So much has been happening here at school as reported by the various teams below.

Many of these activities have been able to happen because of our wonderful parent support. Thank you one and all!

Our school is looking great - our students are enjoying the improvements to our playground markings - thank you to our hardworking Community Committee for their ongoing fundraising efforts.  Everyone is really looking forward to the upcoming Colour Run - to date we have had $9572 pledged donations.  This is a great fundraiser for sharing with family far and beyond - it is not too late to sign up. Your child’s teacher has been sending out all the information on how to do this.

Our Minions are really making a difference around our school - under our caretaker Phil’s guidance the gardens are looking amazing. I know that the learning that is happening here is spilling over into many homes (seed propagation etc)

Our Kapa Haka, under the guidance of Carla Wintle and Whaea Shelley have been working hard learning new waiata etc

Some of the students have been down to Halldene Rest Home to entertain the residents and others have represented our school at the recent Kotahitanga Day - a day that involves all the kura here on the coast.  (See pictures below).

Pacifika Leaders and Glee singers for 2024 have also been busy with their activities, we look forward to hearing some lovely singing at events. 

Our Wheels Day organised by teacher Anna Hedstrom and the Year 6 Travelwise leaders was lots of fun - all the decorated “wheels “ added to the enjoyment of the event.

A huge thanks to our local Rotary organisation who have been fundraising for our school with the most recent event being a Golf tournament on Friday. Their fundraising efforts will not only provide our students with a new high jump mat but will also contribute to enhancing our mathematics programme  for our senior school  plus providing  support for our younger  learners.  So yes, everyone is benefitting!

Just a reminder that we have Easter Break sees our school closed from Friday 29th March through to Tuesday 2nd April. School gets underway again on Wednesday 3rd April.

Safe travels if you are heading away over Easter and fingers crossed we all get to enjoy some settled weather.

Julie Hepburn
Principal
Red Beach School

SENIOR SCHOOL

Genius Hour

The year 5/6 students have been participating in ‘Genius Hour’, an afternoon elective where students can take ownership of their learning by choosing an area of interest to pursue. Each term will bring a new focus for Genius hour, where the choices range from The Arts, Science, Sports and more. This term, students have been enjoying Charcoal Sketching, Pumped Up, Theatre Sports, Coding, Music and an extension of Maths focusing on an upcoming competition.

Te Kotahitanga Day

On Friday the 22nd of March, Whaea Shelley and Miss Wintle took 8 students from Kapa Haka to participate in Te Kotahitanga Day. Our first gathering was focused on coming together as schools in our region to connect, learn, and embrace kaupapa Maori. Students participated in three workshops on the day including Pa Harakeke, Ki-o-Rahi, and Waiata. It was a very special day for all involved. Well done to Max for delivering his whaikorero with confidence, and to Unaiki, Aroha, Namila, Brax, Tama, Olivia, and Marni for representing our school for the day.

MOTUORA

Learning Cooking Skills in Motuora

Every Thursday you will find our tamariki participating in cooking.

They love this time and look forward to it each week. The skills they learn are lifeskills like following a pictorial recipe, cutting, spreading, assembling and other cooking skills they can use at home. Through this they are learning to be independent lifelong learners.

Each session has a learning intention which the children read (or it is spoken to them) prior to the session. Then they follow the physical model before them with the visual recipe to prepare the item. Many of them take the recipe home to try again with their family.

Hockey 2024

Are you keen to have some fun, play some games and show your skills? Red Beach School is fortunate to have parents that are also former Black Sticks players, coaches and Olympians! We want to create a fun and enjoyable experience for anyone that wants to give hockey a go. It doesn't matter if you have played before or want to give it a try for the first time. We would love to have you join us on the following Sunday afternoons in preparation for the Term 2 season. The sessions will be run at 3pm - 4:30pm at the Millwater Turf on: Sunday 3 March, Sunday 17 March, Sunday 7 April and Sunday 28 April.

Anyone can come, please bring: shoes, mouthguard, shin guards, a hockey stick (if you have one, otherwise we can provide one) and a gold coin to cover the cost of the turf hire.

Registrations are now open for RBS Hockey 2024. The season starts in May and is run on Monday after school. Please complete the form by Tuesday 19th of March. RBS Hockey Registration Form 2024 - Please note, late registrations cannot be accepted. 

Cricket 

Our Year 1-4 tamariki have enjoyed cricket sessions with coaches from Auckland Cricket. Each class had three sessions where they had fun improving their small ball skills and hand-eye coordination. 

Year 1 and 2 classes focused on:

• Joining in a variety of cricket exercises, games and activities 
• How to care for others through their actions and words  
• To pass: Hold the ball correctly in their fingers and keep their eyes on the target, step forward onto the opposite leg and follow through with a straight arm
• To catch: Have their eyes on the ball, move into the path and use relaxed fingers to form a nest the size of the ball
• Being supportive and encouraging of one another

Year 3 and 4 classes focused on:

• Joining in a variety of cricket exercises, games and activities 
• How to bowl the ball
• Catching at different heights 
• Batting with correct technique
• Being supportive and encouraging of one another

Interschool Cricket

On the 7th of March, RBS took 4 teams to the interschool Cricket day at Victor Eaves Park. The kids had been practising their bowling skills leading up to the event and had a blast on the day. All students made us proud, showing their RICH Hearts throughout the day. 

This year, we entered 1 A-Grade team, 2 B-Grade boys teams, and 1 B-Grade girls team. All B-grade teams had a win in the rounds and enjoyed a fun round to end the day. 

After an amazingly close semi-final, we are proud to say our Boys A Grade team made the final to play against Wainui. Again, the final was close, only missing out by 6 points. Our highlight of the day was seeing the expressions of excitement from across the park as it was announced that the boys had made the finals. Although they didn’t win the trophy this year, they sure did us proud.

