A Note from Marian Bailie

In the Year 2 Ōwhanga, we focus on expressing and growing our creativity and God given talents.

Our precious children delighted in our collaborated Art lesson with one of the founding members of KingsWay School. Mr Graham Braddock is a well-known NZ artist and imparted some of his gems during this session.

Our Topic last term focussed on different occupations. As part of this, our students turned into chefs and each created a classic Kiwi toastie! Learning can be such fun! We practised reading a set of instructions to make and personalise a chef hat as well as the recipe instructions!

At the end of last term, our Ōwhanga enjoyed learning about Matariki. This is the celebration of the Māori New Year and begins with the rising of the Matariki star cluster. It is a time to celebrate with Whanau the coming New Year. To celebrate this learning the children decorated beautiful Matariki stars.

Marian Bailie
HOLA, Year 2

Junior Campus Notices

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.

Parents of Prayer

We welcome all parents who would like to join our friendly Parent Prayer group to pray for our Primay School on Tuesdays at 9am in the Junior Campus Staff room.

Reporting an Absentee

KingsWay School has a responsibility every day to account for all students who are enrolled. In a large school, this is a huge task and we would ask parents to support us in achieving this. Please report your child’s absence before 9.30 am.

Reporting a Student's Absence for Sickness

It is a Ministry requirement to have a parent explanation of a student’s absence. This allows for the correct attendance code to be assigned. When your child is absent from school the school must be notified. You can do this either by:

• 1. By emailing absences@kingsway.school.nz, OR
• 2. Leave a message on the absentee line 09 427 0900 and enter 1 to leave your absentee message. Please state your name, your child’s name and class and reason for absence, OR
• 3. Absences can also be sent via the KingsWay School phone app.

To download the app, go to the App Store on your Apple or Android device and search SchoolAppsNZ. After downloading, open the app and search for KingsWay School. Once KingsWay School has been selected, your app will automatically open to the KingsWay School platform from now on.

If you email a teacher, please also copy in absences@kingsway.school.nz so we can ensure the attendance is marked as soon as possible.

Not reporting your child's absence either before or on the morning of their absence will result in a phone call to follow up the absence. This is a safety measure. An answer phone is available 24 hours a day. Leaving a message saves our office staff considerable time as we follow up all unexplained absences. If the absence is for more than one day, please advise this in your message.

If your child is absent from school for more than 5 days due to ill health, a medical certificate is required. Medical certificates are important to justify absence from school due to illness.

Where there is consistent and/or intermittent illness the school can also request a medical certificate. If it is appropriate and your child is eligible, you could apply for support from the Northern Regional Health School.

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

Primary School Assemblies - Term 3

Friday (fortnightly) at 2.15pm

• Week 2: 31 July lead by 3JFE
• Week 4: 14 August lead by 1LLI, 1AHA
• Week 6: 28 August lead by 1NHE, 1JSM
• Week 8: 11 September lead by 3DVA, 2MSA
• Week 10: 25 September lead by 5JCH, 5AHI

Children Arriving to School to Early

Our Primary School hours are from 8.55am-3.05pm. Children must NOT be dropped off at school before 8.30am and must leave the school grounds before 3.30pm. If your child requires before school or after school supervision please refer to our sKids (Safe Kids in Daily Supervision) programme which is held on the Junior Campus: www.skids.co.nz or email kingsway@skids.co.nz.

Primary Winter Sport Photographs - Tuesday, 4 August

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TUCK SHOP

A friendly reminder to parents who order lunches for Primary children through the school tuck shop. Please add your child’s teacher code (eg 1NHE, 2MBA NOT seahorse, turtles etc) to your orders. This helps to reduce the time taken in sorting lunch orders. See teacher code below:

1AHE Mrs Anna Hetrick
1MVO Mrs Monya Vorster
1AHA Mrs Amanda Haley
1LLI Ms Lisa Lin
1NHE Mrs Nicky Heyns
1JSM Mrs Jaydene Smit
1/2SCH Mrs Sung Chun
2MBA Mrs Marian Bailie
2MVA Mrs van der Watt
2KMC Mrs Kerry McNair
3MSA Mrs Marion Santos
3DVA Mrs Donne van den Berg
3JFE Miss Janel Ferguson
4HIR Mrs Hannah Irons
4FLY Mrs Fiona Lysaght
4KPR Miss Karen Pretorius
5VSE Mrs Valerie Severin
5JCH Mrs Jayne Charles
5AHI Miss Angela Hillman
5NBU Mrs Nikki Buys
6CMC Mrs Cristal McKoy
6KKR Mrs Katherine Kruger
6TTS Ms Tina Tsui

Deejays have notified us that they are working on improving their online ordering system. Please see their updated tuckshop menu below:

Year 3-9 Cross Country

The Year 3-9 School Cross Country has been scheduled for Wednesday 12th August (Week 4). Please CLICK HERE for the full article.

