Welcome
Welcome to Lucas Blenkinsop, Hope Blenkinsop, Mateo Maranon, Noah Maranon and Annie Bremner who started with us this week. Our current roll is 667.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Kaden Li, Harper Wallis, Yiqing Liu, Yihan Liu, Abigail Winterton, Zoe Kistnasami, Indie Biggs, Isaac Roberts, Lucas Stevens, Kayla White, Flynn Franklin and Cooper Nolan.
Attendance
If a student misses one day of school every two weeks, they miss a whole year of school by 16 years of age. As a parent or caregiver, you, alongside our school, play a key role in building strong habits of regular school attendance. All students are legally required to attend school every day and it is a shared responsibility to make sure students attend and engage in learning from when they first start school. You must let us know if your child is going to be absent for a day or intends to be absent for a portion of the school term for whatever reason, like a tangi or medical procedure.
If you’re struggling at home with getting your child to school, talk to us! We are committed to supporting your child to attend school and building a culture that fosters excellent attendance by having:
- School staff who have strong relationships with students and whānau.
- A school culture that recognises your child and your family for who they are, where they come from and who they want to be.
- A school community that does everything to make sure students are at school, and they are participating, and progressing in their education.
Teacher Only Day Friday 30 May
School will be closed on Friday 30 May due to teacher only day. During this day our staff will be doing curriculum professional development in the morning at school and then in the afternoon we are going to Ahutoetoe School for our Kāhui Ako Conference.
Kelly Club will be operating on this day. To book go to www.kellyclub.co.nz
Kings Birthday
School will be closed on Monday 2 June for Kings Birthday.
Mid Year Reports
Our mid-year reports will be going home on Friday 27 June. This is later than normal because of the update of the new New Zealand Curriculum progressions that we will need to make.
Learning Conservations – Wednesday 16 July and Thursday 17 July
These conversations are later that normal because of the updated New Zealand Curriculum.
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 16 July 3:15pm – 6:00pm and Thursday 17 July 12:30pm – 6:00pm
On Thursday 17 July the school will close at 12.00pm, can you please collect your child at this time this is only for Thursday 17 July.
Each learning conversation session lasts for 15 minutes.
A link will be sent for you to book your learning conversations with your child’s teacher.
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