Kohimarama School News - 23rd October 2024

School News

A Message from the Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Reminder

We have Bizzy Bodz available to support families on the upcoming Teacher Only Day on Tuesday 29th October.  Bizzy Bodz are our Before and After School Care provider and will support our community when Teacher Only Days are scheduled. You can book into the programme here

Structured Literacy and the Revised Draft English Curriculum at Kohimarama School

At Kohimarama School, we are closely aligned with the changes outlined in the Revised Draft English Curriculum. A key focus of these changes is the structured literacy approach which emphasises explicit, systematic and sequential teaching of literacy. This ensures that students are not only mastering the basics, like letter–sound relationships, syllable patterns, and morphemes, but are also engaging in cumulative practice and ongoing review. 

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Paul Engles - Principal

The Kohimarama Way - Commitment (Manawanui)

Teacher Only Day (TOD) - Bizzy Bodz

Bizzy Bodz will be open to families needing care for the scheduled teacher only day on Tuesday 29^th October.

Come and join us for a day full of arts, crafts, baking, games and sports!!!

We will be open from 8am-6pm. The “main programme” will run from 9am-3pm with additional before and after care available for those families needing extra care.

To enrol and make a booking, please click the link below to our online booking system, Aimyplus.

https://bizzybodz.aimyplus.com

 Create a profile, proceed to a booking under “special day”

If you have any questions, please contact our head office on 09 530 9020 or contact Grace, the Kohimarama Team Leader on 021 678 152

Photolife 30th October - Teams, Rooms 4, 5, 7 and Sibling photos

Photolife will be here on Wednesday 30th of October. Please ensure your child is in correct uniform for their team and class photo. Sibling photos are also done on this day. If you'd like your children to have a photo together please fill out a form at the school office (this is only for children attending school).

Student Fundraiser - Friday 1st November

We are raising money for Make a Wish which is a charity that supports very sick children with a wish to help them through their challenging time.  We encourage all students to participate by bringing $2 and wearing mufti (weekend clothes) or wearing clothes that will show what they wish to be when they grow up.

Athletics Day

Our final major school sporting event for 2024, Athletics Day, is scheduled to take place at Glover Park on Monday November 11.This event is for Years 4 -8. 

We need some parent volunteers to assist with the day, timing races etc.

If you are available, please email Don at  dforbes@kohimarama.school.nz

Celebrating the Arts Evening - Monday 25th November @ 6.45 pm

This is a fun evening when we celebrate the hard work and commitment of our students involved in Band, Rock Band, Senior Choir and Kapa Haka.  They and their leaders have been working hard all year and this evening allows us to listen to how far they have come.  Performance is an important aspect of all students' learning and this evening affords our students another opportunity to practise this.  All families are welcome to come and enjoy.

Sports News

Touch Rugby

We have space for 1-2 more players in a Yr 3 Boys team. Games are Wednesday at 4:00pm or 4:30pm at Madills Farm. If you are interested, please email Don at  dforbes@kohimarama.school.nz

PTA News

Second week of term!

The sun has been shining. Bring on summer!

WALKING SCHOOL BUS

Last Thursday afternoon some teachers and parents had a great meeting with Auckland Transport (AT) about re-establishing some Walking School Bus routes to Kohimarama School. Many thanks to those of you who could make it.

As mentioned during the meeting, AT has taken away the details of those who attended and were interested in helping the walking school bus. From there, our contact at AT will confirm the relevant routes. If you would be keen to join any of the routes listed below, please reach out to Delia directly on Delia.Matthias@at.govt.nz and she will link you in from there. It is a well run and supported program and a range of incentives to keep our Tamariki interested and a great leadership program available for our older Tamariki to get involved in.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Delia or the PTA and we will be happy to help.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS - GARDENING CLUB LEADER ROLES

It is with a heavy heart that we will be saying goodbye to Tamara who has led and run the Gardening Committee for the PTA for a number of years. She has transformed many spaces within the school grounds and coordinated many activities which have ensured the school grounds have been kept to a wonderful standard.

If you have greenfingers and enjoy the great outdoors, this could be right up your alley.

The role could be taken up by one or more individuals. No gardening experience is needed. You will work with Maree Worth who is head of environment at the school. Each Wednesday, 1pm – 1.40pm, weather permitting, you will guide children through planting and tending to the gardens across the school. We have lots of passionate gardeners at school and it would be great to keep this lunchtime activity going.

Tamara will leave at the end of term 4 but would love to show the ropes to anyone interested. Please feel free to contact Tamara (tamarachristie21@hotmail.com) with any questions on the role or if you are keen to step into the role.

Sushi / Ice Blocks and Pizzas

The first week of ‘play first, eat later’ has worked well and I know I've had a few more empty lunch boxes this week as a result. Relevant changes listed below;

Calendar Art

Your final chance to order any additional calendar art is coming to a close this Friday 25th October.

Scholastic Orders

Scholastic orders need to be in by Friday 1st November

QUIZATHON RESULTS UPDATE

The prizes go to the following; 

• Mufti Day – ROOM 16 - date to be announced
• $25.00 Voucher - 3 students that raised the highest amount of money as individuals were; 1) Sophia GW, 2) Szymon S, 3) Zoe S

Second-Hand Uniforms

We are excited to announce that we have a new website to order your secondhand uniforms - http://www.kohipta.myshopify.com

We hope this will make the ordering process simpler, and will help display all of the items available for you to purchase.

All sales go to the Kohimarama School PTA. 

If you have any preloved items please drop them to the office so we can keep the website well stocked. 

If you have any questions you can still reach out to Jess, Kylie & Kate at: uniforms@kohimarama.school.nz

Term 4 UPCOMING EVENTS;

• Working Bee – Sunday 24th November
• Colour Splash – Sunday 8th December

Working Bee

Lets come together on Sunday 24th November and tidy up our beautiful school grounds.  A list of jobs will be sent out through your class coordinators in due course. Please pop your name against any job that interests you. We will gather for a BYO picnic on the field at the end of the day to celebrate our hard work! 

Colour Splash

Sunday 8th December - We will be holding a “Family Colour Splash”. Details surrounding the event will be communicated closer to the time but if you are keen to manage the BBQ or splash paint powder at those partaking, please join our WhatsApp group by scanning this QR code.

If you have any questions regarding anything you have read, please feel free to reach out to your class coordinator or directly to the PTA on kohiptachair@gmail.com.  We will answer you via our newsletter section each week. No question is a silly one, so don't hold back!

Thank you to each of you for all you do! We wouldn’t be able to provide the services and events to the children and the School community without your involvement in the creation and the attendance of them!

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