Kahikatea News Week 4 Term 4

Kia ora e te whānau,

What a wonderfully busy week we've had in Team Kahikatea. We have had several events and have more coming up. Here is the latest news from the Kahikatea team.
Thank you for coming along to support your child/ren during our school athletics day yesterday. We have some photos from the day in our blog this week. 

PTA - Colour Run 

Fri 21 Nov - PTA Colour Run (1:30pm-3:00pm Fundraiser Event)

Information for this will come home with your oldest or only child. 

Team Kauri Raffle 

Team Kauri are excited to announce our Luxury Hamper Raffle Fundraiser! 

Our generous Team Kauri families have donated some amazing treats, beautifully packaged into 7 stunning hampers — each filled with luxury goodies perfect for a picnic, a romantic weekend getaway, or simply indulging yourself during a busy week. 

Grab your raffle tickets from our awesome parent volunteers outside the hall this Friday morning and afternoon!

$3.00 per ticket, 2 tickets for $5 or 5 tickets for $10!!!

The draw for these awesome prizes will take place at the Kauri Quiz Night on 1st November. You do not have to attend this evening to be a winner of the draw, so get in a buy your tickets!!!

Don’t miss your chance to win something special while supporting Team Kauri!

✨ Good luck and thank you for your support! ✨

Tuesday Dance Sessions

Our tamariki are really enjoying our dance session being held in our school hall every Tuesday. This is the music that we've been using to learn our dance. Your child may want to show you the dance they are learning, and you may want to join in!

Music HERE 

Athletics Photos 

The tamariki from the Kahikatea team did so well at athletics on Thursday. What an awesome bunch! We saw a lot of demonstrations of our values 'We Love Challenge' and 'We Get There Together' during our practice sessions AND the actual event, ka mau te wehi - how amazing! Below are some photos.

Have a safe and happy weekend! Feel free to contact any of the team if you have any questions, queries or clarifications about what's happening at kura. 

Ngā mihi nui,

Team Kahikatea 

Kahikatea News: Term 4, Week 2

 Kia ora whānau,

Our tamariki have had a busy and wonderful start to the final term of the year! 

We are well underway with our athletics practices, we have had a ponds visit and we have started ukulele and dance sessions on a Tuesday. 

A plea for any LLLL books (the readers we send home) to come back to school. We are carrying out a stocktake of these at the end of October, we are missing a few and they are very expensive to replace. If you find any at home please return to your child's classroom teacher.

A reminder for sunhats for Term 4 please.

Some dates for your diary:

Thursday 23rd October-Teacher Strike action, school is closed.

Thursday 30th October: Whole school athletics day. Kahikatea aim to run ours 11:00am-12:15pm, on the park.

Tuesday Arts:

We have been fortunate enough to receieve some funding to promote some performance arts sessions in the Year 1-4 classrooms. This means that on a Tuesday each homegroup has a 30minute ukulele session with our whānau worker Paerau (also a member of One Drop Nation) and a hip hop dance session with Steph from Legacy Dance. How lucky are we?!

Maths Learning:

We have had a two week focus on Geometry, looking at 3D shape. We have learnt some key mathematical language such as cube, cuboid, prism, cone, cylinder, faces and vertices. We have been learning about nets and how these are the blueprint/map for a 3D shape and learning about where we can spot 3D shapes in everyday life.

Athletics:

We are well underway with our practices. These are happening 2-3 times per week. Please ensure that your child is wearing appropriate footwear to partcipate. Sandals are not appropriate for these practices in terms of health and safety.

Ponds Trip:

We had such a wonderful time in our sessions run by the Christchurch City Council. We learnt about all of the differnt plant life and saw some of the invertabrates living in our pond. The council were impressed with the diversity of the ecosystems living in our Beckenham ponds.

Thank you to all of the parent helpers who came along to support us, we really appreciate you and cannot run these types of activites without your help.