Kia ora e te whānau,
Welcome to Week 4 of the third term!
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to Poppy Wallace-Bell. Poppy is with us for the final 7 week placement of her teacher training at the University of Canterbury. Please introduce yourselves to Poppy and help to make her feel at home with us here at Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto.
There is so much wonderful learning taking place within our hub, including a focus on Calendar Art, a Digitech topic starting next week, amazing learning in Maths (including 2D and 3D shapes, repeated addition leading on to multiplication, skip counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s and learning the doubles, e.g., 3+3, 7+7, etc., all the way up to 10+10) and of course, our Structured Literacy group learning. Your children are fantastic learners and we're all very proud of them!
Eight of our Koru team members are going to be moving through to the Kahikatea team on Monday next week. We wish them all the very best and will miss them enormously. We know that as long as they continue to be guided by our Beckenham Values they are going to prove to the new Kahikatea team members that they are wonderful learners and loyal friends.
Maths Week Next Week!
To celebrate Maths Week, we will be having a daily joke and maths problem on a whiteboard, outside Hangere, for you and your child to solve! Come to school each day with plenty of time to spend with your child mulling over the joke and solving the problem together.
Mathematics & Statistics: Understanding your child's learning
The Ministry of Education's Parent Portal is a collection of resources for parents, families and carers. Here, you will find information about the learning your child is engaging in at school, within their year level, and how you can support them at home with their learning. Feel free to have a look and explore what you can do at home to support your child's Maths learning, while, at the same time, keeping it fun!
KOS:
Keeping Ourselves Safe
The Koru team will be participating in the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme during Weeks 6 and 7 of this term. Your child's homegroup teacher will teach six sessions and Constable Meg will teach two sessions.
What will children learn?
They will learn:
- to work out when their safety is at risk
- how to keep safe when they meet and mix with other people
- who and how to ask for help if they, or someone they know, is being abused
- to go on asking for help until someone does something to stop the abuse
- that it is important to make and follow personal, family, and school safety rules
Children will have some short activities to work through at home with you. Thank you for your support with this. Please click on this link for more information about Keeping Ourselves Safe.
Beckenham's Got Talent:
The Student Council members are organising a Beckenham's Got Talent event this term. If your tamariki are keen to sing, dance, play an instrument, perform some magic, drama or poetry, please sign them up by emailing your child's teacher. The maximum group size is eight people and the maximum performance time is four minutes. Auditions for the final event are in Week 8.
If your child wishes to audition for our school talent show, whānau are welcome to organise this with their child and/or a group of children. Any practices will need to take place at home after school.
Structured Literacy:
Here are a few little video links below (some of which have been shared before, and are now being reshared for new families):
One of our teachers has recorded some videos to support our whānau with understanding what our literacy stages look like and what you can do to support your learner at home:
We hope you find these videos both informative and helpful as you support your child's learning at home!
And now for this fortnight's photo gallery:
 |
| Showing 'We Care', by helping with some planting in the Pūkaki play space. |
 |
| Preparing the roots of this little tree for planting. |
 |
| Wow - awesome building skills on display here! |
 |
| More care and kindness being shown towards the environment. |
 |
| Caring for this newly planted tree. |
 |
| 'We Get There Together'. |
 |
| Wonderful teamwork, tamariki. |
 |
| Inquiring into why our shadows change at different times throughout the day. |
 |
| Making the link between repeated addition and multiplication. |
 |
| ...and learning that the multiplication sign 'x' means 'groups of'. |
 |
| Beautifully formed letters at handwriting time. |
 |
| Making the link between knowing the doubles and therefore knowing the two times table. |
 |
| We know that a sentence starts with a capital letter, has spaces between the words and (mostly) ends with a full stop. |
 |
| Learning about 2D shapes and their properties. |
 |
| A hexagon... |
 |
| A trapezium... |
 |
| A parallelogram... |
 |
| A triangle... |
 |
| A pentagon... |
 |
| A rhombus... |
 |
| Showing 'We Get There Together' and 'We Care'. |
 |
| More lovely teamwork. |
 |
| Good friends working together on their project in the sandpit. |
 |
| What a wonderful thing to do together in the warm sunshine - don't you just love a good book! |
 |
| The audience grows... |
 |
| Happy times with our Koru team friends! |
Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou,
Katie, Stacey, Niquita and Elizabeth
