Newsletter Issue 3

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

Ngā mihi nui

Annette

Remember to take a look at the Bellevue Website for longer term information (Parent Portal) or follow our closed group Facebook Page for quick updates or reminders.

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

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.

Room 2 - Sage & Ken

Room 3 -Matthew & Thoriq

• Thank you to New World, Newlands who very generously donated ice-blocks for our students to enjoy on Athletics day.

• Thank you to all the families who came along to the Athletics to help with supervision and timing and also to support our students. It was lovely to see so many of you here.

• A huge thank you to Kylie Stratton and Ramana Thinagarajah for supporting our Hub 5 students to take part in the Northern Zone Social Cricket Tournament on Tuesday 27 February. The sun shone and lots of fun was had by all!

Username bellevue-newlands, password 'grow'

At Bellevue we value the many different cultures, languages, and identities that make up our school community. We believe it is important to foster the strengths of cultural and linguistic diversity. All languages are a taonga (treasure).

This year, we will be holding ‘First Language Hui’. Students who share the same language will be invited to come together and participate in rich oral language and hands on activities. The focus of these groups will be to celebrate our first language with others who speak it. Our first hui will be for Mandarin speakers.

Through maintaining their own languages, students have their learning enhanced as well as it helping in the acquisition of other languages.

The NZEI are holding Paid Union Meetings this term as they continue to advocate for the learning conditions in our schools.

In order to allow for our teaching team to attend these with minimal disruption to the classroom programmes, our Bellevue teaching staff will be attending the same session - 2-3pm on Thursday 4 April.

We are therefore requesting that those families who are able to, please collect their child from school on Thursday 4 April at 1.10pm (the start of second play). Students who are not able to be picked up will remain at school under the supervision of Annette and staff not attending the meetings. An alternative programme will be run for these students. Please use THIS LINK to notify us of the plan for your child this afternoon before 8am on Wednesday 3 April, so we can plan for safe student supervision.

Please note that we ask all children in Years 1-3 to be picked up from their classroom by an adult (unless they can walk home with an older sibling). For our students in Year 4-6 we require approval via this form prior to 8am on Wednesday 3 April to allow them to walk home. Students’ safety remains our top priority. Thank you for your ongoing support of our team.

With our development of refreshed values under the overarching concept of Aroha last year, we were fortunate to work alongside some of our informed and inspiring whānau Māori. We are keen to establish these hui again this year, but have been working on the challenge set by our whānau of having Te Āti Awa representation at these in the meantime. As part of last year’s work, we were offered the loan of a beautiful book of ‘Aroha - Māori wisdom for a contented life in harmony with our planet’ by Dr Hinemoa Elder. We would like to share a whakatauaki (proverb or significant saying) each newsletter to provoke reflection and build a deeper understanding in our school community of what we are talking about when we refer to Aroha.

This week we begin with the one below - something we have been thinking about a lot as we build learning communities for 2024 within our learning community.

We are continuing to grow our understanding and knowledge of Pepeha. Kaiako and ākonga are currently learning about the people in their whānau as we add more lines to our personal pepeha about whānau members who are important to each of us. We are also exploring and describing the landmarks and bodies of water that are special to our whānau.

KIA ORA.

KO _______ TE MAUNGA.

KO ______ TE AWA/ROTO/MOANA.

NŌ ______ ŌKU TĪPUNA.

NŌ ______ AHAU.

KO ______ TŌKU MĀMĀ.

KO ______ TŌKU PĀPĀ.

KO ______ AHAU.

TĒNĀ KOUTOU.

Questions you might discuss with your child/ren to support their in class learning are

• Who are the important people in your whānau?

• What landmarks or bodies of water are important to your whānau?

