1. Principal's News Term 4 Week 4 2022

Reporting

This year we have done all our reporting through the Educa app.  If you have any issues with accessing this app please talk with your child's teacher.  Throughout the year we have reported on every curriculum area and by the end of this term we will have reported twice on Writing, Reading and Maths.

The report format is an example of work that your child has done,.  This is not "staged" work as there simply isn't time to do this.  It is their real every day work.  The teachers will have chosen an indicator on the curriculum framework to describe what your child has done.  As this is our first year using this I realise that some of the actual curriculum levels were not visible previously and this has been rectified now.

At the end of the year, your child's teacher will write an overall report comment which will come up as a "story."   This comment will include the curriculum level your child is working at in Reading, Writing and Maths plus a general comment about your child as a learner, their attendance and how they respond to our school values.

With this final comment you will have received all the information you would normally have received in twice yearly written reports.  We hope that it is more beneficial, since at each point you have had an actual example of your child's work and your child has been fully involved in tracking their own progress.

If you wish to save the end of year comment or any of your child's stories as a pdf or to print them, you can click on the "more" button on the top right.

Integrated Learning

Our juniors have been making mokihi (Maori rafts) out of flax (harakeke).  They have been engrossed with this learning and in order to make the boats they have had to learn about and use measurement, geometry, oral language, technology, science (floating and sinking) and work through a design process.

Becoming more adept with the fine motor skills of weaving the harakeke, some children have made crowns and titled themselves kings and queens.  Here are King Zion and Queen Mary.

Structured Literacy

It is so exciting to see the reading progress happening in the junior school where the children have benefitted from structured literacy intervention in their first year at school. 

We will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for teacher training for all of the teachers in Structured Literacy.

Ma te Atua e manaaki a aroha,

(God bless, and love)

Lorraine