Newsletter Issue 4

Kia ora, Nameste, Talofa, Konnichiwa, Guten Tag, Gidday, Vannakkam, ni Hao, Kia orana, Hola, Salam, Sa wat deekha, Dia Dhuit, Goeie Dag, Bonjour, Καλημέρα, Mālō e lelei, Greetings everyone

Farewell Kiingi Tuuheitia

Last week we mourned the loss of Kiingi Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who died one week ago, after enjoying the 18th celebration of his coronation with Te Koroneihana. The principles of rangatiratanga, manaakitanga and kotahitanga are exemplified through his life, both in words and actions. It was inspiring to read of the new Te Kuīni Māori, Te Arikinui Nga wai hono i te po in E-Tangata recently, as she takes on the responsibility of honouring her father’s legacy. Our thoughts are with the whānau, hapū and iwi of Te Kiingitanga and all who connect with Kiingi Tuuheitia and the Kiingitanga.

Sickness

Please be aware that we are not quite past the winter challenges of sickness and staffing - on Monday and Tuesday we had five staff members away. While we recognise that inconsistency in the classrooms is less than ideal, we ask for your understanding when this is unavoidable and also when we have to resort to alternate plans. We are hopeful that the sunshine will rid us of the winter ills!

Production

Due to some initial complications with securing a venue there has been a change to our production schedule. We have had a wonderful response from our families and the one night, which we already knew would be tight for all families, has sold out.

The production will now be held over two nights:

Wednesday 25 September - tickets are sold out (Blue tickets)

Thursday 26 September - tickets still available (Red tickets)

We are enormously grateful to the team at Newlands Intermediate who have rallied round at the last minute to make this work for our community. We do recognise that this is short notice for our staff and our families but, as this is the first time that our students have been able to perform to a live audience in more than six years, we trust that we can work together to support this.

John Parsons

Thank you to all the whānau who attended our John Parsons, Keeping Safe Online, parent information evening on 29 August. There is more information about what John spoke about as well as an opportunity to access the resources, further on in this newsletter.

Te Wiki o te reo Māori - next week

We are counting down to the exact moment Te Petihana Reo Māori – the Māori language petition was delivered on the steps of Parliament in 1972. This historic event kicked off Māori Language Week and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori.

The Māori language moment is on a Saturday this year. Please see the image below for more information about this event should you want to participate.

Annual Emergency Evacuation & Reunification Practise

This important school safety event is taking place next Friday. Please see the additional information, including a link to the letter sent home to families, later in the newsletter. Importantly please note the below information which has historically caused difficulties for families on the day. Please consider this in planning for the 20th September. Note that the El Grego magic show for the whole school is also scheduled for the morning of this day.

☺ NO CHILDREN WILL BE ALLOWED TO WALK HOME or LEAVE THE SCHOOL GROUNDS WITHOUT AN EMERGENCY RELEASE ADULT (As held on school records) and only after this adult has signed them out.

☺ KAPAI KIDS WILL NOT BE OPERATING (as they would not operate if a real emergency took place during the school day). Should the emergency occur during ‘after school time’, Kapai Kids follow their own emergency release procedures. (Please talk to Kapai Kids so you know what they would put in place).

Safety to and from school

Following the alert a couple of weeks ago, when a student was approached outside the school grounds, we have heard nothing further of concern in our area. It is always advisable to encourage children who are walking to school to connect with others so that they are not walking alone but, to the best of our knowledge, it is now safe for our children to walk to and from school.

Education Review Office Research - New Entrants

ERO’s research centre did a deep dive into the evidence base for oral language teaching and learning to develop a short, practical guide for new entrant teachers, and one that schools can share with parents and whānau too. These were developed with new entrant teachers.

https://evidence.ero.govt.nz/media/z0cdcgwn/insights-for-parents-and-whanau-oral-language-development-in-the-early-years.pdf

Property Update - Senior Playground

Later this week I am attending the first meeting to set up for the establishment of phase one of our new playground in the Senior area of the school. Following much gathering of student voice, planning and raising of funds over the past year, we are excited to have sensory panels, balance posts and a bucket swing set being installed near our green slide. We anticipate this work will begin over the term break but we will keep you informed through this newsletter.

How You Can Help At Home - Mathematics

Often families ask about how they can help students with Mathematics at home, especially given that the way that this is taught is so different to when we were at school! Over the next few newsletters we will be sharing a sequence of articles that may help families to understand the research behind the way we teacher basic number facts in particular, as well as outlining activities that can support with this. As we all know, for mastering anything the key is practise, practise, practise and these articles include ideas for simple, fun activities that can be done with the bare minimum of equipment for those who are keen to try them at home.

