Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto Newsletter Friday 26 June 2020

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Kia ora koutou

Learning Conferences - this coming Tuesday and Thursday

This coming week, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, we will be having mid-year Learning Conferences.
This meeting is designed to be a three-way conversation between you, your child and their home group teacher about their learning and wellbeing.
At the conference, you will receive a Learning Snapshot in place of a mid-year report, which will be a brief, written synthesis of some of the discussion you will have had about your child's learning.

NOTE that school finishes at 2pm on each of these days. If your child is booked into BOSCO for either of these days, they will be able to go to BOSCO from 2pm.
If you need your child to be supervised on either day, please contact Jacky in the office so we know to expect them, AND ask your child to go to the hall foyer at 2pm on those days to sign in to the supervision programme until 3pm. Children at BOSCO and in supervision will not be playing outside between 2 and 3pm.

If you haven't yet done this, please book a learning conference time for each child you have at school.
The learning conference bookings are for 15 minutes each (NOTE that in Year 7/8, even though you will be booking for 15mins, the conference will take 30 mins as your child has a bigger role in the discussion at the intermediate year level.) If you have more than one child to book for, please do not book back to back time slots, as you will lose some of your time in moving from one conference to the other.

The conferences can be booked by going to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and entering the code yseec

Thank you, PTA!

A huge "Thank You!" to our PTA for the energy and commitment they put into ensuring that our School Disco happened this year. Thank you also to the staff and `whānau who came along to support with supervision and ensured that the children were safe and having a great time.


Staffing Update

At the start of next term, we will welcome another new teacher to our Koru Team (NE/Y1). Sari Farrant will join Jo, Elizabeth, Stacey and Sophie until the end of the year, to be the point of contact teacher for our fourth New Entrant home group.

Sari Farrant - new NE teacher

New Entrant Enrolments for 2020 and 2021

If you have a 3 or 4 year old at home whom you are intending to enrol at Beckenham, we would really appreciate if you do that this coming week. Whilst their 5th birthday might seem like a long way away, we are required to 'predict' our 2021 roll at the end of this week in our formal 'roll return' to the Ministry of Education, and this prediction will be more accurate with actual enrolments on our system.
If you have friends or neighbours with 3 or 4 year olds and you know they are planning to enrol at Beckenham, please let them know that we would like to hear from them sooner, rather than later! Many thanks.

Ngā mihi nui
Sandy Hastings
Principal - Tumuaki

Important Dates

Upcoming Events

Monday 29 June - Zones Cross Country event at Halswell Quarry.  9am - 12:45pm
Tuesday 30 June - Learning Conferences - School closes 2pm
Thursday 2 July - Learning Conferences - School closes 2pm
Friday 3 July - Final day of Term 2.  School closes at 3pm

Term 3 begins TUESDAY 21 July. (Staff only day on Monday 20 July)

Monday 27 July - Year 8 whānau meeting about Cashmere High (see below)

Term Dates

Click here to view 2020 & 2021 term dates.

Citizen of the Week

Hatsumi Yuge - Year 4

Hatsumi, You are a role model in our hub who naturally demonstrates our school values and you are always willing to lend a hand or help others.  You display a positive attitude to all aspects of learning. You show initiative and drive to do the right thing and help make the Kōwhai Hub a happy place to work. Your bright smile and warm friendliness everyday is appreciated by everyone around you. We love having you in our team!   

School Notices

Lost property from the mid winter breakfast

Please come to the office to claim these items.

Year 8 whānau meeting - learning about Cashmere High...

Joe Eccleton, Principal of Cashmere High, will be coming to speak to interested whānau about Cashmere High on Monday 27 July from 6pm - 7pm at Beckenham. Diary the date - more information to come.

Term Dates for 2021

At our Board of Trustees meeting this week, we finalised the Term dates for 2021. Click here to see these on our website.

Sports News

It is great to have sports news to share after the long period of no sporting activities.

This week we had a number of teams participate in a zone basketball competition at Hillview Christian School.
Congratulations to our senior girls who won their competition!


Zones Cross Country

These kids were superb representing BeckenhamTe Kura o Pūroto at the Zones Cross Country.  Some toe to toe action!




Congratulations to Jonty Mitchell, who placed 4th in the zones cross country, earning him a place at Canterburys next term.


PTA News

Again - a huge thanks to our PTA for the mid-winter breakfast and the school DISCO - both held in the last two weeks. We really appreciate everything you do for our children and community.

Community Notices

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


The Big Planting Day!

An opportunity for families to get to know your local reserve, plant some plants and meet some of the regular Friends of Farnley volunteers.
19 July (last Sunday of school holidays)
9am -12pm 
Meet at Farnley Reserve
Bring your own shovel and gloves if you have one (make sure they are named).  Wear warm clothes, sturdy footwear and bring your own morning tea.
This is a community planting day.  Parents need to also attend and supervise their own young people.



Free Martial Arts for Taekwon-Do School Holiday Programme

Monday 13th July 2020 to Friday 17th July 2020
Visit  http://www.riccarton.itkd.co.nz/   for more information


Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 3 Week 11

We have had two zone sports events this week, cross country on Monday and basketball on Wednesday, at which we saw several awesome examples of positive sportsmanship. Seeing some of our seniors cheering on every runner, even when others had zoomed to the finish line, was a great example of getting there together and making a difference. Special congratulations to the girls' basketball team, who won their competition and have qualified for the Canterbury Indoor Tournament. Congratulations to Jonty Mitchel, who placed 4th in the cross country, earning him a place at Canterburys next term.

Camp

When we had to cancel camp before lockdown in term 1, we quickly penciled in a booking for term 4, just in case the situation improved. Now that we are in Level 1, the decision has been made to go ahead with our Dunedin / Waihola Camp in term 4 from October 19 - 23. This is the second week in term 2.  I will be contacting our term 1 camp parents to check on their availability for these new dates.

