Term 1 Week 4: Friday 23 February 2024

Important Dates 2024
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
Tuesday 12 March – Year 1 & 2 Swimming Carnival 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Thursday 14 March – Year 5 & 6 Swimming Carnival 9:20 – 11:00 am
Thursday 14 March – Year 3 & 4 Swimming Carnival 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Friday 15 March – Family Fun Fest 4:30 – 7:00 pm
Thursday 21 March – BOT meeting, Staffroom 5:30 pm
Friday 22 March – Year 3 – 6 Triathlon 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Wednesday 27 March – Whānau Hui in the Staffroom 5:00 pm
Thursday 28th March – Whole School Assembly 2:15 pm, All Parents are Welcome

IN THIS ISSUE:
Parent Teacher Conferences
Spotlight on Year 1 & 2
Emergency Drills
Student Contact Details Update
PTA Update: Family Fun Fest – Ways you can help, Yummy Sticker Sheets
Community Notices

The PB4L focus for next week will be on:
Cooperation: Everywhere, taking turns
Excellence: Swimming Pool, practising skills
Cooperation: Swimming Pool, playing sensibly in the pool and sharing pool equipment

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. Early Pick Up on Wednesday 28 Feb at 12:30 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 cannot 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 schedule stays on track.

Bookings are now open for both 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 when booking so we can arrange a translator.

Click here for instructions to make a booking

SPOTLIGHT ON YEAR 1 & 2:
Great start to the Year
The Year 1 / Year 2 team had a fabulous start to the year.

So far, One of the highlights has been participating in lessons and swimming each day. This always brings a lot of joy and laughter, and it has been great to see the children learning new skills and using excellence by always trying their best.

Our unit of inquiry for Term 1 is a unit on Learning and Growing. The children are learning about being part of a class, school and wider community.

They listened to the story ‘Little Kiwi and the Treaty’ and discussed our school values of R.I.C.E (Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence) and how to use these values in the classroom. Class treaties and expectations matrices were then created.

Identifying their own strengths and growing friendships by building trust and showing empathy will be explored throughout this unit.

Emergency Procedures:
Fire Drill
As part of our ongoing monitoring of our Emergency Procedures, we had a Fire Drill in the afternoon of Thursday 22 February.
The fire bell was rung, and children lined up outside in their respective areas where a roll count was taken. The Senior Leadership Team walked around the school, checking that students and staff were outside the buildings. These drills also test our indoor and outdoor speakers, ensuring emergency announcements can be heard. This drill took just under 10 minutes to complete. Following the drill and the ‘all clear’, an announcement was made, and then our teachers completed a debrief document with their class.

Nominate Sunnybrae for a c hance to WIN one of two $10K sports grants.

The Big Little Sponsorship is back, so spread the word and nominate our school for the chance to win one of two $10,000 sports grants – one for the North Island and one for the South Island. We can spend it on whatever we need, like new equipment, sports uniforms or coaching sessions. Anything to help our little champions play a little freer.

Entering is easy!

Winning takes teamwork, so get the whole community involved by nominating our school. Teachers, students, parents, friends and whānau can all share the love and show their support for Sunnybrae by nominating here or by visiting aainsurance.co.nz/big-little
Entries are now open so get your nominations in today!

NOMINATE SUNNYBRAE
T&Cs apply. Entries close 11:59pm Sunday 24 March 2024.

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

Lunch Boxes
There has been an increase in students asking for cutlery at lunchtime to eat their lunch.
If you are packing food that requires utensils, please ensure you have included a fork or spoon in your child’s lunchbox. It might be a good idea to send extra utensils in a bag that can be stored in your child’s tote tray.

Please remember to pack some healthy fruit or vegetable options for your child to have at Brain Break time. It is great to have fruit/veggies for morning tea and/or lunch as well.

Student Contact Details Update
It is very important that all our contact details for parents and caregivers are current and accurate so that we can contact you in the event of an emergency. Please let the office know, either by calling 09 443 5058 or emailing office@sunnybrae.school.nz if you have moved house or changed mobile numbers or email addresses. Thank you for your cooperation with this important matter.

PTA UPDATE:
Ways you can help…
Click here to register 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 off at the school office anytime.

PROVIDE HOME BAKING – CAKE STALL

This is 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.

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 start collecting the items in the week beginning 11th March. Thanks for your help.

Yummy Stickers
The PTA would appreciate your Yummy stickers from Yummy branded apples. Simply collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers for Sunnybrae to claim our share of the $200,000 free Sport sports gear prize pool. Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores. The more you collect, the more sports gear we get so get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now! Once you have a full sheet of stickers please hand it into the Office before Friday 6 September.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A STICKER SHEET

Kind regards
Lorene Hurd, Principal
SUNNYBRAE NORMAL SCHOOL

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.