Koru Team News Term 3 Week 5

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 Kia ora, e te whanau,

This term is whizzing by! Can you believe we are halfway through Term 3 already?

It was great fun seeing all the children and teachers dressed up for Book Character Dress Up Day on Friday of Week 4. There were some amazing costumes!

Nicola dressed as Pete the Cat with his Four Groovy Buttons.
Georgia made a beautiful Cinderella!
Elizabeth was a very Fancy Nancy!
In the Koru hub, we have been busy exploring different play provocations during our Learning Through Play. Last week we introduced our theme, for the next 2 weeks, by performing a role play of visiting the vet. The children loved the little 'show' and it gave them lots of ideas to incorporate into their play last week. They have set up a seating area for the sick animals, and their owners, where they wait for their appointment time. There are forms to fill out about the sick pets and even an x-ray machine. We have talked about how we don't need to have the exact object for our play, but can use any item, to represent something we may require by using our imaginations. 
A variety of pets receiving treatment at the vets.
The line up of patients to get through for the morning.
A happy dog, and his owner, after a vet visit to fix his leg.

Each week our kura has a 'Word of the Week', which is a focus across all teams. This week's word is 'kindness'. Throughout the week, we have lots of discussions about what the word means and how we can demonstrate the word in and out of the classroom. We love seeing how the children are displaying the word of the week throughout the day, and how they use the word to describe situations that happen during their play. It's always so neat hearing our learners use previous 'words of the week' in their explanations and discussions with teachers and peers too. Next week's 'Word of the Week' is 'resilience'.

This group demonstrated many of our past 'words of the week' in their play as they built this train set up. These included: inclusion, respect and kindness! Ka pai, team!
Showing kindness and respect for others' ideas.
Taking turns and showing inclusion, by reading together.
We loved hearing, "We are taking turns on the trolley." 
Showing off his cool ball skills with one of our new balls.

Reminders:
  • If you'd like to be included in our hub Friendship List then please email your child's Home Group teacher with your contact details, including your name, phone number and email address. The Friendship List will be coming out shortly.
  • Our amazing Calendar Art artworks have been finished, so keep an eye out for how you can view these, and order items online, in the next few weeks. You're going to love the results of the children's hard work and focus!
  • Reading folders are sent home Monday-Thursday and are to be brought back to school each day. We are really noticing the progress the children are making in their literacy when they are practising at home. Thank you for your support with this!
  • Library folders and poetry books come home on Fridays.

We hope you are all having a lovely weekend together, and we look forward to the week ahead. 

Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou,

Georgia, Elizabeth, Nicola, Stacey and Jeanette


Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto School Newsletter Rāmere (Friday) 26 August, 2022

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Principal's Patch

Kia ora koutou

We are excited to see signs of Spring all around us as daffodils, spring blossoms and new shoots on winter dormant plants emerge. COVID, weather, winter illnesses and the need for extra ventilation have contributed to this winter being a particularly testing one.

Update on COVID protocols...

This week we have reviewed our COVID protocols based on the continued reduction of cases of COVID in our community.
  • We will continue to have both a senior and a junior celebration assembly each fortnight. Whānau are welcome to attend these assemblies again - please wear a mask if you are coming into any building at school.
  • We continue to ask whānau not to come into hubs during the school day. If you need to speak to a teacher, please either make an appointment or wait to speak to them at the end of the day.
  • We will continue to wear masks inside at school whilst we have high levels of winter illnesses and other bugs circulating (tummy bugs seem to be quite prevalent at the moment).

Update on internal Gate between Koru New Entrant area and the rest of the school...

We did plan to remove the internal gate once the full fencing was in place. However, at the moment, we have a challenge with the water at the bottom of the slide in the junior playground being a huge attraction for some of the children, particularly in the New Entrant team, and we have not been able to prevent them from going into the water with 'education' alone. Until the water pooling issue is resolved, we have decided to keep that internal gate in place. We do have a contract in place for that drainage work and are just waiting on notification as to when it will begin. We will continue to support children to get through that gate when they need to, and we appreciate that it is really tricky at the moment.

