Term 1 Week 2: Friday 9 February 2024
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Important Dates 2024
Thursday 22 February – BOT meeting, Staffroom 5:30 pm
Wednesday 28 February – Parent Teacher Conferences 1:20 – 7:00 pm – School Closes at 12:30 pm
Thursday 29 February – Parent Teacher Conferences 3:20 – 6:00 pm
Friday 15 March – Family Fun Fest 4:30 – 7:00 pm
Thursday 21 March – BOT meeting, Staffroom 5:30 pm
Wednesday 27 March – Whānau Hui 5:00 pm Staffroom
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Parent Teacher Conferences
Spotlight on Year 5 & 6
Attendance: Every day counts
Learning Assistants at Sunnybrae
Crossing Duty Helpers Needed for 2024
PTA Update: Family Fun Fest – Ways you can help
Sports Update: Basketball Registration // Thanks to O’Halloran Chartered Accountants
Community Notices
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The PB4L focus for next week will be on:
Respect: Everywhere Looking after belongings and using equipment correctly
Excellence: Swimming Pool Practising skills
Cooperation: Swimming Pool Playing sensibly in the pool and sharing pool equipment
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Parent Teacher Conferences & Goal Setting
We are holding our Sunnybrae Parent Teacher Conferences and Goal Setting on Wednesday 28 February from 1:20 – 7:00 pm and Thursday 29 February 3:20 – 6:00 pm.
We hope that all families will attend these meetings so that you can share your insights on how we can best support your child. Teachers are interested in learning about what success looks like for your child, what supports their learning, and any potential barriers to the learning process. Teachers will share how your child has settled into their new class and routines. Parents and teachers will collaboratively set learning goals for your child for the coming term.
Please note that children will need to be picked up at 12:30 pm on Wednesday the 28 February.
Click here if you need after-school care with the YMCA
Bookings on Hero
Please book an appointment with your child’s teacher. You will be able to book a 10 minute interview. If you have more than one child, you will not be able to book back to back interviews. This is to allow time for you to move from one class to the next and to ensure that the scheudle stays on track.
Bookings are now open for both of these evenings and can be made electronically through the Hero app. If you need support to make a booking on the Hero app please email your child’s teacher.
If you need language support please add a note in the comment to the teacher section at the time of booking so that we can arrange a translator.
Click here for instructions to make a booking
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SPOTLIGHT ON YEAR 5 & 6
Welcome Back
As we gear up for another exciting year, we want to extend a warm welcome to all our new students and families joining us for the first time, and a heartfelt welcome back to our returning students and families. The start of a new school year is always filled with anticipation and excitement. It’s a time for new beginnings, new friendships, and new opportunities for learning and growth.
Our team is comprised of:
Room 16 – Mrs Carolyn Hutton
Room 17 – Mrs Jasmine Kim
Room 18 – Mrs Miranda Blincoe
Room 19 – Mrs Mary Waters
Room 20 – Mr Stephen Gordon
During the time together this term we have been getting to know your child further, their interests and learning style. Students will also be completing some initial assessments to assist with identifying your child’s area of need in literacy and numeracy. In particular, the team will be using new approaches to support and improve spelling and maths basic facts knowledge.
Swimming
Our classes have swimming sessions every weekday morning and we ask that you help ensure that your child is prepared (towel, togs, goggles). It is imperative that your child attend these sessions to help improve their confidence and develop their swimming stroke. Students work in their ability group with an instructor and seeing the progress already made by some students highlights the success of the programme and future water safety.
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Student Council
At the start of the term students who are interested in being a member of the Student Council have been completing their application forms and preparing a short presentation that will be recorded and shared with their peers, teachers and the Senior Leadership as part of the election process. The election will take place next week as the Student Council members play an important role across the school and we have items and events to plan. There will be another set of elections held in the middle of the year to give more children opportunities take on leadership.
Camp
Our Year 5/6 Camp will be held in Term 2 at Carey Park Camp. The dates for the camp will be Wednesday 12 June – Friday 14 June. Additional information about our Education Outside the Classroom will be forwarded later this term.
Partnership
We believe that strong partnerships between home and school are essential for student success. We’re excited about the possibilities that this new school year holds and look forward to working together with you to make it a memorable and rewarding experience for all our students. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
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Attendance – Every Day Counts
As the school year gets underway, we wish to stress the importance of your child attending school regularly, as every day counts. As a school, we know this to be true and monitor the attendance rates of all students twice a term – week 5 and week 10. If we are concerned about your child’s attendance we will make contact with you as we work together to ensure your child attends school regularly.
We have analysed the attendance data for Sunnybrae 2023 and wish to share this with you alongside the Ministry of Education guidelines – see the table below.
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It is pleasing to see that we are slightly above the Ministry’s target of students attending regularly and that we only have a small percentage of students who are chronically absent i.e. 2%.
In 2023 we had 79 students whose attendance fell between 80-89%, which is below the Ministry of Education’s guidelines of regular attendance. A lot of these students fell into this group as they had been absent as they travelled overseas. We can appreciate that this has been important as families have reconnected after COVID.
We look forward to working with you to ensure that all students at Sunnybrae attend school regularly, and should you need help in ensuring your child comes to school, please contact your child’s teacher and/or a member of the Senior Leadership Team – Lorene Hurd, Jane Sharpe and Helen Rennie-Younger.
