22 February 2013

KA IK OR A I P R I MA R Y SCHO O L
N e w s l e t t e r
A very special welcome to Alex Hooton-Pociecha, Freja Malmo, Anja Malmo, Charlotte McEachen, Cole Noble and their families to Kaikorai Primary School!

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE
Thank you to all of the parents who attended our recent Meet the Teacher night. We hope that you found the evening informative and helpful. Thank you also for the feedback at the consultation meeting on uniforms. We will be sending out a nal information sheet and survey in the near future. You will read in this newsletter how the different syndicates have been looking at our Kindness value and it has been great to see classes settle back into their learning routines. It has also been an exciting few weeks with the Junior Neighbourhood Launch and classrooms visiting the Marae being special highlights. We also encourage parents to take the opportunity to meet your childs class teacher at the parent/teacher interviews. Bookings can be completed online at www.schoolinterviews.co.nz Kind regards, Simon Clarke

Important Dates March 1 - Room 1 Assembly March 4-8 - Walk to School Week March 5,6,7 - Parent Teacher Interviews March 8 - Purple Cake Day March 12 - Parent Group Meeting March 15 - Room 2 Assembly March 15 - March Newsletter March 25 - Anniversary Day March 29 - Easter Friday April 1 - Easter Monday April 2 - School Closed April 19 - Last Day of Term

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22 February 2013

SYN D ICA TE N EWS

Junior News
It is great to see all the happy faces keen to be back at school and ready to learn. In the Juniors we have been looking at Kindness. As you visit each class room you can see different ways each class is looking at kindness. Our big question is How is Kindness Valuable?. We are learning to be kind to ourselves, our classmates, friends and family and to our environment. Some classes have looked at the Treaty of Waitangi and what this means to our own class treaty. What a fun time we had on Friday when the Kelly Sports team ran a fun introduction to their programme. Rooms 11,9 and 10 are excited about visiting the Marae while Rooms 8 and 12 are having a Teddy bears picnic on Friday. Thank you to all parents who came to the meet the teacher night we now look forward to seeing you at our parent interviews on the 5th, 6th and 7th of March. Reminder that we all need a sunhat in our tote tray or bag and a drink bottle lled with water each day please. PMP has begun and we always like your help, thank you to the loyal parents who support this programme.

Middle News
There are many people in different places who are kind and are keen to help others. Wed like to find out more about some of these people who make a difference. Wed love to hear of any people you know of who are in the business of helping others and who might be able to come and share their stories with share their stories with any of the classes in our syndicate. Some groups of children might even of children might even be able to go and visit them at their work. Kiwi sports sessions with Otago Girls students have begun with 2 classes in the middle syndicate. We look forward to working with them over the next couple of weeks. We are keen to try new things and this was evident in our visit to the Marae on Wednesday. Most of us would admit that we were nervous and excited at the same time!

Senior News The senior classes have all settled well and have been busy enjoying renewing old friendships, and making new ones. Our topic, the Treaty of Waitangi, was analysed using our school values of Kindness, Aspiration, Independence and Keenness. It was interesting to see how our own values could also apply to the Treaty. The children impressed during this study with their efforts in co-operative learning, and their skills in collaborative negotiation. This was particularly evident in developing our class treaties too. Last week we had a very enjoyable day at Nairn Street Park for Junior Neighbourhood Support. It was made all the better for being with our whanau groups. The older children are great at helping younger children, showing kindness and a willingness to get involved in different activities. All classes have begun our Maths programmes with a unit on Statistics. We are learning to ask useful questions for investigation, gather information using tally charts, and present this information in a graph. Our focus for this study varies in each class, but includes a Census using data from our own classes and the wider school community. Children are learning to select appropriate forms of graphing presentations to make it easier to read the information.
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22 February 2013

SCHO O L N EWS
Summer Sports Futsal, Touch, Flippaball and T Ball are all under way for term one. We have a total of fteen teams representing Kaikorai and it is great to see the children enjoying the challenges, doing the best they can for themselves and for the team. We are always grateful and appreciative of the parents who help with teams either as coaches or managers. We could not offer such a variety of sports without your help and support. We also welcome and encourage parents to support their children at sports events. It is extremely important for your child and for the sake of their team mates that we are always positive and demonstrate the correct Junior Neighbourhood Support fair play attitude when supporting our teams. It was an excellent morning as our whanau groups Your co-operation on this matter is greatly celebrated the launch of the JNS programme. appreciated. Police, Red Cross, Civil Defence, Mitre 10, Stirling Sports and the Lions all helped to put together a fun A special thank you to Johns Furniture packed morning which celebrated being kind to Warehouse for sponsoring T Ball shirts. yourself, to each other and the community. Your support is greatly appreciated. Well done to the following who were elected leaders of their whanau group. Kowhai = Makayla Hawker Totara = Matthew Pyper Piwakawa = Max Walker Rimu = Georgia Ward Takehe = Ryan McCleery Tane Mahuta = Gemma Wilson Kiwi = Lily Hornal Kakapo = Dominic Fortes Miro = Maggie Hunt Pohutakawa = Ella Johnson Kauri = Tamara Huch Pouakai = Michael Ruske Joel Whitcombe
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22 February 2013