In 2012, the BELL Challenge was created to encourage and celebrate an enduring love of learning at Bellevue School. For 2024, this concept has been adapted to create ‘Bellevue’s Aroha Achievements’. ‘Bellevue’s Aroha Achievements’ link to our school’s new overarching concept of Aroha and the values that live branching off of this: Integrity, Resilience, Empathy and Creativity. Just as with the BELL Challenge, ‘Bellevue’s Aroha Achievements’ are an optional Home Learning achievement for Years 3 - 6. The way you complete ‘Bellevue’s Aroha Achievements’ varies depending on which year group you are in. In Year 3 you complete 4 tasks, in Year 4 you complete 5 tasks, in Year 5 you complete 6 tasks, and in Year 6 you complete 7 tasks. You can complete more if you wish! Tasks are to be completed in your child’s own time rather than in school time, and must be seen by their teacher once completed. If your child completes the amount of tasks needed for their year group then they will be presented with a certificate and badge during Term 4's Celebration Assembly. And don’t worry if they have been completing the BELL Challenge and collecting the badges that come with it - they can collect the same badges with the new ‘Aroha Achievements’, so they haven’t missed out! This week, Year 3 - 6 students will be coming home with a copy of ‘Bellevue’s Aroha Achievements’. We look forward to seeing how everyone shows Aroha throughout the year!

In Week 10 and 11 of this term, Harold and Marsha will be visiting Bellevue in the Life Education Truck. Each class will visit the truck twice. Visits to the Life Education Truck cost $6 per student. This is covered by the termly Trips and Performances fee.

Life Education helps children

• develop life skills relating to their health and wellbeing

• understand how to make healthy choices

• gain knowledge about health and their bodies

• develop self esteem and a positive understanding of themselves

• develop strategies for relating to others

Each Hub has chosen focus questions to guide the learning during the visits to the Life Education Truck.

We encourage you to enrol your preschoolers as soon as they turn 4. This assists with future planning for our kura and classes. Out of zone enrolment applications close approximately six months prior to commencement date so it is important to submit these early to ensure you are in the ballot. We accept up to five out of zone new entrant applications per term.

Important information about the Bellevue School enrolment scheme (zone)

If you have preschoolers at home that you are planning to enrol at Bellevue School in the future, here are a few important things to know and put into action:

1. If you are living outside of the Bellevue School enrolment zone, then your preschooler(s) will need to be processed as an out of zone application. Please let us know, if you haven’t already, of any future enrolments at Bellevue School from your family. It helps greatly with our planning to know well in advance. And if we know then we can also prompt you as to when you need to get your out of zone application in.

2. It is very important that out of zone applications are received by the application deadline of Friday 29 March 2024 , for enrolment from Saturday 22 July 2024 to Friday 27 September 2024. We cannot accept any out of zone applications if they are not received by the deadline advertised for the enrolment period your child is due to start school in. The deadline can sometimes be up to six months prior to your child actually starting school.

3. Even if your preschooler(s) are in zone, please get your enrolment in to us as soon as possible to enable us to plan ahead. We need this information to be able to work out how many out of zone applications we can accept in each enrolment period.

If you have any questions or are unsure about anything, please call the school office and talk to Amanda.

The school offers free vision and hearing screening through Hutt Valley DHB on an annual basis. If you wish to opt out of this for your child, please click the link below to complete the opt out form. If you do not complete the form below we will assume you are opting in.

https://forms.gle/NTKBGBnskD1dA3Lt5

The Vision/Hearing Technician will be visiting school on Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 March.

This next Whakawhanaungatanga Friday will be in Week 8 ( 22 March).

During Whakawhanaungatanga Fridays children are:

1. Learning in rich and authentic contexts, relevant to their own experiences and interests.

2. Developing dispositional skills, such as collaboration, risk taking, and leadership.

3. Living values that we hold dear at Bellevue School, such as empathy, integrity, resilience, and creativity.

We warmly invite whānau to come along and play, explore and learn alongside your child/ren during any of the sessions this year. There is no need to commit in advance and you are welcome to stay for as little or as long as you are able. We would love to see you. Sessions will run this year from 11:50am - 1:05pm on any of these days. On arrival, please head to the office and you will be able to find where your child/ren will be for the afternoon.

This year we are collecting Yummy stickers and bag labels again. If you have any, please send them along to your child’s whānau teacher. At the end of the year the stickers and labels are converted into money for us to spend on new sports equipment for the school!

