Kaurihohore School Week Seven, 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,
A big thank you to all of the teachers and whānau who made each year's EOTC adventures such fun events. These events take a lot of pre-planning and organisation. There are a multitude of health and safety requirements that teachers need to put in place to make these days possible. It is fantastic that despite this, these events are still made possible for our children.
It is hard to believe that it is already week seven, the holidays are coming up fast and classrooms are busy places trying to squeeze as much learning in as possible. Please ensure your child is here at school every day unless sick, attendance does make a huge difference to overall achievement!
Leslee Allen
Accountability
Last week I reflected on respect for ourselves as a staff, noticing that this value is not yet a skill some of our children have developed. Classrooms are working hard to help children learn about the value of respect and to understand how we can show this for others and our environment. We would love your support at home with this.
Children's ability to take accountability for their actions has also been an area of concern for teachers. They are having difficulty with children not understanding or seeming to care about how their actions impact others and how they can take accountability for their actions. Lost property is a really good example of this, children don’t seem to recognise their belongings or have enough motivation to care for them. We urge you not to replace items that children lose, instead, encourage them to be accountable for looking after what is theirs. We are also seeing a lack of accountability in the playground and in the classroom, so much so that all classrooms are putting in place systems to encourage children to engage in behaviours that allow everyone else to listen and to learn. Behaviour has a ripple effect, it can positively impact others, or negatively impact others and children need to understand this. We have noticed an upturn in swearing and disregard for rules and expectations put in place. Basically an attitude of ‘the rules don’t apply to me.’ We need your support with this to get things back in balance. Please actively teach children to take ownership for their actions as it really assists us at school.
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.
Attendance
We currently have 73% of our children attending school regularly (90%) of the time. While this is above the 2024 target that was set, we do have a number of children with very concerning attendance. Your child's teacher will be in touch this term and over the year if they are concerned about the attendance of your child, asking what barriers there are to your child attending regularly to hopefully get things back on track.
Fundraising
Our target this year is to raise $40 000 to cover learning support needs.
Fundraisers: Term 1
Profits so far:
Baking paper fundraiser - $1013Ice Blocks - $218
Sausages - $230
Open Fundraisers Term 1
Annual Easter RaffleForms have been sent home.
Each family is asked to sell 15 tickets at $2 each.
To boost the raffle, we kindly request each family to donate an Easter-appropriate item. This can include games, art, groceries, etc., and does not have to be chocolate. We currently don’t have a lot of items, so if you have not donated yet, we would greatly appreciate your donation.
Please return tickets, money, and items by 28th March.
Spring Bulb Fundraiser
This has been very popular in the past, and we have a larger selection this year.
Please return all orders by 25th March.
Chocolate Fundraiser for Next Term
A form has been sent home for families to indicate how many boxes of chocolates they would like to sell next term.
Please return this form by 3rd April so we can place our school order, ready for Term 2.
All funds raised will go towards learning support, which assists all of our children.
Thank you for your hard work in making these fundraisers successful! We truly appreciate your support.
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.
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
Term One - Known Dates
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…
