Week Three News

 

Kaurihohore School Week Three, Term Two News 2022

Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all. 

Respect - Empathy - Kindness 

He whakatauki. Ehara tāku toa i te toa takitahi. Engari, he toa takitini.

Success is not the work of one but the work of many.

Kia ora koutou,  

Week three already, time is flying by this term.   Our children have already had some great opportunities to explore and develop their passions.  Firstly, A HUGE congratulations to our two EPRO8 teams, who competed at Kamo Intermediate last week.  The boys team managed to win the preliminary round and then went on to place 2nd Equal overall last night (5-8:30pm).  A lot of practice went into this competition behind the scenes and thanks to all the students including the reserves who also did all the practice and only got to watch the competition.  Great team work Kauri Kids!  A big thanks to Cathy for making this possible.

Then an amazing day at the Northland Regional Chess Tournament at Kamo Intermediate for our chess team. Lots of learning, fun and heaps of successful players. We won the team event and therefore qualified as a team to play at the National championships.  Thanks to Samuel for his work on this.

Along with this, children from our senior classes had the option of learning more about football.  Groups of children from Year 4-6 had the opportunity to learn Football skills from Caleb from Northland Football.  The kids who opted to join had an absolute ball!  We look forward to another 3 super fun Fridays developing their skills.  Lucky kids!

Lastly but certainly not least, all classes enjoyed taking part in workshops last week run by a visitor from the Hundertwasser Art Centre who came to teach us about the artist and  his art.  Thank you to Kelly for timetabling this and making it happen.

 

Certainly a lot of wonderful opportunities squeezed into a short amount of time.  Our children are lucky to enjoy these experiences thanks to dedicated staff who take the time to organise them.

So while we do continue to experience a bit of a resurgence of COVID with a few whānau and staff down, we will continue to work hard to make our school a great place to be.

 

E hara taku tao

i te toa takitahi

he toa takitini

My strength is not as an individual, but as a collective.

Updated Guidelines

These were sent home via seesaw, email and facebook.  The most important things to note now are:

1. You are welcome on site.

2. You need to be masked if you come into classrooms or the office.

3. Office is open as normal now.

4. Please come in and collect your children and assist them over the crossing as we no longer have anyone manning the crossing.  We do not want children running across the crossing unsupervised.

5. We will notify you if we have a surge of COVID in the school or in your child's class, otherwise please just keep following isolation procedures should someone in your family contract it.  Please continue to notify us that you have COVID.

Coming Soon - Board of Trustees Elections

These are coming up later this year.  A Board of Trustees is in charge of the governance of the school, looking at the big picture in terms of property, strategic goals and finance.  Our board has always remained committed to retaining the special nature of our school while setting strategic targets that continue to drive this forward.  Time commitment is two evening meetings a term and a job here and there relative to the position held.   If interested in what this entails, you could talk to Emma Campbell, Richard Smales, Kasey Hindrup or David Pilkington and get more information.  

You can find some useful information here…with some lovely short videos to listen to.

https://www.schoolboardelections.org.nz/becoming-a-board-member/

Lost Property

This term, the lost property will be kept at school for two weeks.  Each class will take a turn being responsible for this and will put it out each Friday morning for classes to look at.  Anything not claimed will then be washed and sent to a charity or given to a needy family.  If children’s clothes are named we will return these items to them.  

This week and next the lost property is being looked after by Rūma Kiwi (8).

Fundraising

Thank you everyone for your support of Term One fundraisers, we made a great profit of $4963.63 (Still to raise - $21 036.37 towards curriculum.)   This term we will again have a variety of fundraisers, sausage sizzles, pizza lunches and the disco amongst this.  Wherever you can help out, we really appreciate it!

A HUGE THANKS to our volunteers over the weekend! Dianne Wyatt James Lucas Nathanael Mcdonald Nicky Robinson Ross Morgan (& Keeley) Janet Hammond Tannis Turnbull Arla Kerr (Chris) for giving up a few hours of your Saturday! We raised $600 for the school with plenty of supplies leftover to use at the upcoming disco!  Lacey, we are super grateful to you for the time taken to organise this.

Check out the details in this newsletter of our next fundraiser being run in conjunction with Thomas Online, if you have a child’s birthday coming up, or just looking for something to keep them busy on wet days, this is a great one stop site to check first!  

Coming soon…

Keep an eye out as we will soon be using KINDO, making payments so much easier!  This will mean we will be largely cashless…no more finding coins for the sausage sizzle!  

