Welcome to Week 4 of Term 2! This term is really flying by!
We would like to welcome Jimmy, Sam N and Sam P to Kōwhai, we are so pleased that you are here! Over the next two weeks we have lots on! On Wednesday 29 May there is a national teachers strike, this will mean that the school will be closed. On Thursday 30 May the Kōwhai teachers will be presenting at the New Entrant Information morning and will be unavailable in the morning. (The children will be taking part in their normal Fab 5 programme.) During the afternoon and evening of Thursday 30 May and during the day of Friday 31 May we will be meeting with you all and your children to share their learning and set new goals at Student-Led Conferences. We are really looking forward to seeing you all and have the students share their learning with you. Please note that because the teachers will be involved in Student-Led Conferences on Friday there will be no formal instruction, we ask that your children only attend conferences that day. Monday 3 June - Queens Birthday (no school) Pizza Wheels Keep up the great work with your pizza wheels! Once you have filled in your pizza wheel, you can put your wheel in the box on Mrs Cider's yellow table and then on Friday we will stamp them all and return them to you for the weekend. If you need new ones come and see us and, we can give you a new one. Goal Sheets Today we will be sending home our goal sheets from our last goal setting meeting (last term) with the reflection completed by your child. Please take some time to go through these with child and have a discussion around some new goals that you might like to share at our meetings next week. Seesaw If you haven't signed up for Seesaw don't forget to follow the link below and select your child from the list. How to sign up:
End of the Day help Sometimes at the end of the day we are super busy trying to get everyone packed up ready for home and we don't get a chance to tidy up our outside area. If you happen to be waiting outside Kōwhai at the end of the day and have a spare moment or two we would really appreciate some help with putting the covers on the sandpits, and sweeping up some of the sand. There will be brooms out by the door for you to use (or we would love any donated old brooms!) and it would be greatly appreciated!! Have a great weekend and a wonderful "long" weekend (next weekend!) Thelma, Sonja, Julia, Jeanette and Jo [email protected]
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Welcome back everyone to Term 2!
Man the term is flying already! This term has seen us welcome, William, Franklin, Max, Molly, Kade, Toby and Sophie. We are really looking forward to having you in Kōwhai. If your child has started recently this K.I.T. notice page is a great place to scroll back through and see if there is any information that may be relevant to your child. It is also a great place to come to once a fortnight to have a read of what has been happening or what is coming up!! We hope you all had a nice break and are refreshed ready for Term 2. We are reminding children to start the day by unpacking their own bags, greeting their pod teacher with a good morning and a handshake/high five before beginning play. It would be great if you could please help us remind children to do this also. If your child can't find their pod teacher (because of sickness, a meeting or being away on a course) please encourage them to greet another teacher in the team. For our new families (or any families that haven't had a chance too yet) please bring in a photo of your child that we can display in our space. We love having the photos around as it makes our space feel more homely. We have some spare frames to put them in or you could send it in already in a frame. Student-Led Conferences An email came out earlier this week about our Student-Led Conferences. These are in Week 5 (Thursday 30 May - Afternoon/Evening) and Friday 31 May (during the day). On the Friday children are only required to be at school to attend their conference. There will be no formal instruction on this day as the teachers will be attending conferences. Have a read through the information that was sent out as it outlines our school-wide assessment and the rationale behind it. Appointments can be made through the following website: www.schoolinterviews.co.nz - our school code is : rarst . Please book in with your child's pod teacher. We look forward to meeting with you and your child at this time. The children will be sharing their learning with you and we will have a chance to set some new goals. Cross Country What an amazing day we had at Cross Country on Monday. The children all ran well and we were so proud of their determination and efforts to complete the course. Fab 5 Our Fab 5 time this term is every second Thursday (odd weeks) at 8:50 - 12:30. This may mean that the Kōwhai teachers are sometimes unavailable on those mornings as they may have other meetings to attend. Please encourage your child to greet the Fab 5 teachers as they would their pod teacher. The children will then take part in a variety of activities (Music, Drama, PE, Science or Visual Art) with our lovely Fab 5 teachers. CORE Education Filming CORE Education are a professional learning and development organisation in New Zealand who work with schools around Professional Development. They are coming out on Monday to film some of our students and teachers around the work we are doing through Play and New Pedagogies for Deeper Learning (NPDL). This film will be used to promote the work they are doing within school and will mostly be background filming and snap shots rather than talking to children. If you do not want your child to be included in this filming please come and see one of the teachers or if you have any other questions please contact Jo ([email protected]). Have a great weekend Thelma, Sonja, Julia, Jeanette and Jo [email protected] class, |
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