Supporting our young people to navigate Snapchat and other Social Media

We are regularly faced with challenges that arise for our young people as a result of behaviour on social media. We can't stress enough how important it is for caregivers to be fully conversant with what their children are doing on social media. The potential for emotional harm is extremely high when children are not supported to use these platforms in positive ways. 
Our Kahui Ako (local group of schools) has organised a free, whānau workshop with Netsafe on Tuesday 25th October at St Martins School. 
This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to learn how you can help your child(ren) to be safe online.


Ngā mihi nui
Sandy Hastings
Tumuaki - Principal

Important Dates

Wed 7 Sep - School Photos
Wed 7 Sep - Board Election Day
Mon 19 Sep - Staff Only Day (School Closed)
Thu 22 Sep - BOT Meeting (5.30-7.30pm - te Rūma Kaimahi - Staffroom)
Fri 23 Sep - PTA Disco 
Wed 28 Sep - PTA Meeting (7.30-9.30pm in the Green Room)
Fri 30 Sep - Last day of Term 3
Mon 17 Oct - First day of Term 4
Tue 25 Oct - Netsafe Workshop for all whānau - St Martins School, 7pm

Term Dates

Citizen of the Week

Eve Hart - Year 8

Eve, you are an excellent example of living our school values every day. You are hardworking and always give everything a go. You are focused during all learning tasks and are so supportive of others. You are a fun, caring person who sees the positive in all situations. Thank you for being such a positive role model in the Kauri hub. Tino pai Eve!

School Notices

Roadworks Update for next week:

We understand that Norwood St is now very busy during school drop-off and pick-up time, partly due to the ongoing road works in other parts of the neighbourhood. This is likely to be the case next week too. Please take extra care travelling down Norwood St and watch for children. If you are dropping children off and they need to cross Norwood St, please assist them to cross safely, so that they are not left to 'pop out' between parked cars. 
A reminder that Norwood St and Sandwich Road, along with other streets in the Beckenham Loop, are 40km at all times. 



On Sandwich Road, please always remind children to use the school crossing as the only place to cross the road, and please always model this to your children so that they do this when you are not with them. 
From SEIPP:
Monday 29/08/22 – Friday 02/09/22
  • Lane closure of Tennyson Street south lane at the Eastern terrace intersection
  • Traffic will only be able to flow down this section of Tennyson Street from the Colombo Street direction towards St Martins Road
  • Lane closure will be in place for 5 days

A request for a parent / whānau member who has welding capabilities...

We would appreciate help in finding someone with welding capacity and capability to help repair this chair for our kura:

Please let the office or Tony know if this sounds like you!

Statements

You should have received an email today with a link to your Financial Statement in your Hero account. If you require any assistance logging into Hero or have any queries regarding your account, please email accounts@beckenham.school.nz
A huge 'thank-you' to all of you who have paid, or are making payments towards your school donations. Whilst not compulsory, we rely on these donations to be able to provide the extras that we would otherwise not be able to do including Aquatic instruction in Kahikatea and Kōwhai (Term 4), Senior Ski Trip, trips off-site and visiting speakers and performers to the school.

Lunch Orders 

Sushi Meets Dumplings

Order here for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday lunch delivery services.

PTA News

Readathon

Thanks, everyone for your awesome support of the Readathon! Lots of good reading got done and we received lots of donations! We will let you know the final tally soon, just waiting for the last wee bits to come in. We loved seeing all the cute outfits last Friday!

We Care

We wanted to remind you that we still have a few pieces of our beautiful 'We Care' product for sale: 

PTA Disco - save the date!



Remember to save the date: Friday 23rd September for the annual PTA disco. We are hoping to be able to confirm some details soon!

BOT Update

Voting for Parent Elections is currently open. By now you should have received the link to vote via email or via post. Voting closes Wednesday, September 7th @ 4pm. 



Please have your votes in before the closing date to ensure they are counted!

Community Notices

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

Christchurch BASEBALL

Registration is now open for Term 4
All ages from 5 years to Adult - equipment provided
Training held in Avonhead or St Martins

Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/ShrekNZTour/ and Ticketing Website is: https://bit.ly/shrekthemusicalnz

Kauri Whānau to Mt Hutt

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 Not many sleeps now until we get up super early and head off to Mt Hutt on Thursday, September 1st.

