An example of an email to Parents 2016

Hi Parents,

We are half-way through the term already. Doesn’t time just fly?! A couple of updates for you all:

Progress Towards National Standards Reports - these will be coming out at the end of term. We are dedicating next week to our assessments so we do ask that students are at school each day so that we can assess them. Obviously if illness prevents then we understand. Both of us will be having time out of the class dedicated to assessment as well.

Student Conferences - because we are now following the Te Awahano model of in-depth interviews that will fall close to the 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 weeks anniversary dates we aren’t having conferences on the days allocated at the end of the term. Instead we are catching up with you and your child before or after school.

Some families have already had these conferences and some of you are due. We will be making contact with those that are due and meeting with you individually. The times we would be looking at would be before school 8 - 8:30am or after school 3:15-3:45, 3:45 - 4:15 or 4:15 - 4:45. We can of course make a different time if you are unable to attend at any of these times.

Spelling - Until this week our wonderful teaching assistants have been doing the spelling testing. From tomorrow the students will be tested by a buddy or the teacher. We will then be marking these over the weekend and returning the Home Learning books to children Monday.

This change has meant a slight rejig of the timetable and so Beep Test will be a bit later on a Friday morning, closer to 9:30 than 9am. Hopefully the slightly extra time will mean the sun is coming out a bit more too.

Disco - the students are super excited about the disco and we are looking forward to seeing you all next Friday night. It is definitely the highlight of the winter for our students.

The next part of the term is going to be focussed on creating some Manu Tukutuku for art,  some science experiments for our writing and measurement for maths. Of course reading and handwriting will continue.

Thanks for all you great support in making sure your child does their reading, math whizz and spelling each night. Thanks for coming in and saying hi to us and communicating how things are going for your child. We really appreciate and are thankful for this open communication.

Nga mihi

Nicole and Sharon