A couple of Go Kart wins for Pleasant Point Primary

Congratulations to Graeson and Coby, helped by Jason Bolitho who won the Mitre 10 Go Kart competition and also got the "best dressed" award for their Go Kart.  They have earned the school $650.  Well done boys.

Rippa Rugby

On Wednesday, we sent three teams to the South Canterbury Rippa Rugby Tournament. For the first time there was a Year 7 and 8 section, which allowed more students to participate. Our Year 7 and 8 team went undefeated, winning two games and drawing three.

Pleasant Point Maroon (a Year 5-6 team) won three games and lost one. The other 5-6 team, Pleasant Point Blue won two games, lost one and drew one. The students were amazing representatives for the school and had a lot of fun!  Thank you to Mr Burgess and Mr Sharp for training and coaching them and to parents for support on the day.

Great Playground Behaviours

We started an initiative this year of keeping track of our playground positives.  We always record any incidents of negative behaviour in our student management system.  The great thing about this is that we can use it find trends to find out which combinations of people are specifically involved when things go wrong, where it happens, the time, the day, etc.  That helps us to analyse and to put things in place to address any trends.  This year one of our strategic goals, in line with our work in restorative behaviour management, is to attempt to track the many positives.  The wristbands that we give out on the playground are counted up when they are put in the houseboxes and this gives us an idea how many specific positives have been noted, spoken about to the children and underlined as important.  Our aim was to have 5x more positives recorded than negatives.  We are only tracking the playground positives whereas we are tracking negatives across the whole school day as we make record of anything of note there.  We are really pleased that in the last couple of months the positives have outweighed the negatives by 7x.

Reporting

With our new student management system, our reports will look slightly different at mid year.  They will be a digital report which you will receive through Hero and will stay on your child's Hero account.  Mrs Williams and myself are presently flat out, learning how to do it, working through the process, setting up the reports and leading the staff so that we will hopefully have a smooth transition through into you all receiving good mid year reports.  Be warned, though they will look a little different from what you are used to but they will have the same information.  In fact they should have better information as you will be able to see exactly where your child is and where they should be.  Over the next few weeks I will share a bit more so that you can see what's coming.

Kia pai tō rā whakatā (have a great weekend)

Lorraine Frances-Rees