.  Previously, there was a charge for each filling and sauce.

This menu is loaded and effective from the first week of term 4.  Have a great break over the holidays.

Community Notices

(Notices placed here are contingent on space and do not reflect the views or opinions of the school.)

Christchurch School of Music

Come and join us for this exciting, FREE performance of a childhood favourite story, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. This performance is based on the much-loved book by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd and is filled with visually and aurally engaging percussion music with dancing cats from all over the world.

Presented by the Christchurch School of Music with the world percussion ensemble, colourful dancers, a naughty box-loving pussy cat and narration by Celia Stewart, this performance will engage the children in wonderful music and storytelling.
Most suitable for 3-8 year olds but all welcome.

When: Friday October 20th
Cost: FREE
Show times -
10am-10.50am
11.30am-12.20pm
1.30pm-2.20pm

Where: Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret’s College, Winchester St.

Please register your interest and preferred show time with Roanna Funcke:
roanna@csm.org.nz

Building the ADHDvantage

Building the ADHDvantage 3.30-5.30pm Saturday 14th October, St Marks church Hall Opawa.
Guest speaker Dr Sarah Watson - a conference to support and inform parents and adults living with ADHD, as well as teachers and specialists.
 By joining us you'll get:
• greater awareness and education of ADHD
• factual information on ADHD
• to understand what proper assessment and multimodal treatment of ADHD by trained professionals means, and
• understand the resources required for assessment and treatment of ADHD in adults.
 Find out more at http://www.adhdnewzealand.co.nz/adhd-nz-awareness-month.html 



Koru Term 3 Week 10

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Thank you
Thank you so much for all your support this term.  We appreciate the parents who come in to help in a variety of ways including sorting and putting books away, helping make and sort resources, listening to children's reading, coming on trips, offering resources that support our prgrammes and all the positive comments you make that help make our days brighter.  We have had a fabulous term in our new learning spaces.

Specialist coaching at Olympia Gym 
The children  had a fabulous fun filled time at Olympia Gym. They were divided up into stations which included  beam, trampoline, rebounder, mat work and  swinging rings. 
Our children were proud of their achievements and the coaches mentioned how well behaved they were. Everyone showed our school value of "We love challenge" and "We get there together".  A huge thank you to Charlotte Verity who spent many hours organising this trip and to our lovely parent helpers.




















Our Learning in Mathematics
Measurement
Hub 10 had an action packed measurement  lessons outside last week.  We all drew our own fish and measured how many footsteps long they were. The children made comparisons about the length of their fish.  e.g. Who had the shortest fish? Who had the longest fish? How many footsteps long is your fish? There was a buzz of excitement and laughter as they worked collaboratively.

Statistics and Probability
Hubs 1 to 4 have been looking at statistics and probability.  We began our term with a special challenge from Sandy.  We were asked to Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: - posing and answering questions - gathering, sorting and counting, and displaying category data and discussing the results.  Have a look at our statistics slide show which shares the path of our learning.  
Statistics Slide Show

Our probability unit ended with a probability extravaganza.  The children were involved in playing games which explored probability and then making games of their own to share with others where they used everyday language to talk about chance and classify events as certain, possible, or impossible.


Sunhats
A friendly reminder that the children will be required to wear a named school sunhat in term four. It is really helpful to name the hats in an obvious place where the children can easily see their name. We do have sunscreen at school and the children are encouraged to put this on before play and lunch.


Gardening
There has been a lot of planting, growing and watching to see the changes as they come about.  Thanks to the many donations of 'Little Gardens.'  Tamariki have loved the thrill of seeing their efforts result in green shoots popping through the soil or cotton balls.  Gail's new entrants enjoyed trying out some science experiments with growing seeds in light, dark, with and without water.
Discovery times have also included many natural reources.  Chopping, cleaning and eating fresh carrots, making lavender bags and playing with lavender scented playdough.  Next term we look forward to more gardening.




We really enjoyed eating the Micro-greens that we grew from seeds!










Discovery
There has been so much learning and deep thinking involved across our discovery times, some children built bridges with boxes, or towers out of plastic cups.  As the images show, 'a picture speaks a thousand words!'












Making beds for bears and other craft projects in design and technology gives children the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of designing and making functional and creative products.









Term 4
We are all looking forward to having the whole school back at the Beckenham site next term, having opportunities for tuakana -teina.  The tuakana - teina relationship,  provides a model for buddy systems. An older or more expert tuakana helps and guides a younger or less expert teina. In a learning environment the tuakana–teina roles may be reversed at any time. For example, the student who yesterday was the expert may need to learn from her classmate today.  We are also looking forward to having our mediators, sports monitors and older friends to play with in the playground.