Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Week Three News

  


Kaurihohore School Week Three, Term One 2025


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,


It is week three already and it is great to see children settling back into the routines of school.  It has also been great to see that the attendance of most of our children has been regular, we thank you for getting your children to school every day.


We do have a few children routinely arriving at school late.  This makes it really hard for them to settle for the day and classroom programmes start straight away.  This means they will miss important learning.  Please ensure your children are on time, unless there are mitigating circumstances that you have advised us of.


It is great to see that we have enough supervision and transport for our beach trip on Friday, so weather permitting, we will be heading off to Whangaumu (Wellingtons Bay.)  


We will meet for a briefing in the front courtyard after classes have done their rolls.  Please ensure your children are here before the bell and that they head to class so they can be accounted for.  


Please read the guidelines that have been sent home today for all families to read.  It is very important we ensure all safety procedures are in place for an EOTC event like this and you play a big role in ensuring our children are safe.


Thank you hugely for all of your support!


Leslee Allen


Hats

ALL children need to be wearing a hat outside in Term 1 and Term 4.  These need to have a full brim or a flap at the back.  Please support us by ensuring they have one to use each day at school.  



Pick up and Drop Off

Please read the information sent home regarding drop off and pick up.  Children in Room 1 - 5 will come out at 3.50pm.  If you have a child in Room 6 - 9 they will come out to the courtyard when the bell goes at 2.55pm.  If a class is swimming in that last 2.30pm slot, they are likely to be quite slow coming out.  

 If you have a child in the older class, please come to pick up at the later time indicated.  This should reduce pressure on the line and ease waiting times.

When pulling up into the line, pull up as far as you can, don’t stop in front of the gate, this allows us to get more cars into the line and more children into cars.

If your child is slow getting into the car at the end of the day, it may be easier to find a park and come in and collect them, this will avoid holding up the line.

 If you think your child may not recognise the vehicle that is picking them up, or we might not know the adult by sight, it is possibly best to tell them to park and walk across the crossing to pick up.

Children are not to walk out of the gate and across the crossing by themselves, you must come into the school to get them.  While we understand older children may be able to do this safely on their own, our youngest children can not.  It is important we stick to the rules for the safety of all of our children.

Whānau with intermediate children who get off the bus here at school, please wait till 3.15pm to arrive.  If you are here for a sports practice, please wait till 3.20pm.  Children are all supervised till this time.  If someone out of the ordinary is picking up your child, please phone and let us know.

All children need to be picked up by 3.20pm.


When you drop off children in the morning, please park adjacent to the yellow lines, so children can walk safely up the pedestrian walkway.  Do not park parallel to another car.  If your child gets out of the right hand side, they need to walk behind your car, not in front.  Children can be dropped off from 7.45am, not earlier, they need to wait in the courtyard until the bell rings at 8am.


 Attendance

Regular attendance is crucial for children to be successful at school, academically, socially and emotionally.  As you may know the government is actively working towards improving attendance at all schools.  90% attendance is counted as regular, this is less than five days of absence a term.  Data shows that children who attend at least 90% of the time have a greater chance of being successful and happy at school. 

Please support us by ensuring your child is at school regularly, unless they are unwell.  If your child is going to be away, you MUST let us know.  We also are required to have a reason for the absence as this data is collected by the ministry.  Please advise us of their absence by 9am, you can phone the office, text our cellphone (0275029974) or email kauriabsences@gmail.com.  


This is what the pattern of attendance looks like right now:




While 73% of our roll are attending regularly, we would like to set a target of at least 80% of our roll attending school regularly.  We know that regular attendance makes a massive difference to achievement and happiness at school.


Fundraising

Our target this year is to raise $40 000 to cover learning support needs.   The first main fundraiser will be the Easter raffle.  We look forward to your support with this, it is always a great fundraiser and the prizes are well worth winning.


We would also love it if you could send in something to contribute to an Easter hamper.


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: 

Shelley- 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.




Beach Trip - 21st February

We look forward to our trip to the beach on Friday.  We have enough transport and supervision to go.  If your child is going to be absent on the day,  let us know before 9am on that morning.


Teacher Only Day

Schools have been assigned two teacher only days to take this year to assist them with the implementation of the new mathematics curriculum.  We will be taking ours on the 4th of April.


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

Log in

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


Swimming Timetable 

It is possibly easier just to send children’s togs to school every day as classes do occasionally squeeze in a swim on hot days.

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Term One - Known Dates

21st February - Beach Picnic (whole school)

27th and 28th February - Year 3 and 4 day trips

28th February - Zone swimming competition

5th-7th March - Senior Camp

13th of March - Year 1 and 2 trip

20th Match - EPR08 competition

4th April - Teacher Only Day

11th April - End of Term Awards - 2.10pm (Last day of term)

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28th April - First day back Term 2

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Last day of the year - 16th of December 12pm finish



School Bank Account Details - 

Account 12-3093-0200709-00

Kaurihohore school board of Trustees


Food for thought… 




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