Canopy

As you will have seen, our all weather canopy is up and running, our fundraising committee (PSG) raised a massive $35 000 to make this possible, we are very thankful for all the hard work they put in to make this possible.  Our canopy is a real asset to our school and this area will be well used.  Thanks to some very hard work fundraising it looks like we will have completed raising money for this project and can move on to the next big thing…the new turf!

Matariki - Memorial Garden

You may have noticed the area next to the native garden has been sprayed and roped off.  We are planning a Matariki-Memorial garden for this area.  It will form an extension to our native garden and eventually link to a junior sandpit.  Crofts are donating the mulch, which will be added to the area and then all going well we will plant our next empty classroom day.  This area will be planted as a way to mark Matariki, but will also be a memorial to the time during the first World War, that the school grounds, along with property from several surrounding farms, were requisitioned by the Army, which stationed the Maori Battalion and the 2nd Hauraki Regiment.

If you would like to help with, or support this garden (or future sandpit) in any way you can email Michelle.  michelle.douglas@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz

Thomas Online Fundraiser - From now, through the month of June

Our next fundraiser is being held in conjunction with Thomas Online.  The school will get the profits from any purchase you make using the details below.

Head over to our website www.ThomasOnline.co.nz, use coupon code KAURIHOHORE SCHOOL, receive Free Shipping and all profits of your order will be sent back to the school. All orders received will be sent directly from us at Thomas Online to your requested address on the overnight courier.

Thank you so much Kylie for your fabulous support of our school!

MATARIKI SCHOOL DISCO

It’s time to bust out the sparkles and dancing shoes! We can finally hold another disco….

*Friday 17th June 5-7pm, Hikurangi Rugby Club

*$5 per student paid in cash to Dianne please. *Tickets will be handed out the week of the disco.

Sausage sizzle, baking, ice blocks and drinks will be available to purchase.

Only current students sorry, we would’ve loved to include last year's year 6’s that missed out due to Covid but due to venue capacity we simply can’t facilitate this.

Also no siblings or friends from outside of the school are able to attend this event, just children currently attending.

Pilot Programme - Wellbeing

This programme will go ahead, thank you to all those people who got in touch, adding children to the list.  This group is now full and we have started a waiting list should we get to run it again.  If your child has a place to take part, we will be in touch very soon.  Should you need  to discuss this, you can contact Tanya Gwyn.  tanya.gwyn@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz

We are very happy to partner with Barnardos for this project.

 

 

Empty Classroom Day - Matariki Celebration

 

Our empty classroom day will be the 8th of July (last day of term.)   Set the day aside if you can, come in, do some planting, check out our canopy, buy some food, play some games, we’d love to see as many of you as possible on this day!  All whānau welcome.  

We are also  hoping to also have a hangi in celebration of Matariki…but will need lots of helpers and a few experts too.  If you are able to help please contact Lena Newport or pop in and let the office know and we will pass this information on.  This is likely to happen on the last day of term in conjunction with Empty Classroom day, but we will confirm this with you.

Term Two - Known Dates

25th of May - Year 4-6 Winter Sports

6th June - Queen's Birthday

17th June - Disco 5-7pm

24th June - Matariki

8th July - Last day of term and Empty Classroom Day - Matariki planting

School Bank Account Details

 Account 12-3093-0200709-00

Kaurihohore school board of Trustees

Food for thought... 

Noho ora mai - stay well, look after yourself and look out for others!

Leslee Allen

Week One News

 

Kaurihohore School Week One, Term Two News 2022

Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all. 

Respect - Empathy - Kindness 

He whakatauki. Ehara tāku toa i te toa takitahi. Engari, he toa takitini.

Success is not the work of one but the work of many.

Kia ora koutou,  

Welcome to a new term.  We hope that this one is a little more settled and that we are able to achieve regular attendance for all.  

 

It is exciting to see that our canopy is nearly completed.  This will be a real asset for our school in wet weather particularly. 

 

As we are entering a Winter term, children will not be requiring sunsmart hats and can wear caps if they like.  When the canopy is complete, the courts will reopen, hopefully this will be by the end of next week all going well.

 

Thank you all for your ongoing support, here’s to a great Term 2.

 

 

E hara taku tao

i te toa takitahi

he toa takitini

My strength is not as an individual, but as a collective.

Updated Guidelines

These were sent home via seesaw, email and facebook.  The most important things to note now are:

1. You are welcome on site.

2. You need to be masked if you come into classrooms or the office.

3. Office is open as normal now.

4. Please come in and collect your children and assist them over the crossing as we no longer have anyone manning the crossing.  We do not want children running across the crossing unsupervised.