SCHOOL FUN RUN FUNDRAISER

This year, we are running the School Fun Run fundraiser, alongside the upcoming Cross Country. We will need your help in setting up an online fundraising page for your child. Please try to do so over the weekend (it only takes a couple of minutes) then you can send the link out to your family and friends (even overseas) via email, text, social media, etc. and get started on fundraising. Your child should have been given a sponsorship booklet by their teacher to bring home. Please ensure that you read the attached file which has all of the info you need. Any questions, please email Raelene.Beguely@kingsway.school.nz

We are also hoping to run a fundraising event alongside the Year 0-2 Cross Country, coming up later in the term so keep an eye out for that.

Year 5 & 6 HBC Hockey Zone Day

Players still wanted to make up teams to send to the HBC Hockey Zone Day on Thursday August 13th. Please email Raelene.Beguely@kingsway.school.nz for further information by Wednesday August 5th at the latest.

Year 3-6 Rippa Rugby

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 the Silverdale module has been cancelled outright and we will not be participating in any Rippa days this year.

Primary Netball

Year 3 – 6 Netball season has finally started. Well done to all of the teams for your positive enthusiasm, even in quite trying conditions. Thanks to all coaches and managers for getting involved, and parents for your positive support on the sidelines. Looking forward to hearing how the season plays out.

PMP at the Junior Campus - Urgent Request

Important PMP message for Parents of New Entrant students and Year 1 classes:

The PMP (Perceptual Motor Programme) is part of our school curriculum to help develop each student’s full potential through movement.

We are urgently requiring parent involvement in our PMP equipment sessions to assist in the learning and development of our students. In order to run these practical sessions we require parent support or we will not be able to effectively offer this programme.

Our PMP Equipment sessions are on:

• Mondays from 1:55pm - 3:00pm
• Fridays from 9:25am - 10:35am

Please email Charlene van Vuuren, our KingsWay PMP teacher, for any further information or to volunteer to help with PMP: Charlene.vanvuuren@kingsway.school.nz

Junior Campus Choir Term 3 & 4

Does your child love to sing?

During Term 3 & 4 Miss Ferguson and Ms Lin will be running a Choir for year 4, 5 & 6 students.

We hope to perform in a retirement village at the end of the year, school assemblies and any other opportunities that present themselves. Students need to be willing to give up most of their Tuesday lunch breaks for Choir practise. If your child is willing to commit to joining the Choir for Term 3 & 4 please fill out the Commitment Form (link attached below) and purchase a Black Clearfile for your child to use. Our first Choir practise will be Term 3, week 1 - Tuesday (21st July), there will be two weeks for children to decide if this what they want to commit to. Please contact Miss Ferguson if you require more information. janel.ferguson@kingsway.school.nz

Watoto Children's Choir

We are delighted to be able to welcome the Watoto Children’s Choir to Kingsway School Junior Campus on 7th August!

The children will be spending time in the Learning Studios before enjoying lunchtime with our students.

At 2:15pm the choir will share their songs, stories and message with us.

Students are encouraged to bring a gold coin donation.

Parents are welcome to attend.

Extra Activities

SKIDS After School Programme

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

sKids KingsWay l m: 021 77 33 01 l e: kingsway@skids.co.nz l fb: sKids KingsWay Parent Group

Allison Mooney - Pressing the Right Buttons

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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.

Chess

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 is a 9 week chess coaching program running on Thursdays from 30 July 2020 till 24 September 2020 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm The fee will be $160/student for the term.
• The sessions will be held in the Junior Campus Staffroom.
• If the program is successful a new full 10-week program will be made available for Term 4.

If your child would like to be part of this please visit our website. Both registration and payment can be done online www.chesspower.co.nz/register

R&B Music Tuition at the Junior Campus

Kelly Sports

Hear Say

Thinking Caps In-School Maths

For more information, please visit www.thinkingcaps.co.nz

KUMON

Bricks 4 Kidz

Realisticus Art Academy

Triple P Workshops