Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto Newsletter 7th August 2020

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Kia ora koutou

Your voice is important!

At Beckenham we strive to be a 'Learning Community' working in partnership with our caregivers, staff and students to achieve the very best outcomes for all of our learners.

A successful community knows the direction it is heading in, and works together to periodically review and reset that direction. They work together to establish a pathway for achievement of equity and excellence.

We would like to invite all of our caregivers to attend one of the following opportunities to have a conversation about our direction for the next three years.

Tuesday 18th August    5:30pm - 7:00pm       Whānau Rōpū Hui - children welcome

Tuesday 18th August    7:15pm - 8:30pm        Community Forum

Friday 21st August        9:00am - 10:15am    Community Forum

Sandy Hastings - Principal - Tumuaki

Important Dates 

Upcoming Events

READATHON - one more week to go! Cards due back from Mon 24 Aug

Wed 12 Aug - Canterbury Cross Country - Halswell Quarry
Fri 14 Aug - Book Character Day!
Fri 14 Aug - Celebration Assembly 2:20 - 2:50pm
Tue 18 Aug - Whānau Rōpū Hui 5:30pm - 7:00 pm - Staffroom
Tue 18 Aug - Community Forum - 7:15pm - 8:30pm
Fri 21 Aug - Community Forum - 9:00am - 10:15am; Staffroom
Sat 22 Aug - Quiz Night - Hall
Wed 26 Aug - PTA Meeting, 7:30pm - All welcome.
Fri 28 Aug - Kauri Ski Trip

Term Dates

Click here to view 2020 and 2021 term dates.

Citizen of the Week

Connor Ingram - Year 7

Connor, you are a dependable and trustworthy member of the Kauri whānau. Whether it's carrying out leadership responsibilities or completing learning tasks to the best of your ability, we know we can depend on you to get it done. You treat others with kindness and respect and show a love of challenge on the hockey field. Thank you for the way that you show our school values everyday and all that you bring to our team.

Ashleigh Maule - Year 4

Ashleigh, you are a fantastic role model in our hub. You consistently demonstrate a positive, supportive and caring attitude. You work hard to do the right thing at all times and are extremely polite and respectful. You have excellent self-management skills and are very responsible. Thank you for always demonstrating our school values. Well done, Ashleigh!

School Notices

Mana Ake drop ins

A number of whānau have already made great use of the Mana Ake “drop-ins” that are available on Wednesday mornings from 8:30 – 9:30am. These drop-in sessions are here to provide parents with an opportunity to have a private, informal conversation around the well being of their child with one of our Mana Ake workers (kaimahi). If you feel like you would like to attend a drop-in session, please book in a time via the link here: Mana Ake booking  The code to use is 88t39. Alternatively, you can contact Jacky in the office and she will make a booking for you.

BOOK Character Dress-up Day - This coming Friday 14 August! 

Go all out, or take a subtle, understated approach! Everything goes when we dress as our favourite book character.

BOSCO

BOSCO will be open on Monday, 31st August for the Teachers Only Day. We have a fun day planned with the kids baking chocolate chip cookies, doing scratch art and building a mini city.

You can book using the online booking or contact Juanita at supervisor@bosco.org.nz

Crusaders vs Highlanders

We have been given a special offer for families to be able to purchase cheap tickets to the next home game for the Crusaders. $5 KIDS & $10 ADULTS TICKETS - THANKS TO ISAAC CONSTRUCTION

Crusaders v Highlanders
When: Sunday 9 August, 3.35pm
Where: Orangetheory Stadium
The link to tickets is:  Purchase tickets for Crusaders
Promo code: Isaacs

Sports News


Congratulations to our Senior Girls Basketball team, who came 4th overall in Canterbury at the Canterbury tournament on Monday 27th July.
A huge thanks Anna, Cory and Grant for coaching, managing and supporting the girls. It definitely sounded like an exciting competition - one where the girls rose to the challenge, gave of their best and applied qualities of great sportsmanship. To get 4th in Canterbury is an outstanding achievement and, we’re pretty sure, a first for Beckenham.

PTA News

READ-A-THON 2020

Hopefully, your child’s Read-a-Thon sponsorship card came home on Friday - check those bags for the sponsorship cards. If your child still has not received their card, please contact their teacher.

Their reading journey will end on Friday 14th August. Every child who brings their sponsorship card back will be given a bookmark.

Bring your sponsorship form to the school reception by Thursday 27th August and, during assembly on Friday 28th August, we will have a lucky dip draw for one child in each team (for children who have brought their sponsorship form back).

Enjoy your book / books of choice and remember Dr Seuss' wise words...


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Community Notices

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

Helen O'Grady Drama Academy - Come out of your Shell

Do You Want your child to:
 Grow in Confidence
 Increase their Self Esteem
 Develop Speech and Language skills
 Express themselves Creative
 Have Fun and Make Friends
 Be Part of a Team
We can help Your Child achieve all this... and more

Helen O’Grady Drama Club’s
For DRAMA with a DIFFERENCE
Call Now: 0800-161-131, enquiries @helenogrady.co.nz,  www.helenogrady.co.nz

Garden City Rotary McDonalds Youth Duathlon 2020 update

This is a reminder that we are on track to run this popular event on Sunday September 20.. 2020

A limited number of spaces are still available so we would appreciate your support in passing this reminder on to your students and encouraging them to book online www.mcdonaldsduathlon.co.nz

BMX Clubs

Registration Day is 16th August.  there are a number of great tracks around the Canterbury region.  find the one closest to you and have a go.
ChCh City BMX Club 11am - 1pm, Kyle Park, Waterloo Road, Hornby. chcbmx@hotmail.com  North Avon ChCh BMX Club, 12 - 2pm  Bexley Reserve, Pages Road, nacbmx@gmail.com.
Nth Canterbury BMX Club, 12 - 2pm.  32 Millton Avenue, Waimakariri, ncbmxclub@gmail.com.




