{"id":11612,"date":"2022-05-08T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=211ff928f2a122f287481f19e29a4645"},"modified":"2022-05-08T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:08:59","slug":"koru-team-news-term-2-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/koru\/koru-team-news-term-2-week-1\/11612","title":{"rendered":"Koru Team News: Term 2, Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kia ora, e te whanau,<\/p>

We hope you are all happy and healthy and had a lovely holiday break! It was such a treat to see all of those wide and happy smiles back at school this week. We would likte to give an especially warm welcome to Florence, Xavier, Daniel, Aurora, Harper, Violet, Khloe, Elijah and Jackson, who have all started school this week. What a wonderful job they are all doing settling in! We also welcome Keira who is going to be having her first day at school tomorrow. We hope you have a fantastic day (and days to come), Keira. Ka pai, tamariki!<\/p>

All of our tamariki have happily returned to the routines of school, and are enthusiastically embracing their learning. They have been excelling in their Literacy and Maths lessons, and are putting lots of energy and enthusiasm into engaging with our 'obstacle course' theme. Creative thinking has been running wild with the different challenges the tamariki have been setting for one another!<\/p>

Learning At Home: <\/b>our Learning At Home site remains up and running, if you need or want to access this. Here is the link.<\/a> There are lots of different activities that you can access, including a variety of Maths activities, a wide range of Literacy activities, a range of picture books read for the tamariki by our Koru teachers, and some fun wellbeing and Te Reo M\u0101ori activities to enjoy too. <\/p>

Kete Certificates: c<\/b>ongratulations to both Xanthe and Zac, for displaying our school values and for receiving kete certificates this week. Xanthe received her certificate for showing 'We Love Learning' and Zac received his certificate for showing 'We Make a Difference'. Ka pai, korua!!<\/p>

Sustainability:<\/b> This year, our school-wide focus is Sustainability. Throughout Term 1, in the Koru team, our particular focus was on making and sustaining friendships, and this focus will continue throughout the year, as new children continue to enter our team. This term, we are going to be adding to this aspect of Sustainability, and including a focus on the environment. With this in mind, we are wondering if you have items we might be able to use in our Koru 'fairy garden' bed which is in the raised box outside the school hall. For this garden, we are looking for items such as:<\/p>

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