General Information and Reminders
Lost Property:
Our lost property is located in the shed next to the Junior playground and will be open before and after school if your child loses a piece of their clothing. If you come into school and it is locked, please pop over to the office, and we will get someone to open it for you!
Open Door Policy:
At Te Kauwhata Primary, we believe in open communication and strong partnerships between home and school. We want to remind our whaanau that we have an Open Door Policy - if you ever have any questions, concerns, or just want to chat about your child's learning and well-being, please feel free to come and see us.
If there is ever and incident involving your child, we encourage you to reach out so we can work together to understand what happened and the find the best way forward. Your child's safety and happiness at school are our top priorities.
To make connecting even easier, we also hold Principal's Morning Tea's and Afternoon Tea's regularly. These are a great opportunity to catch up with our principal, ask questions, ask questions, and share idea's in a relaxed setting.
Your voice matters, and we value your input in making our school the best it can be for our tamariki. Keep an eye on our page for upcoming dates - we'd love to see you there!
School Start Time and Drop Off:
We ask that you do not drop off your children off before 8.15am as there will be no adult in their classroom or the playground to supervise them. This becomes a health and Safety issue, both for the children and the school. Teachers arrive between 8am and 8.30am and are expected to be in class by 8.30am.
Before-school care is available locally through KBEEZ Kids. Please ring Karen on 021-242-5524 if this is something that you need. There are information packs available at the office if you require further information.
Sun Hats:
We are a SunSmart school so uniform sun hats are to be worn during term 1 and 4. They are available form the school office for $15 each.
Parking:
A reminder that parking before and after school has to be in the designated parking areas along Mahi Road and Wira Street. As we work with the Police to ensure we maintain safety for all our students and our school community, any car or vehicle parking on the yellow lines and across grass verges will result in your car number plate being passed to the them.
Internet Safety:
We have deployed a new filtering and monitoring system for our chromebooks to ensure your children are as safe as possible online. This system automatically detects any concerning behaviours, and alerts us so that we are able to deal with it as required. Below is a message your children will be receiving in their classrooms about it.
The school is using safeguarding and monitoring technology to help keep you safer online and ensure you use your device as best as possible to support your learning. If you use a school device at any time of day, the school and teachers can monitor your activity to support you better.
The school is responsible for its devices, networks and Google accounts, 24/7. If you use your school-issued Google account to sign into Chrome on a personal Chromebook at any time of the day, including at home, we will also be monitoring the activity within that Chrome session. Please be especially aware of this when you are not at school. Because it is a school Google account, we need to ensure it is used safely all the time, wherever and whenever it is being used. Know that this may include taking screenshots of personal Chromebooks if risky behaviour is detected when the school Google account is being used on it.
Importantly for BYOD, the technology being used will only monitor activity within the Chromebook session signed in with the school Google account. The technology cannot monitor activity beyond the school account's Chrome session. Therefore, if you are undertaking personal activities, do not use the school Google account to do so. Use a personal Google account to sign into the Chromebook. That account is your and/or your parents' responsibility to manage.
If you have any questions or concerns on the monitoring and safeguarding technology we are using, please see www.linewize.io/legal.