Kauri Kitchen Closed and Hamper Item Donation

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We are closing our hub kitchen for a week. The microwave, jug and sandwich press will not be available to prepare food. It will reopen next Thursday. 

Please send along your item for our hamper raffle by Friday this week. Something nice from the supermarket would be great.

Remember gear for winter sport tomorrow.


Kauri Fundraising Update: Week 3 Please Read

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Kia ora everyone,

We have just 9 tickets left for the quiz night! If you are yet to get yours, please click here.

Just one week to go to get your orders in for toilet paper and paper towels. 

Our bike raffle ticket sales will start this week, with tickets being sold before and after school. The bike will be on display. Tickets are $2 each.

We would like everyone to donate one item to go in our hamper raffles that will be drawn at the quiz night. Please send a non-perishable 'luxury supermarket item' along to school this week. We will have a tub in the Maker-Space to collect your donations in.


Many thanks!

News Update from Koru, Term 3 Week 2

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Kia ora e te whanau,

What a wonderful start back to school we've all had. The children have settled beautifully into their routines and our new hub setups. 
We're really impressed with the way in which the children are saying their goodbyes, entering the learning spaces, managing their belongings and settling into their Learning Through Play. Thank you so much for your support with this. Having the children able to say goodbye at the door has certainly helped with that smooth transition and start to the day.
It's wonderful watching how independent the children are becoming with their morning jobs and developing responsibility and self-management.

The Three Little Pigs:
Our Learning Through Play 'theme' for the past two weeks has been The Three Little Pigs. The children have been very creative: building, performing, retelling (with a twist!), writing and puppet-making. Here are just a few photos of some of the activities they have been engaged in.

Demonstrating cooperation and teamwork: We Get There Together

Showing creativity and imagination by working collaboratively on our challenge

Heading from the house of sticks to the house of bricks...

...safe at last!

Problem solving and collaboration, in order to extend the project.
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Next week, our Learning Through Play focus is going to be Vehicles. It would be great if you were to talk with your child about the different types of transportation that there are, and what they're for. You might like to have a go at constructing a vehicle together. It might be fun to discuss and design some sort of magical, mysterious, fun, wacky, creative vehicle together!

Measurement - Maths and The Gingerbread Man:
We read The Gingerbread Man together and used the ideas in the story to develop our thinking in relation to Measurement. Some of the words we used are: long, longer, short, shorter, tall, taller.
Some of the activities we:
  • we cut and ordered by height a gingerbread family of five
  • we used mathematical language to describe their heights in order
  • we designed, planned, built and modified our bridges in order to rescue the gingerbread man from his fate in the fairy tale
  • we described our bridges again using mathematical language
  • we collected objects from around our learning spaces to estimate and compare the height of each item against the gingerbread man
  • we discussed the importance of measuring from a baseline in order to accurately measure the heights of the gingerbread man and these items.
We each worked together with a buddy to meet a challenge.
















Readathon:
The Readathon is coming up. This is a chance for your child to work on their reading mileage. Please see the school newsletter for details. Your child's Readathon card has come home in their school bag today.

We hope you all have a lovely relaxing weekend and we look forward to seeing the children back, bright and perky, next week!

Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou,
Jo, Sophie, Sari, Stacey and Elizabeth









Kahikatea Year 1-3 Newsletter Term 3 Week 2

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Welcome Back!
We are back into our school routines and are loving the support you are providing to your child/children during drop off and pick up times. We will continue to have one of our teachers at the main entrance on Sandwich Road to meet you and your child/children every morning. 
Teachers are in meetings 4x a week and these generally start at 3.15pm. If you do need to share information or catch up with your child/children's teacher do email them and you can make a time to meet if needed. 
katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz
charlotte.verity@beckenham.school.nz
jules.may@beckenham.school.nz
amber.donovan@beckenham.school.nz
lisa.griffith@beckenham.school.nz

Sydenham Cricket Club Visit
On Thursday 30th July our friends from Sydenham Cricket came to give our tamariki the opportunity to learn some batting and fielding skills. Information has been sent home should your child wish to learn more or join a team. 










Ukelele & Recorder for Year 3 Students in Kahikatea
On Tuesday our Year 3 children are joining the Year 3/4 students in Kowhai to learn recorder or ukulele (they will have the opportunity to learn both). Thanks to the Kowhai teachers for supporting our tamariki at this time. If your child would like to bring their own recorder, then you can find these for about $13-$15 dollars from the music store Rockshop, or you could have a look at The Warehouse as well.
If you do choose to bring your own recorder in, please make sure it is clearly named.





Discovery/Learning Through Play
We are still very grateful to receive donations of boxes. Our discovery time is now in the afternoon and our students are encouraged to explore new learning independently or in collaboration with their peers or with a teacher. 
We are looking for: 
Any old jars (jam, relish or otherwise!) anyone cares to donate...sturdy plastic containers like vegemite jars are also great. 












Readathon
This Friday your child/children will be bringing home their Readathon card. The final return date for this is 21st August, NOT 14th August. Apologies for this error. 
Thank you for you support of this important event. 


Hillview Cross Country 
During Level 3 the decision was made that our school was not going to attend the inter-school event. We have now been informed that they are going ahead with the event on the 4th of August. Our tamariki will not be attending, but if you would like your child to attend as an individual then please contact your child's teacher and they will pass the relevant information on to you.  You will need to make your own arrangements if your decide to attend.