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Connect Communication
05 April 2023
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Woosh! Just like that, term 1 is done and dusted. It has been an exciting term with lots on for the tamariki; camp, ice skating, fire and flow, Life Education, Nature agents, sports and celebrations of learning. Thanks to the teachers for planning exciting learning and to parents for putting your hands up to help!
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The Life Education caravan moves off-site today. All children have completed two lessons with Keri and Harold. These weave seamlessly into our health teaching and a wide variety of topics were covered.
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One topic of interest, particularly heading into the break, is children's use of the internet. The underlying philosophy when engaging online is that our Ararira values should remain at the forefront of thinking, being caring, curious and capable. Tamariki need to think about how they chat and be kind all the time.
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Keri also shared resources about the age appropriateness of different apps which are widely used. I have shared this for your reference. Tips that are also well followed are ensuring that the screen is seen, this means only using the internet in shared spaces and NOT in their bedrooms. With older children it also pays to check photos, browsing history and chat threads. There is a pdf attachment that we will send home with the newsletter tomorrow, watch your in box.
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We look forward to having you all back on Wednesday 26th April. Our team will be at school for planned professional learning on the 21st and 24th April. This will be focussed on structured literacy and the new curriculum. We will welcome new whānau with a mihi whakatau at 9:15 on Thursday 27th April. Please feel free to come down and be part of the welcome.
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Enjoy a wonderful break with your gorgeous children,
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Claire and the Ararira Team
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Te Kupu o te Wiki - This Week's Kupu:
Kua reri te kai!
The food is ready!
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Student Absence Notifications/Late Arrivals - When late for school, please come and sign your child in at the office before heading to class. This is a safety check for both parents and the school as to a child's whereabouts. If you do not make contact you will receive a text and/or call from school enquiring about your child.
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Absences can be reported via:
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- Hero app
- Call 03 42 00 888, press 1 and leave a message
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Welcome to Ararira Springs Primary!
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This week we welcome Henry J, Kaitlin, Maia L and Ella R to Huarapa, Donncha to Hikuwai, and Isibéal to Teretere.
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We hope you have all settled in, have made some new friends and that you will soon love Ararira as much as we do!
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If you know of families moving into the area or with preschoolers, please encourage them to fill out our online enrolment form soon as possible. This allows us to plan ahead and recruit the teachers we might need!
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With our school numbers growing and more parents coming to pick up children before and after school please think before you park to make sure driveways of our neighbours are clear and you are not parking on yellow lines, to keep our tamariki safe.
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IMPORTANT DATES - 2023
- 06 April - Last day of Term 1
- 07 April - Good Friday public holiday
- 24 April - Teacher Only Day - school closed
- 25 April - ANZAC Day public holiday
- 26 April - Term 2 begins
- 03 May - THT meeting, 7pm in the staffroom (all welcome)
- 10 May - Board of Trustees meeting, 6.30pm in the Staffroom
- 18 May - Lincoln High School Open Afternoon 2-4pm (presentations by Principal and students at 2pm and 3.40pm)
- 08 September - Quiz Night (save the date/sponsorship request - more info below)
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Board of Trustees
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NEXT MEETING - 10 May, 6.30 pm in the Staffroom
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Te Hapori Tautoko (THT)
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THT - Te Hapori Tautoko - providing opportunities to tautoko (support) and connect our school community and fundraising for school initiatives and resources.
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NEXT MEETING - 03 May, 7.00pm in the Staffroom. All welcome.
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Second-Hand Uniforms - The THT has a small selection of second-hand uniform items available for purchase. We are also looking to increase our selection and would welcome donations of good-quality uniform items. All profits are used by THT to improve our school and provide resources for our tamariki. If you have uniform items to donate or would like to see the selection we have, please contact Charlotte via charlotte.mcmenamin@ararira.school.nz
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Our swimming season has come to an end. We had two swimmers representing us at the Canterbury Swimming competition. Next term's dates for events happening at school and at Zones have been updated and are ready for you to add to your calendars.
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Please click on the LINK for this week's Sports Corner update. Have a great break. See you in Term 2.
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Year 7/8 camp fun. Thanks Whaea Danielle, Whaea Mel and Matua Michael for such a great experience for our tamariki!
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We have exciting news, our Ararira bees have been busy and our students from last year and this year have helped to extract the honey from the two Ararira hives. The honey has been harvested and is ready for sale. Our delicious magic gold (honey) was for sale outside the school office this afternoon. If we sell out, you can order honey through our school office.
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Every jar sold helps keep our hives and Bee Awesome lessons cost free to our school. We have kept honey in the hives for the bees over the winter, so the bees are well looked after. Larissa
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Some fantastic art work by Huarapa tamariki. James Rizzi inspiration!
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We have had Life Education here for the past week or so. Some excited tamariki!
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We are loving our big vege pod which was generously donated by New World Lincoln last year.
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We grew plants indoors last year and now Huarapa tamariki are trying some different seeds outside.
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Thanks New World for always supporting us!
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Happy birthday Whaea Deb!!
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A big birthday last week at Ararira. Tidy numbers are always worth a celebration!
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A great turnout at the Hikuwai Whānau night. Thanks for coming to share the learning.
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If you have an automatic payment directed to the school account, we would be grateful if you could please change to this an automatic payment to your Kindo account.
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Making regular payments into your myKindo account means you will always have funds available when you need them!
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On the top up account page, you will see the Bank Transfer (allow 2 days) option.
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Your personal details and the Kindo bank account number are listed here.
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These are all the details you need to set up an Automatic Payment with your bank.
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All orders will be delivered to school in batches and distributed to the classrooms as they arrive. Any orders marked as gifts, we will put to one side and contact you when they are ready to be collected.
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Come join us at Araira Kelly Club for not only an awesome Holiday Programme but also an amazing Teacher Only Day. Head online to book in quick!
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The curriculum taught in New Zealand schools is currently undergoing a refresh and changes to the eight curriculum learning areas will be phased in over the next three years (2023-2026). The first area to be redesigned and introduced into schools across the country is the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum. This forms the cornerstone of the Social Sciences learning area …
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Payments and School Donations Our community’s socio-economic status means our school is not eligible for the government’s school donations scheme. Our equity index means we receive less operational funding than other schools. More information can be found at the bottom of this post. Due to this, we request donations from parents. Voluntary Donations The Ararira School Board has set the …
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The structured literacy spelling approach involves explicitly teaching tamariki how to encode (spell) the English language. It connects the reciprocal nature of reading and writing together. English is an Alphabetic Code It uses symbols of the alphabet (letters or graphemes) to represent speech sounds (phonemes). There are 26 letters and 44 speech sounds in the English language however there are …
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At Ararira Springs we use the Family Planning programme ‘Navigating the Journey’ to teach Relationship and Sexuality Education. This is taught appropriately to your child’s age and stage by your child’s ako teacher. Relationships and sexuality education sit within the Health and Physical Education strand of The New Zealand Curriculum and is compulsory for students up to year 10. Parents …
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Mana Ōrite / equal status is founded on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In our school it is the understanding of mātauranga Māori, Māori approaches to teaching and learning and the Te Ao Māori kete of knowledge, as having an equal value within education. It is also taking action to redress the structural foundations that have previously placed …
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It has been a challenging few years for many of us with lots of unforeseen events we would not have thought would ever happen. So it is understandable that there has been a rise in children and adults feeling anxious. Anxiety is a normal and natural response that occurs when an individual perceives a threat, danger or negative outcome or …
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