Welcome to Kahu 10.

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I hope everyone is well. As you are aware, Ngunguru school is closing tomorrow Wednesday 25 March and will not open again until Wednesday 15^th April. Our school holidays have been brought forward starting 30^th March.

Yesterday I sent home a pack with each of the kids including a topic booklet, the class seesaw code and their studyladder login. Please don't stress about getting everything done, I just know as a parent that it is going to be an easier 4 weeks with some structure and paper work as well as online work for your child to do. Stay well first and foremost.

I am available via email if you have any questions, and if you would like to share your work with the class, please use the seesaw code. I will be keeping an eye out on studyladder and will make comments during the day. If you need your child’s login and password for Epic, studyladder or their google account please email.

Here are some ideas to help you learn from home... 

Studyladder

Username: Password: 

Reading: 

·  Read a chapter book for at least 20min every day, and report back to mum or dad what happened.  Online - Epic

Maths:

·  Times tables and basic facts 5 minute frenzies

· Studyladder - complete 3 tasks in all different areas at level 7.

·  Sheppards Software online games

Writing:

·  Write for at least 20mins every day about anything you like.  See if you can improve your word count each day. Set yourself a target of something you would like to include (eg. speech, metaphor, persuasive).  This could be done on google drive and shared with me, or send me a photo of it if you prefer to write it.

·  Studyladder - find a task and complete it.

Other ideas

·  Study sheets (all children were given a booklet of 6 sheets)

·  Share something with us on google drive and we will have a look!

·  Sleep well, meditate, do yoga, exercise

·  Learn a language

·  Learn an instrument

·  Create some art

 We get a lot of our resources from twinkl, and you can have a look for some ideas for extra learning on the website below which is free for a month.

To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in new zealand access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. We’re also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption.

 Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code NZLTWINKLHELPS

 If you have any queries or questions please don't hesitate to contact me at kbroadfoot@ngunguru.school.nz 

Kind Regards

Kirk Broadfoot

Term 1 Letter 2020