Monthly Archives: May 2020

Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 6

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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...











Kahikatea:Learning At School!

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Kia ora whanau,
Our kinds thanks to you for following our new morning and pick up processes. Please read Sandy's email this evening which provides further clarity.

Here are our gorgeous kids enjoying time back together: 









       











Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto First Day back – Fine-tuning for tomorrow…

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Kia ora koutou

Thank you all so much for getting the children so well prepared for school today! We could absolutely see the work that you had done, when the children arrived this morning and were able to transition so successfully into school!

Thank you all for understanding the need to stay off the school site. The drop-off this morning worked very well

End of Day Pick-up:
The end of the day pick-up was always going to be the trickier time, with 476 children all leaving at 3pm.

Today we had the children from Koru and Kahikatea teams coming out to the gate at 2:45pm. This was a partial success, however, some of you ended up having to wait another 15 mins for your older children to come out.

From tomorrow, at 2:45pm, the teachers will ONLY bring out the Koru and Kahikatea children who do NOT have older siblings in Kōwhai, Pōhutukawa or Kauri. They will bring them to the Sandwich Road main entrance.

The children who have older siblings in the school will WAIT in their hub with a teacher, until 3pm, and they will be brought out then.

This will mean that those of you with older children and young children can just arrive at 3pm as usual. This will also mean that the younger children and their parents can move away from the front gate, before the rest of the school start to come out.

Thanks again
Sandy, Jo and Amber

Winter Sport for Year 5/6

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Dear whānau,

Here is a link to a survey re Winter Sports for our Pōhutukawa learners. We are still firming up what our options however it would be very helpful to get an indication of what support you may be able to offer.  We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete the survey as soon as possible.

Click here

Thanks for your support!

Kauri Whānau back at School!

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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
If you use a skateboard to get to school, it must go in the bike area on Sandwich Road, under the staffroom window.
If your hands are sensitive to certain hand sanitizers, please bring a small bottle of sanitizer you can use. 

Passion and Art Choices:

Please encourage your child to go into Kauri Google Classroom before Monday and fill in their choices on the surveys for Passions and Art Week.

Sport:

We are working towards having a weekly winter sports competition with other schools in our zone on a Thursday afternoon. Please read and fill in this form to indicate how you could help.

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.