Shared Developing a sense of Number - Phase 1.pdf

Baking Goodness - Sharing Aroha

Our Hub 5 students have a penchant for baking at the moment. The staff are not complaining as we regularly get delivered warm brownies (these seem to be the favourite) to brighten up our work days!

Term 4 Teacher only day

A reminder that school is closed on Tuesday 29 October (the day after Labour Day) for a Staff Development day. Teachers will be taking part in writing professional development as part of the NZ curriculum refresh.

School Organisation for 2025

Finally, as we approach the final weeks of Term 3, school planning for 2024 is underway. We would like to draw your attention to the ‘School Organisation’ section of this newsletter in case you wish us to consider anything for your child’s class placement for 2025.

Reminders:

• Our FUNdraisers committee mostly have students moving on at the end of the year and we are recruiting! There are lots of ‘wishes’ on the list including a rebuild of the little house that burned down and some new playground markings to brighten up our school. If you are interested in supporting our school to reach its fundraising targets then please get in contact with the team - see their update at the end of the newsletter.

Ngā mihi nui

Annette

A reminder that our fortnightly newsletters can also be found on our Bellevue Website - scroll down to view 'previous Bellevue Newsletters' - and for more timely updates, you could follow our closed group Bellevue Facebook Page, if you are not already.

https://www.reomaori.co.nz/

Freshly baked brownies!

Haere mai ki te kura o Bellevue. Welcome to the following students and their whānau. It is great to have you in our Bellevue Learning Community.

Alfie - R4

Remy - R4

Chloe - R4

A BIG THANK YOU to Wilson Barbecue for the donation of the lollies in the jar for our Year 6 Camp Fundraiser.

To assist our families with locating our Attendance Procedures, please note that the below link now takes you to a 'quick link' on our website to the Attendance Procedures in PDF form.

Please do always contact the office (office@bellevue-newlands.school.nz), or call and leave a message for absences. Do not reply to this newsletter as your message may not be seen.

Term 4 Touch Rugby at Alex Moore Park (Johnsonville).

Starting Monday 4th November - Monday 9th December (for 6 Mondays). Games will start from 3.30pm. If we don't get enough players per year groups, or coaches and managers for each team, we won't be able to enter teams. Fees will be $35 per player. This needs to be paid into the school bank account 12-3223-0048283-00. Please add their name and touch as reference.

Regos will close on the 4th of October or when teams are full.

Please fill out this Touch Google form if you are interested.

Contact Mel or Rene if you have any questions.

mel@bellevue-newlands.school.nz

rene@bellevue-newlands.school.nz

Netball prize giving

We had the honour of celebrating our Netball teams and coaches.

Congratulations to all the teams who gave their all this season. A special thank you to our coaches and parents for their dedication to have the players up and ready for the games.

Newlands-Paparangi Tennis Club Scholarship

Newlands-Paparangi Tennis Club is a club determined to reduce the barriers for all people within our community to engage in Tennis.

Program Overview:

The NPTC Scholarship Programme aims to encourage young people to get into the sport of tennis, offering them the opportunity to learn and develop new skills, gain confidence and have fun whilst making new friends. These scholarships are specifically designed to reduce any significant barriers that prevent enthusiastic and motivated students from accessing tennis training and facilities.

We will have a limited number of scholarships to award this season (October 2024 - October 2025). Our program is open to students aged 5-17.

Scholarship Benefits:

Free Tennis Coaching: Scholarship recipients will receive professional coaching from our experienced and certified tennis instructors from One Community Tennis. The training sessions will be tailored to the individual needs and skill levels of the students.

Access to Facilities: Students will have access to the tennis courts and court booking system. They are welcome to bring their parents/guardians to the courts to play.

Equipment: All necessary tennis equipment, including rackets and balls will be provided at no cost for the duration of the scholarship.

Application and Selection Process:

Families are able to self nominate by filling out the google form or a teacher can nominate a student.

Nominations are open from 8 September until 22 September to apply. Successful applicants will be notified by 7 October.
Tennis coaching will begin the week of the 14th of October and run through Term 4 and Term 1 & 2 of 2025. This will take place after school on either Tues or Wed (age-dependent).

After the form is completed the NPTC Committee will be responsible for selecting the chosen candidate. The Committee may work in collaboration with the Student’s school to provide any further information that may support the application.

