Principal’s Corner
Like many Mums, I received a text from my daughter at the weekend. However this text from Serah said she was “mortified” as she had had to leave a café because her two year old son had been “embarrassingly naughty”. While I felt for her, it also made me smile because I can distinctly remember, before I had children, looking at children who were doing similar things and thinking, “My children will never do that!” Guess what? They all did “that” …and a lot more beside!
What I have learnt over those (many) years is that, in fact, all children do things that upset us, surprise us, annoy us and mortify us! It’s part of growing and learning. The really important thing is what we as parents do when our children upset, surprise, annoy and mortify us. It is on those occasions that you need to set the boundaries that are important to you as a parent and establish consequences for your child’s actions. I’m not sure if that’s harder when they are two years old or fourteen years old but I do know that all ages test the boundaries and having an appropriate consequence helps your child to learn.
Over the past few weeks, there has been some behaviour at school that is not what we would expect, particularly from some of our senior boys. As a result, some very definite consequences have been established and clearly explained to our students. These are outlined on the back page for your information. Our intention is that there is a consistent consequence for inappropriate behaviour so that our students will learn to take responsibility for their actions.
So stick to it everyone – it is a demanding part of parenting but it is so worthwhile. And I have to say that my three children, having done all those things that I vowed they never would, have all grown up to be “normal” contributing members of society who hopefully, one day, will look after their parents! J
Anne
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to these students who represented Churton Park School at the Wellington Interzone Cross Country last week. |
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Year 6 Girls Year 5 Girls Yr 6 Boys Yr 4 Boys |
Rosi 49th Taylor 13th, Alexandra 14th, Sophie 40th Josh 30th, Zac 31st Marshall 51st |
A large number of students participate in this highly competitive race so we are really proud of our students.
School achievement targets for the 2010 year…
As a school we have established clear expectations for achievement in each year group from Year 1 to Year 6 in maths, reading and writing. However, having analysed data from last year, we have identified three targets which will be a particular focus in 2010. They are…
Year 3 writing…
By the end of the year, 80% of our students in year 3 will achieve our writing target.
School wide maths
Each year group has an identified numeracy target, identified under the National Standards number strategies. Our target is that, by the end of the year, 80% of our students in each year group will meet the maths National Standard.
Year 2 Basic Facts
By the end of the year, 80% of Year 2 children will achieve Stage 4 Basic Facts.
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo
We have deliberately set our targets high – we would rather be aspirational than comfortable.
Room 4 presents at J Block assembly…
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Room 4 worked in cooperative groups to find out answers to their questions on how to care for animals.
Some groups chose to present their answers on posters, two groups made models and one group made a powerpoint presentation.
We shared our answers during a J Block assembly. |
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We have two assemblies next week which parents are invited to share and enjoy, they are for the: New Entrant Block parent assembly on Tuesday 29th June at 9.15am in the school hall. And M Block parent assembly on Wednesday 30th June at 2.15pm in the school hall. We look forward to seeing you there. |
We have been learning about how to write cause and effect in a sentence. We read a poem called ‘Goodnight’ about bugs that bite in the night. Then we wrote a sentence to explain why bugs should be careful at night. Here are some of the sentences students came up with.
SCHOOL NEWS …
BEHAVIOUR DEFINITION AND CONSEQUENCES FOR PLAYGROUND
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Inappropriate Behaviour Definition |
Consequence |
1 |
Silly Nuisance Behaviour eg annoying people, not stopping when asked, not making good choice |
Warning – then if repeated in same week immediate benching for 10 minutes |
2 |
Repeated Nuisance Behaviour |
30 minutes time out on the next available lunchtime. |
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Breaking school rules, swearing, lying, being unkind to others, lack of respect for other people’s property, disrespect or insolence or for a repeat of Step 2 behaviour within 1 week |
Withdrawal of playground privileges for two days, parents notified by child and teacher who co-ordinates with Principal/ Deputy Principal |
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Bullying, fighting, hitting, vandalism, defiance, repeat of step 3 behaviours within 2 weeks |
Withdrawal of playground privileges for 5 days, parents notified by child and Principal. |
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Repeat of step 4 behaviours within 2 weeks. |
Parents notified immediately by Principal – meeting requested. Child may be stood down for specified period. |
It is hoped that we will not have to use the above steps. However if students are inappropriate then they know that these consequences will be consistently applied.
Keeping you updated:
Mid-year reports will be sent home on Friday 23rd July for all pupils. Three Way Conferences will take place on Tuesday 27th & Thursday 29th July, the internet booking system will be available on the first day of next term, please mark this in your diary now.
REMINDER:
Please make sure that you have returned your Accident & Emergency and Personal Details Update sheet by Wednesday 30th June. If you have misplaced your form another copy can be obtained from the office. Thank you.
HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES:
If you are looking for a holiday programme for your children these holidays, there is a list available from the office with contact details for all the programmes that have been in touch.
ADVERTISING IN THE NEWSLETTER – we would appreciate your support.
The school newsletter is now established as a weekly communication within our school community so that we can keep you informed about the activities within the life of the school. We have really appreciated your feedback and if there is something you think should be included, please let us know.
If you are in business, we would appreciate your sponsorship. To help with the cost of the coloured newsletter, we are offering the opportunity for three businesses to provide a business card size advertisement to be included at the bargain price of $150 for all of term 3 - ten weeks, working out at $15 a week. Please contact the school office so that we can arrange this – we are looking forward to getting your call. We have two interested parties already so be in quickly.
Have a good week everyone.
Anne Lye, Principal