Puriri Post - Issue 3

Learning Pathways

At the end of 5 weeks of school and we are feeling confident that the children have got a firm hold of  ‘Where they are going, how they are going and where to next..’.  All children have transferred their goals from their physical learning journal to their Onenote notebook. The idea behind this is that we can access and update it anywhere and they can share their learning with you at home. As a rule, anything that is not highlighted remains a broad goal, but the goals the children are focussing on are yellow and the goals they have achieved are green.  This rule will apply across the school if you have children in other year levels, yellow: goals and green: achieved.  As the children are all learning at their own pace, goals are constantly assessed and discussed. Your child will talk more about their goals and learning pathways at the conferences in Week 7 – March 20 and March 22.

Dealing with Conflict

This year you will hear the word collaboration a lot! The teachers are collaborating, the children are collaborating and with all this collaboration it is only natural that some conflict will arise. We are using these opportunities to try and arm the children with some useful life skills and help this make sensible choices when conflict arises. We have included some of the posters that the children have made to promote dealing with conflict.  We have also seen children ‘choosing kind’ in the classroom which is very humbling.

Chapter Chat – Term 2

The level of engagement with our current Chapter Chat novel, Holes has been admirable. The children have been discussing the novel inside and outside of class, with various theories and predictions happening. The organiser of the Chapter Chat has announced the book for Term 2 and we have once again signed up to take part with 90 other Y5/6 classes around the country.  The novel for Term 2 is Ms. Bixby’s Last Day, which was released last year and is an unforgettable coming-of-age story from John David Anderson.

Headphones for Devices

We have just purchased a class set of headphones for the Puriri Team. These will be really helpful in class when the children are working in Reading Eggpress and other online tasks as some of the activities have sound and music. If your child has some headphones already at home, it would be fantastic is they could bring these in to use. 

#GetNZWriting

We have registered the Puriri Team in an initiative called #GetNZWriting which plans to do just that. 96,000 students around the country have signed up, classes have been connected with other classes geographically and inspired to start conversations. The best lines from our poems about Bayfield School will be winging their way down to Christchurch right now! 

"Loneliness is a myth here because if you're feeling that then the first thing you will hear is "Don't sit there, play with us over there." By Tabitha and Matthew

EOTC – Parent Help

Education outside of The Classroom is one of the most anticipated weeks of the year for our Year 5s. With the goal of getting them to experience new things, challenge themselves and prepare them for Year 6 camp in 2018.  We have an exciting week planned and we are looking for parent helpers Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. If you are available to help please email Sven or Lizzie

Tuesday 4th April – Puriri Wellness DayWednesday 5th April Rangitoto Island Trip and walk to the summitThursday 6th April North Head & Navy MuseumFriday 7th April  Clip n Climb and Wave Pools

Future Important Dates

March 20 and 22 - Goal Setting Conferences
April 1 - Music on the Field
April 4 - 7 EOTC Week
April 13 - Last day of Term 1 May 1 - Term 2 commences
May 3 (Term 2) - Y3 -Y6 Swimming Sports

Please remember we have an open door policy

svenc@bayfield.school.nz
lizzieb@bayfield.school.nz