Link to nomination from

https://forms.gle/fnQSWVjynD1ymPaq5

Yummy stickers

Just a reminder that we are now in the last term for collecting Yummy stickers to get sports gear for our school.

The promotion runs through until the end of Term 3, please send all stickers to your whānau teacher.

Term four is just around the corner, along with the warmer weather - well here’s hoping! A friendly reminder that term four (and term one) are sun smart terms and students MUST wear a wide brimmed hat when they are outdoors for activities such as PE and Sport, morning tea and lunchtime. Please ensure your child has a named sunhat ready to go!

Congratulations to Joshua for completing his Librarians Silver Award

Congratulations to all those budding readers who are working hard to complete their Hell Pizza reading wheels. Tino pai rawa!

A big thankyou to Gemma and family who have donated Elaine Bickell’s new book ‘The little witch who lost her broom!’ to the Library.

Username bellevue-newlands, password 'grow'

We continue to include a few snippets for families in our newsletter to support our collective understanding of neurodiversity under one of our guiding values of Empathy.

This week’s focus is Dyslexia. The following link includes information about Dyslexia for adults as well as a short video to help students understand the challenges and gifts of a dyslexic brain.

https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyslexia/about-dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia

There is a large pile of lost property in the first aid room. Please pop in to check if you are missing any items. Anything that is still there at the end of term will be donated during the holidays.

If you would like to nominate our school to win $10,000 worth of sports equipment, please click on the link below. The more nominations we get the greater the chance of us winning!

https://www.aainsurance.co.nz/big-little

A virtual hands-up please for who can’t believe that Term 3 is nearly over? Production is just around the corner, with school holidays hot on its heels!

The update on our events is below:

School Production – 25th AND now 26th September

There has been an amazing response for ticket purchases to this event, and school have been

able to secure a second night to hold production!

Our FUNdraisers team are coming together with our Year 6 tamariki to fundraise toward school

camp at this event.

What this means is that there will be sales of chippies and sweets as you arrive in the evening to

watch the production. And Wilsons Barbeque have also sponsored a LOLLIES IN THE JAR Raffle!

All purchases will be $2, so please bring your small change and keep an eye out for us on the

night!

Lollies in the Jar Raffle

As mentioned above, Wilsons Barbeque have sponsored the schools Lollies in the Jar raffle.

If you want to size up this jar, it is currently in the school office. And will be on display at the

school production nights on the 25th and 26th September.

End of Term Pizza – 27th September

Forms have been distributed to the classrooms, and we are ready to receive your orders… in fact

about 45 are through already!

The link to order online (which we do prefer!) is: https://forms.gle/A145W5qpNtdV39T2A

Paper orders need to be at school by 20th Sept, with online orders closing on 22nd Sept.

Kids Art Work

We don’t yet have a delivery date on the artwork which is currently being processed.

An update will come via this newsletter when we do have more information.

Term 4 FUNdraising events

We have on our plan for term 4 the following events:

- A Wine fundraiser. This one is very much just for the adults ��

- The annual end of year Bake Sale! (Such a student favourite!)

- We are also collaborating with the school for the FUNRun which is coming up.

- PIZZA!

FUNdraisers Committee Meetings

Next meeting: 24th October 2024

Meetings are currently held at 6.15pm (in the school staff room when possible) in week 2 and also

week 7 of each term.

If you have capacity to take on being an incredibly valued member of our community and

committee, please join us! You can contact Rebecca by email for information at

fundraisers@bellevue-newlands.school.nz

We will be operating from the school hall from 30 September - 11 October. All enquiries to linda@kapaikidz.co.nz or 021 409641 Register via our website www.kapaikidz.co.nz

Thursday 12 September

Board Meeting 6:30 - 8:30pm

Friday 13 September

Hearing and Vision at school

Onesie day

Monday 16 Friday to Monday 23 September

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024 / Māori Language Week 2024

Friday 20 September

Whole School Emergency Evacuation and Reunification Practice

Wednesday 25 September

School Production - Doors open 6pm for 6:30pm start

Newlands Intermediate School Hall

Thursday 26 September

School Production (additional night added due to demand!)

Doors open 6pm for 6:30pm start

Newlands Intermediate School Hall

Friday 27 September

Last day of Term 3

Monday 14 October

First day of Term 4

Monday 28 October

Labour Day - School closed

Tuesday 29 October

Teachers Only Day - School closed