Kaurihohore School Week Five, 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 has been a very busy couple of weeks, and our middle school Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) days were a great success. A big thank you to the teachers for organizing a fantastic two days, and to all the whānau who were able to assist during these events. Our senior camp is heading to Lonsdale for three days, and we are confident they will have a wonderful time. For many children, this will be their first experience staying away from home, which is an important learning opportunity in itself. A huge thank you to the senior teachers who have worked tirelessly to make this happen for our students.
Organizing outdoor experiences like this involves massive efforts with many moving parts. In recent years, planning these events has become more challenging, especially considering the significant health and safety requirements. Every odd year, we are committed to providing children with an outdoor experience. For our year one and two children, we organize a trip that includes school-based activities and a slightly extended day. For the year three and four children, we plan two day trips, with the first day including dinner at school. Our year five and six students get to enjoy two nights away from home, experiencing all the adventures that come with camp life. By structuring these activities in this way, we hope every child has at least three opportunities to participate in outdoor experiences.
We are grateful to everyone who supports these experiences. Without your help, they would not be possible.
Leslee Allen
Respect
I wanted to share a challenge we are currently facing regarding respect among our students. We are noticing a significant lack of respect for personal belongings, our environment, classroom equipment, and each other. Our school values kindness, respect, and empathy, which we emphasize strongly. However, it feels like we are currently fighting an uphill battle.
We have observed PE equipment scattered all over the school grounds, balls being kicked into neighboring paddocks, and items left out being broken. Despite keeping the PE shed locked, we are puzzled about how these items are being accessed. We are also struggling with ensuring that children wear their hats, and our lost property situation is out of control. In the native garden, rocks are being smashed and moved, leaving our environmental team overwhelmed.
In addition to these issues, certain behaviors in classrooms and on the playground do not align with the respect we expect. This has been challenging for our teachers. We kindly ask that when we bring any concerns about your child's behavior to your attention, you help them take responsibility for their actions. While we understand that there are multiple perspectives and factors in every situation, the first step to helping children own their actions is by isolating their actions and supporting us, rather than explaining them away.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work together to reinforce these core values in our students.
If you are using our grounds after school hours, or have children at sports practice, please ensure they are following the same school rules that we would expect, for example, if they are riding their bike, they need a helmet.
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 74% 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
Catering/Kitchen Fundraiser
Forms were sent home last week.
Please return all orders by 7th March.
Annual Easter Raffle
Forms 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.
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
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
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