Intermediate Term One Update

Tēnā koutou, nau mai hoki mai | Greetings to you all, welcome back! 

A warm welcome back to 2025 for all our akonga and whanau! We are thrilled to be diving straight into our learning this term. Our focus this term is "The Power of Us", and we have been identifying our skills and strengths to create CVs to apply for different leadership roles across the school. From visitor leader to buddy reader, in the Intermediate school we are all leaders, so we look forward to stepping up into these positions. 

We are exploring the idea of "Not being the best on the team, being the best for the team" and what this means. We don't want to give too much away to our learners, but let's just say our learners' wheels will definitely be spun, by what we have in store for the rest of the term. Stay tuned to find out more.

As discussed, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the hub teams. 

hub16teachers@stonefields.school.nz

hub17teachers@stonefields.school.nz

The Power of Us - collaborative art

Homework

Learners will be given a literacy homework book and a maths homework book to take home each week. This book will contain a maths activity sheet and a literacy activity sheet, which will be glued in. Homework goes out on Monday and is due back into the hub on Friday morning at 9am. This sheet needs to be sighted by a parent and signed. The purpose of this homework is consolidation of skills covered in class. If you have any queries about this homework then please contact your child's literacy or maths teacher. 

Tech at Selwyn College

Tech at Selwyn College will start on Friday next week. Please note that for health and safety, learners need to wear close-toed uniform shoes and have hair tied back in a ponytail if it is shoulder length or more.

Here's some information on what the Technology programme will include: 

Intermediate Camp 

We will be heading off to Camp Raglan from Tuesday 20 May to Friday 23 May. This is an amazing experience for all our learners and an expectation that all learners attend camp.

A communication update, including all necessary forms to fill out and costings will be sent via email.

Here's a look at the Camp Raglan facilities

• Kapa Haka practice | Wednesday 19 February | 8.20am Te Pou Manawa

• Friday Cafe | Friday 21 February | 3pm

• Senior Assembly (Year 5-8) | Monday 24 February | 2pm, Hall

• New Entrant Cohort visits | Monday 24 - Thursday 27 February

• Stonefields School Board Meeting | Tuesday 25 February | 5.30pm, Te Pou Manawa

• Visitor Tour | Wednesday 12 March | register here 

• Senior Assembly (Year 5-8) | Monday 24 March | 2pm, Hall 

• Pasifika Talanoa | Thursday 27 March

• Stonefields School Board Meeting | Tuesday 1 April | 5.30pm, Te Pou Manawa

• Senior Assembly (Year 5-8) | Monday 7 April | 2pm, Hall 

• Whole School Athletics Day | Tuesday 8 April

View our School Calendar to keep up to date with all events