Nau Mai, Haere Mai - Welcome Back!

Dear family and whānau,

A warm welcome back to you all and a special welcome to our families who are new to Stonefields School. We are also delighted to welcome our new teachers to the Year 3 - 4 teaching team. We are excited to form our new teams and hit the ground running with authentic and fun learning for our tamariki.

Meet the Team

We're delighted to have met many of you already and look forward to getting to know you more as the year goes on.

If you've not yet had a chance to pop into the hub to say 'kia ora', we'd encourage you to do so.

The teachers in our space are as follows:

Concept Learning: Kaitiakitanga

This term we are exploring the concept of ‘sustainability’ as we get to know our learners and their whānau. Through quality collaboration and deep thinking, we will be delving into what it means and why it matters to be a sustainable citizen. Through this concept, they will also build their capacity to have a deeper sense of whānaungatanga and learn how to be a Stonefields Kaitiaki.

Reading Books

Readers will come home in the next two weeks. All books are to be returned each week. Please ensure your child brings their book bag to school each day as readers will not go home unless they are in a book bag. Book bags are available for purchase at the school office.

Building Basics

Building basic knowledge is a real focus for us this year. We hope to reinforce this knowledge through explicit teaching, regular learning opportunities as well as the use of digital tools and resources.

In order to reinforce this learning, we hope that children not only engage in activities at school but at home too. We encourage you to support your child's learning at home by visiting the following sites:

Literacy - Get Epic

Numeracy - Prodigy

General Housekeeping

Hats and Shoes

A reminder that hats are compulsory and need to be brought to school by all learners everyday in Terms 1 and 4. Much of our learning time takes place outside, as well as all of morning tea and lunch, so it is very important that learners bring their hats every day. We encourage parents to label or distinguish hats carefully and clearly, to avoid any hats being lost. We are also encouraging shoes to be labelled or have something unique on them as we have many learners take off and misplace their shoes during the day.

Rubbish

A reminder that there are no rubbish bins in the playground so all learners must take any food scraps and rubbish home at the end of each day. This includes children who have lunch orders.

Please ensure your child has lunch with as little rubbish as possible as we are currently a Bronze Enviro School and are aiming to achieve Gold status by the end of 2021.

Lateness

Please make sure your child is at school before 8.55am (when the bell goes) to ensure they are ready for the start of their school day. It is preferable that they arrive at 8.45am to sort out their things and then get ready for learning. If you would like to speak to a teacher regarding your child’s learning, please email to arrange a time to meet. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

School Supervision

Our learning day starts at 8.55am, our hub doors open at 8.30am. When learners arrive in the morning we encourage them to organise themselves to be ready for learning. This involves hanging up their bags and bringing in their book bags. If learners arrive before 8.30am they can be booked into Kelly Club. Kelly Club provides both before and after school care. Please contact Celia Mackinven stonefields@kellyclub.co.nz should you require before and after school care.

Sickness

If your child is sick, for example; contagious coughing, coloured mucus from the nose, high temperatures, has been vomiting or had diarrhoea, please keep them home so other children in the hub and teachers do not get sick. We prefer that the children stay at home for 48 hours after their sickness so the bugs can not be passed on.

Local Area Permission

Throughout the year we engage in a number of learning opportunities in our local area (eg. swimming at CLM / Kohimarama Beach, trips to the Wetlands). This form gives permission for your child to take part in activities during school time within a 7.5km radius for the duration of their time at Stonefields School.

Please click here to complete the permission form.

Team Connect

We look forward to getting to know your child and connecting with you over the coming weeks. If you have any questions or you wish to talk please feel welcome to contact us to arrange a time to meet. We have professional development meetings on Thursday mornings so teachers will be unavailable at this time. These meetings usually run until 8.30am.

We look forward to building relationships and rich and exciting teaching and learning experiences in the year ahead.

Should you wish to contact us our collective email address are as follows:

hub7teachers@stonefields.school.nz

hub8teachers@stonefields.school.nz

hub9teachers@stonefields.school.nz

Sarah Chant is our Leader of Learning and is more than happy to assist. She can be contacted at sarah.chant@stonefields.school.nz

Nga mihi,

The Year 3 & 4 Teaching Team