5. We will notify you if we have a surge of COVID in the school, otherwise please just keep following isolation procedures should someone in your family contract it.  Please continue to notify us that you have COVID.

Pick up Procedures

Please make sure you have read the guidelines via our blog.  There is a tab school hours, dropping and picking up children.  

Please do not park in the line and get out of your car, this line needs to flow as smoothly as possible.  If you need to get out of your car to help your children with their belongings, use the car parks.

We also need you to notify us if anyone out of the ordinary is picking up your child, or if they are walking home.  If your child is a walker, they need to be coming to the courtyard first, to be let go by the duty teacher, this allows us to know that they have walked, and if you do happen to turn up to pick them up, to let you know that they walked.

As you can imagine it would be your and our worst nightmare if a child was taken by someone they didn’t know, or someone who is not supposed to pick them up.  It is vital you communicate with us so we can keep children safe.

Lost Property

This term, the lost property will be kept at school for two weeks.  Each class will take a turn being responsible for this and will put it out each Friday morning for classes to look at.  Anything not claimed will then be washed and sent to a charity or given to a needy family.  If children’s clothes are named we will return these items to them.  

Honey

There is still honey available for sale at the office. It is $10, we have 12 containers left.

MATARIKI SCHOOL DISCO

It’s time to bust out the sparkles and dancing shoes! We can finally hold another disco….

*Friday 17th June 5-7pm, Hikurangi Rugby Club

*$5 per student paid in cash to Dianne please. *Tickets will be handed out the week of the disco.

Sausage sizzle, baking, ice blocks and drinks will be available to purchase.

Only current students sorry, we would’ve loved to include last year's year 6’s that missed out due to Covid but due to venue capacity we simply can’t facilitate this.

Also no siblings or friends from outside of the school are able to attend this event, just children currently attending.

Pilot Programme - Wellbeing

*We have two places left for this programme, that will go ahead, please get in contact if you feel your child would benefit.

At Kaurihohore we take our approach to assisting well being and helping children to be happy self-regulated individuals, who embrace emotions and know how to respond when things get tough.  This is important work, and work we have taken on ourselves, because funding or external support for children and whānau is basically non-existent.  

If we don’t do it, who will?

This is where the nurture room was born from, where KiVa, Seasons for growth, zones of regulation, Pause Breathe Smile and other classroom approaches originated.  They were all self-initiated, self-funded and self-sustaining.  You may have noticed approaches like our termly happiness survey for children, from this data we identify those that would benefit from weekly catch ups with our Wellbeing leader (Kelly Glasgow.)  Over time we have formed many strings to our bow, out of necessity and wanting to do the best for our children.

Seasons for growth was a programme piloted here first by Barnardos and then put into other schools.  It continues to be delivered here because our lead teachers are trained in the approach and care enough to ensure it happens.  

We are excited to announce that we are again partnering with Barnardos, together we will be creating our own programme, where we see a real need.  

This pilot will be written and trialled by Barnardos with our key staff.  It will be delivered through cooking and life skills, with a wider purpose.

At the moment we hope to include these topics but will be collaborating together to negotiate these:

1. Right from wrong decision making

2. Anger management

3. Emotional coaching

4. Relationship forming

5. Managing pocket money

Other potential topics

·   Focus and Self-Control.

·   Perspective-Taking.

·   Communication.

·   Making Connections.

·   Critical Thinking.

·   Taking on Challenges.

·   Self-Directed, Engaged Learning.

There will be two to three Barnardos workers delivering the programme, with 8-10 children in the initial group.  Support staff are also likely to be involved.  At the moment we are not sure if this will take place at school, or at Barnardos.  There is no confirmed date for start, but it will be early next term, all going well.

This programme would probably be best for Year 4 up.

If you would like your child to be part of this pilot programme, that then could quite possibly benefit many schools in our area, please email me principal@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz or let Dianne in the office, or your child’s teacher know.   I can not guarantee they will be part of it, but they will be added to the list, and it is likely we will run this more than once.

Term Two - Known Dates

2nd May - First day back

4th May - Epro8 challenge at KIS for selected group

10th and 11th - Art workshops for classes at school

6th June - Queen's Birthday

17th June - Disco 5-7pm

24th June - Matariki

8th July - Last day of term

School Bank Account Details

 Account 12-3093-0200709-00

Kaurihohore school board of Trustees

Food for thought... 

Noho ora mai - stay well, look after yourself and look out for others!

Leslee Allen