Junior Campus Fun Day

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Primary School Notices, 24 Sept 2020

KingsWay School — September 23rd, 2020

A Note from Hannah Irons

This term, the Year 4 students are focusing on New Zealand Birds. We are specifically looking at how God’s creation is unique and purposeful.

For our Visual Arts unit, we decided to create a collaborative piece of art. Firstly, each student thought of a unique design for their feather. Once they had chosen their design, they used bright pastels to carefully decorate a feather. Every student worked hard to blend the colours that they thought would make the most impact.

Once the students had finished their feathers, the teachers collated them to make two large wings. Our Maori Whakatauki for this term is; Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu (Although it is small, it is precious). The students were able to see through this collaborative task, that every small feather worked together to create a masterpiece.

Another aspect of our learning this term was researching New Zealand Birds. The Year 4 students have worked hard to read reports on a wide range of birds in order to extend their existing knowledge. The teachers were blown away by the students' focus, interest and level of work produced in this learning task. We are looking forward to seeing the students create their own project on a bird of their choice!

Hannah Irons

Head of Learning - Year 4

Junior Campus Notices

Junior Campus Staffing Updates

This term we were sad to farewell Mrs Lysaght, who has reluctantly had to take sick leave. We look forward to her return as soon as possible!
Mrs Alice Ng has willingly stepped in and now teaches the Year 4 ‘Kokopu’
Mrs Jess Craddock returns to us in Term 4, after being away on maternity leave. She will be teaching in Mrs Heyn’s Year 1 class on a Friday.
Mrs Priscilla Croucher has been appointed as our Term 4 New Entrant teacher.

Activity Costs

Activity Costs are now due for Primary School students. If you haven’t yet paid your child’s activity costs, please attend to this as soon as possible or if you wish to set up payment instalments please contact Paula Southworth: paula.southworth@kingsway.school.nz at the Junior Campus office.

It is essential that all student activity costs for New Entrant (Term 1-3) & Year 1, are paid by the end of this Term. This will ensure these students are registered in the school swimming lessons which start on Monday, 12 October.

PLEASE NOTE: this is the first day back to school in Term 4 so please ensure your child brings their swimming gear with them.

Health Centre Notice

Parents/caregivers are reminded to please keep their children home if they are not well. This is a Ministry of Education requirement. Parents/caregivers, whose children come to school with a heavy cold, sore throat or flu-like illness, will be contacted and asked to take their child home.

Please practise and reinforce the following at home with your children:

Frequent handwashing with soap and water and drying hands well or using hand sanitiser.
Coughing or sneezing into a tissue and disposing of the tissue in a bin.
Coughing into the elbow.
Washing hands after coughing, sneezing and blowing the nose.

Nut Allergy Policy

There is a total ban on Peanuts or products containing peanuts in school. If you are bringing food to school to share with your child’s class, please contact your child’s teacher 48 hours ahead of time to let them know. The teacher will then inform you if there are food allergies to be aware of and will also alert the parents of the students with severe allergies to inform them that there will be shared food. Children are strongly encouraged to NEVER share food and always wash their hands before and after eating.

School Fun Run fundraiser – Year 0-9

Thanks to those who participated in the fundraising campaign. All sponsorship (online) and cash collected should have all come in by Wednesday this week. We have achieved a good result, considering this was the first time using an online platform. A final update will be available next term once costs have been deducted by the School Fun Run organisation for prizes and administration.

Students who set up an online page and raised at least $10 will be able to order prizes. Prize orders close next Friday 2nd October so make sure you get them in by then. Any further questions or if you have any issues with prize ordering, please email Raelene.Beguely@kingsway.school.nz

Primary Fun Day

Wow!! Last Friday 18 October, we had a great Fun Day at the Junior Campus. The students ran their fun runs with much excitement, and it was great to see their huge smiles. After the disappointment of having their cross country cancelled due to the second Covid lockdown, they were so happy to have their fun run, even running in the rain. Alongside this, there was opportunity to order a lunch pack which had a massive uptake. We raised over $2000 from the lunch alone which, along with our School Fun Run fundraiser, will go towards our playground slides project.

Thanks, so much to all those who helped make this day work so well - from Mr Barley organising the races, Mrs Severin showing us her skills on the BBQ, the lunch packing team and our amazing Year 9 helpers. Unfortunately, due to being in level 2.5, we couldn’t have any parents on site, but hopefully you can tell from the photos and your child’s reports how much fun the day was.

