Not here to burst your bubble.. ;)

Kia ora everyone,

We hope you are all having a nice time at home in your bubbles. We have absolutely loved seeing some of the activities and work your children have been doing at home through Seesaw. We have also loved seeing their faces at our 11am zoom connect meetings. If lockdown continues these will be held at 11am every day next week via zoom. The link for this is posted on the school app every day. On Monday next week at 11am, we will host a special zoom interview with Ella Greenslade about her Olympic success.   

Schoolwork:

The work we have put up on Seesaw, Studyladder and on the Tūhura website is there to support your children's learning during the lockdown periods. We are very aware however that sometimes life gets in the way of doing these activities and we are putting no pressure on anyone to do them, just do what you can. We both believe there are huge learning opportunities to be gained in lockdown outside of just the activities we set, including doing things like baking or playing board games. 

On the website, you will find lots more than just maths and literacy tasks. There are also lots of fun activities like Zumba, a Scratch challenge and links to many other cool educational websites for you to check out. 

Here is the website link:

https://sites.google.com/view/tuhura2020/home

Your child's Scratch and Studyladder logins have been emailed to you and there is a login for your child's Seesaw in the learning packs we sent out.

We have missed hearing you child read, so please feel free to get them to themselves reading a book and upload onto seesaw.

Learning Packs:

Earlier in the week we put together learning packs for your children which contained lots of printed worksheets for them to complete. If you weren't able to pick these up from school they will have been posted out to you. 

The priority activity to complete in those packs is the 'Telling Your Story' worksheet as we will use this information for the next part of our inquiry. Otherwise, just do what you can from them.

Any of the work your child complete's you can post onto Seesaw for us to see. PLEASE hold onto your learning packs and completed worksheets so students can bring them back to school after lockdown.

Keep checking the school app for any announcements and information about changes around different alert levels.

We cannot stress enough that we are here to support you. So if you need anything at all please just get in touch. We are just an email away. 

Enjoy the weekend and let's see what next week brings.

From Holly, Paula and Lynn :)

Here we go again!

Hope you are all staying safe in your bubble.....!

As we head into this uncertain time please remember that we are just a email away.

You would have received your login details for studyladder, scratch and website. We are updating these all the time so keep looking for new work. 

We will send out more information about what next week is going to look like, as soon as we can.

Kia kaha 

Paula, Holly and Lynn

 

This close to a snow day!

The weather proved a major distraction for our Tūhurians this week. However, from this weather, they managed to produce lovely pieces of descriptive writing about the falling snow. 

This week we have done some across school teaching for inquiry about storytelling through different creative mediums and will explore this further next week.

Next week:

• Wednesday - Māori name gifted to Clarkville School 5.30 - 6.00pm 
• Thursday - Ski trip!!
• Friday - Year 8 pizza, Assembly

We have enjoyed getting out to play lots of team games this week:

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Holly and Lynn

Week 3

 Week three is here already.....

What's coming up next week:

• Inquiry rotation Monday and Tuesday afternoon (whole school)
• Friday Subway
• Reminder that Thursday of week 4 is our ski day

We have loved watching the Olympics and celebrating with our amazing athletics and we have lots of inspiring young athletics in our team!

Mini Ball - this has come out on the app with a Jotform to be filled out if you are interested to take part. Jotform needs to be filled out by Monday morning at the lastest. Please check the school app for all the information.

Next Friday 13 August, we will be taking part in StarJam. To support this amazing organisation we ask that you send a gold coin donation and you child can come to school dressed in bright coloured clothes.

PTA Firewood Silent Auction - one week left to bid. Bidding form at the office. Feel free to put a bid in for friends and family too. 

Ready to burn now, or stockpile for next year!

Ngā mihi nui Paula, Holly and Lynn :o)

Week 2 Term 3

 Welcome to week 2 and a HUGE congratulations to Ella Greenslade and her very proud big sister Miss G!

SILVER MEDAL!!!!

To celebrate we are having a BLACK OUT Day on Monday, so your child can come dressed in Black, no gold coin needed.

Hope you all had a great holiday break and you are ready for the term ahead. We have been enjoying watching the Olympics and it has been really special to be able to follow Ella and the other athletics on their medal quest!

What's happening this week:

Mon 3rd: Black out day, come dressed in Black to support our Olympic Athletics.

Wed 4th: Vision/Hearing testing @ 9am  (Y7 & 8 plus NE’s)

Thurs: Invitation to all Whānau to chat about our upcoming Te Wiki o te Reo Māori Week @2:15pm in the staffroom.

Fri 6th: Assembly @ 9.15am

Pizza lunch, year 8 fundraiser

PTA School Disco 6-8pm

This week we have enjoyed getting back into learning and are loving seeing that everyone is keen to back at school. We have been talking about friendships and how we can include others and what is looks like and means to be a good friend. 

