Some simple things you can do to help your child at school!

• Talk to your children about what they are learning about at school. Ask questions about school that can’t be answered with a yes or no.
• Read with a to your child for up to ten minutes every day. Make this time stress free. Don’t worry about helping them sound out words etc etc. Just enjoy the story and enjoy some relaxing one on one time with your children- this can be at any age-it still helps and if English isn’t your first language have the discussion in your own language.
• Keep in regular touch with your child’s teacher and take some time to visit the classroom and touch base with the teacher, at least once or twice a term.
• Utlise our Respectful, Responsible Real learner expectations at home. This will reinforce what is happening at school.

5 reasons to enroll your child at Riccarton Primary School

Welcome back to a new year and a new motivation for me to write more regular and short posts!
I am often asked by new parents why they should enroll their children at Riccarton. So I thought I would start the year by giving 5 reasons (of course there are many more) that come to my mind quickly!

• Our amazing caring, fun and talented staff. Aside from the huge contribution that the families make to a child's achievement at school the single biggest research based factor is the quality of the teaching that a child receives. We have staff who really go out of their way to get to know children as both people and learners!
• Our school wide positive behaviour for learning programme that promotes strong values, the difference between right and wrong and actively encourages all children to become Respectful, Responsible Real Learners!
• Opportunities and resourcing- we provide a wide range of cultural, sporting, academic and outdoor education opportunities. We have small classrooms and a large amount of ICT tools that are available to all children to utilise as part of their daily learning.
• Our amazing Riccarton kids who are bright, diverse and full of life and vitality! They are very accepting of new children to the school.
• Our proven track record of high quality. We are on the ERO 4-5 year review cycle of which there are only around ten percent of New Zealand Schools. We have a strong record of moving children forward in their learning.

If you would like to come in and discuss please do.