{"id":6189,"date":"2017-09-19T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=7970ae43b5a81472bd9c01ea6cbb709b"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:02:16","slug":"pohutukawa-team-newsletter-term-3-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/pohutukawa\/pohutukawa-team-newsletter-term-3-week-8\/6189","title":{"rendered":"Pohutukawa Team Newsletter Term 3 Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"Kia Ora Whanau

We are rapidly nearing the end of a fantastic Term 3 and looking forward to being back at Beckenham School next term.

Ferrymead Trip <\/h4>We had two amazing trips to Ferrymead where we did lots of learning about how much change has affected our lives over the past 100 years.
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We had a lesson in the school room with Miss Black who was very strict about us lining up silently, sitting up in our seats with straight backs, following instructions without talking, reciting our timetables and doing our handwriting perfectly in ink. We also did some housework where we washed clothing on the washboards, used the wringer, made beds, cleaned tables and ironed clothing using an iron heated on the coal fire. Then we went to explore the old printing station where we used the embossing machine, stapled wee booklets and printed our own posters. We also learned a lot about how phones used to work by having a turn at connecting calls between two people, dialing the old rotary dial phones and figuring out how to hold the phones so we could listen and talk at the same time! <\/div>

Challenges <\/h3>
Last term, we put out a survey asking our children about their use and understanding of our values, their learning within the curriculum areas and what they wanted more of at school. From this survey, 'Challenge' time was started earlier this term.

The challenges focussed on exploring our Key Competencies: