Kōwhai News Term 2 Week 3

Hi Everyone,
Here is the latest news from the Kōwhai team.

Learning at Home
We have loved engaging with you via Seesaw and our Home Learning page and seeing all the amazing things you are doing at home. Below is a picture of the engagement of students at Beckenham from Year 1-4 on Seesaw over the last week.

Here are some pictures of some of the activities students from Kōwhai have completed during their Learning at Home and shared with their teachers.








Welcome Assembly 
Here is our Welcome Assembly for Term 2. You may want to watch this in full screen so you can see it more clearly. 



This week Kōwhai celebrated 'We love Learning' for our Kete awards because of all the amazing work you have been doing at home. Well Done to Elijah Hakeagaiki, Alex Mackintosh, Mina Lazic and Flynn Mitchell!

Cyber Safety (when using school Google Logins)
As you may be aware from the school cyber safety agreement, Beckenham te Kura o Pūroto has various cyber safety systems in place in order to keep students safe. We have one system called "Highlights" that we would like you to be particularly mindful of during lockdown.

This system allows teachers to see Chromebook screens and/or Chrome browser tabs whenever that device or browser is signed into a school Google account during school hours. This is an important tool that teachers use to keep students safe and to offer support while students are learning. It also has privacy implications and is one of the main reasons we always ask and remind students to only use their school account for learning purposes. If you want you child to use their personal device/browser for others purposes or without the school cyber safety systems in place, then it is important that students sign out of their school account and sign into their personal account created by you. If your child has borrowed a school Chromebook, they should only be using this with their school login and for learning purposes.

We also utilise a specialised web filtering system to help keep our students safe online. This filter automatically alerts staff whenever a student account is potentially being used to access unsafe content on the internet. Like Highlights, this filter system is active whenever a student is signed into their school account, even if they are at home. If we receive a concerning filter alert during lockdown, we will contact you via email.
It is important to note that teachers never rely on just the filtering system. We work hard to actively monitor students' screens and always ask students to work in a place where their screens are visible. We strongly encourage you to adopt a similar approach at home by making sure children only use devices in a family area where they can be easily seen. We also encourage you to actively check that your child/children are using the device in a safe and positive manner.