Kia ora whānau,
What a fantastic and busy term we have had with so many awesome activities throughout the term. Thank you to all those parents and students who came along to the student-led conferences this week. It was lovely to touch base with everyone and reflect on our learning so far this year.
Cross Country
Our whole school cross country is coming up at the start of next term. This will be held on Tuesday, 11th of May in the afternoon.
Seniors will have an earlier lunch and start first. The Junior students will start later in the afternoon. Timings will be confirmed during Week 1 of the term and sent out to you via the school newsletter.
We encourage all the students to embrace our school value, "We Love Challenge" and to try their very best. While for the majority this will be participating as a runner, there will be additional ways to make sure all our tamariki are involved in the event. Teams have started our practices already and will continue during the first week of Term 2. We know that some children will enjoy practising over the holidays. Our course distance is around 1km if you would like to start training. Happy running!
Structured Literacy
Here is our structured literacy scope and sequence which forms the basis of our literacy programme. We check all students on their sounds and teach spelling patterns with this.
A reminder that some students will be bringing home sound cards in their reading folders, and some will bring home books. If your child does not bring home a book, then they can choose a book to read from home.
We also do not send books home if the student does not have their reading folder, so please help your child by reminding them to bring their reading or library folder each day.
Learning conferences were a great opportunity to chat with you about structured literacy. Remember if you have any further questions, your child's literacy teacher is the best person to get in touch with.
laura.williamson@beckenham.school.nz
rowena.barker@beckenham.school.nz
nick.bruce@beckenham.school.nz
quynh.nguyen@beckenham.school.nz
meagan.mathers@beckenham.school.nz
Art
We have been creating some amazing art over the last week. Some homegroups have focused on emotion-based art and some have been exploring the artist Piet Mondrian and making Mondrian inspired art.
Here are some examples:
We hope you have a lovely and relaxing holidays.
See you next term.
The Kōwhai team - Laura, Nick, Rowe, Meagan and Quynh