Newsletter 7th March 2024

Newsletter Date:  7 March 2024

Issue: 03/24

KIA ORA TEAM BAYVIEW

Welcome to our third newsletter for the year!

STUDENT LEADERS

At Bayview we endeavour to empower our learners to be leaders. We have a head boy and girl structure as well as a student leadership structure. This year some of our leaders attended the ‘Meet the Neighbours’ picnic in Lynn Reserve on Friday 1st March. They were incredible at helping to facilitate fun activities and games for families and also helped out at the information table. 

Our student leaders for 2024 are:

Head Girl: Reanna Poutama

Head Boy: Jayden Kim

Deputy Head Girl: Amanda Oliverio

Deputy Head Boy:  Rhys Withy

Red House: Jakob Purvis, Lucy Tregonning, Ariana Newman

Green House: Brody Byrne, Olive Hoy, Diamond Whetu

Yellow House: Noah Hayden, Anton Arada, Astrid Brockelsby

Blue House: Otto Yang, Ethan Li, Ella Wakeman 

This year we are expanding the leadership opportunities of our house leaders from just sports related to a range of experiences such as environmental warriors, travelwise leaders, etc.

We know you will congratulate our leaders on being voted into these positions by their peers and the staff.

CROSSING PATROLS

We are so lucky to have wonderful year 6 learners willing to give their time to keep our children safe while they are crossing the road. These learners are trained by Senior Constable Louise Nicholas from the NZ Police and must pass her scrutiny to be able to be school patrollers.

The roster for our patrols:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Parent AM	Alanah	Raewyn	Mike	Katie (Marliyah)	Anne
Student AM 8:25 – 8:55am	Reanne Hadrian	Karter Nathan	Astrid Brody B	Marliyah Lucy	Jakob  William
Reserves AM	Russell Marliyah	Hangyeol Hadrian	Ruby  Kayden	Jett  Layne	Reanne  Lucy
Parent PM	Collette	Karolina	Katie (Riley)	Kirsten	Brooke
Student PM 2:45 – 3:10pm	Jett Andrew	Louie Russell	Elisha Riley	James Alexa	Rhys Kayden
Reserves PM	Elisha  William	Nathan  Jakob	Andrew Marliyah	Rhys  Nathan	Astrid Alexa

A huge thank you to the parents who also volunteer their time to supervise the patrols. This adds an extra layer of protection. We recognise the time and weather conditions these parents have to stand through to support these children.

LONG BAY PICNIC

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our annual picnic at Long Bay. We were very lucky with the weather and know the kids had a great time! Thank you to PJ from Harcourts Cooper and Co. for supporting us with fruit and water. We are always appreciative of PJ’s support in all that we do. Thank you also to the lovely parents who helped with the BBQ; swam in the water to keep kids safe: supervised from the shoreline; and generally gave a helping hand throughout the day! We couldn’t hold such wonderful days that create memories without the support of our parents and caregivers!

READING AT BAYVIEW SCHOOL

Literacy at Bayview encompasses many different learning areas and includes the explicit teaching of reading, writing, phonics and oral language. Bayview has recently begun a whole school journey with iDeaL, which is a platform that helps introduce and implement a structured literacy approach. 

With a focus on reading:

• Our Year 0-1 students begin working on their foundation literacy skills. This includes building on their phonemic awareness through understanding concepts such as rhyme, syllables, blending, and segmenting. They are introduced in an explicit order to the alphabetic principle e.g. being able to read and write alphabet sounds.

• Our Year 2 learners continue to build on their foundation literacy skills. In Year 2 they are expected to build on their fluency in reading and are mostly still ‘learning to read’.

• Our Year 3-6 learners should have increasing fluency when reading. This means they are reading with expression, following punctuation and dialogue cues. From Year 3 onwards, most learners are beginning to ‘read to learn’. This means that they will only move a couple of reading levels each year. Their comprehension skills are being developed alongside a range of higher level language skills. They learn how to explore texts in a variety of ways, how to negotiate, evaluate, and critically consider texts. They will explore complex texts in simple ways and simple texts in complex ways and interpret texts to explore a common theme, topic, or idea etc. 

Most learners will bring a book home each evening for recreational reading time. Our expectation is that the children choose these for themselves and take responsibility for changing them each day. Our children also visit the library regularly and can do so at break times to take books out. 

Tegan Cheeseman – Leader of Learning Literacy

SCHOOL FENCE

The fence around the school is almost finished. We are just waiting for the final gates to be installed, including both pedestrian and vehicle gates. The purpose of the fence is to ensure our learners are not able to leave the school grounds during the school day. We ask that you please do not peg the gates back but instead allow the school staff or special monitors to do this. We have noticed some parents hooking the side gate open at 2.45pm before school finishes at 3pm.

PAID UNION MEETING

On Friday 22nd March the majority of our teachers will be attending a paid union meeting in the afternoon. We are asking parents to please pick children up at 12.30pm that afternoon. We will only have a skeleton staff of non union member teachers and teacher aides to supervise any learners who are not able to be picked up. These children will be supervised in the hall, watching a movie, and will be released normally at 3pm.

PAID UNION MEETING

On Friday 22nd March the majority of our teachers will be attending a paid union meeting in the afternoon. We are asking parents to please pick children up at 12.30pm that afternoon. We will only have a skeleton staff of non union member teachers and teacher aides to supervise any learners who are not able to be picked up. These children will be supervised in the hall, watching a movie, and will be released normally at 3pm.

BEACH HAVEN FUN RUN/WALK

After a few challenging years the Beach Haven Fun Run/Walk is happening on 10 March 2024 at 9am.

Same great location – Shepherds Park, slightly new courses (to make the most of those fabulous new tracks), same great vibes, stalls, sponsors, prizes. Book it in now!!

Term Dates For 2024:

Term 1: 31 January – 12 April

Term 2: 29 April – 5 July

Term 3: 22 July – 27 September

Term 4: 14 October – 17 December

Di and Team Bayview Staff

DATES FOR DIARIES 2024 27 March – partnership meetings 1pm – 7pm (school closes at 12.30pm)  29 March – Good Friday holiday 1 April – Easter Monday holiday 2 April – Easter holiday for schools 4 April – BOT meeting 12 April – Last day for term 1 school closes at 2pm Term break – 15th April – 26th April Term 2 starts Monday 29 April Fundraising Dates: 13 March – Iceblock day 20 March – Iceblock day 5 April – School disco 5.30 – 7pm (NB this date has changed due to PUM)   7th March 2024 Dear Parents, Guardians and Whānau Paid Union Meetings Friday 22nd March  The Primary Teachers union NZEI are calling for a paid union meeting during March. Our teachers will be attending a meeting on Friday 22nd March during the afternoon. It is a legal right for teachers to attend PUM’s. As the majority of our teachers are members of NZEI union, they will need to be released to attend this meeting. Therefore the Board has decided to ask parents who can please collect their child early on this day i.e at 12.30pm to do so. There will only be a few teachers and our teacher aides left to supervise learners who require supervision. This will be in the form of a movie in the hall.  We ask that parents arrange to have their children picked up at 12.30pm on Friday 22nd March. Any children who need to stay at school can be collected from the hall. School will close normally at 3pm so please ensure your child knows how they are getting home at this time. We thank you in advance for your support with this.   Yours sincerely Brad Norman Presiding Member Bayview School Board