2020 End of Year Reporting

How to read the end of year achievement snapshot

We are close to sharing your child's end of year achievement and progress report with you. You will receive an email via SchoolTalk with the link to your child/ren's end of year achievement report on Monday, 14th December.

There will be three main parts to your child's end of year achievement and progress report.

• Written teacher comment about your child, and a reflection written by your child if they are in Years 5 - 8.
• Achievement against the expected curriculum levels in Reading, Writing and Mathematics, and your child's next learning steps.
• Achievement against the School's Graduate Profile Outcomes, such as Collaboration and using the Learner Qualities.

For more information on how to read your child’s end of year achievement snapshot, click here.

Important: It is important that we have your most up to date email address. If your email has recently changed, please email us to advise us of your new email address.

Learning Achievement Celebration

When: Friday, 11th December 2020

Time: 10.00am - 11.30am

Where: Auckland Netball Centre, 7 Allison Ferguson Drive

We are excited to share this celebration with all our whānau, this will be a morning not to be missed!

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.

For more information on how to purchase a Chromebook for 2021 - click HERE

Should you have any questions regarding moving from iPads to Chromebooks, please email Bob Miller on bob.miller@stonefields.school.nz

An information evening will be held at the start of Term 1 2021.

Welcome to Melanie Atkinson

We are delighted to share that Mel Atkinson has recently completed her teaching degree and has joined us in Hub 5/6.

Mel has been a part of the Stonefields School staff since 2012 as a Teacher Aide, we are delighted to see her continue her passion for teaching and we wish her all the best.

Ordering School Photos

A key code to order the photos online will be sent home in the next couple of weeks once we have done a final check of all the Hub and team photos.

An app alert will be sent out on the day that key codes are given to learners.

Kapa Haka

Congratulations to our rōpū for an awesome performance at the Te Kōtuku Cultural Festival. By far the largest rōpū, with 107 performers. Thank you to our community for your support, it was an awesome day out.

Choir

Congratulations to our junior and senior choir on a wonderful performance at the annual Stonefields Market Day! Such great talent. It was great to see our community members out supporting our tamariki.

Stonefields School Athletics

We have loved seeing so many determined performances at our athletics days over the last couple of weeks. Athletics is all about achieving your Personal Best and we have been so proud to see our learners continually striving for that with their next race, jump or throw. The fist pumps, cheers and smiles on faces when goals have been achieved are the culmination of all of the effort our learners have put into building their knowledge of athletics this term in PE. We are extremely proud of each and every learner for Being their Best Self and Bringing their Best Together as they competed and encouraged their team.

Thank you to all of our whānau who joined us on the day, it really does create a special atmosphere having so many of our community cheering us on.

Eastern Zone Athletics

A huge well done to all of our Year 7 and 8 learners who represented Stonefields at the Eastern Zones Athletics Competition. Our team performed brilliantly against top-quality competition achieving some personal bests and setting up some very exciting and nail-biting finishes.

A special congratulations to the following learners who placed in the top 3 for events and qualified for the Auckland Champs:

• Ana: 1st Year 8 girls discus and 3rd Year 8 girls shot put;
• Illy: 3rd Year 7 boys high jump;

Scholastic Book Club

Scholastic book orders for issue no.8 2020 are now open and this is the last one for 2020. So, if you're ordering for Christmas, this is your last chance!

The ordering process is completely paper-less, and the current brochure is available to view here. There are paper copies of the Book Club catalogue in the library if you prefer to view the catalogue in paper form.

To place your order, please register using the LOOP website. You may then order via the website, or by using one of Scholastic's apps. Please select your child's hub (class), not their year level when placing your order. Please do not return anything to school as all orders are processed through the Scholastic LOOP system.

Book Club orders close on Friday 27th November . If you have any problems placing your order, please email anna.malan@stonefields.school.nz