A huge thank you to our amazing parents who support us with transport on the day and an extra special thanks to Rasha Hamed, Abner Myloth, Natalie Flynn, Charlie Harris and Milosh Kovacevich our amazing team managers.

For all sports enquiries, please email Julie Bluck - julie@redbeach.school.nz

COMING UP NEXT TERM

RBS NETBALL

Kindly note that registrations have now closed.

The fee of $120 is due by this Thursday 28th March.
SPORTY registrations must also be completed by this Thursday.  

As part of the registration process, all players, coaches and managers MUST be registered on SPORTY before they can be placed in an RBS team. Please follow this link to register: www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/193318

MINI-BALL/BASKETBALL TERM 2

All players are welcome to join a RBS team to compete at the Leisure Centre.
Registrations for players are available via the following Google form:  

RBS Term 2 Basketball Registration Form

N.B. registration forms along with payment must be completed by Wednesday 10th April

Term 1:

Mini-ball/Basketball - starts week 1 
Netball starts week 3
RBS Whole School Cross Country - Wednesday 22nd May (save date Thurs 23rd May) 
Yr 5/6 Rippa Festival - Thursday 23rd May
Yr 1 Water Confidence Programme - Monday 27th – Thursday 31st May
Yr 2 Water Safety Programme - Tuesday 4th June – Friday 14th June
Yr 3/4 Water Safety Programme - Monday 17th June – Thursday 27th June 
Inter-school Football - Thursday 20th June (save date Thurs 27th June)

SWIMMING CARNIVAL
Thank you to everyone who participated in our senior swim carnival last week and to the spectators cheering our swimmers along poolside. Also, a very big thank you to our wonderful helpers, both in and out of the pool. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Good luck to our 13 swimmers who qualified to compete in the HBC Primary Schools Interschool Swimming Competition at Northern Arena next Thursday: 

Amelie Cummings, Jessica Snelgrove, Kenzie Banton, Mila White, Brady Smith, Sydney Schiltknecht, Harvey White, Alex Flynn, Phoenix Gregoire, Caden Smith, Vibhav Perla, Corban Persson-Moran and Aron Walker.

WATER SAFETY & WATER CONFIDENCE PROGRAMME
We are excited to be able to offer the Water Safety & Water Confidence Programme once again to our Year 1 – 4 Tamariki in Term 2.

Yr 1 Water Confidence Programme Term 2
Week 5 (Monday 27th – Thursday 31st May) - rooms 4, 5, 6, 10

- Year 1 students will be able to attend a water confidence programme at Northern Arena.

- A form for each class is available on HERO outlining the programmes' details.

- The budget for this is $54 (Covers instruction - 4 x 30 minute sessions and bus fares).

Yr 2 Water Safety Programme Term 2
Weeks 6 & 7 (Tuesday 4th June – Friday 14th June) - rooms 2, 12, 13, 30

- Year 2 students will be able to attend a water safety/swimming programme at Northern Arena.

- A form for each class is available on HERO outlining the programmes' details.

- The budget for this is $120 (Covers instruction - 9 x 30 minute sessions and bus fares).

Yr 3/4 Water Safety Programme Term 2
Weeks 8 & 9 (Monday 17th June – Thursday 27th June) - rooms 1, 15, 16, 26, 29

- Year 3/4 students will be able to attend a water safety/swimming programme at Northern Arena.

- A form for each class is available on HERO outlining the programmes' details.

- The budget for this is $120 (Covers instruction - 9 x 30 minute sessions and bus fares).

We would appreciate your contribution from now on. If we are not able to meet the total budgeted figure for swimming, then we will not be able to proceed as planned.

Payment can be made via one of the following options:

• Through your KINDO account, or by transfer to the school bank account:
  #12 3107 0083794 00 Please put ‘swim’ & your child’s full name as reference
• Eftpos at the school office
• You are welcome to pay this in instalments

Years 1 - 4 Water Safety/Water Confidence Programmes held at Northern Arena:
Northern Arena holds a pivotal role of ensuring safety and providing key life skills to children in the community. Northern Arena’s award winning learn to swim school focuses on changing and saving lives in and around water with learn to swim and water safety programmes.

The programme that your child will be able to participate in at Northern Arena will be held in term two. Below is an outline of what will be provided:

The Schools Learn to Swim program teaches children from years 1-9 to be more comfortable and safer in the water.

The program:

- Provides individual student assessments at the beginning and end of the programme 

- Caters swimming lessons for all levels and abilities.

- Teaches students to swim and survive by learning correct stroke technique and swim fitness.

Alongside the schools learn to swim program is an extremely important and comprehensive, practical boat and water safety module. The Northern Arena School Water Safety and Boat Safety Programme enhances confidence in the water and teaches students key boat and water safety skills with all equipment provided. Key survival skills include:

- Floating(Heat Escape Lessening Posture)

- Treading Water (in calm and moving water)

- Swimming to safety

- Submersion and searching

- Unaided entry and exits

- Life jacket education, skills and practices including ‘HELP’

- Boat education, skills and practices

- Boat practices in life jackets

SPORTS UNIFORM
The Red Beach School unisex sports uniform is available for purchase through the school. Due to an increase in the cost from our supplier, our RBS sports shirts are now $40 and the sports shorts are $22. The sports shirt is compulsory for students involved in a Red Beach School sports team however, the sports shorts are optional. Both items are available through KINDO. 

YUMMY STICKERS
Keep on chomping and collecting those stickers then return your completed sheets to the school office. Remember, the more Yummy Fruit you eat, the more free sports gear we receive for the school! - forms below.