1 Aug 2025

Kia ora koutou

 

Just a friendly reminder that nominations are still open for 3 Parent Representatives and 1 Staff Representative to join the Bayswater School Board. 

Nominations close: 12 noon, Wednesday 6 August 2025

Anyone on the school electoral roll can nominate themselves or another eligible person (candidates don’t need to be parents).

Nomination forms are available from the school office and must be returned by the closing date.

If more than three parent nominations are received, an election will be held and voting information and dates will be advised.

For more info or forms, contact:

Amelia Peihopa 
(Returning Officer)
meelsc2@gmail.com | 
021 260 6564

1 Aug 2025

Kia ora koutou,

We have had a wonderful week in Whānau Kokoru with the highlight of course being our zoo trip on Monday. We were so impressed with our tamariki - they represented our school really well, were involved and polite during our education sessions, and took away a lot of new knowledge.

We also had Kate, from Food for Thought come in for 3 hours throughout the week, to teach us about reading food packaging labels and the nutritional value. This was really interesting for the students and we appreciate Kate making the time to come in. 

Rūma Rua made shoebox dioramas, with Jo in STEAM, on rainforests and the animals within. They've also continued their music lessons with Norah, which they'll pick up again later in this term.
We've started reading a journal story called The Zoo Debate, connecting our visit to the Auckland Zoo and our learning as Zoologists -  in Learning Adventures -  to the story.  The debate on whether animals should be in zoos has also helped with our persuasive writing. Having an opinion and backing it up with facts.  Each child should know their speech topic and what their opinion is, so please check in with them. You could also talk with them what their reasons or arguments could be.  We'll be looking at that next week.

Rūma Wha have been creating information reports for some sea creatures, looking at their habitat, features, life span, predators, prey and diet. We have been reading journals linked to seals and sharks. We have created a habitat using a shoe box with STEAM with Jo. 
We have started looking at persuasive writing for our speeches. The children will be choosing a speech topic next week to research and write about. 

Rūma Ono have been hard at work on our speeches. Students have picked a topic to write about, have come up with points to support their argument, and have started researching evidence to support their points. Next week students will have a chance to get feedback on their speeches from their TGS buddies.
We have talked about our new company 'Adaptimals' and created a code of conduct for this to help guide us when working on related tasks. We are very excited to be zoologists and hopefully be commissioned to work on something.
We have finished up our maths learning on reading graphs and timetables, and next week we will be diving into fractions.

In maths, we have all been practising basic facts for the Mathathon.  If your child hasn't started a page, please help them to do this! All the information can be found here - https://bayswaterschoolmathathon.raiseit.co.nz/

Ngā mihi,
Whānau Kokoru - Maddy, Grace, and Brad

1 Aug 2025

Kia ora e te whānau,

Whānau Puna (Rooms 9, 10, 7 & 8) have enjoyed our wonderful trip to the Auckland Zoo on Monday. The children all had a fantastic and enjoyable time.

Children are enjoying their learning in literacy. Room 9 and Room 10 have been reading the shared text - The Good Idea. Room 9 has focused on punctuation, with a focus on the comma. Room 10 has been practising using thought bubbles and synonyms. They have enjoyed making thought bubbles for the characters in the story and for animals from our zoo visit. In Room 7 and 8 we have been writing out our trip to the zoo.

In maths this week we have been working on:

Room 7/8 - Creating repeated patterns.

Room 9 - Solving Word Problems, Mind Challenge, Maths Journal, Chapter Consolidation

Room 10 - measuring perimeter

Reminder to sign your child up for the Mathathon at https://bayswaterschoolmathathon.raiseit.co.nz/

Whānau Puna team

Tracy, Sasha, Gerry, Wendy, Bev and ClaireS