Athletics, Monday 4th November & CSO Concert Wednesday 13th November

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Athletics


Our school athletics days is on this Monday, 4th November.  Please remember to send your child to school with:


  • A sunhat
  • running shoes
  • leggings or shorts
  • house t-shirt
  • drink bottle

We will have three rotations and these will run from 11.50 - 12.40.
We will resume again at approximately 1.40pm (Kahikatea sprints)
At 2pm the whole school will gather to watch senior sprints and house sprints (2.45)

Throwing



Long Jump



Relays



Long Jump


Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Concert


All of our tamariki were given notices to bring home about this exciting trip which will take place on Wednesday the 13th of November.
The orchestra will be performing a range of classical music and some modern pieces. 
While this is a free event, the school needs to cover the cost of buses to transport us to and from the town hall. A contribution of $4.50 from whanau would be appreciated. This can be made at the office or via your school account.


Kōwhai News Week 3 Term 4

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Hi everyone,

Here is the latest from the Kōwhai team.

Athletics Day

Reminder,  we have our School Athletics Day this coming Monday 4th November. We will be beginning our activities at 11.50am. The children can wear their house shirts, need their drink bottle and a sunhat for the day. Here is our programme for the morning. The children will have approximately 10 minutes at each event station with 5 minutes for them to move from one station to another. The purpose of this athletics day is to show you the pre athletic skills the children have been learning at school.

The children in the sprint finals which will be held after 2pm are:

Year 3: Alex, Zeke, Holly, Cammie, Jack, Lara, Justin, Rose

Year 4: Jayde, Bobbi, Cian, Isaac, Isabelle, Blake, Petal, Archie

Food Technology

This term as part of our Discovery Time, we are teaching the children basic food hygiene and preparation skills. We hope that this will enable the children to help more at home when they are in the kitchen. This week the children have all been learning how to peel and cut vegetables. They can now make wedges. This could be something that they could make for dinner one night over the next week.




Sunhats

We still seem to have many children coming to school without their sunhat. Can you help us by making sure your child has their hat at school each day? It would be an opportune time to check that the jerseys are clearly named too so we can return them to the rightful people.

Big Bang Concert

We are still in need of four parent helpers to come along to the Big Bang Concert on Wednesday 13th November. All details are in the previous post. This is a short excursion where the children will be able to see the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra playing some classical as well as some well-known tunes. We will be leaving school around 9.15am and returning at 11.30am. Please email your home group teacher if you can help.

Kauri kitchen closed for one week

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Kia ora everyone,

We have decided to close our hub kitchen for lunch preparation for the next week. This to refocus the children on following guidelines of use: coming in to prepare food at least 10 mins before the bell and cleaning up after themselves. The kitchen will close from tomorrow, Friday, and reopen next Friday, Nov 8th. Please check that your child comes to school with a lunch that does not need cooking.

Thanks for your support.

Big Bang Concert

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29 October 2019

Kia ora whānau,


On Wednesday 13th November, the children in Kōwhai team are going to be going to the Christchurch Town Hall to see the Big Bang Concert, performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The children will see two vibrant and entertaining performances with the full orchestra. This is a great way for us to introduce our students to the world of live music. Students will have the chance to explore ideas of melody, rhythm and tone through listening to a range of music from greats such as Tchaikovsky, Dvořák and Mussorgsky, plus popular hits from Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Frozen. 

We will need up to four parent helpers per home group for this trip. If you are able to assist, please email your child’s teacher.

The contribution of $4.50 per child would be appreciated. This is to cover the bus cost. 
We will be leaving school at 9.15am and will return to school at around 11.30am. We are sure the children will really enjoy this experience!


Ngā mihi mahana,

Paulette, Rowe, Nick and Kate

Kahikatea News Term 4 Week 2

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Kia ora Koutou
He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa,
What a wonderful start to Term 4 we have had!  Hopefully, the weather will start to improve soon and we can enjoy consistently sunny days.

Our Kete Values and Tokens

Our wonderful PB4L team has created Kete Value Tokens to reward ngā tamariki who show our values throughout the day.  The house with the most tokens each fortnight is rewarded with exciting activities such as time in the Big Adventure or, for example, using the Bee-Bots.









Calendar Art

This week all the calendar art orders arrived and were sent home.  If you have any queries regarding your order please contact the PTA at pta@beckenham.school.nz
Ngā tamariki artwork is now displayed in the hub. Beautiful!


Calm Space

We are setting up a calm down / chill out space in the hub.  We would love a small collection of quality cushions, soft toys, 2-3 baskets (or similar) for packing toys, blankets etc, old Where's Wally or similar search and find books, fidget spinners or other finger toys.
If you can donate any of these, or have something else that might be useful, please send it to Charlotte. Thank you.  

Sharing our talents

Erina brought along her Cello for us to see and gave a lovely impromptu show.



Sun Hats

During Terms 1 and 4, the expectation is that everyone is to wear a sunhat. We require everyone to wear hats that shade the face, neck, and ears, whenever the children are outside and involved in school activities. Hats must be broad-brimmed (min. 7.5 cm), or legionnaire/bucket hats (min. 6 cm brim, deep crown). These hats provide significant protection to the eyes. If a child does not have a hat at school, they will be asked to stay in an allocated shaded area.






Boxes for craft and construction

Ngā tamariki love making all sorts of wonderful creations using recycled materials.  We would really appreciate donations of any clean empty boxes, egg cartons, milk bottles or other plastic containers to use at discovery time. 


Athletics

Our School Athletics will take place on Monday 4th November.  Ngā tamariki are practicing their running, jumping and throwing. Team Kahikatea students will start our rotations at 11:50am, after having an early brain break snack, and we will finish the day after lunch with fun sprints and the annual House Teams relay.  As ngā tamariki will be out on the field for the duration of the rotations, could you please apply sunblock to your child/children before arriving at school.  We will have sunblock at school to reapply if needed.
After physical activity ngā tamariki often have a larger appetite so please supply a larger lunch on the day as well as a named drink bottle for them to take with them to their rotations.