SCHO O L N EWS
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent teacher meetings will be held on the 5-7 March. This meeting is intended to share information regarding how your child has settled in, where they are at academically and socially and set some goals for the year. 1. To make a booking please go to http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz 2. Enter the schools unique code XL92G 3. We would advise you not to select back to back sessions as this may cause delays. The site is live now! Although the vast majority of parents will be able to access the web from a home computer, a friends computer or a workplace computer, our ofce staff are available to assist any families having difculty with the booking process. We advise parents to book early to conrm their preferred time.

Road Patrol
Are you available on a Friday morning from 8.30 - 9.00am? We have a vacancy at our TYNE ST crossing. It will be unsupervised until someone volunteers. Please contact Suse if you can help.

Purple Cake Day Kaikorai Primary School is celebrating Purple Cake Day on Friday March 8.
What is Purple Cake Day? It is a charity event run by the Kenbe La Foundation Charitable Trust, which was established in 2010 in response to the devastating Haiti earthquake. What does the Kenbe La Foundation do? It has helped raise money for children in Haiti and Nepal. This year it is helping children in Kenya to get an education. Children in Kenya face enormous difculties in getting an education. Why is Kaikorai Primary School involved? We like the idea of kids helping kids through celebration, education and fundraising. It ts with our idea of kindness and caring about others who are less fortunate than us. We think we can help make a difference. What exactly are we going to do? 1. Get into the purple spirit and make the school purple wear purple clothes, paint a purple nger, have balloons, ags, streamers 2. Have blanket sales to raise money. This means that many children are planning to have a sale and sell things to other children. 3. Bake and sell purple cakes and other food. 4. Do jobs at home to earn money to spend at Purple Cake Day Where to get more ideas? Keep an eye on the foyers outside room 2 and 2a, and rooms 4 and 6. Displays with ideas of things to do will be developing over the next couple of weeks.
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22 February 2013

SCHO O L N EWS
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Parent Group News The Kaikorai School Parents Group welcomes all returning and new school families.
! PARENTS GROUP MEETING The rst Parents Group meeting for 2013 will take place on Tuesday 12 March at 2pm in the Staff Room. All are very welcome to attend - and we would love to see some new faces. The Parents Group AGM will take place in April - date and time to be decided at the March meeting.

If youre unable to attend the Parents Group meeting but you would like to be kept informed about what the groups doing and be added to a list of potential helpers for different events, then please email Tor and let her know. We understand that no day or time suits everyone, but you can still be involved even if attending meetings isnt possible. FUNDRAISING TERM 1 - ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Our main fundraiser this term will be selling Entertainment Books. There will be more information about this very soon, but in the meantime please let friends, family members and work colleagues know that they can order their 2013/14 Entertainment Book through you and then Kaikorai Primary School will get the proceeds. Once again the Entertainment Books will cost $55 each and for each book sold the school will get $11 so this is a great fundraising opportunity for us. If you have any questions about this fundraiser or would like more information about the Parents Group, then please contact Tor (453-1108, 027-635-1512, devereux@ihug.co.nz).
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CO MMUN ITY N O TICES

Rata Kids
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RATA Kids is a private paediatric service who works with children of all ability levels. Our staff including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy help children to achieve their physical and academic milestones. We are able to provide assessment and intervention based at school or our modern clinic. If you would like to speak with a therapist about your child please contact Anna Baker, Occupational Therapist, on 021 470 393 or email anna.baker@ratasouth.co.nz .

Robotics
The Computer Science Department, University of Otago, is offering Learn to Program courses for senior primary and junior high school students. These use NXT Lego robots, are non-competitive and fun. Students will be well supported by enthusiastic tutors. For further information, or to sign up, visit the web page at http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/student/ robots.php

Junior Football Club Registrations

Maori Hill JFC, Dunedins largest junior football club, is now taking player registrations at all grades for the 2013 soccer season. To obtain a registration form or simply nd out more, email us at Maorihilljfc@gmail.com, telephone club president David Thomson on 487 89267 (evenings) or come along to registration in person at Prospect Park (at the top of Warrender Street) as follows: Sunday 24th February, 4.30pm-6.00pm & Wednesday 27h February, 5.00pm-6.30pm. Registrations for Maori Hill JFC will close at the start of March. ROSLYN WAKARI AFC Saturday 2nd March 11am to 1pm and Wednesday 6th March - 5pm to 6:30pm Ellis Park Clubrooms Frasers Road

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