ANZAC Speech 2011

Well done Hannah and Shalagh for this speech:

Here is our ANZAC speech for 2011 to honour this important occasion. Click here to view the speech.

Speed lowering trial outside Burnham School

We've just been informed that the Selwyn District Council are installing a speed lowering sign as a trial for one year outside our school! This is great news! The sign looks like the one in the picture. Our thanks to Carolyn Bennison, the local Schools Travelwise Co-ordinator, for her great work in helping our communities become safer for our young people

Free Flu Vacinations

This year all Canterbury residents aged 6 months to 17 years (up to their 18th birthday) can get a free flu vaccine. The vaccine is already free to pregnant women and anyone aged over 65 years, or with a chronic health condition such as diabetes and asthma.

 

Click here to download the letter from the CDHB about this special offer...

 

End of term message

 

Kia ora koutou katoa,

We hope you and your family are doing well. As we reach the end of the term it is a good chance to reflect on all the achievements that our children and school has made during this rather 'eventful' term. 

Our thanks must go to the staff team who have ensured a safe and nurturing environment for our tamariki since re-opening on February 28th. This term has no doubt stretched our energies and so the team (and we hope you) are about to get a well-earned rest ready for an exciting Term Two. As our principal, I am grateful for the professionalism and care of our children that the team provide in addition to the amazing learning they inspire every day.

Thank you also to our Board for their leadership and support, as well as to our wonderful PTA who have given us and new whanau awesome support this term. We do appreciate your help!

Your child should now have their portfolio of learning. This is an important part of our reporting process and is a key tool for helping your child(ren) gain feedback on their learning from the term. This is a time for you to celebrate what your child can do, and look forward to their next steps in their learning. Some questions you could ask  your child about their portfolio could be:

What did you learn when you did that? How do you know? 
Can you show me how you know this?
What is the next thing for you to learn?

Our eportfolios are now set up so that when a child or teacher posts to the Ako Blog, it will email the parents/caregivers. We hope this helps you. It is great to see the children excited to be sharing their learning in this way. We will have a solution for printing the Ako Blogs out, if you would like this please send me an email and I'll send you the information.

The theme for the term two is a science focus, where children will develop a deep understanding of:

• how the earths systems (water, land, air and life) and universe subsystems are interdependent and that all are important.
• the affect of humans on these systems. 

We will soon be sharing our action plan from our Whanau Hui 2010. A number of the suggestions made during that hui have already been implemented. 

Finally, we hope you have a restful holiday break with your friends and whanau. It's been a challenging last couple of months and so we trust you get some rest and recuperate with the kids. We look forward to seeing you in the new term.

ka kite,
Rob

 

Parent Talk Time - Korero Mai "Coping with Stress"

Our thanks to Dr Jay McClean for his time and expertise in leading last weeks first Parent Talk Time session. Click here to download Jay's notes from the session.

During this session, Dr Jay covered a number of fascinating and informative ideas relating to stress:

• What is stress? Good and bad stress.
• How stress affects performance.
• Indicators of stress
• Stress management techniques.

If you would like us to offer this session one evening, please let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Parent Talk Time - Coping with Stress

Mathletics Update

Our senior students are very excited about their new mathletics accounts. Students are coming in before school to play against each other, practise skills and improve. Many students are gaining certificates already.

Parents - did you know you can get a weekly update of your child's work from Mathletics? Follow these steps:

1. Go to: www.mathletics.co.nz/parent
2. Enter your child's username and password (if you don't have this email your class teacher to find out).
3. Enter your email address (parent email).
4. An activation email will be sent to you, follow the instructions in this email to set up weekly alert

Here are some  quotes from a recent newsletter about Mathletics:

"Mathletics is fun because I get lots of gold bars!" CJ 

"Mathletics is awesome because you learn heaps!" Tiaan

"Mathletics is a fun way to learn maths!" Sophie

"It inspires kids to have fun while doing maths!" Alexander

"You don't have to be Albert Einstein to play mathletics!" Jade

"Because you can verse other people and it's competitive." Ruby-Jay

"It warms up your brain for maths!" Rebekah

"Mathletics is as fun as playing sport, and that is fun!" Trinity

Recognition of Cultural Diversity

Policy Review - Recognition of Cultural Diversity

We'd love your feedback on our policy 'Recognition of Cultural Diversity'.

 

How well do you think we do in this important area?

 

You may use our Feedback page or the SchoolDocs site to provide us with feedback. How to use the SchoolDocs site to review a policy:

1. Visit this site...

    

2. User name: burnham and password: c4mp

    

3. Click the link to the policy and read it.

    

4. Click Policy Review (button at the right hand top corner).

    

5. Select reviewer type "Parent".

    

6. Enter the password "pin".

    

7. Enter your name (optional).

    

8. Submit ratings and comments.

    

 

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