Traffic Concerns
We are still concerned with the behaviour of some of the drivers using Millwater Parkway and Bankside signalised intersection, in particular red light running.
We often observed a number of vehicles speeding and also a significant number running the red lights. We do not want to see anyone being hit by a car while crossing at the lights by a car who runs a red light.
Please make sure that you stop on the yellow light at the traffic lights outside of school. Before and after school is a busy time with children and parents using the lights to cross the road, we do not want an accident to occur because you run the red light. Please reduce your speed and look out for children. A yellow signal means stop, unless you are so close to the intersection that you can’t stop safely. A yellow signal indicates that the lights will soon turn red. If you fail to do this then the penalties are $150 fine and 20 demerit points if you fail to slow down and stop when traffic lights turn yellow (unless you cannot stop safely).
Traffic Concern 2
There has been an increase in parents dropping their children off on Longmore Lane, by the roundabout. For your own safety, and the safety and convenience of other road users, there are certain areas where you must not park. You risk being fined $60 and/or having your vehicle towed away if you park in these areas. You must not park or stop your vehicle:
- where it will be in the way of other people using the road (including pedestrians)
- on a marked bus stop or taxi stand
- in front of, or closer than 1 metre to, a vehicle entrance
- on ‘no stopping’ lines (broken yellow lines) marked within 1 metre of the edge of the road, which you may see near pedestrian crossings, intersections, driveways or narrow roads.
This also includes parking and waiting for children on Stella Maris Lane. Please do not park on broken yellow lines, it’s for the safety of ours and your children. There is plenty of parking at Metro Park carpark, by the cricket nets and it is only a 400m walk to and from school. Children can walk there and they don’t cross any roads. This is a safe option for children.
Parking on Stella Maris Lane
I have had a number of complaints from the residents of Stella Maris Lane about our parents at pick up time. The complaints are parents driving over their lawn in the wet weather making a huge mess, parents parking over their driveways. Please be respectful of the residents.
Learning Conservations – Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June
The learning conversations are three-way conferences with the teacher, child and parent. Three-way conferences take the form of a conversation between the child, the parents and the teacher as they sit together and talk about the child’s learning, with the child taking an equal role. This approach give children an opportunity to share with their parents their growth as a learner. The three-way conferences are designed to achieve one or more of the following goals:
- to help children demonstrate evidence of learning,
- to teach children the process of reflection and self-evaluation,
- to facilitate the development of child’s organisational and oral communication skills and to increase their self-confidence,
- to encourage children, parents, and teachers to engage in open and honest dialogue,
- to encourage children to accept personal responsibility for their learning.
Times for Learning Conversations are:
Wednesday 7 June 12:30pm – 6:00pm and Thursday 8 June 3:15pm – 6:00pm
On Wednesday 7 June the school will close at 12.00pm, can you please collect your child at this time this is only for Wednesday 7 June.
Each learning conversation session lasts for 15 minutes.
A link will be sent next week for you to book your learning conversations with your child’s teacher.
Mid-Year Achievement and Progress Report
Your child’s Mid-Year Achievement and Progress Report will be shared with you on Thursday 1 June. This will be emailed to you directly from SchoolTalk.
This report gives a snapshot of where your child is currently at. It will show a graph of achievement outlining how your child is progressing against each of the New Zealand Curriculum expectations for Reading, Writing and Mathematics and five next steps that your child will be working towards.
In conjunction with this report we will be holding learning conversations on Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June.
Principal Award Winners
Congratulations to our principal award winners from last week.
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