Kahikatea End of Year Picnic and Swim

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Kia ora whānau,

On Monday 16th December, the children in Kahikatea team are going to Waltham Park and Pool. 
Matou tamariki will be leaving school at 11:00am and walking to the park.
After playing games and having time in the playground.
Then we will eat our lunch before cleaning up and walking to Waltham Pool at 1pm.
After our swim, we will be leaving Waltham pool and arriving back at school by 2:50pm.  


The contribution of $2.90 per child would be appreciated.
This is to cover the pool entry and swim. 
This can be made at the office or via your school account. 

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 as soon as possible.  
Our whānau helpers are needed to assist children to change into and then out of their togs.
We do not expect whānau helpers to swim as we have arranged for extra lifeguards
to be on duty on the day

Noho ora mai

Jules, Amber, Charlotte, Anna & Lisa

Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 4 Week 8

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Many thanks to the parents and high school students who helped us out with Top Team last Monday. The children had a blast; great teamwork, fun and lots of enthusiasm. Check out the pictures at the end of this post.

Production

The opening night of our production, 'Kauri Whānau Musical Mashup', is just a week away. The children are really stepping up, enthusiasm levels are high and it promises to be a highly entertaining show. A reminder that we have two performances, Monday 9th and Wednesday 11th, and we need all children to attend both performances. The show will start at 7pm. Some children will need to be at school early for makeup. More details will be out later in the week.

We are in need of some old business shirts and the loan of a leather jacket (for Grease). If you can help out, please send these along early in the week.

Mural Success

This time last year we were putting the finishing touches on our mural down by the ponds. We entered this work in the Resene Masterpiece Mural Competition. Results came out last week and we were thrilled to hear that we had been awarded third place in the senior schools division!


What's coming up

Our end of term is a busy one, with lots of events. Please make sure these are in your diary:

  • Wednesday December 4th - Canterbury Athletics
  • Thursday December 5th - Kapa Haka Celebration, 6:30 start
  • Monday December 9th - Kauri Whānau Musical Mashup, 7pm start
  • Wednesday December 11th - Kauri Whānau Musical Mashup, 7pm start
  • Friday December 13th - Corsair Bay trip 
  • Monday December 16th - Walk to Victoria Park
  • Monday December 16th - Year 8 Pool and Pizza Party, 4pm start (more details coming soon)
  • Wednesday December 18th - Year 8 Leavers' Graduation Assembly, 11am start

Year 8 Leavers' Assembly

Many thanks to the vast majority of Year 8 families who have already filled out the reply form on the graduation assembly invitation. If you have yet to do this, please click here.

Corsair Bay and Victoria Park

We could do with a couple more helpers for these trips, especially the Victoria Park walk. If you can help and have yet to sign up, please click here.
Just to confirm, these people have offered to join us:
Corsair Bay (Dec 13, 10:30 - 3): Nicole, Heidi, Brett, Marianne, Anne, Bryan, Raewyn, Rebecca
Victoria Park (Dec 16, 10 - 3): Bryan, Raewyn, Rebecca, Liz


























Koru team news

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Kia ora koutou,

What a busy couple of weeks we have had!

We Love Reading

Reading is a great way to relax, use your imagination, learn something new and explore new worlds. It's fun to read with a buddy.






Reading 'Inside the Maize Maze' inspired some children to create marble mazes and draw a maze outside.





We Love Digital Technologies

Over the past couple of weeks we have had a chance to start coding using Beebots. We learnt a lot about inputting commands, testing, adapting the code and retesting. We had great fun working with a buddy.















We Love Watching Hail Storms

What a lot of interesting questions and discussions were generated by the hail, thunder and lightning last week.





We are excited about the our trip to a farm this week. We will make sure to take lots of photos.

Ngā mihi,
Stacey, Jo, Elizabeth and Kristika

Kōwhai News Term 4 Week 6

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It's hard to believe that we are now halfway through the term! Here is the latest from the Kōwhai Team.


Athletics Day

We were treated to spectacular weather at our recent School Athletics Day. The children all did their best at each of the events despite the soaring temperatures. We were really impressed with the skills they have developed over the past few weeks and the way they all showed the school values 'We Get There Together' by working collaboratively and 'We Love Learning' in the way they did their personal best.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to come down and support on the day. We know the children appreciated having you all there.





Electricity and Circuits

Over the past few weeks, the children have been learning about electricity and circuits. They have learnt how electricity moves and how to make a series and parallel circuit. Over the next couple of weeks, the children will be applying this knowledge along with their creativity to create something innovative that uses a series circuit. Your child is currently in the 'Hunting and Gathering' design phase of this process. They might want to bring items to school to help them with the construction of their innovative design. Please do not go out and purchase special things for this. We hope to share these amazing creations with you as they are finished.

CSO Big Bang Concert

We were so lucky to have the opportunity to see the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) play at the Christchurch Town Hall last week. The children were 'blown away' with the beauty of the Town Hall and even more impressed with the performance by the CSO. We would like to express our thanks to the parents who were able to accompany us on the trip. Without your support, these events are just not possible.




Itinerant Music Tuition in 2020


2020 Registration of Interest for CSM Itinerant Music lessons, including Band, Strings and Recorder, at Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto
At Beckenham, we are very fortunate to have a very close relationship with the Christchurch School of Music. For over 10 years, we have had their Outreach Band programme operating at school, along with tuition in Strings and Recorder.
If you are interested in your child learning the Strings or Recorder (Years 2-8), in 2020, please fill out this form and then diary the evening of Wed 27 November to attend a whānau information evening at Beckenham to find out more...
(If you have more than one child interested, please fill out a separate form for each child)
Please note that we are not planning to hold a 'Blow Test' this year - using this registration of interest form is the way to find out about what is available for your child.


Learning Through Play- Discovery Time

Our Discovery Time is seeing the children really taking ownership of their learning. Children are currently learning how to code Bee-Bots and Sphero robots  (Digital Curriculum), writing books either individually or collaboratively, learning how to prepare food. This coming week the children will learn how to make and prepare sandwiches. This will be a great help at home, no doubt! There are many children really keen on exploring the arts with 'flipping' the learning and teaching themselves how to draw or sketch. We really value this component of our programme as it provides the children with the opportunity to be deep thinkers, problem solve, collaborate and create. Here are the children in action!


Collaborative Writing
Learning To Draw



Programming the Bee-Bots