Week Seven News

  

Kaurihohore School Week Seven, Term Two 2023

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

Time continues to fly by and it is already week seven!  I hope that everyone managed to spend some quality family time over the long weekend.

This Thursday is our sponsored colour run.  It is fantastic that we have already raised a great profit, this is with less than half our roll raising money.  If your child has not yet raised any money towards this, it is not too late!  Every little bit counts.  Feel free to join in the fun on the day.

You may have watched the recent show Paddy Gower, I’ve got issues with literacy.  As many of you are hopefully aware, we teach using structured literacy to ensure our children make progress in reading, writing and spelling. We have worked this way for the last five years, with this change happening first in our junior school and middle school and over the last couple of years spreading more widely into the senior school.  We continue to learn and refine our own practice. We care deeply about the importance of teaching in a way that every child can learn.  We have driven this ourselves and self-funded much of the professional development that  we have taken part in along with the resources that we use.  Along the way we have been lucky enough to secure grants to ensure we have the resources we need.  If you are concerned about your progress in literacy, please see your child’s teacher, as they will be able to provide practical ways on how you can help.

As always your support at home along with ensuring your child has regular attendance make a massive difference to the progress that your child makes at school.  

Tohaina ō 

Painga ke to ao

Share your gifts with the world

Leslee Allen

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 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

School Apps

Please take the time to ensure these apps are on your device and that notifications are on, so that you don’t miss anything.

Skool Loop - On this app you can view newsletters, report attendance and book parent/teacher conferences.

Seesaw - This app is where we share with you about your child’s learning, it is where we will report to you, It is a way we can send you messages, and you can also easily message us.  Newsletters and notices are also shared via seesaw.

Kindo - This is a payment app where you can easily purchase items for school without having to have cash.  Over time most payments will be taken in this way.

Positions For 2023 and 2024

If you have a child that will be starting at our school this year and you have not heard from us, please email or phone Chelsea to check.  kaurienrolments@gmail.com

Although it seems early, we are already making plans for 2024 based on our roll.  As many of you will be aware, our school roll determines both funding and staffing, so it is crucial we are able to make accurate predictions. 

If you know of anyone in our zone, with a child who will be starting school in 2024 please check with them that they have their child on our list.  If you know of out of zone families who may be wanting to send their child to our school, please encourage them to advise us of their details early, so we can contact them when applications open in September.

We appreciate your assistance with this.

We also have a couple of out of zone positions available for year two students, one at year four and one at year five for this year..  If you know of anyone who may like to know more about these positions, please get them to contact Chelsea Woods kaurienrolments@gmail.com

In 2024 it is likely we will have several year 5 and 6 places to offer, along with some Year 2 places, these will be advertised with our new entrant out of zone positions in September.  

Towards the end of August we will hold an open afternoon for whānau of new entrant children to come and have a look around, we will advise you of the date as soon as we have set it.

Reporting

During term one and two your child’s teacher will share via seesaw reporting posts for writing, maths and reading.  They will do this again in term three or four.  Please take the time to read these, as they take a very long time to write and post for each child in the class.  When you have read these posts, please let us know by liking them, otherwise we do not know if you have read them yet.  

At the end of this term, your child’s teacher will send home a dispositional comment about your child on our report template.  

On the 3rd of August, we will hold parent teacher conferences. This will be an early school finish, with children picked up by 1.15pm and conferences starting from 1.30pm.  This is to allow us to get through all the conferences in one day.  

You will need to go onto the Skool Loop to book these from 27 June 2023 and bookings will close on the 1st August 2023.  Teachers do not have access to this app, so if you are unable to use it, you will need to check in with the school office.

To get ready for this you will need to make sure you have the Skool Loop App loaded and ready to go.

Please find attached instructions on how to get Skool Loop onto your phone.

We will be sending out more information and reminders closer to the time.

Empty Classroom - Help Needed

Empty classroom day is on the last day of term and we have our fingers and toes crossed for fine weather.  We need lots of help cleaning up our new garden and creating the path, cleaning up our native bush, weeding  around the school and  putting bark in the playground.  Wheelbarrows and spades a bonus if you have them.   We have so many jobs to get done and we would appreciate any help you can give on the day, even if it is only an hour or two.

