Sunday 26 July 2020

Week 2 Term 3

We had a wonderful first week back with our beautiful Kakano kiddies. They had a fantastic time sharing their holiday adventures with their friends, and us, and getting right back into the swing of school life. There would have been some very tired kiddies on Friday - followed very closely by their teachers.


Here’s what is on this week:

Mon - 

Tues - Go4it with Khush

  • Milo for sale (see poster below)

  • Student Led Conferences  3:10 - 5:50 

Wed - Student Led Conferences  3:15 - 5:35

Thurs - Coin trail (see poster below)

- Kakano 3 Library Day

Fri - Sausage sizzle and juicies $1.50 each

  • Assembly 2:00 = Kakano 2 (Miss Ryan’s class) are leading assembly this week. All friends and family are welcome to come to our assembly.


School Interviews

Thank you to all those parents who have made a booking with their classroom teacher for Student Led Conferences. We look forward to seeing all of you and sharing your child’s progress and setting goals for the next steps in their learning. If you still need to make a booking, please click on this link - School Interviews - and enter the event code: bnp5z


Library

Our Library day is Thursday. Kakano 3 have a very large number of outstanding library books, please, have a good look for them. Kay works really hard to make sure our library is filled with gorgeous books - let's help her out by returning them on time. Thanks.


Bread Tags for Wheelchairs

Thank you to everyone who is sending in their bread bag tags. Keep sending them in. The Young Vinnies are collecting them until the end of term 3. Here is some information about how the bread tags are used.

Bread Tags for Wheelchairs was started in South Africa in 2006 by Mary Honeybun. It is a community program where individuals and organisations collect bread tags, which are sold to a South African plastics moulding company, Zibo. The bread tags are recycled and used in the manufacture of seedling trays. The money raised pays for wheelchairs for the less fortunate which are purchased through a local pharmacy. Currently about 500kg of bread tags are collected a month in South Africa, funding 2-3 wheelchairs.

From our PTA:

  • Gala 2020. This year our awesome community raised a whopping profit of $21, 894.62 This is for the middle school sound system.  Thank you to everyone who helped, sponsored or attended the gala.  

  • The PTA AGM meeting will be held on the 29th of July at 7pm in the school staffroom.  Everyone is welcome, drinks and nibbles provided.

  • 'Caring Community' If you or anybody you know are struggling or experiencing a tough time, the PTA’s caring community is available to prepare meals for families in need.  This can include but not limited to, bereavement in the family, financial hardship, health struggles.  We know times are tough and want to support our school whanau.  This is also a confidential service and information is not shared.  Please contact Renee Roberts on 021902530 or email remcleaver@icloud.com


Niksham, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of meeting him, is a lovely boy from Room 2. It's pretty hard times for this whanau - every small donation will be much appreciated.


Saturday 18 July 2020

Week 1 Term 3 2020

Welcome back everyone!

We hope you had a wonderful break with your families and friends. Term 3 is going to be a busy one so make sure you keep in touch. Our class blog will keep you updated each week but there is also the school website, Facebook account and we are, as always, only an email away. 


This term is all planned and we are rested, revived and ready for action.  Our Concept for Term 3 is Explorers - going into the unknown.  We have lots of great play experiences planned and will be encouraging our kids to be explorers in learning throughout the day.


Term 3 RE focuses around 2 strands - Jesus (Jesus Showed His Love in Different Ways) and Church (Gathering, Celebrating and Living God’s Presence). We will be leading a liturgy in Week 4 and will send out more info closer to the time.


In week 2 we have our learning conferences. These are an opportunity for us all (teacher, parent and student) to discuss where we are at and how to support further learning. We will be setting 1 literacy goal, 1 numeracy goal and 1 Values/Key Competency goal to work on together during the coming weeks.

Conferences will be held:

  • Tuesday 28 July 3.10  -  5.50pm

  • Wednesday 29 July 3.15 -  5.35pm

Bookings are now open. Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and enter the event code bnp5z.

 

Our Holiday Reading Programme has been running over the holidays. Reading Logs need to be brought back to school by Thursday. We have lots of cool prizes for the lucky draw. All children who participate go in the draw for a prize. 


Some of the Exciting Term 3 Events

  • Assumption of Mary Liturgy

  • Assemblies X2

  • Go4it Programme

  • Grandparents Day

  • Mary MacKillop Day

  • Maths Week

  • Mini Marathon


See you tomorrow!


Wednesday 1 July 2020

Ice Blocks Fundraiser

  This is a fundraiser for one of our amazing families.  They are going through a really rough time at the moment and need a little extra lo...