Week 2 news
NZ World teachers day 🍎
Today is NZ world teachers day - Haere ki te kōrero ki ia - tell a teacher how much they mean to you! I would publically like to acknowledge the kaiako at Kaikorai School. All our teachers are kind, caring professionals who embody and role model the school's values daily. I see this at the gate in the morning, on duty, when they teach, coaching sports after school, running jump jam, choir and orchestra; the list is endless. I appreciate all of you and thank you for the mahi you do for the children at Kaikorai.
Can you help? 🛠
We have salvaged a rimu ceiling beam from the hall demolition and some blue stone from the original school. I would love to create a small sculpture to sit in our new admin area. Do we have anyone in our community that can polish up a small piece of the wood and create something out of Kaikorai School's history to take us into the future? Please contact me if you can help or point me in the right direction! Thanks in advance.
Property update 🦺
The junior block is being demolished the weekend of 4-5th November. Please avoid coming up to school to play on the school grounds during this time, please note while the demolition is occurring the playground will be completely closed.
Out-of-zone enrolments 2023 📝
We have spaces for children who live outside of our school zone. Please see the advertisement below. Please get in touch immediately if you intend to enrol your child in 2023 and live within the school zone.
Scholastic book club orders 📚
Stock up on Christmas book gifts by ordering through the Scholastics book club. Read Mrs Fisher's article here.
Parent group ⭐
Have you ordered your Kaikorai tea towel and helped us fundraise for the extras in our school? Please do this soon, as orders are closing next week.
Gumboot day 🥾
Principal's awards ✨
Juwaanah -For demonstrating our Keen value and making great improvements with confidence and skill in the swimming pool.
Matteo - For showing great independent skills, including fantastic listening and effort at swimming lessons.
Carter - For working hard and having a positive attitude during swimming time. Tino pai!
Charlotte - For showing great perseverance during maths time and always giving things a go with her learning. Ka pai!
Jack -For working hard to improve his swimming skills. Tino pai!
Lily - For always being keen to improve her skills and understanding, particularly in maths. Tino pai rawa atu!
Ezra - For always trying his best and being a kind friend to everyone! Tino pai rawa atu!
Tori - For having a super attitude to everything she does and making great progress at swimming! Ka pai!
Rothanak - For an excellent start to the term, you are trying so hard with your learning. Ka pai!
Frankie - For being a kind, caring friend to everyone in our class and always putting a huge effort into her learning. Tino pai!
Isaac - For making good choices in the classroom and the playground. You are going out of your comfort zone finding new friends to play with. Tino pai rawa atu!
Heather - For showing focus and determination in all areas of your learning. You have completed all your work to a high standard. Tino pai!
Emery - For the amazing effort he is putting into his swimming. Emery, you are swimming like a fish! Tino pai!
Noah - For an excellent start to the term. Noah, you are trying very hard with all of your learning at school. Keep up the fantastic effort. Ka pai!
Max - For having a brilliant start to the term. You are especially rocking your writing, tino pai!
Caden - For really impressing me with your effort to learn and master new spelling rules. You are awesome!
Charlotte - For having a fantastic attitude in class! You always give 100% and challenge yourself. Mīharo!
Noah -For always giving 100% effort with your learning. You challenge yourself and work hard to achieve your goals.
Makanaka - For your fantastic persuasive writing, you have mastered the A FOREST criteria. Ka rawe!
Isaac - For your innovative design solutions, you have clever engineering skills and you’re always ready to help. Ka pai!
Mia -For experimenting and using different persuasive devices to sell different items in writing. Mīharo!
Nia - For your creative thinking of an object to trade, and use of A FOREST for a chair and table in our Entry Event. Tino pai rawa atu!
Josie - For showing amazing perseverance with your learning and always having a positive attitude. Tino Pai!
Conner -For amazing focus and determination towards your learning. Congratulations on all your school successes this year!
Primary teacher-paid union meetings –
Teachers in our school will be attending paid union meetings in the weeks of 14-25 November to discuss the progress of negotiations for their collective employment agreements, the proposed unified public service pay offer and their Wāwāhi Tahā | Time 4 Tamariki campaign.
This campaign aims to win smaller class sizes, more support for high needs students, better recognition of cultural skills, greater job security for our essential relievers and to fairly value and recognise the work of teachers.
There will be multiple options for meetings in the period of 14-25 November to minimise disruption to teaching and learning. Our school will aim to ensure the least disruption to children's learning while upholding the right of teachers to participate in their union meetings.
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