Kowhai News Term 4 Week 2

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Stationery
Some children are still short on school stationery for this term. Can you please ask your child if they require any more pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers or highlighters and make sure they bring anything they need to school as soon as possible. If they are not sure, they can check in their home group stationery drawer to see what is left in their named stationery bag or feel free to e-mail your point of contact teacher. Thank you!



Drink Bottles
There are still a number of children without drink bottles and as the days are getting warmer, the children are needing them even more. We are encouraging the children to keep hydrated on these warm days and they especially need their water bottles for our run up to Athletics Day when they will be doing lots of practice. Could you please ensure that your child has a drink bottle for school and that they bring it to school every day. We really appreciate your support in this.



We Care Day
We had a wonderful day on Wednesday celebrating We Care Day. We started the day by picking the name of a buddy in the hub from a box and then we secretly gave them compliments throughout the day and left notes on their tote trays or by their bags saying what we appreciated about them. It was great fun and everyone enjoyed giving and receiving positive affirmations of who they are. We spoke to the children about that for some this might even be just a smile or a greeting. Some of us were great at keeping it a secret and it kept us guessing until the very end of the day!



Athletics
Next week we are starting our athletics sessions in our lead up to Athletics Day on Wednesday 22nd November. There will be more details to follow on this. The children will be out on the field learning how to sprint, run relays, do long jump, high jump and shot put and they will also be throwing the discus. Our practices will be on every Thursday so could you please make sure that your child has sensible footwear on these days so they can take part successfully. Thank you so much.



KOS
Over the past 2 weeks the children have been learning about how to Keep Ourselves Safe at school, at home and when we are out and about. Next week we have Constable Ross visiting and he will be talking to the Year 3 children about Physical Me and Touch and also Secrets and Tricks. With the Year 4 children he will be talking about the Real World and Abuse. If you want to know more about this then please feel free to come and talk to your home group teacher.

Long jump event tomorrow (Friday 27th October) at Hillview Christian School

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Tomorrow, Friday 27th October is our long jump event for years 5-8, to be held at Hillview Christian School.


If your child is competing in long jump (this is an optional event) they are to come to school tomorrow wearing their school uniform, as usual, but with the following in thier school bags:
  • Comfortable P.E / athletics gear or their house t-shirts if they have one.
  • Comfortable running shoes or sneakers.
  • Sunhat.
  • Waterbottle.
  • Sunscreen - It would be a good idea to apply sunscreen before school and we will have sunscreen available to apply throughout the event.
  • Warm jacket or jersey (school jacket is great).
  •  Lunch, more food than usual may be helpfual as the children will be on the go.  

Please do not use the lunch-online service tomorrow.


At 1:15pm all classes will be heading out to the East Hub Inner Courtyard (in front of the office) to listen to instructions for the afternoon. Students will then walk down to Hillview Christian School's Senior Campus (on Gamblins Road) at 1:30pm to begin competing. We will be finished and returned back to Beckenham School by 3:00pm.
Families are welcome to meet us at the Hillview campus to support your children, at 1:45pm.

Warm regards,

Gayle & Jenny.










Athletics Day tomorrow (Thursday 26th October)

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Athletics Day



Tomorrow, Thursday 26th October is our Year 5-8 Athletics Day out in Beckenham Park.

At 9:40am all classes will be heading out to the East Hub Inner Courtyard (in front of the office) to listen to instructions for the day and for a Jump Jam style warm-up. All students will then walk out to Beckenham Park and head to their first rotation, for a start time of 9:55am.

Families are welcome to meet us on the park at 9:55am. We will be finished by 3:00pm. At 3:00pm all children will walk back to their hubs and be released to go from there.
In our earlier communication regarding the start time, we said to meet at 9:30am, this has now changed to 9:55am.

Children are to come to school tomorrow with the following:

  • Comfortable P.E / athletics gear or their house t-shirts if they have one
  • Comfortable running shoes or sneakers (the children may run in bare feet or wear socks that are taped to their feet)
  • Sunhat
  • Waterbottle
  • Sunscreen - It would be a good idea to apply sunscreen before school and we will have sunscreen available to apply throughout the day
  • Warm jacket or jersey (school jacket is great)
  •  Lunch, more food than usual may be helpfual as the children will be on the go all day  
Please do not use the lunch-online service tomorrow, if possible.


Please see below for the run-down of the day and a map of the field.


9 year olds
10 year olds
11 year olds
12 year olds
13 year olds
9:55 - 10:40
Shot Put
High Jump
Sprints
Discus
Shot Put
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45
Sprints
Discus
High Jump
Shot Put
Sprints
11:45 - 12:30
High Jump
Shot Put
Discus
Sprints
High Jump
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch
1:15 - 2:00
Discus
Sprints
Shot Put
High Jump
Discus
2:00 - 2:45
Sprint Finals
2:45 - 3:00
House Relay
Adults Verses Children Relay


The long jump will be held at Hillview Christian School on Friday 27th October. We will be leaving school to walk down to Hillview School at 1:30pm, for a start time of approximately 1:50pm, returning to school for 3:00pm.