We have also enjoyed getting back into our robust discussion in our P4C sessions and we are really developing our skills around sharing our ideas with detail and making sure others have an opportunity to share their thoughts. This can lead to deep thinking and opinions being changed. 

A message from the PTA:

Look out for the Firewood Silent Auction running the next two weeks, starting Monday.

3 separate trailer loads of wood (= three auctions)! The bidding form can be found at the school office.  Auction closes on Friday the13th of August at 3pm.

We need your support:
Can Drive for Community Wellbeing North Canterbury

Agents of Change is our focus value for this term. Agents of change look for opportunities to help others and make a difference in their world.

 

To put this value into action, we will join in with other schools across North Canterbury to support Cans for a Cause. Please bring items to donate to school next week. Look for the box in your team.

 

Any non-perishable items that you normally put in your grocery shop make good donations, also everyday items such as cans of food, toiletries, toilet paper and washing up liquid.

 

Your donation will help make up food parcels that will be given to families in need across the Hurunui and Waimakariri using our network of North Canterbury foodbanks.

 

Thank you for your support!

Ngā mihi nui Paula, Holly and Lynn :o)

SCHOOLS OUT

We would like to say a huge thank you for taking the time to come and discuss your child's progress at learning conferences this week and for your support throughout the term. All of our meetings were extremely positive and we hope that you have come away feeling confident about the progress your child has made and seen how much fun we have had this year. 

We have had a brilliant term full of creativity and science, and we have loved seeing your children's curiosity flourish.

We are very keen to get students using Studyladder as a tool to support their learning, both in class and at home. Next term we will be reshuffling some of our groups. Once we have set new groups we will send out a new Studdyladder account for each student.

We had lots of questions at learning conferences about how parents can support their child's learning at home. We believe that the best way to support your child is through practising basic facts, learning their heart words and reading with or to your child. 

The Tūhura website will have some relevant learning activities on it and we will also do some research and email through some age-appropriate chapter books to inspire your readers.

CAMP: We are wanting to confirm parents help for camp over the holidays, so please fill out the jotform that was sent last week, ASAP, if you wish to be considered for camp.

Here are some photos of term 2:

Have a wonderful and safe break!

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Holly and Lynn

Week 10 Learning Conferences

Week 10

Learning Conferences 

This week has been a big week of reflecting and finishing up all our assessments. We, as well as the students, are really looking forward to sharing some of your child's class work with you during our learning conferences next week. We are so proud of all our students this term and they are extremely proud of their hard work.

Next week:

There are learning conferences all week next week. On Monday 5th and Wednesday 7th school finishes at 12.30!

Monday: 

• Please return all of your child's school books!! 
• School finishes at 12.30pm
• Learning Conference 1-7pm

Tuesday:

• Learning Conference 3-7pm

Wednesday: 

• School finishes at 12.30pm

• Learning Conference 1-7pm

Thursday:

• Learning Conference 3-7pm

Friday: 

• Assembly 9:10am
• Fish and chips
• Last day of Term 2

Hopefully you have all had time to read through the information about camp. We have put this on here also.

29June 2021

Kia ora everyone

 

Thank you all for your feedback to our survey around Tūhura camp. We have listened to your responses and from this we have changed our camp from a two night, three day to a one night, two day camp. This will be at Woodend Christian Camp from Tuesday 26 October to Wednesday 27 October.  The cost of camp this year is $102 per child, and there will be no charge for parent helpers, as we have absorbed this into the overall cost for each child. This needs to be paid NO LATER than Monday 18 October. Please pay to the Clarkville School account: 12-3240-0099920-00.

Our first step is to select parent helpers for the camp, as the parents selected will need to be police vetted, in accordance with our Health and Safety policy.

When selecting parents for school camps consideration will be given to the following:

• The suitability of the applicant to meet the physical, emotional and learning needs of the students.

• The compatibility of the applicant to work with school personnel. 


• Police vetting results showing no convictions or concerns. 


• The specialist skills of the applicant pertaining to the health and safety of children or the activities. 


• For overnight camps priority will be given to the parents of children who have professionally identified special needs which have been previously communicated to the school. 


• The availability of parents to attend the full duration of the camp. 


• The need to have a gender, culture and skill balance. 


• The willingness and ability of the applicant to undertake any of the tasks/activities required on camp. 


The final decision around the selection of parents for camp will lie with the Principal.

If you have any questions regarding this notice please feel free to contact any one of us. If you are interested in being considered as a parent on our camp, please complete the jotform in the link provided in the school alert. As soon as we have made our final selection we will notify everyone.

 

Ngā mihi nui

Holly Greenslade and Paula Gray