We also ask that when planning overseas travel, please ensure approval is sought beforehand from Lorene Hurd our Principal, by emailing office@sunnybrae.school.nz with travel dates and destination. Where possible, the time away from school should be during, or include, the school holidays to minimise the number of days absent from school.
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Learning Assistants/Teacher Aides
At Sunnybrae Normal School, we are fortunate to have the following teachers aides/Learning Assistants working with us this year. They bring compassion and expertise in working with a wide range of students in our care.
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From left: Jamie Liu, Nancy Song, Candy Wong, Melissa McIntyre and Joel Ligaliga.
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Get on Board with Hero
Sunnybrae’s goal is to use the Hero platform for our communication from Term 1 in 2024. We are, therefore, asking that our school whānau go through the process of signing up to Hero. We are excited about the features that Hero has to offer our families. Download the app today.
Click here for help signing up to Hero
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Naming your child’s school items.
Please ensure any item that comes to school is clearly named – this includes clothing, drink bottles and lunchboxes, shoes, school bags and swimwear. With the students attending swimming lessons and clothing being removed – we are acquiring lots of un-named items in Lost Property.
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Crossing Duty Helpers Needed in 2024
Thank you to the families that have offered to help with crossing duty. We appreciate your commitment to keeping our students safe. We still need helpers for the following slots:
Tuesday Afternoon 3:00 – 3:15 pm
Thursday Afternoon 3:00 – 3:15 pm
Friday Morning 8:30 – 8:55 am
If you are able to help by doing the crossing duty on one of these days, please let Katrina Bambury know at office@sunnybrae.school.nz or call 09 443 5058.
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PTA UPDATE:
Family Fun Fest 2024
We are in planning mode for the Sunnybrae Family Fun Fest coming up on the 15th of March from 4:30 – 7:00 pm. This is our major fundraising event for the year. As a school, we rely on community fundraising to help provide great opportunities and facilities for our children. This year, we are fundraising for a new playground – how exciting!
Ways you can help…
Click here to regisiter as a helper
CHOCOLATE BAR DONATION
Back by popular demand will be the famous Chocolate Coin Toss game at the
Family Fun Fest. We are asking each family to donate one king size bar of
chocolate as a prize for this successful carnival game. Chocolate bars can be
dropped at the school office anytime.
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PROVIDE HOME BAKING – CAKE STALL
Always a popular stall with the kids! If you can help with home baking for us to
sell on the night at our cake and dessert stall please bring baked goods to the staffroom on the day of the Fun Fest. Please only provide cakes and biscuits that can be served at room temperature.
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KIDS ONLY GARAGE SALE
This year we would like to have a kids only garage sale as part of the Family Fun Fest. If you have toys, puzzles, games, bikes, or scooters that your child no longer uses, start setting them aside and donate to the Family Fun Fest. Please note: we will only start collecting the items in the week beginning 11th March.
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SPORTS UPDATE:
Basketball
Registrations are now open for all year 2-6 students wanting to play basketball for Sunnybrae this semester.
The Year 2-4 Mixed/Boys League will be played on Tuesdays at Eventfinda Stadium, Silverfield, Glenfield between 3:40pm – 7pm. Games commence on Tuesday 5th March 2024 and run for 13 weeks across Terms 1 and 2.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YEAR 2 – 4
The Year 5 & 6 Mixed/Boys League will be played on Wednesdays at Eventfinda Stadium, Silverfield, Glenfield between 3:40pm – 7pm. Games commence on Wednesday 6th March 2024 and run for 13 weeks across Terms 1 and 2.
Year 5 & 6 Girls Only League will be played on Tuesdays at Eventfinda Stadium, YMCA, Massey Uni and AUT. 3:30pm – 8:15pm. (Having a team in this league will depend on numbers of girls wanting to play). Games commence on Wednesday 6th March 2024.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YEAR 5 & 6
The fees will be approximately $90 per student and will be loaded onto your MyKindo account for payment before the start of the season. Parents are responsible to transport their children to and from the venue.
Registrations close on Friday 16th February 2024 – please note this is 3 days earlier than previously advertised due to timeline around registering our teams with Harbour Basketball.
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Thanks to O’Halloran
O’Halloran North Shore Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors are the proud accounting partner and sponsor for the BNZ Breakers and we gratefully thank them for donating 50 tickets to Sunnybrae for the last regular season home game on the 16th February. Director of O’Halloran’s Stephen Simpson is a former student and his boys also recently attended Sunnybrae. Thank you for supporting Sunnybrae.
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Kind regards
Lorene Hurd, Principal
SUNNYBRAE NORMAL SCHOOL
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REMINDER:
Please note that all children are to be collected from school by 3.00 pm. If you are unable to collect before this time, you may be interested in booking your child into the YMCA after-school club held in the School Hall.
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Northcote’s new community hub and upgrade of Puāwai Cadness Reserve – future design drop-in session
Tuesday 13th Feb 4:30-6pm @ Northcote Library
As a key member of the Northcote community, Eke Panuku would like to invite you to a drop-in session at Northcote Library about the new community hub and upgrade of Puāwai Cadness Reserve.
This will be an opportunity to:
- Hear more about these projects and our engagement so far, as well as other Northcote developments.
- See the initial designs for the hub and reserve.
- Provide your feedback on the designs and how you might use the spaces.
- Understand the next steps and timing of this project.
We will be engaging with the wider community soon. We look forward to seeing you at this session.
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