Special thanks to Countdown for providing the sausages, Pak n Save Silverdale for the discounted product and to Mike Pero Millwater for letting us use their awesome bouncy castle for the day.

God’s Closet

God’s Closet is a charitable organisation that distributes unnamed second-hand KingsWay uniform clothing, mufti clothing and any items left at school (eg lunch boxes/drink bottles) that were not collected at the end of each term for families in our community. If you are interested in enquiring about this free service to either donate or request assistance, please go to the Facebook page - God’s Closet Auckland N.Z.: https://www.facebook.com/Gods-Closet-Auckland-NZ-821483578193354 and private message Meg Grace.

There is also a new part of the charity that has just been set up called ‘God’s Pantry’. This section will collect healthy, storable (non-perishable) food items to donate to those in the Hibiscus Coast who are in need of food support. If you would like to donate to this part of God’s Closet, please also contact Meg through the Facebook page.

Return books to Junior Campus Library

Primary Parents and students, please look out for library books at home that must be returned.

Primary Netball

A huge thanks to all the amazing people, including Middle School students, who put their hand up to coach or manage a team this year. Unfortunately, the season was curtailed by Covid lockdowns. The teams had generated a bit of momentum and were really buzzing. Hopefully, next year will be different.

Yummy Stickers

Please get your Yummy Sticker sheets into the Office by Friday so they can be added to this year's tally.

Touch Rugby – Term 4 Year 1-10

Registrations are still open for Touch, which is played in Term 4. Please click on the links for more info. All registrations due in.

Year 1-6 - https://www.kingsway.school.nz/co-curricular/sport/sports-at-kingsway/touch-rugby-years-1-6

Year 7-10 - https://www.kingsway.school.nz/co-curricular/sport/sports-at-kingsway/touch-rugby-years-7-8

Cricket Zone Day – Term 4 Year 5 & 6

If your child (girl or boy) would like to play in the Cricket Zone Day next term, please register your interest by emailing Raelene.Beguely@kingsway.school.nz. This is a great day, full of fun and is accessible by even those who don’t usually play Cricket. Girls are also strongly encouraged to participate. This is merely an expression of interest. Invitations to register will be emailed out early next term.

New Speedbump at the Exit of Upper Carpark

PLEASE NOTE: a new speedbump has been installed near the exit of the upper car park. Please take care when driving through the car park areas, STOP before the path and look both ways for pedestrians before exiting onto the road.

ASB Financial Literacy Programme

This week we had the ASB Financial Literacy Programme speaking to our Primary students. This Financial Literacy programme develops good money habits and can help set our students up well for the future. The skills taught through the ASB Bank GetWise put the fundamentals of managing money into four simplified areas from identifying needs and wants, learning to save, right through to budgeting. The dynamic approach by the ASB presenters kept the children engaged, encouraged them to ask questions and generated much fun and laughter.

Extra Activities

SKIDS After School Programme

Growing Awesome Kiwi Kids through interactive and engaging activities based on themes kids love!

021 77 33 01, kingsway@skids.co.nz, sKids Facebook

Suzuki Violin Tuition

Gabrielle McClean, an experienced Suzuki Violin Teacher, will be teaching at the Junior Campus after school hours on Friday afternoons. She has spaces for new students. If you are interested, please contact her on 021 150 3621 for a free trial lesson.

R&B Music Tuition at the Junior Campus

Please see the pdf attached below.

Chess

Playing chess develops self-confidence, concentration and problem-solving skills.

We are really pleased to start a Chess Coaching Programme at our school and look forward to bringing the excitement, competition and educational benefits of chess to our children.

Why Chess?

Improve concentration and focus
Develop important life skills – fair play and decision making
Tactical & Strategic thinking
Prepare for Chess Tournaments against other schools
Develop a love of chess, of learning and of thinking

What happens in a Chess Power Coaching Programme?

Each session starts with a formal lesson; all players will learn a new strategy, idea or skill each week. Then they put those skills into practice with activities and games. All games are monitored and supervised by the coach who provides individual feedback along the way.

Throughout the programme, we reward kids that do well and encourage and support kids that are struggling. At completion of the programme we recognise each child with a certificate based on their performance.

Visit our website, www.chesspower.co.nz and click Parents Centre

This 8 week chess coaching program will run on Thursdays from 15 October 2020 till 10 December 2020 from 3:10 - 4:10 pm. The fee will be $125/student for the term. The sessions will be held in Staffroom. If the program is successful a new full 10-week program will be made available for Term 1. If your child would like to be part of this, please visit our website. Both registration and payment can be done online.

Kelly Sports