BBPS Values……… BBPS senior students are inquiring, connecting, striving to meet the national standards and are future focused and resilient! |
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
We are all looking forward to spring and hopefully a little less rain!
The calendar is already very full with lots happening this term.
Reports and Conferences
We hope that you all enjoyed the opportunity to share your child’s progress in our Three Way Conferences. Please don’t forget to use the “How we can help at home” section of the report. If you have any further questions, please make a time to visit with your child’s class teacher.
Unit of Inquiry
Our main inquiry topic will focus on the central idea …
Local and global communities are interconnected through trade.
Our lines of inquiry will be ……
- how NZ trading systems have changed over time
- the role of supply and demand
- marketability of goods and services
- the impact the global economy has on the local economy
- the impact the local economy has on the global economy
- fair trade
By the end of this unit we hope your child can explain…….
- The difference between exports and imports
- What NZ’s leading exports and imports are
- The key countries NZ trades with
- NZ’s part in fair trade
- Why trade is important for NZ
We ask that you support your child’s learning by talking to them and encouraging them to bring current information about trade and our trading partners from newspaper articles or the TV. We really want our children to be active participants in their learning. If you know of anyone who is able to speak on the subject of exporting and importing, please let us know.
Mangere Mountain Trip
Please remember we have been fortunate to book a trip to the Mangere Mountain Education centre. Our school trip will include a guided walk over the Mangere Mountain followed by two hands-on educational workshops at the Visitor Centre.
The dates for this trip will be:
Rooms 3 and 4 31st July
Rooms 1 and 2 1st August
Rooms 18 and 19 3rd August
Please email your child’s class teacher if you can be a parent helper. Payment can be made on the new school payment site or through the school bank a/c 12 3089 0102364 00 (ASB). Please make sure you state your child’s name if paying through online banking. Alternatively please send $20 cash with your child in a named envelope.
E-Learning
The Senior School is continuing to develop its knowledge of ways to create meaningful learning experiences with the use of iPads. Mr Kinane is also supporting the team. Our students are all becoming experts at using apps and Google Docs to communicate their learning. We hope you are enjoying viewing these from your home. Our students enjoy your ongoing feedback.
Our school has once again been invited to have students present their learning using digital technologies at the 2017 Google Educators’ Student Summit, to be held at Ormiston Junior College and Ormiston Primary School on Friday August 11 2017. We have a total of 81 students this year who are working to present a range of apps and software from Y4-Y6 in our school. Mrs Chilvers and Mrs Riach will be taking our students to this event.
Maths
Term 3 will focus on multiplication and division, measurement of angles, fractions, decimals, percentages and transformational geometry. We will focus on statistics as part of our unit of inquiry study. It is important that our students continue to practice their multiplication and division facts in order to maintain a quick recall. Maths homework will be based on MathsBuddy and Sumdog. Parents please use the MathsBuddy videos to become familiar with the strategies so you can actively support your child.
Speech Preparation
Over the next weeks we will be working on our speeches in class. During weeks 4 and 5, the students will be presenting their speeches in class. Each year group will be selecting finalists for our school competition which will take place on September 1st at 11am in the school hall. All parents are welcome to attend. Our judges will be Mrs Moira Rowlands, our new Associate Principal and Mrs Lisa Ray, our previous Junior School Team Leader. We will be using the same scoring rubric as will be used at the Auckland finals. Our winning finalist will go on to represent our school at the Owairoa final on the 19th September. If they win this competition, they will then go on to the Auckland final.
Dance Festival
The dance festival will be held at 7 pm at Elim College on the 7th and 8th August. Mrs Rist has prepared our senior group for this. There is a limit on the number of tickets per family, $5 per person. The tickets will be available for families who have children participating. These will become available from Mrs Bayer at the school office.
Senior School Performance
The Senior School will involved in a performance held on the nights of the 22nd and 23rd August.
The audience cost will be $2 per person. Due to the hall size each family will be allocated 2 tickets. If you require extra, you can leave your name at the school office should extra seats become available. There will be a free dress rehearsal on the 22nd August at 1.40 pm, anyone who does not have tickets for the night performance is welcome to attend this.
Tuesday 22 August 1.40-3 pm – matinee
Tuesday 22 August 6.30-8 pm – evening performance
Wednesday 23 August 6.30-8 pm – evening performance
Trees for Survival
Our children who regularly participate in the Trees for Survival group will be involved in a planting day on the 28th July. Students have had an opportunity to sign up for this.
