Wednesday Wire 27 March 2019

Please check the school calendar on the school website regularly to keep up to date with school activities and events.

Welcome to Bayfield in Titoki iti: 

Liliana Bidlake, Emmeline Wilson-Farrokhmanesh & Zach Mishriki

LINC-ED – Bayfield’s new Student Management System (SMS)

We are pleased to be launching a new student management and reporting system, LINC-ED, in the next few weeks of this term. 

With the requirement for schools to use and report on National Standards being removed it is timely that we review our practices to ensure that our system acknowledges a child’s progress, as well as their achievement across the curriculum. 

The traditional reporting system we have had, has sent reports home twice a year. Teachers have felt that this is doing a disservice to our children as this information takes weeks to put together and is often not current by the time it goes home.  

LINC-ED will allow teachers and students to:

• post up to date information about each child’s learning, progress and next steps which will be shared with you regularly. Parents will still access comments on Reading, Writing, Mathematics and a general comment 
• share learning anytime, anywhere and can be viewed on any device. The online report is designed to build up over the year and from year to year. This will mean that over time you will have access to comments, assessments, images and videos of your child’s learning journey all in the one place. It will also show your child’s progress through a curriculum level.   

Our aim is to implement a robust system that allows teachers, parents and students to access learning goals and evidence in an online environment that is secure, easy and effective. In terms of security, LINC-ED commissioned Andrew Horton, an internet security expert to write a report on the security features of the system. Andrew reported that the system was “as secure as some banks.”  

We will be rolling out LINC-ED to parents towards the end of this term. More information will be provided in the coming weeks and months, including dates for parents to come along and have a look at the new system with the support of teachers. There will be ongoing support during this transition process.  

We are looking forward to joining many local schools and schools across New Zealand to implement this new student management system that reflects the access to information that we experience in so many other areas of life in 2019. 

Information for parents: Linc-ed     Linc-ed Parent Feedback

School Costs & Term 1 Donations

Many thanks to those families who have already paid their school costs and donations.  Just a friendly reminder that Term 1 donations are now due. 

Term 1 ends Friday 12 April @ 3pm

2019 Dates:

Term 2:  Monday 29 April – Friday 5 July

Queen’s Birthday holiday:  Monday 3 June

Term 3:  Monday 22 July – Friday 27 September

Term 4:  Monday 14 October – Thursday 19 December

Labour Day holiday:  Monday 28 October

PROUD SPONSORS OF BAYFIELD SCHOOL