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