Rimu Term 1, Week 4 ending 2 March 2018

The Rimu Team

We have had a great start to 2018 full of fun and exciting learning opportunities to grow and stretch our brains.  We have our reading, writing and math programmes up and running and we are collaborating with Kauri team in the afternoons to give our students a range of other learning experiences. Jack is taking PE, Tina is running art workshops, Holly is offering digital technology experiences and Sven is taking leadership development sessions.

Kids Blog

Our students are starting to publish their work to the Rimu Kidsblog.  The work that they put up should be pieces of writing that they have drafted in class and are very proud of and want to share.  We encourage students not to just use it as a format to post unrelated things as it is not intended to be a social media format but a celebration of good work.  We encourage parents to view the students writing and offer constructive feedback through the comments section.  Check it out (link below) the Rimu blog and check in regularly to see any new posts.
https://kidblog.org/class/rimu-team-2018/posts

Reading Zone

The Goal of Reading Zone is to create passionate readers. Students are given the guidance around book choices and are encouraged to broaden their reading horizons. Students should read the same book for at least 30mins at school and then again at night (an hour a day). We observed amazing results in all areas of literacy after doing reading zone for the second half of last year.

• Please try and remind your child to read their Reading Zone book every night and discuss all the amazing books they are reading. Some children have already read at least 5 books this year so far.

• Swimming

Remember students will be swimming every day for the next two weeks and will need their togs, towels and googles at school every day.
The school swimming sports event will take place in week 3, Thursday 15th March. Top 3 placegetters go on to represent the school at the inner city competition.

• Bayfield Leaders
• Congratulations to all of our students that applied for and received leadership positions last week. You are the leaders of our school and we know you will make us proud by leading through your actions.

 Year 6 Councillors

 Year 6 Ambassadors

• House Captains 2018
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• Note from the library:

Thank you to all the parents who helped out last term running the Book Bonanza and preparing the newly donated books!

We are about halfway through the job.  In order to get all of these wonderful books into circulation, we need some extra help to finish the covering/taping.

Can anyone spare some time to volunteer to help with this?

If you can help please email Isa (isaR@bayfield.school.nz).

Important Dates Term 1

Feb 26th - Year 5 & 6 Swimming starts
March 1 - ICSS Cricket
March 19 - Life Education starts
March 19 & 21 - Learning Conferences - school closes @ 12:40pm on Monday 19 March
March 29 - ICSS Softball
April 4 - 6 - Bayfield Get Inspired Week
April 13 - Last Day of Term

Emails:

jackP@bayfield.school.nz

svenC@bayfield.school.nz

Kauriteam Kidblog Login Link

Link to Kauri Kid blog log in

Toia Mai

LEADER: A ha hei runga hei raro
CHORUS:   Hi! Ha! Hi! Ha!

LEADER:  Āha, tōia mai, 
CHORUS: Te waka! 
LEADER:  Ki te urunga, 
CHORUS: Te waka! 
LEADER:  Ki te moenga, 
CHORUS: Te waka! 

ALL:      Ki te takoto rangai, 
          Takoto ai,
          Te waka! Hi!

Competition Time

ROYAL EASTER SHOW 2018

Thursday 29 March to Monday 2 April

The Royal Easter Show Art Awards 2018 are delighted to offer ‘free to enter’ competitions that are ideal for budding young authors & photographers

Calling all Bayfield Writers

The Royal Easter Show Write a Children’s Short Story Competition is open to youngsters in three divisions, aged 5-9; aged 10-14 and aged 15-18.

Stories must be original, not exceed 1,000 words and can include illustrations. They must be suitable for children and contain no offensive words. The winning story in each division will earn a prize of $100.

Calling all Bayfield Photographers

The Royal Easter Show Young Photographer of the Year 2018 has a theme of “Summer Holidays” and has been designed to encourage young photographers to enter their favourite summer holiday photos.

There are two age divisions: Youth aged 5-11 and Youth aged 12-18. Each photographer can submit three photos and the winner of each division will receive a $150 prize. For the overall award for the Best Young Photographer in this section, a camera will be donated by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

*Photos must be printed on photographic paper and be no bigger than 15cm x 20cm

If you are interested in entering one of these competitions please see Bevan for an entry form which parents will need to sign. The photos and stories would need to completed and brought to school on or before 1^st March.

Rimu Team - Term One Week Two

The Rimu Team

Welcome to 2018! and welcome, to the Rimu Team. Sven and I are looking forward to our year with these incredible children of yours and can't wait to get the year started! It was really good to see a lot of our parents at "Meet the Team" on Tuesday 13/02.  To the parents who weren't able to make it, our blog is the best way to keep up to date with what is happening within our team. We look forward to getting to know all of you this year and to the parents of last year we look forward to seeing you all again.

Below is some of the information Sven and I presented on Tuesday night for you all to read over. As always we have an open door policy and if you ever have any questions please feel free to stop by or flick us an email.

Growth Mindset

Homework

Homework this year will again require students to be more self-managing.  There will be less 'set' homework and there will be a shift away from 'Bring your homework on Friday'. However there is still an expectation that students will read every night for at least 30mins.  Below are some other possible tasks students could do each night to enhance their learning:

• Read every night for at least 30 minutes. This is part of Reading Zone
• Read to your children
• Mathletics Live
• Times tables and basic facts.  Worksheets are available to take home
• Reading Eggs lessons and also reading the vast range of texts in the Reading Eggs library
• Genius Hour
• Writing on Kids Blog

Reporting to Parents

Conferences – Goal setting conference in week 7 then mid-year conference with both teachers

There will be changes around exactly how we report to parents and against what (i.e. National Standards) but teaching and learning will be the same. Curriculum levels don't change so we envisage what you see in terms of reporting will be quite similar

• We use a range of assessment tools to determine where children are in relation to their chronological age/year level (for reading, writing, maths) - so not having to report on the standards won’t change/impact the teaching and learning in our spaces
• We will continue to report to parents this term as we did in 2017 – anniversary reports etc, and we will develop this further for term 2
• This term we will start reviewing the wording of our reports to adjust to the changes e.g. we may change "at standard" to "working at expected leve" (we will possibly add value added data e.g. reading age, maths stage, writing level) back into reports, but this will be determined over the term
• We will hold an information evening in term two to consult/explain any changes to the reports

We are really looking forwards to this year! We hope our students and our parents are too! It's definitely going to be an incredible one.

Swimming

Week 4 & 5, Time TBC

Students will be swimming every day for these two weeks and so will need their togs, towels and googles at school every day.

Important Dates Term 1

Feb 26th - Year 5 & 6 Swimming starts
March 1 - ICSS Cricket
March 19 - Life Education starts
March 19 & 21 - Learning Conferences
March 29 - ICSS Softball
April 4 - 6 - Bayfield Get Inspired Week
April 13 - Last Day of Term

Emails:

jackP@bayfield.school.nz

svenC@bayfield.school.nz