Rubbish

Wow, rubbish is getting out of control and we need your help.  We aim to be a zero waste school and actively encourage children to reduce or completely eliminate rubbish in their lunch boxes.  Please have a think about ways you can get rid of plastic wrappers in your child’s lunch box.  Glad wrap, yoghurt pouches, chip packets and muesli bar wrappers are making up a huge percentage of the rubbish around the school.  These things stay in our environment and can take anything between 20-500 years to break down, these items eventually make their way to our ocean.  

Having zero waste lunch boxes is one small way we can help to protect our environment, children are going to need these habits for the future.

You can find ideas via our school blog.  

http://kaurihohoreschool.blogspot.com/p/reduce-reuse-recycle-ways-to-reduce.html

Thank you!!!

Last week I thanked Bronwyn Bayne for her work securing grants, what we didn’t know then is that she has also been successful in securing a massive grant that will make our new school turf a reality!  Bronwyn, we are so very grateful to you!

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Fundraisers - Please support us if you can

We raised almost $6000 last term.  That means we have $20 000 left to raise.  

Our aim this term is $8000.  Please get behind the colour run and chocolate selling as these are two items that could really help us towards this total.

The money that is raised through fundraisers, frees up money from curriculum spending to help keep our classes as small as possible.  This benefits ALL children.

Colour Run

This has replaced the sponsored run that we have had the last few years.  This will be held on the 8th of June .If your child has not registered yet please go to schoolfunrun.co.nz and create a student profile page. Find our school Kaurihohore and then your child will be added to our fundraising team.  Every little bit counts towards our school total.  

Children can take offline donations and still record this on their total raised.  More information has been shared by Michelle on our school facebook page and on class seesaws.  If your child has not yet raised any money, please encourage them to do so as this will be held tomorrow.

If children do not want to be sprayed with colour, let us know and they will be given a vest to wear, so helpers know not to spray them.

Thank you again for your support!

 Calendars

Children are busy creating beautiful pictures that will be made into calendars ($15.50), greeting cards ($15.50), mouse mats ($15.50), diaries ($17.50) and sketch pads ($17.50).

Please note, this will be a KINDO ONLY fundraiser...no paper forms will be sent home. This will start WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 and finish TUESDAY, JUNE 27. No orders can be accepted after this date as all the orders must be sorted and sent away.

As your child completes their art, their teacher will post a picture of it on Seesaw so you can have a look.

As always this is optional, but many families love to buy them for presents, which is why we have continued with the fundraiser this year.

Chocolates

Thank you so much to everyone selling chocolates on behalf of the school.  All boxes are currently out for sale, when you have sold your box, please send the money back in the envelope, or deposit the funds into our school account.  If you are struggling to sell them, just bring them back in and we will arrange for them to be sold.

Halloween Event

Again we will hold it on Halloween which is more fun for our tāmariki Tuesday 31st October.

If you would like to get involved and help make this night fun and a successful fundraiser for our tāmariki and School, then please join us through our facebook group Kaurihohore Fundraising, or watch out for notes on facebook.  This year we are combining market day with the Halloween event, if you are interested in making small crafts that can be sold, we would really appreciate that!  

We will also be making jolly jars and would appreciate any donations of good sized, clean jars to fill with goodies.  We are after wrapped, halloween themed lollies, good quality toys that will fit in the jar, small halloween themed items that will go nicely in a jar.  You can bring any donations along to the office anytime now onwards.

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Awards Assembly 

This will be held on the 29th of June at 2.15pm under the canopy.  Each class teacher has awards to give out, and our citizens of the term will be announced.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

Matariki Ceremony - 

This will be held on Friday the 21st of July.  This is open to everyone to attend as we formally open our Matariki garden.  We had intended to do a dawn unveiling, but to ensure all children get to take part, we have decided to do one set morning time during school hours, at the moment the intended start for this is 10.30am.

Term Two

8th of June - School colour run start time 1.30pm

19th of June - Rūma Kiwi and Huia - Science Roadshow

29th of June - Awards assembly - 2.15pm

30th of June - Empty Classroom Day

Term Three

3rd of August - Whānau conferences 1.30pm - 7pm (early finish of 1pm) Book on Skool Loop App

16th of August - School Cross Country

22nd of September - Empty Classroom Day

Term Four - 

24th of November - Teacher Only Day

Last day 15th of December 12.00pm

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…

Noho ora mai -

Leslee Allen