10 june newsletter

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Important Dates

14 June - R4 atOBHS (ST)15 June - LifeEducation Bus17 June - R2Assembly21 June - Middles

and Seniors atColumba Collegefor theirperformance (ST)24 June - MatarikiCelebration Day27 June - BOTmeeting1 July - Reportssent home1 July - R11

Assembly1 July - NextNewsletter

KAIKORAI PRIMARY

SCHOOLN e w s l e t t e r

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Dear Parents,

Education is one subject that almost everyone has an

opinion on as it is the one area that everyone shares a

common experience.

I watched with interest the documentary by Bryan Bruce - World Class:

Inside NZ Education with interest - http://tinyurl.com/zpbs89x. It has

had mixed reviews as a documentary and I dont agree with everything

that was raised but I felt it captured some of the keypoints that many

principals and teachers feel. The importance of community-based

schooling, investing in education to improve society, the over importance

of the PISA ratings as a measure for everything that is right or wrong

about an education system and the importance of preparing children for

a future that no one can predict.

Another good series on at the moment which you may find interesting as

parents is the Dunedin based multidisciplinary study Why Am I

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/why-am-i

Happy Viewing!

Simon Clarke

Principal

A very special welcome to Til ly Clark , Lev i Crump, Lyndon McGowan,VJ Stevenson-Wright, Baoer Lin and the ir families to Kaikorai

Primary School!
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SYNDICATE NEWS

Middle News

Room 3 and 5 are very lucky to have amazing student teachers taking lessons and classes. Welcome to Laura Jensen and

Ashley Laing.

It has been great to see children showing so much enthusiasm for spelling! There have been some wonderful discussions

during class time on the meanings of words, and strategies that can be used for spelling words. Children have beenencouraged to continue working hard to learn as many of their words as they can (including their meanings or how to usethem in a sentence) - as their hard work and fundraising efforts will pay off later in the year when we head off to camp.

Room 5 were lucky enough to have an ex-pupil (who spent some time in Malaysian schools) come and visit us and explain

what school in Malaysia is like. We found out that we are very lucky with our schooling, especially because we get so long forlunch compared to their 20 minutes of playtime a day, which includes time to eat. We are also very lucky that we dont get the

strap too!

Room 3 have been e-mailing a school in Canada and have found out some very interesting facts. Did you know that childrenare only allowed to play inside during break times when the temperature reaches below -25 degrees?

Room 6 have been using their knowledge of school and education to think about questions for possible inquiry. Children havebeen working on asking questions that are likely to give them answers.

Junior News

Here it is week 6 in term 2. Where is the year going? For the last few weeks the Junior classes have been filled

with the wonderful music of Peter and the Wolf as we learn about the different characters and the sounds of theorchestral instruments. It has been lots of fun.

Now we are learning about Matariki and the seasons before the Life Education classroom comes next week to

take us into the world of body systems.

What a wonderful Friday morning we had down at the stadium doing lots of different fun activities. Thank you

to the parents who came to support us.

Thank you also to the parents who have helped their children make so much progress in learning their basic

facts during our basic facts focus. The children have enjoyed taking part. Keep it up until the end of the year!

We have 3 more Fun Fridays left. Due to our Matariki celebration day on the 24th June we will not have Fun

Friday on that day. Instead our last Fun Friday is July 1st.

PMP is still running for another 3 weeks so please support your class by coming along to help.We are looking forward to seeing you at parent interviews in 3 weeks make sure you book a time to see us on

line.

Happy learning from the Junior Syndicate Teachers.

Senior News

The senior classes are continuing to get into the concept of Systems more deeply now, and it has been interesting to see howdifferently each class is developing this concept.In Room 2A the children are learning about the systems of the Olympics, the traditions of the flame and the motto and howthey related to the earliest Olympic Games. They have been investigating how many of the old events have continued, and howmany new events have been added. This has all related to their studies of Body Systems, especially the circulatory and skeletalsystems.In Room 1 the children have been continuing their Inquiry into how we could contribute to an urban farm to be sited atKaikorai Valley College. We are particularly interested in becoming apiarists and are currently investigating the biology of bees,their communities and their organization. We have visited the site twice now, and have started to develop lists of things we need

to find out if we are to take on the responsibility of looking after living things.In Room 4 the children are looking into the systems we use to keep fit and healthy. This has included research into the types ofexercise that is best to get fitter, using the internet and getting in touch with experts. We are designing our own system of fitnessand will test, using a before and after beep test, to see if we get fitter and by how much.More about Room 2s inquiry can be read below.


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SCHOOL NEWS

Parent Teacher Interviews

You are warmly invited to attend the mid-year Parent Teacher Conference to discuss your child'sprogress and achievement. We have changed our format to encourage people who do not haveflexible work hours to attend. Therefore the meetings will be held only over two days with a latenight on the Tuesday.

The conferences will be available on:

Tuesday 5th July and Wednesday 6th July

Conference Bookings

We will once again be using the School Interviews website to coordinate bookings.Bookings can be made at:http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

using the School Code 2kpe8

Although the vast majority of parents will be able to access the web from a home computer, afriend's computers or a workplace computer, our office staff are available to assist any families

having difficulty with the booking process.

We advise parents to book early to confirm their preferred time.Online bookings will close Monday 4th July at 5.00 p.m.

In Zone Enrollments 2017We will soon be announcing the number of spaces that we have available for out of zone childrenfor 2017.

To help us calculate this number we need to know how many inzone children will be enrollingnext year.

If you or anyone you know intends on enrolling their child at Kaikorai Primary School for 2017could you please do so as soon as possible.

The zone map can be found on our web pagewww.kaikorai.school.nz/1238/pages/286-school-zone
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Snow Days

Decisions to close the school or opt for a 10am start are madeby the Otago Primary Principals Association. It would have tobe a very extreme situation before we would close the school

while others remained open. The best way to get thisinformation is to download the school app. We will also post anotice on our website and cancelations can be heard on Classic

Hits. Their facebook page is also very good for cancelationupdates. Finally you can find out first by going to @oppasnow

on twitter.

Board of Trustees ElectionCongratulations to the following who have been elected to represent the school community for the

next three years. Many thanks to everyone who participated in this important process

Dougal McGowan

Gene Ollerenshaw

Malcolm Couling Ros Allison

Simon Hornal

Sarah Gilbert (Staff Rep)

Sharon FitzgeraldReturning Officer

Parent Group* Many thanks for all the donations that were brought in last week for the first 'bringing week' for the fair. We hadalmost 400 items donated that will be used for the Tombola, so thank you all for your generosity. We are verypleased to announce that the winning classroom was Room 4 - who very much entered into the spirit of the weekand won by a rather large margin. Room 4 will be receiving a Pizza lunch and movie afternoon - Well doneRoom 4!!!

* Thank you also for supporting the Pizza lunch last Friday which raised just over $500! We hope your childrenenjoyed the lunch. Thank you to the parents who helped with this fundraiser.

* Please keep an eye out for our new Fundraiser next week. We have high quality first aid kits for $40 with eachone being sold making the school $15. Every home should have a well stocked first aid kit and under theHealth and Safety legislation every work place including work cars should have a first aid kit, these could evenmake great present for the person who has everything!

Room 2 InquiryOn Wednesday, Room 2 went on field trips to their favouriteplaygrounds in Dunedin and Mosgiel. They were collectinginformation for their classroom Inquiry on Playground Systems.We would like to thank all the parents who were able to transportand help groups of our children to their different playgrounddestinations.


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COMMUNITY NEWS

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