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:
You are welcome on site.
You need to be masked if you come into classrooms or the office.
Office is open as normal now.
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.
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
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