School Newsletter – 15 June 2021

The National Young Leaders Day is an annual event for our Ambassadors, House Captains and Student Leaders.  The theme of the day was ‘Stronger Together’. We were inspired by a man named Cam Calken who has cerebral palsy.  He shared his journey to becoming a speaker on the circuit. This was followed by an ex black sticks player – Brooke Neal, who walked us through the challenges of becoming a top sports person. After that we heard from a Young New Zealander of the Year recipient – Shay Wright who talked about being an entrepreneur.  Finally, we were delighted to hear from Julian Dennison – alias Rikki Baker.

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SchoolTalk Achievement Reporting

On Friday 2nd July we will be sharing your child’s End of Year Achievement and Progress Report with you.

You will see how your child is achieving against our school progressions in Reading, Writing, Mathematics and our Learner Dispositions and their next learning steps, these progressions are linked to the New Zealand Curriculum. There will be a general comment about your child written by the teacher. School participation will be included at the bottom of our reports for those students who have participated in extracurricular activities.

Note: Students who have started at Kohimarama School on or after 3rd May 2021 will not receive a SchoolTalk report, we will report on these students’ learning at the learning conversation meetings in Week 10.

For more information please go to: https://www.kohimarama.school.nz/tools/schooltalk-reporting/

Booking Learning Conversations – Wednesday 7th July, Thursday 8th July

Please note these dates in your diaries.  Note that school will finish for the students at 1pm on Wednesday 7th July to allow for Conversation bookings that afternoon.

The following are instructions for booking Learning Conversations.

Booking will open Wednesday 16th June at 9am.   The booking form can be accessed via the following web address:  https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

Click into ‘make a booking’ and enter the School Event Code :  59y6r  Then follow the instructions.  Please leave a gap between your interviews if moving from one class to another so you do not lose some of your precious talking time.

If for any reason you are unable to access this site or you experience any problems, please contact  the School Office on 930 9820.

Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme (KOS) –  Parent Meetings -Tuesday 15th June

These meetings will be run in conjunction with Constable Gordon from the NZ Police.  To find out more of what your child will be learning in the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme and to have your questions answered we are inviting you to attend a parent information meeting a the times scheduled as follows:

6.30 – 7.00pm – Kiri and Cowley Team Parents.  We will meet in Room 22 and 23.

7.00 – 7.30pm – Hilary and Snell Team Parents.  We will meet in Rooms 19 and 20.

We will look forward to seeing you then.

Whole School Photo

Unfortunately due to the changeable weather we were unable to have the whole school taken on Tuesday 8th June.  We have rescheduled this for Friday 25th June.  Please put this date in your diary and ensure your child is at school on time and in the correct school uniform.