The long-distance races will be held at Hillview Christian School on Wednesday 1st November.  

The postponement date for the Athletics day is Monday 30th October.

Warm regards,
Gayle & Jenny.

Kauri Whānau Weekly Update: Term 4 Week 2

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Athletic Sports this Thursday:

We have our fingers crossed, hoping for fine weather on Thursday and Friday for our athletics sports events. We are in need of a few helpers to run events on Thursday (10 til 2) and to assist with walking children to Hillview on Friday for our long jump event (12:30 til 2:30). Please let Jenny know if you can assist with any of these events. 

We have included the event schedule for the day and welcome you to come and cheer the children on as they compete in their events. 



9 year olds
10 year olds
11 year olds
12 year olds
13 year olds
9:55 - 10:40
Shot Put
High Jump
Sprints
Discus
Shot Put
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45
Sprints
Discus
High Jump
Shot Put
Sprints
11:45 - 12:30
High Jump
Shot Put
Discus
Sprints
High Jump
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch
1:15 - 2:00
Discus
Sprints
Shot Put
High Jump
Discus
2:00 - 2:45
Sprint Finals
2:45 - 3:00
House Relay
Adults V Children Relay


Long Jumpers on Friday:

Children who are taking part in long jump on Friday, will be heading to Hillview to use their long jump pit (we currently don't have one) at 12:30. They will be taking their lunch with them. As lunch orders will not be sorted by 12:30, please do not order lunch on Friday.T


Alice Props and Costumes:

The props group need to borrow a clothes rack to create a mobile mini backdrop for 'Alice'. If you have one similar to the one below that you are willing to lend us, please let Nicky know.



Orana Park:

A big thanks to Matthew, Nicola, Rebecca, Tamsin and Sonja, who joined us on our day at Orana Park last week. This proved to be a fabulous way to kick start our learning about endangered species. This week the children will select one species to focus on (rhino, cheetah or gorilla) and we will be watching videos and note-taking to learn more about these animals.








Passions Underway:

On Friday we started our term 4 passions. The mountain bikers had a skills and gear check session at school, in preparation for off site rides during the rest of the term. The pixel art group discussed mural options and then had a play with creating post-it note art. Theatre sports had lots of fun learning new drama games. The buddies group were very well received in Koru Whānau, leading activities and supporting learning. The newbies to code club got underway with coding basics, while experienced students stepped up as peer tutors. Fridays continue to be a real highlight in our hub.










Kowhai News Term 4 Week 1

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Welcome back everyone. We hope you've all had a wonderful couple of weeks and we are really looking forward to the term ahead.

This newsletter aims to inform you of the essentials for the start of the term.

We're all back!

It was wonderful to welcome our Senior Students back to the Beckenham site on Monday. Our team are particularly enjoying having the time to  connect and reconnect with new and old friends. A big thank you to Imedha who spoke on behalf of Kowhai Team. You did an amazing job! We were very proud.

School Hats

A HUGE thank you to all the parents who have hunted out school hats. We have been impressed at the very small number of children who have not had hats at school. On the very sunny days, we also encourage you to apply sunscreen to your child prior to coming to school. We have sunscreen for children to use during the day to reapply.

For the next four weeks our school will be engaging in the 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' programme.  Please click on the link above for all the information you will need to know about this programme.
Keeping Ourselves Safe [KOS] aims to teach children the importance of keeping safe in a variety of situations. For this component of learning, the children will be organised into year levels as there is a different programme for Year 3 from the Year 4s.
Constable Ross will visit our classrooms and take 2 of the sessions.  We really appreciate the help of the Police in developing these resources and their support in the teaching and learning programme. If you have any further questions please visit the website or, alternatively ask your child's teacher.

Rehua Marae

Continuing our Te reo learning from last term, the children will be given the opportunity to participate in a powhiri at Rehua Marae. We had hoped to go to our local marae (Rapaki), however, they are still undergoing renovations. Our Rehua Marae trip will be in week 5, and we will send our further information closer to the time.

Pizza Making

Each Monday, the children who received a certificate at our team hui will again be able to make pizzas for their lunch. If you are able to help us with the pizza making, please add your name onto this document. Pizza making will start tomorrow due to the long weekend.

Library

We are fortunate enough to be able to continue our trips to the Christchurch South Library. This term we are planning on using our Literacy Time (10.50am-12.40pm) for these visits. Hub teachers will send out an email asking for 2 parents to assist us on the walk down. Thanks in advance for your support with this.

We Care Day

This coming Wednesday, we are having a We Care Day at school. The children will each pull out a name from a hat and the day will be filled with random acts of kindness. We are sure there will be many wonderful actions from the children. Here are some of the ideas from our Well Being Team.

  • Draw a picture for your person
  • Give your person a compliment or high 5
  • Read a story with your person
  • Write your person a note saying what they are good at
  • Invite your person to spend morning tea or lunch with you
  • Make a bookmark for your person
  • Stick a positive note in their tote tray
  • Make an acrostic poem using their name


That's all for now