Hi all and welcome back to another Nukumea Newsletter. With this better weather recently, it has been great to see so many students arriving at school on bikes and scooters. That new bike and scooter rack shed is going to be well stocked next year!
With the end of the year approaching fast, there are a lot of events coming up. Most of this newsletter focuses on sharing information and times for these events. The first of these is School Photos which had to be recheduled from last week to tomorrow.
Important Upcoming Dates:
- Thursday 30th November - Photo Day
- Wednesday 6th December - Community Christmas Picnic 5pm - 7pm
- Monday 11th December - Dawn Blessing of new Buildings 5.30 am
- Monday 18th December - Last day of school
- Wednesday 31st January - Open Day
- Thursday 1st February - Normal classes begin
It is with great sadness (but also excitement for him) that we are letting you all know that Nathan Bitting is leaving us at the end of the year. Nathan arrived to us with strengths in IT and Maths but has also helped our team to develop a true questioning culture amongst the staff so that we are always looking to dig deeper into our ideas. Our kids will miss his jokes and joining in on the sports grounds at break times. I know that everyone involved all loved the Sustainability challenge and Zoo Trip that happened recently, which he was the main organiser for.
Nathan is going to Northcross Intermediate next year and is looking forward to the change of working with older students. We wish him all the best for this next adventure!
End of Year Reports
On Monday 4th December, the Learning Content on Hero will be turned off to whānau. This is to allow teachers to populate the report page with a literacy, maths and general comment as well as updating the progress charts for the End of Year report. The report page will go live at 3pm on Friday 15th December. We will not be printing reports however you are able to print your own copy if you wish by clicking the print icon at the top of the page. Our reports are accessed by clicking in to the 'Nukumea Report 2023' page. If you want to know more about the terminology used in the progress charts, click 'About This Page' and it will bring up our Hero parent presentation.
Students who have NOT had 10 weeks at school (this affects our new entrant students) will not be receiving an End of Year report. This is because they haven't been at school long enough to meet the end of year benchmarks. All our new entrant students have a 10 week meeting with their whānau teacher where teachers will comment on our transition to school goals.
Our Term 1 2024 concept is 'Diversity'. The first step of our inquiry cycle is called 'Framing the Inquiry', which is where we share the understanding of our concept with our students and our school community, to help decide the context the learning will be framed around. We would love for you to talk about this with your child and share your ideas around this concept by filling in this form.
The refreshed curriculum focuses on the importance of learning across curriculum areas contributing to the lives of ākonga and their vision of a thriving community as it has personal, participatory, pathways and planetary value. We consider all these values when planning the context of each inquiry cycle.