The Stonefield School whānau continues to grow! This week we welcomed Laura Julian to our team of wonderful Teacher Aides, along with Sacha Lowe who has joined the Admin team in a part-time capacity as Grant Applications Administrator.

We're excited to launch our new Kaupapa Māori at Stonefields website. This is where you will find everything you need to know about our Pōwhiri - waiata (songs), Te Reo Māori in Hubs, Te Puāwaitanga and Kapa Haka.

As we head into mid year snapshot reporting, we wanted to let you know that the visual way we show progress has changed. You will still be informed of whether your child is working towards, working within or above the expected curriculum level in reading, writing maths.

The mid year progress and achievement snapshot will include;

• Reading, Writing, Maths achievement,

• Your child’s next steps in Reading, Writing and Maths

• Your child’s learner qualities achievement

• Teacher comment.

The progress over time graph (worm graph) will not be visible for 2021 reporting. We are currently working with the developers, teachers and some parents to improve how we report to parents and visually represent a child's progress and achievements more clearly. We are working towards sharing a much more holistic view of your child's learning in both curriculum and capability areas, like collaboration. We are excited about the development roadmap ahead.

You will receive your child’s mid year report on Wednesday 7th July via email. The report will be attached as a PDF link.

We encourage you to access learning resources within SchoolTalk related to your child’s next steps. You might also like to access the new website we launched earlier this year with material parents can use at home to support their child’s learning. We encourage parents to support the building of basic fact knowledge, spelling words and sight words. Click here to access the site if you have not already done so.

If you would like to purchase books for your children from the Scholastic Book Club, orders for 2021 issue no. 4 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 tomorrow, Friday 18th June. If you have any questions or problems placing your order, please email anna.malan@stonefields.school.nz