New Entrant Parent Session

Please note that we will share this presentation with you at the end.

Term 3 2021

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Kaiako (Teachers) in Koru Hub

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Regina

Cam

Esther

Gina

Navy

(Teaching Aide)

Amaria

(Team Leader)

Jemima

Hannah

Angela

Elena

YePing

Introduction to Koru hub

• Currently 3 Hubs - Koru(year 0-2), Harakeke(year 2-4) + Pōhutukawa (year 4-6)
• Whānau teacher is your main point of contact
• Your child may have different teachers for different learning areas
• Year levels in our hub(year 0 or 1)

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Daily Routines

• Shoes off on the racks , sign in on the screen, bag away and find something to settle into
• Bag space - belongings should fit inside bag space
• Sunhats compulsory in term 1/4 and fleeces term 2/3
• Brain break - a healthy food item
• Morning tea and lunch - 10-15 minutes supervision at lunch
• Shared expectations inside - no shoes, walking, inside voices
• Toilet and drink whenever they need it
• End of day routines - parents meet in Kowhai (main group on the courts).

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Communication

HERO is the main form of communication: learning & notices

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School website: Everything you need to know; Planning.

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Extras

• Co-Curricular lessons - Music and Drama - please give your child 1 term to settle into school, before enrolling them in lessons.
• Electives - every term for 5 weeks

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• Cross Country - once a year(Term 1)
• Swimming lessons - once a year(Term 2)
• Athletics - once a year (Term 4)
• Camp - (Term 4)

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requests

• Parking safely - road rules apply
• Children to arrive after 8:30am
• End of the school day is 3pm
• Settling in - It is best for the children if parents leave before the 9am bell so they can play with their friends and get settled in quicker
• If you are late, please sign your child in at the office
• Appointments and parent sign-in/out
• Naming clothing + spare clothing
• Emergency contacts - have plenty

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Your questions - Mix and Mingle

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LINC-ED Hero

Amesbury School 2021

How to sign up to Hero

We recommend downloading the Hero app on your phone and your main device/s at home.

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Go to the app store on your device and download the Hero by Linc-ed app.

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Use the email you have provided the school to log in and request a password link.

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Here are detailed steps for the sign in process.

Communication from school

* All notices, articles and reminders sent out from

school will be published through the Hero Community

Feed.

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* They will be emailed out automatically as well, so

you can view them through email if you are not

logging into Hero.

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* The notification icon in the top right hand will show

a red number to display the number of posts you

have not read.

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What can I see on Hero: Overview

Finance Information

• We will not be sending out finance information or invoices through Hero

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• We run all of our finance comms through our School Shop, and we cannot put all of this onto Hero. It makes sense to keep it all in one place, so we will keep using the School Shop for invoices, payments, and orders

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• You can follow the link from your account in Hero to the School Shop

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What can I see on Hero: Learning Report

What can I see on Hero: Learning Posts

What can I see on Hero: Learning Evidence

What can I see on Hero: Attendance

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You can see your child’s attendance at the bottom of their report.

What is on the HERO app?

*Notifications and communications

*Each student in your family: See their learning report and learning posts

*Term dates - when school is closed

*School calendar

*Reporting an absence

*Link to the school shop

*Link to the school website

How can we use Hero at home?

• It can be used for home learning or distance learning

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• Access student goals, so they can work on them at home

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• Any goals that have information boxes next them (question mark icon) have links to learning presentations and practice activities. We will keep working to increase the information boxes

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• Students can work on their learning tasks at home and upload to their goals, like they do at school

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• Students can make learning posts for their Journey of Growth and Development goals

Things to be mindful of

• This is new for all teachers, and we are currently working out how we use it to communicate and support learning
• May be differences between hubs and teachers as we do this
• May be overload of information or posts
• Bear with us! Tell us if there are issues, so we can work through them

Practical help

• Any questions?

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• Teachers in the session are now available for you to show them how Hero works, or to help you to sign up for Hero
• We have some devices available if you would like some assistance with this

New To school

Term 3 2021

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Kaiako (Teachers) in Koru Hub

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Regina

Cam

Esther

Gina

Navy

(Teaching Aide)

Amaria

(Team Leader)

Jemima

Hannah

Angela

Elena

YePing

Reading programmes - Make it interactive

At the early reading levels children learn to say a word for each word they see (1-1 matching), recognise high frequency words, develop the skills to work out tricky words, read with fluency and expression, notice and fix mistakes and to read for meaning (comprehension). As children progress, they continue to develop these skills and to build a deeper understanding of the text (e.g. critical thinking, sequencing, summarising).

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How you can help at home:

• Play my pile your pile game
• ABC chart - letter sounds and blends
• Listen to their reading book or alternate reading pages
• Read to your child
• Ask questions / retell the story
• Prompt and praise rather than tell
• Sunshine classics
• Read street/supermarket signs
• Encourage: stretching words out and fluency

Learning to read

writing programmes - Make it interactive

At the early writing levels children learn that pictures

have a message. The message is written with sounds (ABC) and

those sounds make up words.

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How you can help at home:

• Develop their fine motor skills (muscles in their fingers):

cutting, tearing bits of paper, threading

• Let them draw a picture and ask them lots of questions to

promote interesting language that they may use later on.

• Encourage them to get their mouth ready and say/stretch

out the sounds they want to write.

• They could write the supermarket list; write a letter or email

to a family member or someone they know.

Learning to write

Maths Programmes - Make it interactive

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The main focus in maths is to get a good foundation of number knowledge, how numbers work, seeing patterns and learning place value. Our learners are also learning basic facts - addition and subtraction to 5, to 10, doubles to 10.

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How you can help at home:

• Board games with throwing / adding dice numbers
• Counting
• Counting backwards following the numbers on the microwave
• Reading numbers in the supermarket and on number plates
• Talking about how it all works - e.g. fractions in real life
• Basic facts home learning as needed
• Matific/IXL
• Tizmos

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