Burnham School - Coes Ford, Dunsandel Visiting, Scouts,

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Updates Term 3 Week 7 Reminders: Please remember as the weather warms up to send your child to school with a full, named water bottle. If your child eats yoghurt at school, please support them to become independent by expecting them to rinse their yoghurt pottles out at home. This helps children learn it is their responsibility to do this. Now that lunch eating is outside we will get the routine of children using wash basins for this going again. If you know of someone who doesn't get these updates, please ask them to subscribe from the home page of our web site or click here... Coes Ford a huge success Our inaugral Tree Planting Day at Coes Ford last Friday was a huge success. The entire school had a brilliant day of learning about biodiversity, bugs, harakeke weaving, native tree planting and the local area. Thank you to all the people and organisations who supported us in this special event for our school. We are hoping this will become an annual event in our calendar. A huge thank you to Linton Camp School for providing the funds to supply sausages for lunch for the day. The SLC organised this for us - well done team! Photos here... Fun Day Friday Postponed to next Friday 23rd Sept! This Fridays 'Fun Day Friday' has been postponed until next Friday due to the special visit from Dunsandel School.  This event was organised by our Junior School as part of our RWC learning. All whanau welcome from 9.30! Burnham's Got Talent! The SLC are undertaking initial rehearsals for this exciting and fun event.  They will be in touch with the list of who has made it into the next stage soon. Other Shots: Junior Bed Time Stories   Ski Trip 2011   Links Burnham School Home Burnham School Facebook Burnham School Photos Principal Blog Burnham School Newsletters Burnham School Calendar Burnham Helping Hands Noticeboard Respect - Achievement - Responsibility - Strength/Self-Belief Whaikoha - Angitu - Tikanga - Whakapono/Wairua/Tuturu  Te Kura o Tiori - Burnham School Chaytor Ave, Burnham t: 03 347 6851 e: admin@burnham.school.nz w: www.burnham.school.nz Ka tu to kura hei whakahoa te akoranga - Our school is a place for partnership in learning.

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Scouts NZ Trial Membership

SCOUTS New Zealand is offering a FREE ONE MONTH TRIAL MEMBERSHIP to anyone interested in joining us in the adventure. SCOUTS New Zealand has been providing outdoor opportunities for over 100 years. We have a passion for providing young people from all walks of life with new experiences, as well as encouraging personal development and community involvement.

To download a FREE ONE MONTH TRIAL MEMBERSHIP simply head to www.scouts.org.nz, click ‘Join Now’ and fill out the details or call 0800 SCOUTS to find the local Group.

Support for Redcliffs School

Redcliffs School in Christchurch is holding an online auction in place of its traditional fund-raising school fair. Sadly for the school, it is unable to hold the fair, its main fund-raiser, as the school has been displaced from its site by the Christchurch earthquakes.

Fantastic auction items will be on Trade Me between September 8 and 15 www.trademe.co.nz search “Redcliffs School Auction” to see the list over 150 items.

So, please support our school by spreading the word and having a bid. View the items now on: www.facebook.com/pages/Redcliffs-School-Auction/168478859894791 

The Importance of Good Attendance

I'd like to give you a quick update on the importance of good attendance. Attendance is a legal requirement and a shared responsibility of the school and the family. Attendance is defined as lateness as well as absence from school. There is a direct link between good attendance and achievement/progress at school.

 

While this might seem like a 'no-brainer', it is shown that early attendance patterns can be a strong predictor of future success in education across a students time in school, i.e. poor attendance in primary school can be a strong indicator of future difficulties at high school. Therefore, the better your child's attendance, the more likely their success at school. Parents can do the following things to help us in this shared responsibility:

 

• Classrooms open at 8.30am. The time between 8.30-8.55 is important social/organisational learning time for children.
• Always email or leave a message at the office if your child is either late, or going to be absent from school - admin@burnham.school.nz or 3476851.
• Always give a reason for lateness or absence - this is a requirement of our procedures.
• The office will call families by 9.15am to find out reasons for absence if parents do not let us know. Reasons are always recorded in our system.
• On rare occasions when attendance is difficult to maintain, staff will discuss this with you and if you're really lucky your friendly principal may discuss it with you!
• Always talk to us about any difficulties you may be experiencing in this area - we are here to work with you for the success of your child(ren).

