{"id":13654,"date":"2025-04-11T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=b3389868b75f49d799483b0fa241abe7"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:10:36","slug":"koru-team-blog-term-1-week-11-11-04-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/koru\/koru-team-blog-term-1-week-11-11-04-2025\/13654","title":{"rendered":"Koru Team Blog: Term 1 Week 11 (11\/04\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"Kia ora e te wh\u0101nau,

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Wow, we have made it to the end of our first term for 2025! We would love to say a massive 'thank you' to all our tamariki and wh\u0101nau for showing our school value 'We Get There Together - M\u0101 t\u0101tou katoa te waka e hoe'. <\/div>

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Here are a few things our children have loved about being in the Koru team:<\/b><\/div>

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\"I like playing with the Lego and drawing.\"<\/div>

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\"I am showing We Care by listening to others.\"<\/div>

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\"I love sitting at the yellow jellybean table for Literacy and learning new letter sounds.\"<\/div>

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\"I love making new friends.\"<\/div>

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\"I like learning.\"<\/div>

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\"I like drawing with my friends.\"<\/div>

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\"I like playing on the car mat with special cars.\"<\/div>
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\"I like our teachers.\"<\/div>

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\"I like going to Treemendous and the Junior Playground at Little Play and Big Play.\"<\/div>

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House Groups:<\/b><\/div>
Our Koru children have been allocated a 'House Group' to belong to: Fisher, Heathcote, Tennyson and Waimea. Children from the same family\/wh\u0101nau are put into the same house. Each house group has it's own chant and tamariki learn this so they can participate in the house chant at sports and special events, and in Celebration Assemblies if their house has won the house points for the fortnight. You can find the House Chants here<\/a><\/b>, and there are also videos that you can share with your child to help them learn their house chant. Each house has its own colour, and there are House Shirts that are an optional part of the school uniform, that can be purchased and worn on Fridays, or sports\/special event days as advised in the newsletter.<\/div>

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House Games:<\/b><\/div>
In Term 1 and 4, House Leaders from the Kauri Hub take House Games for all the Beckenham tamariki. Our Koru children played many fun games with the House Leaders and children from their House Group. Some favourite games were a sandpit treasure hunt, cat and mouse, hula hoop and ball team challenges and Duck, Duck, Goose! <\/div>

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Cat and Mouse<\/div>
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Team ball challenges<\/div>

<\/div>News for Term 2:<\/b>
We warmly welcome Niquita to Beckenham Te Kura o P\u016broto next term. Niquita will be our third Home Group teacher to join our Koru team. <\/div>

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K\u014dmanawa <\/b>block (the classroom up the ramp) is undertaking some building work, starting in the school holidays and will be completed around the middle of Term 2. Once this work is complete, our Koru team will start to use this learning space too.<\/div>

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Kiss and Drop<\/b><\/div>
As more children are starting in the Koru team, our hub can feel a little overwhelming for some tamariki in the morning. Please aim to \"kiss and drop\" your child off at the door, rather than entering the hub with them. <\/b>This will help set your children up for a calm, quiet, and successful transition in the morning. Thank you for your support with this!<\/div>

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Learning Through Play<\/b><\/div>
Box construction continues to be a popular activity in the Koru team. If you have any boxes that you would usually put in the recycling, please send them our way! Our children love to stick, colour, shape, cut, decorate and paint. <\/div>

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Have a wonderful break,

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Ng\u0101 mihi nui,<\/div>
Koru Team<\/div>
Katie, Elizabeth, Stacey, Lucy, Maisy, Denise<\/div>


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