14 February 2018 Number 03

Banks Avenue School Learning today to succeed tomorrow

Kia mau ngā akoranga, kia tau ai āpōpō

N E W S L E T T E R

Phone: 03 385 4163, fax: 03 385 6581 email: office@banksave.school.nz, website: www.banksave.school.nz

Wednesday 21 February Walk or Wheel Safely to School

Thursday 22 February Board of Trustees meeting: 6:15pm in the Sky Room – all welcome

Friday 23 February Junior Module Flower/Rock Day – 11:30 – 12:10pm

Friday 23 February School Assembly – 2:00pm in the Library

Tuesday 27 February Learning Conversations – children dismissed at 12:30pm

Thursday 1 March Learning Conversations – children dismissed at 12:30pm

Friday 16 March School Assembly

Friday 30 March Good Friday – school closed

Monday 2 April Easter Monday – school closed

Tuesday 3 April Easter Tuesday – school closed

Monday 9 April Junior and Senior Cross Country

Wednesday 11 April Junior and Senior Cross Country postponement day

Thursday 12 April Last Day Term 1 – children dismissed at 3:00pm

Friday 13 April Teacher Only Day

Wednesday 25 April ANZAC Day – in school holidays

Monday 30 April Term 2 begins

Banks Avenue School trip / event postponements and or cancellations will only be heard on

NEWSTALK ZB 1098AM and CLASSIC HITS and viewed on our website: www.banksave.school.nz

SCHOOLGEN LINK: http://schoolgen.co.nz/schoolgen-schools/banks-avenue-school-christchurch

If your child is absent from school, for any reason, please let our school office know using one of the following

options: Phone: 385 4163 / option 3 text 027 422 8032 email: office@banksave.school.nz

Or notify us via our website: http://www.banksave.school.nz/absences.html or via our Tiqbiz app: www.tiqbiz.com

If your child arrives at school after 9:00 am they must check in at the office. This saves a lot of phone calls for

unexplained absences in order to ensure the safety of all our children

Dear Parents and Whānau

Ngā mihi nui i te tau hou ki a koutou katoa - New Year

greetings to you all!

A warm welcome to

Renee and her family

to our Banks Avenue

School community.

Renee started in

Dudley this week.

Have a go a learning the flute! On Thursday 15 February at 8.15am in the

Music Room, Room 23, you can come and

have a go at learning the flute. Janet Simone

is an experienced musician and teacher at the

SDMS and will be available to help you and

talk to you about potential lessons.

Sione Nuku is a star learner in Dudley. He has made a

great start with his Passion Based Learning through

knowing how to create a mind map that shows his

passions and things he would love to learn about. Well

done Sione, we are proud of you.

Hi, kia ora, Ahalan, Goede dag, Bonjour, Guten Tag. . .

, konnichiwa.

‘HOT SHOT’ LEARNER’

Happy Valentine’s Day- I hope

there has been lots of aroha shared

today.

Great to see so many children

wearing mufti to support Heart day

- we raised $390.00.

Gentle Reminders School Hazards

If you identify a hazard around the school, e.g., a nail

sticking out, let the class teacher or office know.

Sunhats

School hats should be worn for Term 1 and Term 4.

Trees

Please remind your children that they are not allowed

to climb trees - reinforcing this safety concern from

home helps us.

Children waiting after school:

We are aware there are a few children leaving the

school grounds after school to wait for a parent to pick

them up at a designated point. This is a worry to us as

we don’t want any child waiting around on the street

without being supervised.

Kapa Haka We are thrilled to Matua Maaka taking our Kapa haka

group again this year. Kapa haka will begin this

Friday.

Cultural Day 28 March We are very proud of the fact that we have more than

30 different ethnicities at BAS. To

celebrate our wonderful diversity

we will be having a cultural day on

Wednesday 28 March. More

information will be coming home

later this term about the role

families will play in helping us

celebrate us.

Learning Conversations Reminder: These take place on:

Tuesday 27 February

Thursday 1 March

Children will be dismissed at 12:10pm on both these

day.

Booking information will be distributed with the

newsletter today and online bookings also open today.

We will be running a crèche for

siblings while you attend these

conferences. If you have any questions

or need some help with your booking,

please contact our school office.

Social Worker This is the third year the BoT are funding a school

social worker. Ann will be in our school two mornings

a week. Parents can ring 027 820 4617 to arrange a

meeting with her.

HEART Tokens Congratulations to the following children who have all

earned 25 HEART tokens - well done!

Hauora: Carlos H, Jasmin O (Roto), Ethan T,

Samantha K and Hayley A (AWA).

Excellence: Riley M (Roto), Cheyenne B

and Mikayla N (AWA).

Aroha: Chris M (Roto).

Respect: Kevian NR, Ruby M, Mary-anne

S and Solomon T (Roto).

Togetherness: Keevian NR, Aaliyah VH, Harmony G,

Irmhild B, Aidan C and Kahlia G (Roto).

Fifty HEART Tokens

Congratulations - these children have earned a

wristband.

Hauora: Hayley A (AWA).

Excellence:Lucas B , Ben F, Hank J Roto: Kahlia N,

Joshua P, Shaylah S, Hinemaia C (AWA). Aroha: Shaylah S (AWA).

Togetherness: Nation R (AWA).

Junior School Fencing In the school holidays we will have a fencing

contractor come in and fence

the junior school. This is as a

safety precaution as we have

some junior students who

could potentially leave the

school grounds.

