Waikanae School App is Official!
Our school have made a new Waikanae School App.
It enables you to
- Urgent ‘Push Notices and Alerts’
- Our calendar
- Our newsletter
- Class Blogs Facebook Pages and other important links
- Contacts and phone numbers
- Fill out absent form for a child when sick… This is very good! (No more phone messages) This is very good for busy parents.
Stay in touch and get the App just go to Playstore /Appstore and search Waikanae Primary School and download for Free!!
By Lucy Curran
Sports Day
Monday 22 FebruaryCompetitive swimmers in the morning, fun swim in the afternoon at Waikanae Pool.
Watch this space.
Te Aramoana Newsletter
Welcome to Term 1 of 2016
Our teachers:
Room 5 Mrs Michelle Fearon (Syndicate leader) (Y5/6) m.fearon@waikanae.school.nz
Room 18 Mrs Belinda Whyte (Y5/6) b.whyte@waikanae.school.nz
If you have any queries throughout the year, please do email or arrange to meet with your child’s class teacher or syndicate leader.
Meet the teacher/interviews - Monday 15 February
We are running our start of the year ‘Meet the Teacher’ as follows:
- There will be a sausage sizzle (weather permitting).
- Classrooms will be open from 5.30pm-7pm. This is an opportunity for parents to come in and see their child/children’s classrooms and meet the teacher as a group.
- Each syndicate will then have a quick information session to give you an overview of how they run. This will be held in the library - Te Aramoana are scheduled for 6.10pm.
- If you feel that you need an individual interview with your child’s teacher, you will need to book this the usual way, through the website. These interview times are intended for parents who have matters of a sensitive nature to talk to their child’s teacher about. They are not intended for the teacher to inform the parents, so please only book a slot if you need/want to talk individually to the teacher.
- Interview times will be available for booking on our school web site from 3.30 to 5.00 pm. If these times do not meet your needs please email your child’s teacher and make a booking at both of your mutual convenience.
Our plans for this term are:
Literacy
- Just write Children have some freedom to choose appropriate genres for communicating a message. Appropriate genre structures and language will be taught where needed based on early assessments.
- Reading – decoding and comprehension skills identified from assessments, NZ read aloud programme
- Spelling rules
Maths
- Numeracy - addition and subtraction
- Money
- Measuring temperature, length and perimeter
- Statistics - census at school
PE & Health
- Move and Mprove - Fundamental movement skills program run by KiwiSport (8 lessons)
- Team games and ball skills
- Peer mediation/handling conflict
- Life Education - growth mindset, empathy, self esteem
Social Sciences
- Growth mindset and learning styles
- Connections to self, whanau, class, syndicate, school, local area, NZ and globally
- Flag referendum
- Waitangi day
Technology
- CyberSafety and digital citizenship
- Blogs and twitter
Homework
Please remember that children will be expected to read regularly at home, practice their spelling and go on Mathletics if they have access to a computer at home. Children can use the computers for homework before school if necessary.
Key Competencies
This term we will be focusing on the key competency “Managing self.” This will cover such aspects as setting high standards for themselves, managing their time effectively, being independent and being confident to takes risks, for example not being afraid to get things wrong and learn from their mistakes. The children’s ability to develop and achieve these goals will be monitoring and recorded through a self and teacher assessment system. Your support in helping your child achieve these objectives would be appreciated.
Hats
The sun is shining and as a Sunsmart school, everyone needs to wear their school sun hat in term 1. If your child does not have one, please purchase one from the office asap. Strictly no hat, no play when the sun flag is flying!
Swimming
Following the success of last year’s lessons at the Paraparaumu Aquatic Centre, we will continue with this in term 2.
Year 6 Camp Information
Palm Grove Christian Camp, Paraparaumu
Depart: Wednesday 16 March
Return: Friday 18 March
Full details will be sent out soon. Once forms are issued, please return as soon as possible so arrangements with transport, helpers and activities can be made. Payment does not have to be made immediately.
ACTIVITY FEES—TERM 1
Move Mprove $21
Maths workbook $15
Life Education $4
Total for Term 1 $40
Plus Y6 camp $115
All monies to be handed into the office. Thank you.
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