Kia ora koutou, Kōwhai whanau!
And just like that - we are half-way through Term 1. :o) The days are starting to get shorter, the temperature is slowly dropping, winter sport sign-ups are happening and the summer sports are coming to an end... As often happens at this time of year, we've started to notice a few coughs and sniffles around the place. Even our teachers are not immune - Mrs Herring has been home sick this week with a sore throat which turned to laryngitis! We look forward to welcoming Mrs Herring back next week after she has rested and recovered. This week we welcomed Charli to the Kōwhai Learning Community - we hope you enjoy your time in the Kōwhai Community! NPDL parent evening Our thanks to those of you who were able to attend the NPDL (New Pedagogies for Deep Learning) parent workshop during the week. If you were unable to attend, we understand that a link to the presentation will be shared via the school newsletter or website. We will clarify this once we have this information confirmed. We look forward to making connections to our NPDL learning - you may notice some extra information being added to our wall displays. Our next parent workshop is our Whānau hui on March 20th at 6.00. Further details on this meeting were included in last week's K.I.T. notice. Discovery Friday Today we discovered what it would be like to live under the sea! It was a terrifically exciting day with lots of enthusiasm and loads of questions to follow up next week. Thanks to those children who brought supporting resources from home. We all agreed today was 'jawsome'! Have a look at our 'Discovery Friday' tab for some photos and video from the day, as well as some links to support your learning at home. Celebration of Learning We were proud to share our learning about the rain at this morning's Celebration of Learning. If you were there and took some photos or video, we would love to see them, please! Please comment below or email them through to your pod teacher so we can add them to our blog. Assessment Our teachers are getting ready to write reports for those children who are due to receive a report at the end of Term 1 (children who have been at school for six months or 1 year). Next week we will be assessing in the key areas of literacy and maths. This will cause some disruption to our regular programme, so please do not be alarmed if your child comes home without a reading book each day. We have left this week's readers in reading packets to ensure you have a selection of reading material. Guest teachers Next week Mrs Herring and Mrs B will both be attending an off-site course about implementing Restorative Justice. They will be away from school from Wednesday - Friday. We will have two guest teachers in the Community at this time. Kia pai tō mutunga wiki, have a jawsome weekend! Thelma, Sonja, Jo & Christina kowhai@westmelton,school.nz
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Hannah Helm
9/3/2018 05:03:11 pm
The discovery Friday tab doesn't have anything in it from this year?
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kowhai team
9/3/2018 05:39:51 pm
It does now! (Just took us a bit of time to upload videos, photos etc and to source them from all the different places we'd put them over the day!)
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Mel
10/3/2018 07:49:50 am
Heya team,
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kowhai team
10/3/2018 09:18:39 am
Oh thanks Mel! Sounds very exciting! Do you have Google drive or dropbox? If so, you could use one of those to upload it and send us a link. Is it on an iPhone? If so, you could airdrop it to one of us on Monday morning. If none of those options - let's have a chat Monday morning! - Christina :o)
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