Links for your interest:

1. Burnham School procedure for attendance - user: burnham and password: c4mp
2. Ministry of Education guidance 

 

 

Burnham School - Book Fair, Puberty, Coes Ford & Photo Comp

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Updates Term 3 Week 5 Scholastic Book Fair Thanks for supporting our book fair. We had a great turn out last night with nearly 40 parents and that many students coming for bed time stories and a nice, hot chocolate and marshmellow. We even had one of our Dads read the Cat in the Hat - thanks Karl!  Thank you to Trish, Dot, Pam, Sandra, Michelle, Bridget and others who helped with the smooth running of the evening. Last night we made more than $650 worth of sales - a percentage goes back to the school. Senior Book Sharing & Positive Puberty tonight @ 6.30pm Feel free to come early to have kai before our Senior Book Sharing evening for students, whilst parents get to learn about our Positive Puberty seminar, led by Family Planning. We may film this for those who can't be there and place this on the school youtube account - let us know if you'd like this. LSVs helping around school this Sunday afternoon This Sunday we have 30 or so Limited Service Volunteers helping with a range of tasks around school. Shane Wooten, one of our Dads, is supervising them. If you have a long garden hose, edging tool, spade, broom or hedge trimmers to loan us we'd appreciate it. All items will be labelled and returned to you. Snow Photo Competition This competition will be opened up for voting soon. If you have photos but have not submitted send it to: burnhamschool.snowday@picasaweb.com giving it a good subject line (that will become the title of the photo online). At the end of this week the album will 'close off' and voting begins next week. Photos submitted so far are below. Other Reminders: Sausage Sizzle this Friday - bring $1.50 per sausage to the office prior to school. Coes Ford Friday 9th Sept - please remember to get your child's permission slip in to the office asap. Also if you can help please contact chris@burnham.school.nz [Photos appear here...] Links Burnham School Home Burnham School Facebook Burnham School Photos Principal Blog Burnham School Newsletters Burnham School Calendar Respect - Achievement - Responsibility - Strength/Self-Belief Whaikoha - Angitu - Tikanga - Whakapono/Wairua/Tuturu  Te Kura o Tiori - Burnham School Chaytor Ave, Burnham t: 03 347 6851 e: admin@burnham.school.nz w: www.burnham.school.nz Ka tu to kura hei whakahoa te akoranga - Our school is a place for partnership in learning.

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All students are safe and well after that small shake @ 1.30pm. Be well

Book Fair

Once again we have our annual Book Fair. Proceeds from book purchases go towards the school so support our readers by getting in and grabbing some books for presents and the whanau!

BURNHAM SCHOOL BOOK FAIR

AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 2

FAMILY EVENTS 

 

Monday, August 29                 2:30pm till 3.30pm       

              Library open for purchase of books

Tuesday, August 30:

6.00 till 7.00pm Junior Bedtime Stories

Library open for purchase of books

Wednesday, August 31:

 6.30 till 7.15pm Senior Book Reading

Library open for purchase of books

Thursday, September 1: 2.30pm till 3.30pm Library open for purchase of books

Friday, September 2:

9:15 -10 am Book Character Parade

Parents most welcome to attend (and dress up too if you want!)

Library open for purchase of books

Strategic Planning Meeting 4pm

All parents/caregivers are invited to come along to our strategic planning meeting tomorrow @ 4pm in Room 9.

This meeting is to flesh out the following three strategic goals for our school:

1. To build collaborative, engaging partnerships.
2. To create an exciting, flexible teaching and learning environment.
3. To send out resilient, confident, future prepared students.

We'd love you to come along and contribute to the ideas as we are coming up with indicators for each of these goals. These indicators will be the steps towards meeting each of these goals.

Drinks, nibbles and childcare is provided. Please RSVP to admin@burnham.school.nz if you can attend.


Many thanks,

Rob Clarke
Principal - Tumuake
www.burnham.school.nz

Burnham School - Strategic Planning Meeting tomorrow 4pm

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Invitation Strategic Planning Meeting 4pm All parents/caregivers are invited to come along to our strategic planning meeting tomorrow @ 4pm in Room 9. This meeting is to flesh out the following three strategic goals for our school: To build collaborative, engaging partnerships. To create an exciting, flexible teaching and learning environment. To send out resilient, confident, future prepared students. We'd love you to come along and contribute to the ideas as we are coming up with indicators for each of these goals. These indicators will be the steps towards meeting each of these goals. Drinks, nibbles and childcare is provided. Please RSVP to admin@burnham.school.nz if you can attend. Many thanks, Rob Clarke Principal - Tumuake www.burnham.school.nz Links Burnham School Home Burnham School Facebook Burnham School Photos Principal Blog Burnham School Newsletters Burnham School Calendar Respect - Achievement - Responsibility - Strength/Self-Belief Whaikoha - Angitu - Tikanga - Whakapono/Wairua/Tuturu  Te Kura o Tiori - Burnham School Chaytor Ave, Burnham t: 03 347 6851 e: admin@burnham.school.nz w: www.burnham.school.nz Ka tu to kura hei whakahoa te akoranga - Our school is a place for partnership in learning.

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