Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Week Ten News

Kaurihohore School Week Ten, Term Three 2024

Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all.

Respect - Empathy - Kindness

He aroha whakatō, he aroha ka puta mai

“If kindness is sown, then kindness is what you shall receive”

Kia ora e te whānau,

We had a fantastic day yesterday celebrating a day of outside play. The weather played the part and it was awesome to see children happily playing all day. It was a lovely way to break up the week.

Thank you to those that nominated us for post peelings from Crofts Poles and Timber. These have been delivered this morning and will be used to remediate the areas that were disturbed by the fence so we can plant in the future. We will let you know when we need help moving this.

A big thank you to Crofts Poles and Timber for this donation.

We have had a great term, it has been busy and unfortunately there has still been a lot of sickness hanging around, however classes have been very productive and children have put in some big efforts. We are grateful for all of the support that you provide. Thank you for getting your child to school regularly and understanding that regular attendance is vital for social, emotional and academic progress.

Our Halloween event is just around the corner and we need lots of help. This is a big fundraiser for us and every little bit we raise is vitally important. Below I will share ways we will be asking each classroom to help, but I also urge you to let the office know or comment on the facebook post if you are able to help. If you will be attending with your family, you are still able to help with set up and clean up or in other ways.

Our awards assembly is being held at 2.10pm this Friday, everyone is welcome to attend.

I hope you have the opportunity to spend some quality family time with your children over the holidays.

Leslee Allen

Awards Assembly

This will be held at 2.10pm under the canopy on the last day of this term.

Trophies

Please send back by the end of this term any trophies that your child won at the end of 2023. This will allow us time to get them engraved for 2024.

Teacher Only Day

This will be held on the 21st of October in the second week of Term 4. School is closed for children on this day. This is an allocated day from the Ministry of Education for teachers to work through delivery of the new curriculum.

Life Education Caravan - Promoting healthy physical, social and emotional practices for children

Harold and Nadine will be with us the first week of Term 4. Each class will get two visits each. Your child’s teacher will share with you the topic of discussion. We ask for a contribution of $2, $4 or $6 towards this visit. This can be paid via Kindo, or via the school office. We kindly accept any level of contribution you can give to help us cover this cost.

Calf Club/Flower Day

Last day for animal registrations is today, the 25th of September.

More information about this day will be sent home in the first week back of term as all classes will be creating items to be judged.

We are currently looking for helpers to run a sausage sizzle from 10.30 - 1.30 on the day. Please let us know if you would be able to help, even if you are able to do a slot over this time and work in with others so you can go and view your children’s items.

Halloween Fundraiser

Next term we are asking for specific donations from classrooms. Rooms 1-5 are asked to provide baking for sale at the event. We will be asking for six families from each of these rooms to bake a dozen cupcakes. Teachers will be sending home a message about this on day one next term and will be keeping track to ensure they have six bakers from their classroom.

Room 6 - 9 will be providing lolly donations (wrapped) or drinks (juice boxes like the ones pictured.) Teachers will be also keeping a track of these donations so will be keeping the donations in class. We know many families have children in multiple classrooms, so we ask you to just opt into the one that suits you.

We would also appreciate any crafts that we could sell at the market section of the event. If you know a crafty person, keen to make things that would appeal to children, we would be grateful for their support.

Planning for 2025

If you know your child will not be returning to Kaurihohore next year, please let us know as soon as you can. If you know of any families planning to move into our zone, please encourage them to get in touch. This allows us to plan more accurately for 2025.

Contacting Us

You can find all staff emails on our blog page under the tab ‘our staff,’ however the best way to contact your child’s teacher is via seesaw message. Teachers will endeavour to answer when they have time during the day, however please don’t expect replies to messages or emails after 5pm. We will respond the next day as soon as we can. Please refrain from using Facebook messenger, or our personal phone numbers to contact us.

Our school blog is kaurihohoreschool.blogspot.com

Office emails are:

Chrissie - admin@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz

Dianne - reception@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz

Chelsea/Enrolments - kaurienrolments@gmail.com

Leslee - principal@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz

Reporting Absence - kauriabsences@gmail.com

If you have questions or concerns, please direct these to your child’s teacher as soon as you can, so we can nip anything in the bud before it becomes a bigger issue.