Congratulations to Charlotte for completing her Librarian’s Bronze Award.

Weet-Bix TRYathlon

This year’s Weet-Bix TRYathlon is being held at Kilbirnie Park on Sunday March 17 at 8am. If your child would like to take part, you can sign them up here - our school group is ‘Bellevue School, Newlands’. Please order your registration pack to be delivered to your home address, as we are unable to sort these at school. More information can be found about the event here.

Let’s Get Movin’ in March!

Movin’ March has started, and everyone is invited to take part in the Walk or Wheel (WOW) Passport Challenge all through March. If your child walks/wheels to or from school their Passport will be stamped. A full Passport gets them a prize, and they can complete as many Passports as they wish throughout March. Walking or wheeling to school is a great way to get active, kick start learning for the day AND take care of the environment. If you live too far away, why not ‘Park and Stride’? Tamariki can walk or wheel from Link Road or Kenmore Street and still get their passport stamped.

Touch Scores:

7-4 win Bellevue Bulls vs Paparangi Pacers. Players of the day - Toby and Macy

10-1 loss Bellevue Bandits vs Adventure School - Player of the day - Jake

7-5 loss Bellevue Bears vs Paparangi. Player of the day - Nixon

Miniball in Term 2:

Is your child in Year 3 - 6 and interested in playing Miniball in Term 2? If so, please follow this link to sign up by Friday 22 March!

Bellevue Netball ‘Have a Go’ Days are on 15 and 18 March:

If your child would like to play netball for Bellevue this year on a Saturday or just wants to come along and have some fun we are running two lunchtime sessions to give everyone a chance to experience what netball is all about.

Friday 15 March - Break 2 outside the Rocket Room for Yr 1&2

Monday 18 March - Break 2 on the courts outside the library for Yr 3-6

Parents are welcome to come along to join in.

We aren’t asking for registrations yet, but will do later in March.

Any questions email netball@bellevue-newlands.school.nz

New page for families on our website that outlines our approach to the use of technology in supporting learning and provides information about the platforms that we use. Please follow this link - https://www.bellevue-newlands.school.nz/about-5 (this information has also come home in a hard copy flyer). For more information see our Digital Technology and Online Safety policy on our Bellevue School Docs page (username:bellevue-newlands, password: grow) on our school website.

Clarification of how we use each communication platform - printable copy of this for your reference on our website HERE.

We are always looking to strengthen our partnerships and relationships with those in our local community. If you work for a company that may be interested in supporting our school, please get in touch with annette@bellevue-newlands.school.nz.

Thank you

This week has been FUN!

Our FUNdraisers team were able to treat our students, staff and volunteers at our Athletics day

today with a FREE ice block each. We send our heartfelt THANKS out to Thomas and Antoinette

of our local New World, Newlands for their generous donation of 260 ice blocks for the students.

The balance for the staff and volunteers were from a supply we had left over from the earlier

Whānau/Community Picnic at the start of the year.

If you missed the last update, at the end of 2024, the Year 6 children of three of our stalwart

committee members will be leaving Bellevue School.

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

committee, please join us! You can contact Rebecca at fundraisers@bellevue-newlands.school.nz

Athletics Day

FREE ice blocks for all students were kindly donated from our local…

Spring Bulb Fundraiser

This week information and an order form will come home with your child about this FUNdraiser!

As just like watching Monarch butterflies hatch during summer, what child (and adult!) doesn’t love

to watch spring bulbs sprout and flower after winter!

These snaps are from one of our FUNdraisers garden yesterday!

End of Term Pizza – Friday 12 April

Our classic End of Term Pizza lunch will be happening on the last Friday of term.

Order forms will be available online (by preference) and also sent home in print during March.

FUNdraisers Committee Meetings

Our first committee meeting for the year has been held and several new opportunities were

discussed for the future of FUNdraisers. In order to make some of these come to fruition, our little

team of 5 need more support – WE NEED YOU!

The next meeting scheduled is this week, at 7pm on 7 March 2024.

