Learner Led Conferences (LLC) is an opportunity for you to be led by your child to understand what they are learning, how they are going and what their next learning steps are. During the 60 minute conference, a Hub teacher will share a 10 minute progress update with you and your child. Some new ideas and experiences are being included to ensure it is a valuable learning experience for you and your child.

When: Thursday, 27th May 2021 | 2.00pm - 7.30pm

How to Book

Bookings are now open through School Interviews

Bookings close at 3pm on Monday, 24th of May. We advise booking early to secure a time that suits.

No bookings after 3pm on the 24th of May will be accepted.

What is a Learner Led Conference?

New to LLCs? - click here to learn more.

** Important ** - School will be finishing at 1pm on Thursday, 27th May. All learners must be collected at 1.00pm or booked into Kelly Club for after school care.

A reminder that the LLCs are not for Year 0 children, that is learners who start at the beginning of Term 2. Instead, you will have a 5-7 week connect with one of your child's hub teachers.

From 2021 the Education Review Office has introduced a new Evaluation for Improvement approach that will continue to be developed throughout 2021 and into 2022. This new approach will see the ERO work differently with each school/kura according to its context, culture and needs. There are five phases in the Evaluation for Improvement process, covering preparing for and doing the evaluation, then reporting and using the evaluation findings:

1. Initiating: an ERO evaluator will meet with key people at Stonefields school to start to get to know its context and culture, and have a conversation about what the evaluation will involve.

2. Exploring and focusing: ERO and Stonefields school jointly will decide on a focus for the evaluation and work in collaboration with people from the school and community to explore and discuss what you know about what is happening for learners/ākonga; plans and priorities, and the review and evaluation activities that contribute to improvement decisions and actions

3. Designing: ERO and Stonefields school work collaboratively to design an evaluation that best fits the context, culture and needs of your school, your strengths and the evaluation focus. The design will include what questions we will ask, what activities and sources of information will be needed to answer the questions, the timeframes and who will be involved.

4. Evaluating for improvement: The people involved will gather information from as many different sources as needed. Then they will discuss and make sense of the information using the evaluation indicators, to decide the evaluation findings.

5. Reporting and planning: In this phase ERO will assist Stonefields school to use the evaluation findings to decide and plan our improvement actions and timeframes. At the end of the improvement timeframes, we will work together with ERO to sum up how well things are going, what has improved for learners/ākonga, and what further actions might be needed.

If you are interested in reading about the new process in more detail you can do so here.

We are delighted to announce that we have repurposed the old library and created a Stonefields School Community Hub – Te Pātaka Ako (The storehouse of learning and reciprocity). The Community Hub will be a venue for a range of community events like parent workshops on how to help with learning at home, guest speakers and parent led workshops.

This term we have an inspirational guest speaker, Dr Tony Fernando, who will be presenting a talk about happiness called “Knowing Happiness Through Suffering”. Please click on this link to read Tony’s bio. Tony’s talk is on 16 June from 7-8.30pm, please RSVP here if you would like to attend this inaugural event.

The other Community Hub events for Term 2 can be found here.

Please stop by for a cup of coffee or tea and a biscuit on Friday 28 May between 2-30-3.30pm.

We look forward to continuing to strengthen our partnership with you.

The suburb of Stonefields operates a naked streets policy. This means that there are limited signs and road markings indicating the parking restrictions etc. We ask everyone to please put the safety of all learners first and where possible park further away from the school and walk in to drop off or collect your children.

Please show consideration when parking vehicles at pick up and drop off times. Traffic must be allowed to flow freely (yet cautiously) through the streets. Please be mindful of the signs on both Guyon Street and Vialou Lane as there are no parking zones at peak times of the school day to help ease the flow.

The School has adopted a policy of travelling anti clockwise around the school to help alleviate congestion. We ask for your support with this.

All parents / caregivers and visitors to the school are not to use or park in the private driveways and lanes of our neighbours properties at any time.

The school car park is for staff only and is not able to accommodate parent parking. Cars coming and going through the car park are a danger to children who may walk through here to gain access to the school.

Please ensure that anyone dropping off or picking up your child is aware of the parking concerns relating to this area.

The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 commenced in November last year, amending the Smokefree Environments Act 1990 and renaming it to the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990. Changes to the Act are being phased out over 15 months. You can find further information on these changes here.

As of 11 November 2020, the prohibition on smoking at schools was extended to include vaping and as of this month we are displaying our new 'no vaping' signage on school grounds.

If you would like to purchase books for your children from the Scholastic Book Club, orders for 2021 issue no. 3 are now open.

The ordering process is completely paper-less, and the current brochure is available to view here.

If you are new to the Scholastic Book Club, you can find out more about the Book Club here and before placing an order, you will need to register using the LOOP website. You may then place your order via the Loop website, or by using one of Scholastic's apps. Please make sure you have your child's hub number handy and remember there is no need to return anything to school as all orders are processed online through the Scholastic LOOP system. If you would prefer to view the catalogue in paper form, your child may collect one of these from the school library, which is open during school lunchtimes.

Book Club orders close on Friday 21st May. If you have any questions or problems placing your order, please email Anna on anna.malan@stonefields.school.nz