Teacher Only Day
The school will be closed on Friday 2 June for an Kāhui Ako ki Orewa teacher only day with Orewa Primary School, Wainui School, Dairy Flat School and Orewa Beach School, Orewa College, Ahutoetoe School and Nukumea School.
Kings Birthday
The school will be closed on Monday 5 June due to the Kings Birthday public holiday.
Welcome
Welcome to Lily Hands, Abigail Winterton, Lucas Stevens, Riccardo Eade, Flynn Franklin and Iven (Yunbo) Liao. Our current roll is 790.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Sophia Francis, Isla Porter, Rongchen Zhang, Jordan Grubbe, Jasper Fang, Jared Pieterse, CJ Stevens, Lachie Pollard, Catherine Wilson, William Albertyn, Anthony Wilson and Talamai Teo.
Learning Conservations – Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June
The learning conversations are three-way conferences with the teacher, child and parent. Three-way conferences take the form of a conversation between the child, the parents and the teacher as they sit together and talk about the child’s learning, with the child taking an equal role. This approach give children an opportunity to share with their parents their growth as a learner. The three-way conferences are designed to achieve one or more of the following goals:
- to help children demonstrate evidence of learning,
- to teach children the process of reflection and self-evaluation,
- to facilitate the development of child’s organisational and oral communication skills and to increase their self-confidence,
- to encourage children, parents, and teachers to engage in open and honest dialogue,
- to encourage children to accept personal responsibility for their learning.
Times for Learning Conversations are:
Wednesday 7 June 12:30pm – 6:00pm and Thursday 8 June 3:15pm – 6:00pm
On Wednesday 7 June the school will close at 12.00pm, can you please collect your child at this time this is only for Wednesday 7 June.
Each learning conversation session lasts for 15 minutes.
To make an interview booking go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz. The school code is 4zp3b
Mid Year Reports
We are now ready to share your child’s Mid-Year Achievement and Progress Report with you on Thursday 1 June. This will be emailed to you directly from SchoolTalk.
This report gives a snapshot of where your child is currently at. It will show a graph of achievement outlining how your child is progressing against each of the New Zealand Curriculum expectations for Reading, Writing and Mathematics and three next steps that your child will be working towards.
In conjunction with this report we will be holding learning conversations on Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June. Please see the school newsletter for further details.
When looking at your child’s report you may find that there are specific areas on SchoolTalk where it appears your child is below the expected level, or has made no or limited progress, e.g. Geometry. However, rather than indicating that your child is struggling in this area, it may simply be due to this content not being taught in class yet. The upcoming Learning Conversations next week will be the perfect opportunity for you to discuss this further with your child’s teacher.
In conjunction with this report we will be holding learning conversations on Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June.
How to read your child’s Mid-Year Achievement Report?
Reading, Writing and Mathematics Reporting
The report shows you how your child is achieving against each of the areas of Reading, Writing and Mathematics. The achievement snapshot can be broken into three parts:
- The first graph shows your child’s achievement on a continuum of working towards the expected level (yellow), working within or working above the expected level (green). As your child moves through the school it will track their progress across each year level. This is displayed by the white dots and the connecting blue line. Please note that the year level at the bottom of the graph indicates the end of that year level.
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