Koru Term 3 Week 3

Kia ora koutou,

What a great start to Term 3 we have had in the Koru Hub. Our busy days are providing many learning opportunities for our tamariki and we are enjoying seeing the progress they are making.

It is so lovely to hear about all the practice the children are doing at home with their sound cards and heart words. It really does make a difference to their progress at school. Once they have secured the sounds, they can use the sound cards to make small words and put the words together, in conjunction with their heart words, to make simple sentences. If they need extra letters, they can make their own on paper. Children can also practise writing the words they make. They will be able to show you their 3 friends pen hold and how they pick the pen up with their holding fingers which they pinch together to pick the pen up correctly. Once they are able to decode words by sounding out the individual sounds, their next step is to blend the sounds together as they read them. This will help them to become fluent readers and make sure they are understanding what they are reading. 

We  have been offered the use of one of the planter boxes, that are in front of the hall, to plant up and look after for the rest of the year. This week we have been learning about planting seeds and how to take care of them. We wrote some instructions for planting seeds and have begun to plant some pea and bean seeds in class. We are very excited about looking after them and watching their growth progress.

During our Learning Through Play, we have been focusing on the learning that is taking place. We spent some time last week discussing exactly why we call it Learning Through Play. It was great to hear children explaining that it's "because we are learning as we play." This week we have been identifying the ways in which what we do during Learning Through Play also relate to our school values.
We Get There Together

We Love Learning

We Get There Together

We Care

We Make a Difference

We Love Learning

We Get There Together and We Love Challenge

We Care

Using the cloud dough to make heart words - We Love Challenge and We Love Learning

Our shared book this week was about a gardener who created a maze out of hedge plants. During Learning Through Play we had a go at making and drawing our own mazes.

Creating a maze out of painted stones

Drawing mazes on paper

Using a whiteboard to draw a maze

We have begun our Keeping Ourselves Safe lessons in class. We have been talking about what makes us unique, along with the important information children need to know as part of keeping themselves safe. We have noticed that most children do not yet know their address or a contact telephone number. This would be a great time to have a practice with your child at home so they know how to contact you in an emergency. They will be bringing home a copy of the sheet they filled out, with support, at school to practise with you at home. Next week, we begin our lessons with Constable Ross.

We hope you have been enjoying participating in the school readathon. There is one more week to get those 'reading' minutes up. We will celebrate the end of the readathon next Friday with a Book Character Dress Up day, so get those creative hats on!

Have a lovely relaxing weekend together.

Ngā mihi mahana,

The Koru Team: Elizabeth, Tracey, Nicola, Chelsea and Stacey

Kahikatea Week 3 Term 3 News

Gymnastics 

Wow! What an incredible start we have had to gymnastics in Kahikatea.

It has been wonderful to see our tamariki showing each of our Kete Values during the sessions.

We Love Challenge Nau mai te wero

- We love trying new things at gymnastics

- When something is hard we try and try again

- We know that challenge is good!

- It feels great when we achieve new things!

We Make a Difference Nā mātou he rerekē te ao 

- We encourage each other when things are tricky

- We help each other

- We show each other how to do things

- We let our coaches and bus driver know that we appreciate them by saying thank you

- We follow the rules at gymnastics to keep everyone safe

We Love Learning He taonga te ako

- It feels great to learn new things!

- We listen to our coaches so that we know what to do

- We practise and practise until we get it

- We know how important movement is for our bodies

- We ask questions and try to improve all the time

We Care Arohaina te tāngata me te taiao

- We encourage the people in our group

- We show others kindness and use our manners

- We follow the rules to keep others and ourselves safe

- We help others if they fall down

- We make sure that everyone gets a turn

We Get There Together Mā tātou katoa te waka e hoe

- We encourage each other

- We take turns and wait patiently

- We listen to our coaches

- We put the equipment back in the right place

- We move safely to the bus














































Latest News in our ESOL Classes

If your child attends ESOL classes (please see your classroom teacher if you need to verify this) you are welcome to attend our Parent Hui next Wednesday at 2.15pm in the Staffroom. 
We will share pictures of our learning ...as well as the soup we made for you!




Read-a-thon and Book Character Dress-up Day 

We hope the Readathon is going well!
There is one more week to continue reading and reaching your daily target.
Don't forget to keep thinking about who you will come dressed up as for Book Character Day, Friday 20th August. 

Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto Newsletter Friday 6 August 2021

Principal's Patch

Kia ora koutou

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Important Dates

Upcoming Events

Sun 8 Aug - Working Bee (10am-12noon)

Term 3, Week 3:

Tue 10 Aug - School Duathlon (12:00 - 3.15pm)
Thu 12 Aug - South Zone Winter Sport (12:00 - 3:00pm)
Thu 12 Aug - Board of Trustees Meeting (5:30 - 7:30pm) All welcome

Term 3, Week 4:

Tue 17 Aug - School Duathlon Postponement date (12:00 - 3.15pm)
Wed 18 Aug - ESOL Whānau Hui (2.15 - 2.55pm)
Thu 19 Aug - South Zone Winter Sport (12:00 - 3:00pm)

Term Dates

Click here to view 2020 term dates.

Citizen of the Week

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School Notices

Staff Only Day - BOSCO8

BOSCO will be open on the next teacher’s only day - on the 27th August.
Book now for an exciting day making Minion clothespins and awesome popsicle stick puzzles. We will play games and sport outside and in the afternoon we will bake biscuit wands. Contact Juanita by emailing office@bosco.org.nz to find out more or book online via Aimy Plus.

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Community Notices

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Kōwhai News – Term 3 Week 2

Kia ora whānau, 

It's been a busy start to Term 3 and spring is just around the corner. We can't wait! 

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS) 

This term, our wellbeing focus will be the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme. Your child/children may bring home some tasks which you can help them to complete (such as learning their phone number and address). 

Keeping Ourselves Safe is a comprehensive child abuse prevention programme for schools. Its purpose is to:

  • teach students a range of safe practices that they can use when interacting with other people, both online and face to face
  • teach students how to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and encourage students who have been or are being abused to seek help
  • prevent abuse by making parents and teachers more aware of their responsibilities to help students avoid abuse.

School Community Officers are available to support schools to plan and implement Keeping Ourselves Safe.

source: Keeping Ourselves Safe

Readathon 

Your child should have brought home the yellow slip for Readathon last Friday. On Friday the 20th we will have a book character day to celebrate the Readathon, where your child can come dressed up as their favourite literacy characters. We do not expect you to go and buy a costume for your child for this. 

Learning Games 

Please remember that if your child wants to play the Maths and Structured Literacy/Spelling games at home, they will need to sign in with their school Google account. Please talk to your child's homegroup teacher if you are not sure what this is. 

Here are a few picture of our first few weeks of Term 3.  














Have a lovely weekend. 

The Kōwhai Team - Laura, Nick, Rowe, Quynh and Meagan