{"id":11626,"date":"2022-05-21T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=7f444bbbb1115ace2e2473cfaf52dc5a"},"modified":"2022-05-21T07:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:33:38","slug":"beckenham-te-kura-o-puroto-newsletter-ramere-friday-20-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/newsletters\/beckenham-te-kura-o-puroto-newsletter-ramere-friday-20-may-2022\/11626","title":{"rendered":"Beckenham Te Kura o P\u016broto Newsletter R\u0101mere (Friday) 20 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal's Patch<\/h2>

Kia ora koutou<\/h3><\/div>

Safety in our Community<\/h3>
You will have all seen the letter from the Department of Corrections that was sent out on Wednesday afternoon. Whilst it can be unsettling to read this information, we do understand that these risks do exist in our communities across New Zealand all of the time. This is an opportunity for us to take time to think about how we support our children to stay safe. <\/div>

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Central to keeping our children safe is ensuring that school drop-offs and pick-ups are completed in a timely manner. Our school opens at 8:30am, and children who need to be dropped off earlier than that should be booked into BOSCO. Likewise, school ends at 3pm and pick-ups should be completed by 3:15pm. If you ask your child to wait for you at a different point to the front gate, and you are running late, PLEASE ring the office so we can go and get them to come and wait in the office for you beyond 3:15pm. We collect up any children waiting at the front gate at 3:15pm, but won't know that a child could be waiting on Eastern Tce or Norwood St unless you let us know.<\/div>

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We have a strong sense of community around our children and we all appreciate the way families work together, with us, to ensure that all of our children are safe.<\/div>

Safety on Sandwich Road outside school<\/h3>
We have been working with our children to remind them that bikes and scooters need to be walked, and skateboards carried, across the crossing and on the footpath outside school. There are too many people on the footpath for wheels to be moving quickly there at the same time.<\/div>

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Please help reiterate this message with your children:<\/div>

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Keeping everyone safe as they arrive at school and leave is very important. We Get There Together by:<\/i><\/div>