Thank you all so much for getting the children so well prepared for school today! We could absolutely see the work that you had done, when the children arrived this morning and were able to transition so successfully into school!
Thank you all for understanding the need to stay off the school site. The drop-off this morning worked very well
End of Day Pick-up:
The end of the day pick-up was always going to be the trickier time, with 476 children all leaving at 3pm.
Today we had the children from Koru and Kahikatea teams coming out to the gate at 2:45pm. This was a partial success, however, some of you ended up having to wait another 15 mins for your older children to come out.
From tomorrow, at 2:45pm, the teachers will ONLY bring out the Koru and Kahikatea children who do NOT have older siblings in Kōwhai, Pōhutukawa or Kauri. They will bring them to the Sandwich Road main entrance.
The children who have older siblings in the school will WAIT in their hub with a teacher, until 3pm, and they will be brought out then.
This will mean that those of you with older children and young children can just arrive at 3pm as usual. This will also mean that the younger children and their parents can move away from the front gate, before the rest of the school start to come out.
Here is a link to a survey re Winter Sports for our Pōhutukawa learners. We are still firming up what our options however it would be very helpful to get an indication of what support you may be able to offer. We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete the survey as soon as possible.
Level 2 information for students. Please view this with your child before Monday.
Level 2 information for parents:
High School Information:
At this time of each year, we start to get information from high schools for our Year 8 students and their families. We will pass this information on to you as we receive it.
Hagley College
Please note that due to the Covid-19 crisis, and in line with all Christchurch secondary schools, we will be unable to hold an open evening for prospective Year 9 students in Term 2.
We are still very happy to provide information about Hagley for 2021 to all interested parents, caregivers and students.
Our 2021 Junior College Lookbook is now available on our website at https://www.hagley.school.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2021_Junior_Prospectus-web.pdf.
Families are also welcome to contact Suzanne Waters (Director of Students) with any questions about learning in Year 9 at suzanne.waters@staff.hagley.school.nz.
To request an enrolment pack, or for any other enquiries, parents/caregivers should contact lisa.amer@staff.hagley.school.nz.
We are very excited to see you on Monday. The teachers have been busy at work for the last two days preparing our hub for you to come in, making sure it is nice and clean for us all.
If you haven't had a chance to look at the video with some information about coming back, watch it now - it has lots of important things for you to remember. You may want to make it full screen to see it best.
Parents: here is a video with information for you about pick up and drop off.
Some things to note for coming back to school:
Drink bottles - The students will need to bring their drink bottles in each day and take them home at the end of the day. Please make sure these are named clearly with a permanent marker. The drinking fountains are all closed. If your child does not bring their drink bottle in, you will get a phone call from Jacky requesting you bring a drink bottle in.
Skateboards - your child can ride a skateboard to school but it needs to be put in the bike and scooter area on Sandwich Road. It will be locked away throughout the day.
Sanitiser - your children will be sanitising their hands every time they enter a space and exit a space. If your child has skin allergies and cannot use sanitiser, please contact your child's homeroom teacher and they can discuss this with you.
Borrowed Chromebooks - if you borrowed a Chromebook, please return it on Monday to the library verandah. Someone will be there to collect it.
That's all for now!
Have a lovely weekend and we cannot wait to see you on Monday.
We're are really looking forward to seeing you all again on Monday! It's been such a long time. A special, warm welcome to all of the children, who are going to be starting school with us this week.
We're also welcoming Sophie Mulligan, who is our new teacher in the Koru team. Sophie will be the Home Group teacher for our newest children. We are so lucky to have you, Sophie, and all of the children are going to love getting to know you, and work with you this term.
See you at the flagpole: Children, on Monday, Jo will be waiting at the flagpole to meet you, so once you arrive at school with your parent, you can give them a big kiss and a hug goodbye there. Jo will then make sure that Elizabeth picks you up and then helps you with your bag, and finding a cubby hole when you reach the veranda. Parents, if you have to come on site for any reason during the day, there is a requirement that you sign a Contact Register, so please report to the school office for that. This includes any whānau who are bringing or collecting children for their school visits. Before leaving, please make sure that you sign out.
Please, if you haven't already seen this little video clip on Seesaw, view the Welcome Back to School video below, with your children. It's better to watch this clip, and the following clips, in full screen (click bottom right). Here, also, are the two videos which Sandy sent out via our school newsletter yesterday. A few little 'housekeeping' items:
please ensure that your child brings a named drink bottle to school every day, and this drink bottle needs to be taken home and cleaned again every day after school
If your child has an older sibling here at school, it's absolutely fine for that brother or sister to bring their younger sibling to the veranda each morning, if that helps with the daily drop off
a reminder that for our Koru children, they will be ready to be picked up at the flagpole each day at 2:45 p.m. Once again, if you have an older child at school, or if your child is booked into BOSCO, then the school day will finish at 3:00 p.m., and they will wait in the hub until this time
our handwashing and hand sanitising routines have been very clearly outlined in Ministries of Health and Education guidelines. Please let your child's Home Group teacher know if your child has a reaction to hand sanitiser, and we shall ensure that they wash their hands rather than use hand sanitiser.
Our theme for next week: You may have heard on our little video clip that we're going to be having a 'Superhero' theme next week. This will culminate in a 'dress up' day on Friday, so your children can be thinking about what they might like to wear on Friday. This can be as simple as a handtowel for a cape, or alternatively, as complex as your child wishes to make it!
We trust you all have a wonderful weekend, and we're really looking forward to seeing all of the wee ones on Monday!
