{"id":8869,"date":"2019-09-02T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=366d0264c46b9dfb0058f622b8809e94"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:51:53","slug":"kauri-whanau-weekly-update-term-3-week-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/kauri\/kauri-whanau-weekly-update-term-3-week-6-7\/8869","title":{"rendered":"Kauri Wh\u0101nau Weekly Update: Term 3 Week 6\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"Hopefully, there has been lots of speech practice taking place in your house over the past few days. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, children will be presenting their speeches to their homegroups. Our hub final takes place next Tuesday afternoon, Sept 10. Finalists will be announced by the end of this week. Parents are most welcome to attend the final, which will be judged by a teacher from the English Dept at Cashmere High.

Cantamath Success<\/h3>A big congratulations to all children who were involved in Cantamath, with work in the projects competition or in one of our problem-solving teams. Special congratulations goes to Morvern who won an outstanding award. She was one of only four to be recognised with this award and the only Year 7 & 8.
Excellence recipients: <\/b>Erik, Henry H, Julia, Kate D, Amber, Ben E, Charlotte G, Eddie, Jack B, James, William, Morvern and Jenny's class project
Highly Commended recipients:<\/b> Charlotte O. Matilda, Frankie, Paolo, Holly, Mia, Emma, Maria, Rylan, Angus, Devina, Fergus, Lurandt, Ruby M, Zoe, Boyd, Daniel S, Millie J, Thomas, Walter, Hannah's class project and Nicky's class project
Please check out the photos at the end of this post.

Year 8 Testing at Cashmere High<\/h3>Next Tuesday morning, Sept 10, Year 8 students who have enrolled at Cashmere High for 2020 have their new entrant testing morning. You will have received information about this from Cashmere. Children make their own way to and from Cashmere. We expect to see all children back at Beckenham by 1:20 at the latest. School uniform is to be worn.

Ski Trip<\/h3>We are only days away from our ski trip on Friday September 6th. We will be doing the last distributing of loan clothing and goggles to children today. If you still need to arrange these for your child, I suggest you contact Snowmania who rent gear at very reasonable prices: 4 Dalgety Street, Riccarton Phone: 03 961 6747. We do still have jackets, thermals, small gloves and some very small ski pants available at school. The package at Mt Hutt includes skis, boots, poles, helmet, ski pass and a lesson, so no need to organise a helmet or hat. <\/span>

Many thanks to the families who are sending skis and boots to school on Monday so that our first-timers can have a dry land session in the comfort of our hub on Monday and Tuesday.

We are still waiting for a few ski contracts to come back to school signed by children and caregivers. No contract, no go.

On Friday, children need to be at school by 7:20am. We will meet on Sandwich Rd. At 6am the ski report is available online: <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.mthutt.co.nz\/weather-report\/<\/a> If the field is open, we will most likely be going. If we do decide that the conditions mean the trip needs to be postponed, we will send out an email and text.  We will be leaving the mountain to head home at 4pm, which will get us back to school between 6 and 6:30 pm. We will text with a more accurate time when we are on our way home.<\/span><\/div>

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Being dressed for the mountain conditions makes such a difference to the enjoyment of the day. Below is a reminder of what your child will need. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>
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