We hope to see you!

021-172-2836, www.wonderplay.co.nz

Cake Club - Why spend hundreds of dollars learning to make one cake in a weekend workshop, when you can join our cake club and learn for almost free? We are a group of cake decorators who get together for a brief meeting and either a demonstration or a workshop on the second Wednesday of each month at the Johnsonville Hub at 7.30pm. We would love for like-minded people to come along and join us. For more information, please contact wcdgsecretary@gmail.com

Roar & Snore Te Papa- Friday 15 – Saturday 16 March 2024, 7pm–9am

Dinos probably didn’t roar, but the kids will at this one-of-a-kind, whānau-friendly sleepover at Te Papa!

Roar & Snore is an extraordinary opportunity to sleep among the dinos of Ngā Taniwha o Rūpapa - Dinosaurs of Patagonia. Bed down next to tiny Manidens, ferocious Tyrannotitan, or the colossal 30-metre-long Patagotitan.

Whānau Day, 2023 - Photographs by Jo Moore Te Papa.

Explore the exhibition after hours, hear kōrero from Te Papa’s scientists and researchers, and enjoy a hot drink and treat.

Roar & Snore offers a unique way to engage with prehistory. Tickets are limited, so book your spot now for the sleepover of a lifetime! Continental breakfast included

Newlands Scouts have space for youth between the ages of 5-14. Keas age 5-8, Cubs 8-11, Scouts 11-14. Every year we help 13,000 young people in New Zealand enjoy new adventures, experience the outdoors, make new connections, and gain confidence. This includes outdoor activities and Leadership. Come along and see what we are all about.

To make contact with us, please email newlands@group.scouts.nz

PRIDE LANDS FUN HOLIDAY ADVENTURES

SPRING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AT SOUTH WELLINGTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
(SWIS - BERHAMPORE) AND WESTERN SUBURBS RUGBY CLUB (WILTON)

15 – 26 April 2024 from 7am-6pm daily. Age range is 4 – 17 years with overnight sleepover activities provided with Interactive Activities and NO TV or Video Games.

Kai Cubs Cooking, and Life Skills Programme creating healthy Breakfast, Lunch and Afternoon Teas. One-on-one care and shuttle services available.

Daily $82.04/cub per session or $139.47 for two siblings per session; Weekly: $328.16 per cub/week or $557.87 for two siblings/week. MSD Approved & WINZ subsidies are available for eligible families.
Qualified 1st Aid Trained Activities Coordinators and Youth Mentors
One-on-One Care: Available for cub(s) if extra support is needed at $12/hr
ACTION (Home support 1-on-1) Mentors is also available if needed at $35/her per mentor.

Please contact us: 0800 PRIDE 4 U Or Register online: www.PRIDELANDS.co.nz or Visit our Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/PrideLandsChildcare

Thursday 7 March

FUNdraisers Meeting 7pm

Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 March

Hearing/Vision Technician at school

Thursday 21 March

Pōwhiri for new Bellevue students and staff 10.30am

Friday 22 March

Whakawhanaungatanga Friday 11.50am - 1.05pm

Monday 25 March

School Cross Country - pp Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 26 March

NZ Ki-o-Rahi - pp Thursday 28 March

Wednesday 27 March

Combined Schools Board Event - Ngā Hau e Whā o Paparārangi - 6 - 7pm

Thursday 28 March

Bellevue Board Meeting 6.30 - 8.30pm

Friday 29 March

Good Friday - school closed

Monday 1 April

Easter Monday - school closed

Tuesday 2 April

Easter Tuesday - school closed

Wednesday 3 April - Friday 12 April

Life Education Van in school

Thursday 4 April

Paid Union Meetings for Teachers 2-3pm

Friday 12 April 2024

FUNdraisers Pizza lunch

Last day of term 1

Monday 29 April

First day of term 2

Friday 17 May

Whakawhanaungatanga Friday 11.50am - 1.05pm

Thursday 23 May

Junior Invitational Cross Country

Bellevue Board Meeting 6.30 - 8.30pm