Manaiakalani Film Festival

Wow, what an amazing Film Festival! Thank you to everyone involved, especially our learners. We got such fantastic feedback about how respectful Stonefields School was on our trip to Sylvia Park! Well done to all our fabulous presenters who were truly representing our school value of Bringing our Best together. Make sure to check out our innovative movies at the following link.

Moving from iPads to Chromebooks in 2021

As technology has become more prevalent in society even our preschool children are increasingly adept at using tablet and smart phone technology and are increasingly fluent and demanding (of what technology can do) at a younger age. A decade ago we thought Year 5 was the entry point for a keyboard and increased digital capacity. Now year 3 children are more than competent digitally and are looking for ways to seek knowledge.

As a school, we have made a decision to move to Chromebooks for Years 3-8. Some of the important motivators to our decision are:

• Chromebooks have a keyboard;
• Many applications work better on a Chromebook;
• The transition from iPad to Chromebook will be eliminated;

Chromebooks connect young learners in a way that gives them powerful opportunities to collaborate with their peers and to manage their learning. Advances in the ease of access to the learning environment and applications platforms make this device the one we now identify as the best fit for empowering this cohort.

iPads will continue to be used in sets of 20 throughout the school.

Further information will be sent in the coming weeks, including how to purchase a Chromebook for 2021.

Diwali Celebration

This Saturday is Diwali and Sunday is the new year. If your child would like to wear their Indian costume to school on Monday, 16th November, they are more than welcome to do so to continue the Diwali celebrations.

School Hats | Let’s be SunSmart this summer!

Stonefields School is committed to the health and safety of your child and we use a number of methods to emphasise the importance of wearing a sun hat and being SunSmart.

Hats are compulsory in Term 1 and 4 and by wearing a hat every day at school, your child will have a much lower risk of developing skin cancer in the future. One of the best things we can do to help reinforce these sun protection habits is to be a role model. By ‘walking the sun protection talk’, not only will you be protecting yourself from harmful UV radiation, you will also be helping your child develop good sun protection habits for life.

As a school, we are committed to showing learners how to be SunSmart through our own role modelling in the school environment, to help normalise being SunSmart behaviours and to help ingrain the habit.

Likewise, your choice to role model good sun protection at home will reinforce what they are learning at school. For a child to see you demonstrate being SunSmart will encourage them to do the same when they are out and about outside of school hours.

A handy tip is to keep a broad-brimmed hat and sunscreen in your bag, car or at the door, ready to grab whenever you head outside.

School hats can be purchased from the office, the cost is $12.50 - EFTPOS is available.

Thank you for your support.

School Photos

Tuesday, 17th November 2020

• Portrait and Hub Photos

Wednesday, 18th November 2020

• Kapa Haka, Netball Teams and Sibling Photos

PhotoLife sibling photo request forms are available from the office and must be completed and handed in at the office by 3pm on Monday, 16th November.

We ask that all learners are dressed in the correct school uniform including footwear and hair accessories. Click here for the uniform policy.

If your child/ren played netball this season please make sure they have their PE uniform with them to change into.

Save the Date

Learning Achievement Celebration

Friday 11th December 2020 | Auckland Netball Centre

Time: 10.00am - 11.30am

Stonefields School Athletics Days

We are looking forward to our upcoming athletics days. Information such as timetables and helpful reminders for the day can be found on our Sports website here.

In the event that we need to postpone any of our days due to the weather, this will be posted on our sports website and sent out via an app alert by 8am that morning.

• Yr 7 - 8: Monday 16th November
• Yr 5 - 6: Friday 20th November
• Yr 3 - 4: Monday 23rd November
• Yr 0 - 2: Friday 27th November

Tamaki Touch Tournament

Well done to our boys and girls touch teams who had an awesome day at the Tamaki touch tournament last week. As the Year 6 event was round robin and we tied in the Year 5 final we are still waiting for the final results from the organiser but are very proud of our teams performances.

Library Stocktake

Please ensure all Stonefields School library books are returned to the library by Friday 27th November.

The library will be closed from Monday 30th November until school finishes for the year.

As we encourage children to self-issue/return their own library books, mistakes do happen. For example, books may not be scanned back into the library correctly, books may be put directly on the shelf rather than being scanned back, library books may have accidentally been returned to the hub library or the public library by mistake, or books may have been issued to the wrong person. Please remind your children to return their library books to the "big red returns box" inside the door of the library by Friday 27th November. If in the next few weeks you receive a reminder notice for a book that you are certain your child has already returned, or they never had on issue, please email anna.malan@stonefields.school.nz or call into the library on a Wednesday or Thursday to talk with Anna.