HEARTbeat 106.7FM Don’t forget to tune into our school radio station,

HEARTbeat 106.7FM. Morning shows run from

8:30am-9:00am and lunchtime shows from 12:10pm -

12:40pm. If you live close to our school, you will be

able to listen to it by tuning into your radio at home or

in the car on the way to school. If not, our shows are

streamed online. All you need to do is Google

Shoutcast and then type banksavenueschool in the

Search Box. The name of our radio station will then

show up. All you do is click on play.

From Team Miro e-Learning is an integral part of the learning that takes place in Team Miro. This year we introduced BYOD (Bring

Your Own Device) into the Senior School, which gives children the option of bringing their own Chromebook or

Macbook Air to class. If you are thinking of buying a device it is important to make sure it has all the specifications

we require. All the information you need to know is on our school website. Please remember that bringing your own

device is not compulsory. We have school-owned devices available.

Go to: http://www.banksave.school.nz/e-learning---byod.html32

Team Miro Participating in the Top Team Event

Little HEART Day At BAS we have several students with a variety of medical conditions. Some children have heart health issues and

receive support from Heart Kids Canterbury. One of the supports Heart Kids Canterbury offer is travel assistance to

families who must travel to Auckland hospital for medical treatment with their heart child. Where possible we try to

support organisations that support our whānau therefore today everyone dressed in red or wore a red heart on their

sleeve. Our value of Aroha sure shone today as we raised shone $390.00. Thank you

Walk or Wheel Safely to School Day

Wednesday 21 February The Christchurch City Council is promoting safe and

active travel to and from school by holding their

annual Walk or Wheel Safely to School Day on

Wednesday 21 February. All children who walk,

cycle or scooter to school on 21 February will receive

stickers and will go into a prize draw to receive a gift

card for the winning family. The draw for this will take

place at our Week 4 school assembly.

We will be sending home entry forms for this

competition to all families. Completed entries need to

be handed to our Wellbeing Team members who will

be at all of our school entrances next Wednesday

morning giving out stickers and collecting your entries.

We hope you will join in and support this event that

celebrates our school value of Hauora.

Digital Citizenship

John Parsons In the first week of March all Otakaro Cluster school

will be learning with John Parsons from ‘Simulate 2

Educate’. John specialises in ‘Internet Health and

Wellbeing’ and is a specialist in his field having

worked extensively with police, schools and

communities all over New Zealand. He will be

facilitating a number of events for our Banks Avenue

School community: student workshops, staff

professional development and parent workshops.

‘Nurturing and Valuing Identity’ Workshop for

Team Kahikatea and Team Miro

‘Digital Boundary’ Workshop for Team Totara

The philosophy underpinning these workshops that

students need to learn to make informed ethical

decisions founded on common decency and reasonable

standards of right and wrong. John’s workshops will be

held at school on Friday 9 March and will help

children to learn to:

Repel and report

unwanted attention

when online

Support each other in

times of need

Project self-confidence and control online

Nurture and protect online identity

Future proof themselves for later employment

Develop a strong sense of self worth

‘Raising Resilient Capable Children’ for Parents All of our parents are invited to join in. The first parent

workshop will be held at Chisnallwood Intermediate

on Tuesday 6 March in the afternoon (1:30-3pm) and

the second community presentation will be held at

Waitakiri School on Wednesday 7 March in the

evening (7-8:30pm). These workshops will cover:

Identifies the specific challenges children face

when using ICT

Includes guidance on behaviour management

processes for parents in the practical situations

they will face

This workshop empowers parents to take

responsibility for safeguarding their children

Parents leave with the tools to support their

children in how to use ICT safely and ethically

at home and at school

We hope you will be able to attend as John is

considered an expert in this field. To

further support parents we have bought

two copies of his new book for our

Parent Library: ‘Keeping Your

Children Safe Online’. Please email Ms

Thompson if you would like to read

this: jthompson@banksave.school.nz

and she will get it to you.

Linewize This year we have implement Linewize across our

school for all students. This programme has three

components: Surfwize + Classwize + Familyzone and

is being used for over 130,000 students across New

Zealand schools. Surfwize and Classwize allow us to

know in real time where our students are and what they

are doing. These give us alerts if there is any activity

that isn’t acceptable within our school HEART Online

expectations. We appreciate the support of our Board

of Trustees in subsidising this as this has reduced the

cost of this to $3 for all students for 2018. This will

come home as part of school accounts in Week 5,

Term 1. In next week’s newsletter we will outline the

Familyzone programme which is available for families

who wish to increase internet safety at home.

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First Sovereign - Thank you We are grateful to have the robotics equipment needed to teach our children using the

objectives from the new Hangarau Matihiko Technology curriculum. Our learners couldn't

be more excited as you can see. The two changes to the curriculum have an emphasis on

digital technologies. Computational thinking for digital technologies is about

understanding the computer science principles that underlie all digital technologies, and

learning core programming concepts to become creators of digital technology, not just users. Designing and

developing digital outcomes involves learning how to design and produce quality, fit-for-purpose digital solutions.

The arrival of our new robotics gear is perfect as we can now take off with our learning through using these across the

school. Thank you to First Sovereign for making this happen by funding $2727.61. Banks Ave learners LOVE

robotics and you have got us out of the starters blocks - yippee!