At the end of this post is a slide show packed full of information about our day. Please read this through with your child. 

Change of plan re money. Children are not to bring any money with them on the trip. Mt Hutt is cashless and this will cause a divide between those who have money cards and those who do not. The best option is to say no spending for all children. We suggest a thermos of soup or hot chocolate.

Children will need:

  • thermal layers, two top and one bottom
  • weather-proof ski pants
  • weather-proof jacket. Puffer jackets are not all waterproof and may need a parker layer on top
  • gloves or mittens
  • knee length socks
  • normal shoes, e.g. running shoes
  • suncream
  • glasses or goggles
  • a hearty lunch and water bottle
  • inhaler for those who need it
  • any medication for the day in a zip-locked bag to be handed to teacher
  • optional - neck muff or scarf (which will need to be tucked inside jacket)
  • we will take plenty of photos (any cell phones will be collected and looked after during the day)
The best option is for your child to leave their phone at home. We will put out a message to all families to confirm our arrival time back at school.


Kōwhai News Term 3 Week 5

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Te Whare Tapa Whā

This week, we have been exploring our school's new wellbeing definition with our students. It is based on Mason Durie’s Hauora model. The students have completed a word sort to learn more about the actions and behaviour that comprise each element of the definition. We have also created role plays of how we show the definition in our own lives. 


Rākau 

The children have been designing and creating rākau (sticks) to perform traditional Māori stick games. Here is a photo of some of their rākau designs.


Book Character Day

The children had lots of fun dressing up for Book Character Day last week. Here are some of their costumes.







Amazing Dancers

Congratulations to Caoimhe, Penelope, Izzy and Poppy who performed a dance at assembly last week. They spent weeks choreographing and practising it. Their performance was outstanding.

Have a great weekend!


Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto School Newsletter, Rāmere, (Friday) 19 August

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Principal's Patch

Kia ora koutou

What a great way to end our week with Book Character Day today! The Library was bursting with characters who had jumped out of the books and truly come alive!


Playground Update

We are very excited to confirm that the contract for the rebuild of our Junior Playground has been signed and we are very hopeful that this work will be done before the end of the year, possibly starting during the September holidays.
Alongside that work, we have another contract signed to carry out remediation drainage work to resolve the ponding that has continued to plague the bottom of the new slide area in front of the admin block. We have been frustrated by the time this has taken and understand that having the slide out of action has not been ideal. 

Celebrating the cultural identities of our tamariki and their families.

We love being able to celebrate the diverse range of cultures that make up our school community. Today, in both of our assemblies, Dan shared his strong connections with his South African culture and taught the children different ways to say "Hello" in three South African languages. For the past two days we have been flying the Russian flag - again, to celebrate the culture of our families who have Russian heritage and cultural identity. We have had some valuable conversations with some of our older students and wider community about the intention behind flying different flags - for us it is about inclusion and celebration of culture and identity, and does not imply any support for any country's political stance. 

Board Elections - Have you voted yet?

Having a strong board is critical for a school. We are extremely fortunate to have a history of boards that work hard to reflect the diversity and richness of our community. A strong board focuses on the needs of all tamariki, and ensures that the policies and direction of the school is one that ensures a safe and inclusive learning environment for every student. Please make sure you take the opportunity to vote to ensure that you have helped to elect a board that you feel will continue this tradition.