In order to make the camp as affordable as possible, we will be doing some more fundraising in term 3. This will include another round of cheese rolls, selling bulk packs of toilet paper, raffling a bike and holding a comedy evening. If many people pitched in in a small way, we can share the load of these projects. Please click here to let us know how you can contribute.

Unfortunately, since booking this new date, Primary Sports Canterbury have released their postponement date for the Canterbury Duathlon, which is October the 19th. We are happy to discuss options with any of the children who qualified back in March at our school event who wish to still compete at Canterburys.

Ski Trip

We have all our parent helpers confirmed and the buses are booked for our ski day on Friday, August 28th. We now need information about every child so that we can best meet their needs on this day. We need every family to click here and complete this form.

Cashmere High School 

We are in the process of arranging an evening where the principal of Cashmere High will come to speak with students and parents about the transition to secondary school and specifically about the transition to Cashmere High School. Once the date is set we will let you know. In the meantime, here is an informative video that CHS has put together.


Cashmere High School Combos and Big Bands will perform an evening of Jazz on Thursday July 2nd in the Cashmere High School McCombs Performing Arts Centre, 172 Rose Street at 7pm (Doors open 6.30pm). We would like to extend an invitation to our wider community to enjoy this event with us.



From Badminton Canterbury


A number of the children in our hub have shown an interest in badminton, so we thought that this might be of interest.

Keep fit and be active these school holidays with the opportunity to either give badminton a try for the first time or build on your existing skills.
Sessions will include a combination of fun games, skill practice and some game time. Racquets provided for all sessions.
Please bring food and drink bottles. Must have non-marking sole shoes.

ZHU Badminton Centre – 98 Aidanfield Drive, Wigram
Must have non marking sole shoes

Cost is $15 per session. 
Minimum of 4 children per session for it to go ahead

7th July 10am – 12pm Coach: Yuri
      12.30 – 2.30pm Coach: Yuri
8th July 10am – 12pm Coach: Yuri
      12.30 – 2.30pm Coach: Yuri
16th July 10am – 12pm Coach: Yuko
17th July 12pm – 2pm Coach: Yuko

Register online at: 
For enquiries email Jo on shuttletime@badmintoncanterbury.com






Term 2 Week 11 Koru News

Kia ora e te whanau, Welcome to all our new children and their whānau. The children have settled into school life quickly and with confidence. Ka pai! What a fun couple of weeks we have had! The learning happening through the play has been varied and full of wonderful ideas, and inquisitive questioning and wondering.
Fun with boxes
 
 
 
 
 
Literacy fun
 
 
 
 
Sandpit fun
 
 
 
Pyjama fun
 
 
 
 
PTA Rainbow School Disco
A reminder that the school disco is tomorrow, Friday 26th June, 4.30 - 5.30pm in the school hall. Bring a gold coin donation for entry, named water bottle and extra gold coins if you want to purchase popcorn or other snacks.
Learning Conferences
A reminder that these are on next week, Tuesday 30th June and Thursday 2nd July, from 2pm. School closes at 2pm both of these days.
Term 2 ends Friday 3rd July
As this is the last Koru Blog Post for the term we would like to take the opportunity to wish all the tamariki a safe and restful holiday break. We will see them back at school Tuesday 21st July.
Ngā mihi mahana,
Elizabeth, Sophie, Stacey and Jo

Team Kahikatea: Reminders Week 11

PTA Disco Friday 26th June 2020 


Our amazing PTA is running a disco this week! The theme is Rainbow and your child/children will need a gold coin for entry. 
BRING your own NAMED drink bottle. 

Our YEAR 3 STUDENTS have the option of joining the NE to Year 3 disco from 4.30pm to 5.00pm OR Year 3 to 6 disco from 6pm to 7pm. 
Teachers from team Kahikatea will be at both disco's. 

Learning Conferences Tuesday 30th AND Thursday 2nd July 

Please remember, we have an earlier finish on both days. 
Your children can be collected at 2pm. 
Conferences start at 2.15.  We are looking forward to seeing you all! 

Kapa Haka 


Our YEAR 3 STUDENTS have Kapa Haka every Friday for 30 minutes with our new Kaiako Kath from 11am. 


THANK YOU!

We appreciate all of your donations (requested in our last blog). Please keep them coming. 

Kowhai News Term 2 Week 11

Kia ora Kōwhai whānau,

We have had a busy week in Kōwhai this week. The students  have all been working very hard on our information reports about various different topics. We have also started learning more about Matariki during our Inquiry time and Kapa Haka.

The Rainbow School Disco 
We have our school Disco on Friday. Year 3 students can choose whether they attend the 4:30-5:30 disco or the 6-7pm disco. They cannot attend both discos. Year 4 students will attend the 6-7pm disco. We look forward to seeing everyone in their rainbow clothes.

Learning Conferences -  Tuesday 30th June  and Thursday 2nd July (next week)
Please remember that school finishes at 2pm on these days. We look forward to seeing you there.

Headphones
A reminder that your child is able to bring headphones in to use with a device during our learning times. Please make sure they are named. They will live in their tote tray and are the students responsibility to look after.

Parents Volunteers
If anyone would like to volunteer to help the teachers with reading to students or putting reading books away, please email Laura - laura.williamson@beckenham.school.nz

Discovery Time
Hatsumi and Elsie have created a "Rock Hunt" which they are going to advertise to the students next week and see who can find their rocks around the school.


We had great fun at our Pyjama and PTA breakfast day last Friday.





We hope you have a great weekend!
From the Kōwhai Team
Rowe, Tracey, Nick and Laura