WELCOME TO WEEK 3!

Welcome to Week 3! 

What an amazing beginning to our term in Matawara. Our team are HUMMING, and it is lovely to see how well they have all started to mix together, with our Year 8's providing support and leadership to our Year 7's. We have developed our copilot programme in our team, and these are the identified benefits of this programme, that our team outlined this week... 

We are so proud of how Matawara are reacting to wearing masks in our team - they are AMAZING! No questions or complaints - they literally are just getting on with it! If I am honest, I think they cope better than the teachers! Clearly they have had some wonderful instruction from you as parents around this, so thank you. 

MATHS... NO PROBLEM -
You will have read in the newsletter regarding the Maths programme we are delving into this year. There is a link in that newsletter that gives you the background to this programme, if you are interested. 

Part of the lesson structure involves working in a Maths - No Problem workbook. These will cost our team around $18.00 each, and will be added to your child’s account as they receive them.

ICT SAFETY - 

In both Hōpara and Matawara we utilise the Hapara service which allows us to keep fairly accurate tabs on what each child does on their device during school time. There is a small cost of $7.00 that will be added to each child's account. 

TECHNOLOGY DAYS - 

Technology is at Kaiapoi Borough School, and our team attends for the whole day. On these days, the children board the bus, and it leaves by 9:15am sharp. We like the team to be at school no later than 8:55am on these days, so we can complete the roll and discuss any notices etc. 

Our Tech days are as follows for this term...

• Week 3 - February 18th - THIS WEEK!
• Week 5 - March 4th 
• Week 7 - March 18th - NO TECH KBS have a Teacher Only Day
• Week 9 - April 1st

CAMP CANCELLATION - 

All of you have hopefully heard by now that our beginning of year camp has been cancelled. We are working hard to have some of the activities go ahead on the days we would have been at camp, namely our Adrenalin Forest fun, and Learn to Surf. Please URGENTLY look to the HERO app to read the update, and fill in the JOTFORM HERE, granting your permission for your child to participate. There are a few of you who have not done this - your child knows if they still need it done. 

MATAWARA LEADERSHIP WEEK - 

Our Leadership week will be this week. This is the time when our team are immersed in our Leadership Challenge Model and will develop their understanding of what it is to be a Leader in our school. We will do some activities together as a team, and there will be times when the Year 7 and Year 8 groups learn separately. 

Part of this week is our team building and cooking ('smores') in a solar oven... if the sun will shine! We would love all children to bring their equipment on Monday please. We will shout the ingredients for the smores. All children have worked out what it is that they will bring within their groups. 

YEAR 8 LEADERSHIP - please note that part of this week is for the Year 8 Leaders to write and present their speech. This will be presented to the team, and we will record each speech to put up on HERO. 

The Year 8's will be given class time to write their speech, but this won't be enough! Please support your child to write and practise their speech at home too. 

A FINAL NOTE - (This is an across school announcement) 

Now that your children have had the chance to settle into the school as of next week we are making it an across school expectation that parents are unable to come into classes without the necessary appointment. Please understand that this is also really difficult for us as we want to get to know you all and build relationships, however, this will help to keep our school a safe place. 

Have a super weekend!

Kristie, Linda, Jenny and Helen. 

LOOKING FORWARD... 

WEEK 3 - 

Team Matawara Leadership Week! 

* FRIDAY - Tech - ALL DAY - Bus leaves at 9:15am SHARP!

WEEK 4 - 

* THURSDAY - Team Matawara are off to LEARN TO SURF! 

* FRIDAY - Team Matawara off to SWING FROM THE TREES!