St Benedict's School Pānui ā-rorohiko Reporting update

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Term 2, 2025

Week 8 
Tuesday 17th June  Swimming - Rooms 9 - 13 - Keith Spry
Wednesday 18th June Matariki Day celebration  (see details in newsletter)
Thursday 19 June MOE PLD Maths TOD- School closed for instruction
Friday 20 Matariki Public Holiday - school closed

Week 9
Monday 23 June Science Fair Library Closed
Tuesday 24 June  NZ Hockey - Newtown Hockey Stadium - Year 5/6/7/8 
                                    Regional Cross Country - Year 4 - 8; Location TBC
                                    Swimming - Rooms 9 - 13 - Keith Spry
                                     Science Fair  Open to viewing for St Ben's Community 8:30am-- 6pm Prize Giving 
Thursday 26 June  Reports go out    
                                       Swimming - Rooms 2 - 8 - Keith Spry
                                       PP - NZ Hockey - Newtown Hockey Stadium - Year 5/6

Future Dates:
Term 3 begins Monday  14 July 
Tuesday 15 July Parent Interviews (Years 1-8) 3:00pm – 6:00pm 
Thursday 17 July Parent Interviews (Years 1-8) 3:00pm – 6:00pm

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Tumuaki Korero

Tēnā koutou e te whānau ō Hato Penetika,

Next week, you will receive your tamariki action plan reports, which will focus on Religious Education, English and Mathematics. These reports will also include a general comment on how your child’s year has progressed so far. If a goal was set during the whānau meetings at the beginning of the year, you will receive an update on that as well.

As you may know, this is the first year we are implementing a new curriculum document—English up to Year 6 and Mathematics up to Year 8. The Ministry of Education is currently consulting with school leaders and communities on draft descriptors that will support consistent reporting across all schools and kura. These descriptors aim to provide a shared language for reporting and help kaiako assess student progress against the new curriculum expectations. However, they are still in development and not yet ready for use.

We continue to use a range of standardised tests to support teacher judgment. These assessment providers are also in the process of revising their reporting frameworks to better support parent understanding of the results. However, these updated reports are not yet available. Your tamaiti teacher will have any standardised test results available to view and discuss with you at the upcoming parent-teacher interviews in Term 3.

We also want to acknowledge that our professional development in Mathematics only began at the end of last term, with our second session taking place this week. The remaining sessions are scheduled for early next year. In addition, eight of our teachers working with Years 4–8 are currently undertaking training in structured literacy through the Better Start programme.

Given that we do not yet have clear guidance on the new reporting requirements, we will continue using our current report templates. To support your understanding, we have added a band that explains the learning phase and how year-level attainment fits within it. As always, we will indicate whether your child is working at the expected year level.
In Term 3, there will be follow-up interviews, Tuesday 15th and Thursday 17th July 3pm-6pm, where you will have the opportunity to discuss the report in more detail with your tamaiti teacher. The interview slots will open next Thursday. 

Once we receive further guidance, we look forward to working with our community to redesign our reports. Our goal is to ensure they are meaningful for our tamariki, manageable for our staff and informative for our whānau.

If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.

Matariki Invitation 
Our school and community will celebrate Matariki 2025 on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 18th from 3:30-5:30pm. This event aims to:

• Gather us together to express gratitude for the year just passed,
  
• Provide a meaningful learning experience about Matariki through shared food (kai), song (waiata), and time together (te wā kotahi).

After school, two activities will be offered: painting a Matariki-themed stone (one per family/whānau) for our new turf garden, and learning actions for a waiata we will sing together later. Additionally, each classroom will have created a poster or activity about one of the nine Matariki stars, which will be displayed (locations TBC) for families to view and learn from. Our Kapa Haka group will perform haka and waiata, building up to singing the waiata learned earlier all together – kotahitanga.
The event will conclude with everyone sharing pre-prepared Matariki soup and a roll (soup prepared the day beforehand from whānau donation), followed by well wishes for a safe and blessed Matariki weekend.

Mā te Atua koutou e manaaki,
May God bless and care for you. 
Tania Savage - Principal

ICAS Examinations - Years 3-8

University of NSW ICAS examinations 2025
It is time to sign up for the  university of NSW ICAS examinations for 2025.
Students from Year 3-8 can elect to sit the ICAS University examinations in Digital Technology, Science, Maths, English and Writing.  These are extension activities and not suitable for all students so please ask your child's if you need advice.

The link to purchase the ICAs examinations is 
Code: SCC533Your parent page link is:https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/parent-payment/SCC533
The examinations take place in Term 3. 

Catholic Character - Sacramental Programme

Sacramental Programme 2025 have been confirmed.
The full Programme will run over Term 2 and into term three finishing on the 16th November with the First Communion Mass.
The Timetable is as follows...
                  Tuesday July 22, 7pm Parents Information Evening
                  Sunday July 27th 11.15am Reconciliation Session 1
                  Sunday August 3rd 11.15am Reconciliation Session 2
                 Saturday  August 9th 2.00pm Reconciliation Practice
                 Sunday August 10th 2.00pm Reconciliation
                Sunday 31st August 11.15am Confirmation Session 1
               Sunday 7th September 11.15am Confirmation Session 2
                Saturday 13th September 2.00pm Confirmation Practice
                Sunday 14th September 2.00pm Confirmation Mass with Archbishop Paul Martin
                Sunday 2nd November 11.15am Communion Session 1
               Sunday 9th November 11.15am Communion Session 2
               Saturday 15th November 2.00pm Communion Practice
                Sunday 16th November 2.00pm Communion Mass
Please note that the Sunday Sessions start immediately following the Sunday Mass and all participants and their families should attend Mass before the sessions.
The Programme is being run on behalf of the Parish by Pat Collier and Natasha Telles.  
Please contact via email: sacramentalprogramme@stfrancisohariu.nz

ASC Holiday Programme

We’re excited to share a sneak peak of our upcoming holiday programme, crafted to keep our tamariki engaged, active, and learning over the break! This year, we’ll have a blend of on-site activities and trip days, creating special memories each week.

Our programme is now confirmed, please get in touch as there are some limited spaces still available.  

School dates 2025

The downloadable PDF  below will give you a printable calendar for your fridge. It has been updated to reflect the new MOE Maths PLD days. 

Since the Board set the dates, the Ministry of Education has announced there will be two mandated teacher only days to support the new curriculum during the year. Unfortunately we have not been able to choose our dates and have been allocated the following dates Friday 4 April 2025 and Thursday 19th of June.

Finalised school dates for 2025 are

Term 2  28 April- 27 June (Includes Matariki and Kings Birthday)
Staff call back day in school holidays Friday 11 July
Thursday 19 June MOE Mathematics PLD teacher only day. 
Term 3 s 14 July – 19 September Kāhui Ako Teacher only day  1st August
Staff call back day in school holidays Friday 3 October
Term 4  6 October- Wednesday 17 December (Includes Labour Day)

Sports Updates

Futsal Tournament

Kia ora, 

Please fill in the following FORM to register your tamaraiki for the Futsal Tournament in September.  Further details will be sent out to families who register through this form closer to the time.  We will need parent volunteers to help supervise/coach on the day.  Please note that this is the same week as the Year 7/8 camp so they will be unable to attend.  Let me know if you have any questions. 

molly.kelly@st-benedicts.school.nz


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