{"id":5516,"date":"2017-02-10T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=6d40507d6904fd2827a13f35e98e499a"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:25:45","slug":"kowhai-team-newsletter-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/kowhai\/kowhai-team-newsletter-week-2\/5516","title":{"rendered":"Kowhai Team Newsletter Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;\">Kowhai News Term 1 Week 2<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><i>Friday 10th February<\/i><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">It is hard to believe that we are at the end of our second week at school. Time is flying! Across our team, the children are settling into hub routines and next week will see us starting to put our key learning programmes into action.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Thank you for being so supportive over the past few weeks as everyone settles into the new year. It is so lovely to have such a caring and supportive parent community. Here are the essentials for the week ahead.<\/span><br \/><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-hzQFwcizIus\/WJ0IVc_uS7I\/AAAAAAAACAQ\/GyapNdUqEKc\/s640\/blogger-image-1879449420.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-hzQFwcizIus\/WJ0IVc_uS7I\/AAAAAAAACAQ\/GyapNdUqEKc\/s200\/blogger-image-1879449420.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b><u>Inquiry:<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">As part of our Identity inquiry, the children are investigating why it is important to to make connections with others and how people identify with each other due to the connections they make. They have been busy making identity boxes, and this coming week we are encouraging them to bring along items to school that are important to them and that help to represent their identity. You might like to discuss with your child: how they got their name and what their name means.<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>BABY AND FAMILY PHOTO: <\/b>We would love each of the children to bring along or email us a baby photo for us to use for a special activity in week 4. We would also love you to email or bring in a family photo to put on our whanau wall.<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><u>Home Learning:<\/u><\/span><\/b><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Next week we will be beginning our nightly Home Learning. This will involve the children:<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">1.&nbsp;<b>Reading <\/b>each night. Please sign the sheet in the Home Learning book.<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">2. <b>Spelling words. <\/b>The words we have given them need to be known so they can access the computers at school.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-TU9BEYGHvds\/WJ0IW1L-LWI\/AAAAAAAACAU\/nhVpqoeGVd4\/s640\/blogger-image-1815995677.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-TU9BEYGHvds\/WJ0IW1L-LWI\/AAAAAAAACAU\/nhVpqoeGVd4\/s200\/blogger-image-1815995677.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">As we are setting up these routines, we would love your support by ensuring your child has their Home Learning folder at school every day.<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Celebration Assembly:<\/b><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Kowhai Team are hosting the next school Celebration Assembly on Thursday 23rd February at 2.15pm. We would love to see you there if you would like to come along.<\/span><br \/><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-sigl2M-Zn1c\/WJ0IYW4ctOI\/AAAAAAAACAY\/a4GjL75B2Cs\/s640\/blogger-image--879408125.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-sigl2M-Zn1c\/WJ0IYW4ctOI\/AAAAAAAACAY\/a4GjL75B2Cs\/s200\/blogger-image--879408125.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">That's all for now.<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Have a wonderful weekend!<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Kowhai Teaching Team<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kowhai News Term 1 Week 2Friday 10th February&nbsp;It is hard to believe that we are at the end of our second week at school. 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