How you can help at home
In our New Zealand Curriculum it states that community engagement is an essential component of student learning:
Community engagement
The curriculum has meaning for students, connects with their wider lives, and engages the support of their families, whānau, and communities.
At Kauri Flats school we deliver a curriculum that is meaningful, relevant, and connected to students' lives and community. For us, it is about establishing strong home-school partnerships where parents, whānau, and communities are involved and supporting students' learning.
The following pages will provide information about how you can continue to support your child(ren)’s learning at home as well as links to websites that can support your child to continue their learning at home.
Please note, if you have any specific questions or concerns regarding your child's learning and achievement we would encourage you to make an appointment as soon as possible to discuss these queries with your child’s Base teachers.
You can help your child's learning every day, by supporting and encouraging them and being excited by their learning. Here are some ideas to keep them developing their literacy and numeracy skills at home. Have a look at the year group for your child and have fun together!
Your child is learning a range of skills and abilities (key competencies) to help them to do well in life. There are lots of things you can do to help your child develop and use these.
The world your child lives in is very different to what it was like when you were growing up and is continuing to change. It is no longer enough to just learn “facts”.
No-one knows exactly what life will be like for today’s children when they become adults, but we do know that they will need to develop a range of key competencies, so that they can adapt and function well in the world.
The key competencies are:
Thinking.
Using language, symbols, and texts.
Managing self.
Relating to others.
Participating and contributing.
These key competencies are an important part of your child's learning at school. They are included in the New Zealand Curriculum and are woven into all the teaching that takes place.
Key competencies are not just for school, but for life. Your child uses these key competencies in many different situations at home, at sport, at church, at cultural occasions, and eventually at work.