2023 Term Dates  

Staff Only Days
Thu 26, Fri 27 January & Mon 30 January
Term 1
Tue 31 January to Thu 6 April 94 half days; 10 weeks
NB: Learning Conferences all day Tuesday 31 January and Wednesday 1 February. Supervision will be provided for families who have requested it. Classes start Thursday 2 February. 
Waitangi Day Mon 6 Feb - School Closed
Good Friday  - Friday 7 April - School Closed

Term 2
Wed 26 April to Fri 30 Jun 94 half days; 10 weeks
Staff Only Day Mon 24 April
Queen's Birthday Mon 5 Jun - School Closed

Term 3
Mon 17 Jul to Friday 22 Sep 98 half days; 10 weeks
Staff Only Day during Term 3, date TBC

Term 4
Mon 9 Oct to Tue19 Dec 100 half days; 10 weeks

Labour Day Mon 23 Oct - School Closed
Canterbury Anniversary Fri 17 Nov - School Closed

Total half days: 386 (as required by the Ministry of Education

Ngā mihi nui

Sandy Hastings
Tumuaki - Principal

Important Dates

Wed 24 Aug- PTA Meeting (7.30-9.30pm in the Green Room)
Wed 7 Sep - School Photos
Wed 7 Sep - Board Election Day
Mon 19 Sep - Staff Only Day (School Closed)
Thu 22 Sep - BOT Meeting (5.30-7.30pm in te Rūma Kaimahi - Staffroom)
Fri 23 Sep - PTA Disco (TBC)
Wed 28 Sep - PTA Meeting (7.30-9.30pm in the Green Room)
Fri 30 Sep - Last day of Term 3
Mon 17 Oct - First day of Term 4

Term Dates

Citizen of the Week

Gavin Huang - Year 8

Gavin, you are such a focused and hard-working student! The great progress you have made in literacy is a testament to your application and your determination to give your best. You are reliable and trustworthy in your leadership positions. Thanks for being such a fabulous role model in our hub. Tino pai Gavin!

School Notices

Book Character Day - Thank you all for your participation!

It was so amazing to see our kaimahi (Staff), whānau and tamariki getting involved today and there were so many fabulous characters! 
A huge thank you to the PTA! Please continue to support this fundraiser by getting your donations in for the Readathon. You can transfer directly into the PTA account (12-3148-0244558-00) and use 'Readathon' as the reference, or you can bring them into the office next week.

Well done to all our tamariki who made time for their reading!




Te Whare Tapa Whā

We're really excited to share our new Wellbeing poster and definition with you!


The definition is based on Mason Durie's "Te Whare Tapa Whā" Hauora model, which acknowledges the key areas of wellbeing. We look forward to unpacking this with our tamariki over the coming weeks. 


You may already be familiar with the term Hauora. At kura we have the Hauora Room in the Office, where your tamariki come when they are feeling unwell, or have bumps and scrapes that need mending, or occasionally just need some quiet time, a chat and some TLC. 

Hauora in te reo Māori speaks about wellbeing. Here is the definition as given on Te Aka (the Māori Dictionary) :

Another notice from SEIPP and Christchurch City Council 

Road Closure Eastern Tce - Monday 22 Aug - Wed 24 Aug

What you need to know:
  • We are continuing with Phase 2 of our project to replace a water main on Eastern Terrace.
  • This notice covers upcoming works to connect the newly installed water main on Eastern Terrace to the existing watermain on Martin Ave.
  • There will be a temporary road closure on Eastern Terrace between 153 Eastern Terrace through to Martin Ave.
  • Properties within the road closure will have restricted vehicle access. Our onsite crew will be in contact with affected properties.
  • The work may result in increased dust, noise, and vibrations. We will aim to keep any disruptions to a minimum
  • We will continue to keep you updated as this project progresses, including any foreseeable impacts.
Thank you for your continued understanding and patience while we complete these works.

BOT Update

Voting for Parent Elections is now open. By now you should have received the link to vote via email or via post. Voting closes Wednesday, September 7th @ 4pm. 

Please have your votes in before the closing date to ensure it is counted!

Contact Reihana; at pa@beckenham.school.nz if you need any help with the process.

Community Notices

(Notices placed here are contingent on space and do not reflect the views or opinions of the school.)
"First 1000 Days and Play Based Learning!"  to be held at:  La Vida Centre, Christchurch on Monday 29th August -7:30pm to 9:00pm.  

GET YOUR TICKETS!  Tickets are available on Eventfinda NZ - (**early bird tickets are available too so get in quick before they sell out!**).  Head to www.eventfinda.co.nz (search: Nathan Wallis Christchurch) or click on the link below: