Gymnastics Social Story -updated link

 Gymnastics Social Story

Kahikatea News Week 2 Term 3 2021

Gymnastics 

Our first gymnastics sessions start on Monday! Our tamariki are very excited. We have shared the social story (link below) and encourage you to take a look through it with your child/children over the next few days. 

Please ensure your child is wearing appropriate clothing/footwear on Monday's and Tuesday: 

• No tights, extra long pants or school dresses 
• Easy to remove shoes
• School shirt or equivalent (eg a red t-shirt) 
• Leggings or shorts

Please also ensure your child/children have had a lovely big breakfast as this will provide them with the energy they will need to really enjoy their time, to stay focused and to be great listeners! 

Gymnastics Social Story

We have sufficient numbers of parent/whanau helpers for gymnastics and information has been sent out to those of you who are coming along to support us. 

*For parent/whanau helpers with Lisa and Amber please be in the hub at  9.40am to assist staff and prepare students for departure at 10am. 

*For parent/whanau helpers with Katie and Charlotte please be in the hub at 10.40am to assist staff and prepare students for departure at 11am. 

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS) 

Next week teachers will begin the first lesson in the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme. Your child/children may bring home some tasks which you can help them to complete (such as learning their phone number and address). 

Keeping Ourselves Safe is a comprehensive child abuse prevention programme for schools. Its purpose is to:

• teach students a range of safe practices that they can use when interacting with other people, both online and face to face
• teach students how to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and encourage students who have been or are being abused to seek help
• prevent abuse by making parents and teachers more aware of their responsibilities to help students avoid abuse.

School Community Officers are available to support schools to plan and implement Keeping Ourselves Safe 

source: Keeping Ourselves Safe

Readathon PTA Fundraiser

Kia ora Kahikatea whānau,

Tomorrow the Readathon cards are coming home. For our learners who are within stage 1 to 6 of our Little Learners Love Literacy programme, we would not expect independent and fluent reading of extended texts. We would love to use this opportunity for our learners to engage passionately with books. This could include whānau reading library books to/ with their learner and focusing on the language comprehension strand of the ‘Reading Rope’ below:

Identifying and getting excited about new vocabulary is particularly beneficial and fun and can have a large impact on writing too.

Ngā mihi nui,

Kahikatea Team

Kahikatea News Week 9 Term 2

 Ngā mihi o Matariki, te tau hou Māori! 

Happy Matariki! 

Kia ora whanau, 

We are moving quickly to the end of Term 2 and it has been a busy term! It was wonderful to see so many of you here with us on Wednesday 30th June to celebrate Matariki - the Maori New Year. Our tamariki have enjoyed learning about Matariki, singing songs and creating crafts and sharing their wishes and hopes for the year ahead. 

Matariki wishes

Hygiene and Keeping Well 

We have robust hygiene protocols in place here in Team Kahikatea, including: 

• Washing our hands before we eat
• Washing our hands after going to the toilet
• Using a tissue to blow our nose
• Sneeze and/or cough into our elbow
• Tables are sprayed and wiped daily
  
  

If your child is unwell PLEASE keep them at home until they are better. 

Structure Literacy: Decodable Texts 

We are noticing that some children are not brining home a decodable text to read to their whanau. Please send your child to school with their reading folder everyday. Your child's literacy teacher will send between 1 and 2 books home each week if your child has their reading folder then we know the book will stay safe and dry inside it. 

Parent Playground Duty 

Volunteers continue to be need for this. If you are able to help out please email Katherine Christensen katherine@christensen.org.nz

Learning Through Play

Our tamariki continue to love, love, love Learning Through Play! 

We are always happy to receive boxes for construction and/or crafting so please do keep brining these in. Our amazing Teaching Assistant's Michelle and Kate have washed and sorted all of our dress-up and now they are looking amazing! Thank you both. If you have any good quality dress up clothes for children please do bring them in. 

Team Kahikatea: 

Amber, Charlotte, Lisa, Katie, Michelle, Kate & Paul 

Kahikatea Gymnastics Term 3 Week 3

25th June 2021

Kia ora whanau, 

Kahikatea students will be attending 6 gymnastics sessions at Olympia Gym (Wigram) in Term 3. 

Each session will be one hour long, the first session will run from 10.30am to 11.30am and the second session will run from 11.30am to 12.30pm. 

Amber and Lisa’s Home Groups: 

Monday 9th August 10am departure  11.45 return

Tuesday 10th August 10am departure  11.45 return

Monday 16th August 10am departure  11.45 return

Tuesday 17th August 10am departure  11.45 return

Monday 23rd August 10am departure  11.45 return

Tuesday  24th August 10am departure  11.45 return

Katie and Charlotte’s Home Groups: 

Monday 9th August 11am departure  12.45 return

Tuesday 10th August 11am departure  12.45 return

Monday 16th August 11am departure  12.45 return

Tuesday 17th August 11am departure  12.45 return

Monday 23rd August 11am departure  12.45 return

Tuesday  24th August 11am departure  12.45 return

Adult Helpers

We require 2 adult helpers per homegroup per day. If you are able to help please email your child’s homegroup teacher. Our adult helpers are not required to assist children during their lesson, the coaches and their homegroup teachers will do this.

charlotte.verity@beckenham.school.nz,katie.mcfarlane@beckenham.school.nz

amber.donovan@beckenham.school.nz, lisa.collier@beckenham.school.nz

Children Need to Wear

• No tights, extra long pants or school dresses 

• Easy to remove shoes

• School shirt or equivalent (eg a red t-shirt) 

• Leggings or shorts

The student contribution is used to help cover the cost of these sessions. If you have not yet made a contribution to your child's school account please do this as soon as possible. 

Arohanui, Amber, Katie, Lisa and Charlotte

Kahikatea Team, Week 7

Kia ora whānau,

We have had another fun-filled fortnight in the Kahikatea Team! 

Park Explorers

The sun came out to shine last Thursday as Charlotte and Amber's home groups set off on their trip. They had a fabulous day exploring the Botanic Gardens and Museum. Many thanks to all of the parent helpers who came along to support us!

Gymnastics

We are very excited to be going to Olympia Gym for a series of gymnastics sessions next term! We will be going by bus on Mondays and Tuesdays from Week 3 through to Week 5. Please email your child's home group teacher if you are able to come along and support us as parent help. We will require two parent helpers each day for each home group.

Learning Through Play

We love Learning Through Play in Kahikatea! Recently, some of the most popular play choices have included dress-ups, making, sandpit play, and dance club.

Request for Dress-Ups

If you have any dress-ups that you no longer need, we would love to take them off your hands! We are after size 6-10 dress-ups in good condition.

Reminders

Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothing in their bag each day, particularly if they are keen on playing in the sandpit, or jumping in muddy puddles!

Please take a moment this week to have a chat with your child about the importance of handwashing.

That's all for now!

Katie, Amber, Charlotte, and Lisa

Trip to the Gardens and Museum tomorrow 10th June - Amber and Charlotte's Groups

Kia ora Whānau, 

At this stage, Amber and Charlotte's groups will undertake the planned trip to the gardens and Museum tomorrow. 

Each child will need:

• Good walking shoes  - sneakers or other covered shoes
• A lunch with extra snacks (no lunch orders today)
• A named drink bottle 
• Their named school sweatshirt or jumper
• Any medications - pls hand this to the teacher tomorrow morning

As it is Winter, please do dress children warmly and send jackets, hats and/or gloves if needed. 

Children need to be at school between 8.30 and 8.45 tomorrow. 

Parent helpers -  please meet in our hub theatre from 8.30 tomorrow. Briefing will begin at 8.40 sharp.

Many thanks, 

Amber and Charlotte