Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Week Six

Kaurihohore School Week Six, 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,

Well here we are at week six, amazing how time flies by. It is certainly a busy time, with a lot on and we are, as always, very grateful for all the support we receive from our community.

However many hands make light work, so please don’t leave it to the same people to constantly be helping, times have changed and everyone works full time now, so spreading the load is what we would like to be able to do. Even if you can just help with one thing over the year, that would be a great help.

This week we welcome Esther Allen from the Education Review Office. We have not had ERO here for a long time, our last review was in Term 4 of 2016, so I am excited to share how far we have come in that time. Esther was part of the review team last time, so I am sure she will see all the wonderful changes since then.

Leslee Allen

Cross Country

This was a great event last Wednesday, it was wonderful to see everyone taking part (even if it isn’t their favourite thing to do) and the smiles on the faces of our littlest runners were priceless. The support our older children show to their younger counterparts is something to be very proud of. We had some excellent results and some of our senior children will now move onto Barge Park to compete.

School Disco

This will be held on Friday.

This event is for our students only, no pre-school children will be allowed to attend.

If your child may have difficulty being at the disco alone, we ask you to stay.

Children are not to bring phones or other devices at all please. Please pick them up promptly at 7pm, you will need to come in so we can sight you before your child is allowed to leave.

Kindness - Empathy - Respect

Once in a while, our children just need some small reminders of our school values. Lately we have seen some increased mean and inappropriate behaviour from a small minority of our children towards others. We have explained to our children that name calling, swearing, teasing and put downs, while they may not be bullying, are mean behaviours that will not be tolerated. Our children know better.

If your child’s teacher feels you need to know about something your child has done, they will be in contact. We appreciate your support in reminding your child about the values they need to adhere to at school and hopefully in the wider community.

School Photos

School photos will be taken on the 5th of September. Orders have now closed for these.

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.

Out of Zone Places 2025

These positions open 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.

Email Chelsea for more information - kaurienrolments@gmail.com

Fundraising Term Two

School Disco

Friday the 30th of August at the Hikurangi clubrooms. $8 per ticket, these are available through the office or via Kindo.

We are very grateful to PAK’nSAVE Whangārei for providing us with a $100 voucher, this will be very helpful and allow us to make the most of funds raised. We are grateful for the support.

If you are able to do baking for the night, this would be greatly appreciated.

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

30th of August - School Disco

4th of September - WPSSA Cross Country for those that qualify

5th September - School Photos

12th of September - Open Afternoon for 2025 New Entrants

24th of September - Empty Classroom Day

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 (time to be advised)

16th of December - Senior awards (time to be advised)

18th of December - Last day of Term 4

Tentative First Day Back 2025 - 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, August 14, 2024

Week Four School News

Kaurihohore School Week Four, 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,

Welcome to week four It has been great to have some fine weather lately, even if it seems to rain at 3pm every day. Unfortunately we still have quite a bit of illness floating around, please keep children home if they are sick, but make sure they are at school when they are well. We have been very lucky to continue working with Karina Schreurs this year, thanks to funding from RTLB. Karina is an expert in understanding child development, ensuring success for our neurodivergent children and helping us understand the role trauma plays in brain development. Karina delivered a fantastic parent workshop yesterday that was very well received. We aim to ensure those that missed this have another opportunity to attend in the near future, it really is worth it for all parents. Karina helps us to understand how the brain works under stress and how we can assist children to cope in these situations. Over the next few weeks I am going to share short videos with you on seesaw to help you understand the learning we have done into the brain and how we act under stress. I hope these will be useful when you are assisting your child with their big feelings, or even for understanding your own reactions to situations.

As a school we are committed to building understanding and creating a community where everyone is accepted, valued and able to thrive.

You may have seen all of the announcements around maths recently. Unfortunately the data announced was based on testing against a curriculum that has not been taught. We acknowledge there needs to be progress in the achievement our NZ children have in maths and as a school have been working hard towards this. We are lucky to have teachers who are always prepared to upskill maths in effective ways to cater for the diverse range of needs in their classrooms. Sadly this move continues to ignore the crisis in learning support. Without funds to support children with their learning outside of the classroom and funds to have adults on the ground to support our dysregulated children, no amount of curriculum change will work. Resourcing needs to be prioritised to ensure every child has success and free up our teachers to teach.

I am also really excited to announce that our Colour run raised a whopping $7405. What an amazing effort, we appreciate you greatly, this money will go directly to funding learning and behaviour support in the school!

Leslee Allen

Mural Unveiling

On the 28th of August at 9.05am we will be unveiling a very special mural. This mural captures the meaning of our school name and gives a nod to our history. At the unveiling we will explain the meaning behind the images. This will be a short event and we will assemble outside of room 5 in the courtyard. This also coincides with a visit from our ERO partner, we will use this as an opportunity to welcome her back to our school.

Pizza Day

Pizza day is this Thursday for those that have ordered.

Our next pizza day will be on the 19th of September.

Conduct On School Site

It is the policy of the Board of Trustees that all members of our community will act in a way that maintains the health and safety of students, other community members and staff. Please understand that children hear how you speak and see how you act. They are always watching you. When on school grounds we ask that you speak in kind and respectful ways and show others consideration and patience. We understand that everyone does have bad days, but it is unfair to then take this out on others. As we say to our children, it is ok to feel angry, but it is not ok for this anger to then impact others. We are a whānau, I am always impressed with how tight our school community is, let’s keep it that way.

We are role models for not only our children, but when on school site, all other children that we interact with. Remember, we can not control the actions of others, but we can control how we respond.

School Photos

School photos will be taken on the 5th of September. A form has gone home for orders, if you have misplaced this, you can collect another one from the office.