{"id":8646,"date":"2019-05-24T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=efbb23641b916cac1a518d6eed5b5e46"},"modified":"2019-05-27T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T04:09:45","slug":"koru-news-term-2-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/koru\/koru-news-term-2-week-4\/8646","title":{"rendered":"Koru News Term 2 Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"Kia ora i te wh\u0101nau,

We are continuing to make the most of working and playing both outdoors and indoors, as the balmy weather persists.
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Long rope skipping: working as a team.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Expert skippers take flight!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Literacy in Learning Through Play:<\/b>
Our Learning Through Play photos focus on portraying the children as they engage in literacy-based activities. Reading and writing in a play setting ensures that the literacy learning is absolutely authentic in relation to that situation. The Literacy, in such situations, is driven by the children and represents a need that has presented itself in the play.
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The children love playing 'schools' (Yes! They come to school, and 'play' schools!) and at one point in the game, the question was posed: \" Can we have our own modelling book, please?\"<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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A part of playing schools: practising handwriting...<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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...and reading.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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The children requested their own visual timetable, which they then trimmed and laminated for their own whiteboard easel.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Here we are, awarding house points!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
A Focus on Respect:<\/b>
As a whole school, we have been putting even more of an emphasis on 'respect', beginning 2 or 3 weeks ago. We asked our children in Koru, what this word means, what it might look like, and what being respectful might sound like too. We have discussed who and what we need to show respect towards. Here are some of the thoughts that the children have come up with: