Teaching Staff

·         Mr Wayne Facer - Principal, B.Ed, Dip Tchg, Cert Ed. Mgmnt

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·         Mrs Kay Stephenson – Deputy Principal, Year 7/8 teacher (Room 6)

·         Miss Racheal King – Year 6/7 teacher (Room 5) [senior enrichment co-ordinator]

·         Miss Sue Henderson – Year 4/5 teacher (Room 4)

·         Mrs Belinda Niven – Year 3/4 teacher (Room 3)

·         Miss Danielle Young – Year 1-3 teacher (Room 2)

·         Mrs Sonia Cushing – Assistant Principal, New Entrant teacher (Room 1) [junior enrichment co-ordinator]

Teacher Aides and Administration Staff

·         Mrs Lynda Milward – Executive Officer

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·         Mrs Leanne Rogers – Teacher Aide

·         Mrs Sue Austin – Teacher Aide

·         Mrs Kathy Brosnahan – Librarian

·         Mrs Marlene Hanson – Music Tutor

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

The Beaconsfield School Board of Trustees and staff would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Beaconsfield School. It is intended that the following information will answer some of the questions you may have about Beaconsfield School. If there is any further information you would like clarified, please do not hesitate to ask.

All parents / caregivers are welcome to come into the school and observe their children at work or talk to the teachers.

In this day and age of busy life styles, major leaps in technology and competitive work lives, it is important that we prepare our children at school with basic work, study and social skills, which will carry them into the future successfully. School can be an important social and academic tool, where children learn to interact with others. This contact needs to be safe and non-threatening. Having a school that offers this, plus academic excellence and support is important to you and your children. At Beaconsfield School, we believe that we are a school that provides for quality learning for all in a caring community.

Our vision for teaching and learning - "Learning Today, To Meet The Challenges Of Tomorrow".

We offer:

·         Academic achievement for all, whatever their ability, not just in the "three R's", but also art, drama, music and sport;

·         Children are taught sound work habits. There is an emphasis on quality and taking pride in your work;

·         Social skills and manners are taught and expected from all i.e. respect for self, others and elders;

·         A non-aggressive playground environment, with an emphasis on sport, co-operative games and peer support.

Please click here for the 2012 School Prospectus and click here for the 2011 New Entrant Pack

(or alternatively click on the images below)

Beaconsfield School is a Decile 8 state full co-educational primary school catering for students from new entrants to Year Eight. In 2005 Beaconsfield School was established – the result of a merger of Beaconsfield School and Salisbury School.

The school started with a roll of 105 children and the trend is for continual roll growth with the 2011 roll predicted to be 125. We have six classrooms. The building of relationships over the past few years has been critical to the positive learning environment which is evident today.

The school is close to the main business area of Timaru – a service town for a large rural district.

Pupils are drawn from a wide socio-economic spectrum with 98% of the children travelling to school by bus. The school community, while predominately European, includes 6% Maori children as well a number of residents who have arrived from overseas particularly from Great Britain.

The school has large landscaped grounds, two adventure playgrounds and a solar-heated swimming pool. Other facilities include: a learning centre (library) , resource room, multipurpose building / hall. An upgraded administration area including Principals Office, medical room and staff room. All classrooms, offices and library are networked.

A very active and supportive Board of Trustees and Parent Teacher Association ensure that the children of Beaconsfield School are given the opportunities to receive the best education possible. An enthusiastic and hardworking staff deliver a balanced curriculum with the aim of developing lifelong learners. Children with special needs are identified and receive appropriate support.

Beaconsfield School Leadership Challenge

Please click the following link for Year 4 (Batten Challenge) : Batten Challenge

Please click the following link for Year 5 (Sheppard Challenge) : Sheppard Challenge

Please click the following link for Year 6 (Apiata Challenge) : Apiata Challenge

Please click the following link for Year 7 (Rutherford Challenge) : Rutherford Challenge

Please click the following link for Year 8 (Haillary Challenge) : Hillary Challenge

 

The following link is the Beaconsfield School Leadershipo Challenge - Task Sheet : Task Sheet

Beaconsfield School staff and BOT are committed to accommodating those pupils at our school who are either gifted or talented in a particular area or who require enrichment so as we can best cater for their needs at the top end of academic achievement.

Our recent gifted and talented analysis of our pupils shows that we have pupils who are gifted and talented in some areas and as a result we are keen to accommodate these pupils within our school programme.

This recent academic assessment also identified a number of our pupils who are above their chronological age in a variety of academic areas such as reading, maths, spelling and writing and who would benefit from enrichment.

In 2011 we have offered or will offer for our pupils the following:

·         Interchange between classes in reading and maths

·         Offering entry to the Australian academic competitions

·         A Year 8 financial literacy programme

·         A specialist music teacher funded by the PTA

·         Extra swimming coaching funded by the PTA

·         An ICT teacher 1 day a week in terms 1 & 4

·         Selection for Year 5-8 pupils into the “Lego Olympics”

·         Selection for Year 5-8 pupils into the BP technology challenge

·         Our Year 4-8 Leadership Challenges

·         Quality work areas in each of our 6 classrooms

·         Extension boxes in each class that match the abilities/interests of those pupils who are gifted and talented

·         Website links/activities on each class computer that extend those pupils requiring it

·         Year 7-8 science fair

·         Science and arts weeks at our school

·         Year 6-8 rural group enrichment day

·         Selected Year 6-8 pupils taking part in the Otago problem solving maths challenge

·         A number of our pupils taking part in the Young Leaders day

·         Selected sports achievers taking part in the recent sports stars breakfast with Barbara Kendall etc.

·         An above average number of our pupils being in sports representative teams

·         Our term 4 school production which will offer opportunities for our pupils with drama skills

·         Our newly appointed Maori liaison officer and Kapa Haka instructor

·         Provide some teacher aide assistance for those pupils at the top end of academic achievement

·         Entry in to the “Top Town” competition

·         6 low class sizes for our 115 pupils

On top of this in 2012 we plan to do the following:

·         Have a specific enrichment budget area

·         Employ an enrichment teacher/s for .2 (1 day a week) in areas to cater for our pupils needs/interest e.g. science, drama, art, music, sport etc.

·         Have 25% of our teacher aide time dedicated to enrichment

·         Identify and pay for our above average academic achievers too take part in the Australian maths, writing, maths etc. competitions

·         Buying in a children’s writer for an activity day

·         Staff planning templates that accommodate pupils with gifted and talented and enrichment

We work co-operatively with parents and children to set realistic and challenging child - centred goals, which provide the basis for their future learning, enhancing their skills and knowledge to become lifelong learners.

The outcome of these principles is to create the environment and atmosphere which promotes learning and enables our children to gain, maintain and use knowledge to become future thinkers, while always developing social skills of all our school community. There is always the philosophy at Beaconsfield School that the school is about people. Ultimately the success of our school depends on the quality of all relationships between children, staff, parents and the wider community.

Year 7/8 technology occurs every Thursday and the children travel by bus to the Timaru Technology Centre.

Visits to the Timaru Library and swimming pool are undertaken during the winter terms, the latter to monitor swimming progress and build on swimming safety.

Each class attends visiting exhibitions, drama productions and a wide variety of extra-curricular activities.

The children attend a range of Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) experiences, involving day trips and local experiences around Timaru and environs and further away. We are currently reviewing our “Camp” experiences.

Ski trips and/ or ice-skating are arranged at Roundhill Ski Area and Lake Tekapo during the winter terms.

Beaconsfield, St Andrews, Timaru Christian, St Josephs Pleasant Point, Cannington and Barton Rural are all part of the Rural School’s Cluster. These schools get together for many things, as well as various sporting events e.g. Y4 – 8 go to the Swimming Sports at Century Pool, Cross Country and Athletic sports. We also entered teams in the Top School competition this year.

Summer sport’s coaching includes: tennis, cricket, swimming, touch rugby, tee-ball, etc. These are all played and coached regularly with teachers, parents or professional coaches.

Teachers and parents coach winter sports. The school has 3 girl’s netball teams playing the Timaru Primary Saturday competition and we also have 4 soccer teams, which compete on Saturdays in the local competition.