Welcome to the Kererū learning space ( formerly known as Rooms 9 & 10). We are a learning space of 43 Year Two students, from a diverse background of 14 cultures. The teachers in this space are: Sally Redden, Ellie Galletly and Nikki Grimwood (Fridays), with Nina Blakemore and Jenny Greening as our Teacher Aides. As a collaborative teaching team we share responsibility for all of the students. You are welcome to talk to any one of the teachers about your child. Our students are grouped according to their needs for both Literacy and Numeracy, split across the two learning spaces. We are fortunate to have a range of extra support programmes being delivered to identified students. These include Reading Recovery, English language support and Early Literacy interventions.
Learning Space General Information
Start of the day:
Please encourage your child to become an independent learner by allowing them to do their before school jobs on their own. They can hang up their bag, put their lunch box on the shelf, and put their reading folder into the correct box. Once they have completed these tasks, they are allowed to play outside, draw on scrap paper or read a book in the library corner. Children can come into the learning space before 8.30am. We start the day with all of the children together on the large mat in the Launch space. After this we split off into smaller groups to do our literacy programmes.
Dudes of the day:
In the morning two children will be chosen to be the Dudes of the Day for that day. The Dudes of the Day get to be our messengers and the teachers’ helpers. All children will have turns at being a Dude of the Day.
Reward Time:
We have a whole class reward system known as “warm fuzzies in the jar”. The class are rewarded for showing the Wigram HEART values and following our class treaty. They receive “warm fuzzies” and the goal is to fill the jar before the end of the day, earning the whole class extra time on the playground at the end of the day.
Star of the Day:
Each day one outstanding student will be given Monty, our classmascot teddy-bear, to take home and be responsible for.
Bag hooks, desks and tote trays:
There are hooks in the cloak bay where your child can keep their bag. Jackets and polar fleeces need to be kept in school bags when not in use. The children do not have their own tote tray or their own desk as they sit in different places at different times of the day.
Homework expectations:
Children will bring home a book to read each day. Please listen to them read their book each night and return it to school the next day in their book bag with a comment filled in in their reading log book. The children will get weekly spelling words after they have learnt their 30 sight words. Remember to give your child lots of encouragement and praise!
Library and assemblies:
Our library day is fortnightly on Fridays of Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8. Library folders are able to be kept in a box in the Kererū Lab space if your child wishes to bring their books back before Library Day. Assemblies are held every Friday, please check the newsletters for further details.
Sunhats:
In Term 1 and Term 4 all children will need to wear their blue wide brimmed sun-hat when they are outside. These are available from the office.
Lunchtime activities:
The teachers at Wigram Primary like to offer some organised activities at lunchtimes. This term Juniors can come and join the Dance group on Mondays with Ms Lunan in the Hall. The Library is also open for quiet reading every lunchtime. On fine days there will be outside activities such as chalk drawing on the courts.
Fitness and fruit snack:
We have daily fitness at 10am and children are able to have a fruit snack after this. Please send a piece of fruit or vegetable snack in their lunchbox if possible. This ties in with our Wigram HEART value of Hauora.
Use of Digital Technology:
Students have daily access to IPads during Literacy
and Numeracy to support and reinforce their learning.
Useful Websites and apps:
● http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/ (literacy and maths games)
● http://www.spellingcity.com (spelling)
● http://www.primarygames.com (maths and some literacy games)
● http://www.topmarks.co.uk (maths)
● https://www.studyladder.co.nz ( literacy, numeracy and others) Your child
has a username and password to access this site.
● Apps (all free) – Dr Panda, abc lite, teach me sentences, teach me numbers
Blog Link:https://kererulearning.blogspot.co.nz
Sport:
Children have regular P.E sessions, weather permitting, on Fridays with Miss Grimwood, as well as school wide events such as Cross Country, and Athletics.
Kapa Haka:
All children currently attend weekly Kapa Haka on Tuesdays, learning Waiata and actions as well as Maori tikanga. In Term 4, a selected group will perform at the Uru Manuka Cultural Festival.
Pasifika Cultural Group:
On 30th August, our group will perform at our cluster Fia Fia. We will be practicing on Thursday afternoons.
Reporting to parents:
Parent-teacher conferences will happen on your child’s interim and anniversary dates (at 40 weeks, 60 weeks, 80 and 100 weeks).
