School Newsletter – 21 July 2020

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Welcome back to Kohimarama School for term Three. Welcome to all our new families.

As we start this term we will need to ensure that our important learning routines and high expectations of achievement are the goals that we set for our learners. With a disrupted first half of the year it is now most important to focus on each of our students and their next steps as identified in our Student Achievement Discussions last term. We support our students by working alongside our fantastic teachers. After a well deserved break they have started with energy and enthusiasm. 

Respect is the Kohimarama Value that we are focusing on this term. Whakauti supports us in managing ourselves and is, but not limited to;

• Appropriate tone and level of voice
• Appropriate language
• Take turns to speak
• Be aware of other’s personal space
• Look after our environment
• Focus on the speaker

Kohimarama School continues to grow with 580 pupils on the roll by the end of this month. This upward trend continues to put pressure on the school infrastructure. Kohimarama School continues to work with the Ministry of Education to provide the much needed resources for our school. In the meantime we manage the shortfall as best as we can, but always look to the needs of the students and their learning in designing our way forward.

Family Zone meeting

As a part of our ongoing commitment to educational excellence and our legal responsibility, duty of care, to ensure our students’ safety and well-being by providing a safe physical and emotional environment for our students, Kohimarama School has partnered with Family Zone.

Family Zone continues to provide a broad suite of cyber safety services which help the school to keep students safe online. They provide tools for both the school and families to use to gain visibility and management over children’s internet access, regardless of internet connection. Their unique ecosystem allows school communities to work collaboratively so students are safe online on all devices and all networks, at all times. 

Please note the meeting time below in your diary.

Family Zone and Cyber Safety Information Evening
A Parent and School Partnership
Tuesday  28 July at 7 pm – 8 pm in Snell Team, Rm 19&20

Parents and Schools need to work together to ensure that students are educated and protected while using devices on the internet. Together we can provide a joint approach to supporting students to understand the place of this technology in their learning.

We are committed to ensuring our students get the very best education and in today’s fast moving times, technology is a tool that supports future focused learning. However, it’s abundantly clear to all, that technology can expose our children to risks. Our school is choosing to step-up to these challenges and we do so in full confidence that we’ll receive the support of our fantastic school community

School Policies and Procedures

School Docs is our portal for our schools policies and procedures.
We invite you to visit the site at http://kohimarama.schooldocs.co.nz/
Username: kohimarama
Password: kohi
I encourage you to search for the information here and on our school website in the first instance.

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