Term 3, Week 1 Home Communication

Whiriwhiria kia eke panuku! 

(Choose to be more!)

Kia Ora, 

Welcome to Week 1 of Term 3. We hope you had a lovely rest from the school routine, and we look forward to another term of great learning.

TIMETABLE
Over the last few years, we have often integrated Literacy in with our Inquiry as much as possible (which meant that we were doing Literacy and Inquiry during the mid and last sessions of the day).

We will be fully integrating our Literacy, Mathematics and Digital Technologies programmes, into the great 'Youtube/Website Company Challenge!' Hōpara and Matawara will be combining their talents, in across team groups of 5 students, and will be  creating their own company. Each company will need to develop their vision and focus, and create content for their website that others will want to learn from or view. We can't wait to see what the kids come up with!

This programme will run Monday - Wednesday from 9:15am - 12:30pm and some time on a Friday, and will incorporate our core curriculum subjects, in addition to Leadership and our Pastoral Care programmes. Each student has their own 'home teacher' (not necessarily their 'team' teacher) who will be guiding them through this exciting learning, in addition to the associated assessment within it.

NOTE - you may receive Seesaw posts from teachers other than your child's team teachers this term.

DATES TO NOTE AROUND THIS - 

The following are workshops that will run to inform you about the processes we are following for this learning. Feel free to attend all!

* Attitude (from the Parenting Place) - coming to Launch the idea of an Online Company, and the responsibility within this to all of the students of ASPLORE - FRIDAY week 2 at 9:30am. 

* Parent information Evening - TBA

DEVICES AND APPS
If your child has a device that they can bring to school, this would be beneficial, as the use of devices will be huge amongst our teams.  The following apps or programmes would be helpful to have: Doink greenscreen and animation, stopmotion, imovie, google slides, google docs, google email, google drive.

LIFE EDUCATION
We are very lucky to have Life Education working with us over the first week, and we have selected these goals to learn about:

• Why is it important to show empathy towards others?
• Students explore the concept of empathy, and how we can respond to others.
• What is peer pressure and how can we deal with it?
• Peer pressure has both physical and emotional effects. Students explore what those are, relate them to different real-life situations, and formulate strategies to deal with them.
• How do the choices I make online affect me and others?
• Our online behaviour affects others as well as ourselves. How can we make good choices in a digital environment? What differences are there between our behaviour in a digital environment compared to a physical one?

FIELD PLAYING
Due to our winter conditions, if your child wants to play on the grass, they will need a change of mufti.

CALENDAR 

Term 3, Week 1
* Life Education visits this week
* Sausage sizzle - Friday 26 July

Week2
* Year 8 Pizza fundraiser - Friday 2 August
* Attitude - Talk with Yr 5-8 - Friday 2 August

Week 3
* North Canterbury Cantamaths - Wednesday 7 August
* Assembly - Friday 9 August

Have a brilliant week!

Chris, Nick, Lynn