The Senior School continues to look at opportunities to encourage environmentally friendly habits.
Physical Education
The Senior School classes have a PE session on Thursdays. It is important that your child is prepared for this session with their whanau shirt and shorts. Last term there were the same students each week who turned up unprepared, on a number of occasions. We ask that you support your child in being organised and ensuring their clothes are in their bag in order for Mr Grimmer to run an effective PE programme and for hygiene reasons.
We suggest all children also bring sneakers, as they will be running on our concrete fitness track. The children must come to school in school uniform with their correct school shoes. If their PE session is at the end of the day they may go home in sports uniform.
Senior School Sport
We have a highly organised sport rotation for the Senior School on Wednesdays*. We ask that all girls and boys bring shorts and their whanau T-shirt and they change out of these after their session. Girls may also wear bike pants. (* If there is a change to this day you will be informed by email.)
This term we started our training for the Inter School Gymnastics competition. This will take place on the 23rd/24th August.
We have also begun training for the Cross Country competition, which will be held at school on the afternoon of 25th August. The interschool final for Cross Country will be Thursday 12tth September We would like all students to focus on improving their running fitness over the holidays in preparation for our Cross Country event.
If your child cannot participate in Physical Education we ask you send a note.
ICAS Competitions
For those children who have signed up these will be held on the 1st August (English) and 15th August (Maths). Please ensure your child has a ruler for the Maths exam and they are outside Room 4 at 7.30 am.
Bake Off
The Year 6 students will be selling baking on the 26th September, as part of their fund raising to cover their Big Day out at the end of the year. The Enviro team will hold a sausage sizzle on the 15th August.
Koanga Festival
Our Kapa Haka group have been practising and will perform at the Koanga festival at Sommerville Intermediate on Saturday 2nd September. All are welcome to attend.
Visiting Performance
Storylines will be visiting our school on 14th September with a performance called “Puss in Boots” Pet Detective. The cost for this performance will be $5 per child. A notice will be sent out regarding this performance and payment.
From the Senior Team teachers
Room 1 Mrs Riach
Room 2 Mrs Christensen
Room 3 Mrs Chilvers
Room 4 Ms Redpath (Senior School Team Leader)
Room 18 Ms Corderoy
Room 19 Mrs Griffin
If you have any other queries please contact Jillian Redpath (Team Leader).
Senior School Term 3 Calendar
July
24th All Speech planners back at school
25th Year 6 Bake Sale
26th Rugby/ Senior School Sport all children require sports gear
28th Trees for Survival trip
31st Rooms 3 and 4 Trip to Mangere Mountain
August
1st ICAS English exam 7.30 am (Meet in Room 4)
Rooms 1 and 2 Trip to Mangere Mountain
2nd Senior Sport – All children require sports gear
3rd Whiz Kids Science Programme begins for those who have enrolled.
Meet in Room 4 at 3pm . Please collect children at 4.30 pm
Senior School Trip Room 18 and 19
4th MM2 with Mrs Christensen
Parent Assembly (Room 1)
7th Principal of BBI to talk to Year 6 students 11 am
7/8th Dance festival
9th Senior Sport – All children require sports gear
Whiz Kids Science Programme 3.00p m
11th Summit at Ormiston for selected Year 5 and 6 students
15th ICAS Maths 7.30 am
Enviro sausage Sizzle
16th No Senior School Sport today
Whiz Kids Science 3.00 pm
22nd Senior School Matinee 1.40 Parents welcome who cannot attend a night performance
22nd and 23rd Senior School Production
23rd No Senior School sport today, Whizz Kids Science 3 pm
25th School Cross Country (No assembly this day)
28th Saving Day School Cross Country
30th Senior School Sport
Science Whiz Kids 3.00-4.30 pm
September
1st Parent assembly
Senior School Speech Competition Final (11 am in school hall)
6th Senior School Sport (2-3 pm)
12th Interschool Cross Country
13th Senior School Sport
14th Storylines Performance
15th Parent Assembly Room 4
Girls cricket
19th Owairoa Speech final for our winning contestant
20th Senior School Sport 2-3 pm
22nd Girls cricket (saving day)
School assembly
24th Senior School Sport (2-3 pm)
26th Year 5 and Year 6 Mathex Comp (for selected team of 4 students) 9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Year 6 Bake Sale
29th Parent Assembly (Last Day of School for the term)
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