KINDO

Kindo is an app that allows online payments for items at school like pizza days etc. If you go to the links below to either create an account, or log in. These links are also at the top of our school blog site.

Create and account.

https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/flow_join.shtml

https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/index.html

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Known Term Dates

27th of September - Last day of Term 3 - Awards assembly 2.10pm

14th of October - First day of Term 4

14th of October - Life Education Bus Arrives for the week

21st of October - Teachers only day

23rd of October - Calf Club and Flower Day

28th of October - Labour Day

31st of October - Halloween Fundraiser

13th of November - Senior School Athletics

13th of December - Junior awards - 1.30pm

16th of December - Senior awards - 1.30pm

18th of December - Last day of Term 4 (half day, school closes at 12.00, children picked up by 12.30)

First Day Back - Monday 3rd of February 2025

School Bank Account Details -

All payments now go through the one account.

Account 12-3093-0200709-00

Kaurihohore school board of Trustees

Food for thought…

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Week Eight

Kaurihohore School Week Eight, Term Three 2024

Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all.

Respect - Empathy - Kindness

He aroha whakatō, he aroha ka puta mai

“If kindness is sown, then kindness is what you shall receive”

Kia ora e te whānau,

We are quickly approaching the end of term, it is great to see the sun beginning to shine a little more.

We had a great ERO visit. They were blown away by the children and our philosophy for learning and development. They were particularly impressed with our inclusion strategies and noted that children do well as ‘their own unique selves.’

We expect a draft report soon and will share the final report with you when it is published.

Last week we had a group of children represent us at the Whangārei cross country. They represented our school proudly. We will hopefully get official places and certificates through in time to acknowledge them all at our end of year awards assembly. A massive thank you to our team of helpers who ran the BBQ on the day.

Our school disco was also a great success. Thank you to the parents and staff who made this possible, in particular Maria Benson who ensured this was a great night for all.

Leslee Allen

Car Park Safety

We have had several near misses in the car park recently, with children only just avoiding being hit. Please ensure children follow these rules to keep them safe and make sure you are actively supervising them. These near misses have not been our youngest children, they have been our older children that should know better.

*Children must walk along the yellow lines to their car.

*Children need to have their belt on before the car moves off and if they need help getting into the car, it is easier for you to park.

*Children must wait for you to collect them, before they cross the crossing.

*Children must walk with you and not behind cars. Using the path or the grassed area to access vehicles. Please talk to them about the fact that they can not be seen behind a car, the driver simply won't know they are there.

*Children must not be riding their wheels (scooters, ripsticks, roller skates, bikes) anywhere near the car park.

We know that sometimes the rules feel like overkill, but they are there to keep everyone safe. As I say to the children, I don’t want to be visiting them in their hospital bed or worse.

Empty Classroom Day

This is on the 24th of September (Tuesday) on this day the school self-directs their own play outside. There are always jobs to do around the school as well, so if you have any time available to come in and move bark or do some weeding, we would really appreciate it.

Awards Assembly

This will be held at 2.10pm under the canopy on the last day of this term.

Trophies

Please send back by the end of this term any trophies that your child won at the end of 2023. This will allow us time to get them engraved for 2024.

Teacher Only Day

Life Education Caravan - Promoting healthy physical, social and emotional practices for children

Calf Club/Flower Day

This will be held on the 23rd of October. If your child will be entering a calf, lamb or goat, please get them to collect a registration form from the office.

More information about this day will be sent home in the first week back of term as all classes will be creating items to be judged.

Pizza Day

Pizza day is next Thursday, all orders need to be in by this Sunday.

Halloween Fundraiser

Tickets are now on sale for this event, but we will need loads of help to make this event a success. Please look out for posts on facebook and on seesaw to find out ways you can help. This is a fundraiser that raises a lot for our school, but without a lot of help it is just not possible.

Out of Zone Places 2025

These positions opened on the 2nd of September. If your child will be starting with us next year and you are out of our zone, you need to put in an application. We account for siblings in our numbers, but without the application for our records, we can not award the position.

If you know of other families that are wanting to apply for a position in 2025, please encourage them to do so, even if the position is not available, we can add them to our waitlist via that process. Applications close on the 15th of October. Please note that this is the second day of Term 4, so it is easier to submit the application now.

Email Chelsea for more information - kaurienrolments@gmail.com