Christmas is on it's way!

Please join us at school this Monday night 6pm - 7.30pm for an end of year/Christmas get together.

BYO picnic or buy a sausage from the PFA barbeque.

Music will be playing and there will be an appearance by the school band.







Please remember to bring in your costumes for our Christmas show this week. We will be performing on Tuesday at 9.30am and on Wednesday at 2pm.





On Thursday and Friday this week Ms Grech (one of our Year 5/6 teachers) will be taking T4 while I go to the Year 6 camp. The children have been doing lots of buddy work with Ms Grech's class over the year, they know her well and are looking forward to a fun couple of days with her.

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo...

This Thursday we are heading to Auckland Zoo to learn about endangered species and what we can do to help protect their environments to help them survive.

We will be boarding the buses soon after the bell so please make sure you are on time for school that day.

So far the weather forecast is for scattered showers so will go ahead but please pack a raincoat. We will keep an eye on the forecast and update you closer to the time if needed.

HATS HATS HATS

Please remember to bring your school uniform bucket hat everyday from this week. If you do not have a school hat they are available to purchase from the school office.

Term 3 Week 9

Welcome to Jake who has started in our class today. It is nice to have you as part of our class.

Mufti Day - This Friday we will be having a mufti day to support the Salvation Army. Please bring an item of tinned food to contribute.

Cultural and Arts show

You should have received a notice regarding the show on Friday. Please fill in the permission slip and return to me as soon as possible. Please let me know also if your child is unable to attend.

There will be two shows - one during school time and another in the evening. School will finish at normal time on this day and children who are performing in the night show will need to be back at 6pm. The show runs for approximately 2 hours.

During the show the children will be in classrooms and will only go to the hall to perform their item. Those in Peaches and Pickles classes may also be performing in these groups (please check with P&P if you are unsure).

I understand that this a late night for young children so it is absolutely fine if they are only able to do the day time show, please just let me know.

If your child is coming for the evening show I would suggest packing some food and drink for them to snack on while waiting to perform.

Please check the school newsletter for ticket sale information.

MOTAT

We had a fantastic day at MOTAT yesterday. Thanks so much to our wonderful parent helpers, we couldn't do trips like this without your support. The children had a great time and were buzzing about it this morning. They couldn't wait to tell Ailsa all about it and have been talking her ear off this morning!

Week 6

Cross Country

Well done to all the children for completing the cross country run on Thursday. Our training certainly paid off with everyone crossing the finish line with a big smile on their face. The ice block at the end was definitely well deserved.

MOTAT

Our trip to Motat is fast approaching. Please get your forms in asap. 

Writing 

Our major focus for the rest of the term is going to be on our writing. We are learning to tune into our senses in order to include lots of details in our narratives. We are challenging ourselves to write longer stories each day. 

Spelling

To assist us to write quickly we are learning to spell the words on the essential spelling lists. These are words we need to write often so it helps to be able to spell them automatically. We will have a variety of activities in class to practice these but if you would like to start learning them at home please see me for a list.

Wigs

Do you have a colourful wig at home? We will need lots of colourful wigs as part of our costumes for our item at the cultural evening. Please hunt them out and bring them in if you have them. (no need to buy anything special - we will get creative if need be)

Parent meetings 

On Wednesday this week we will be holding two meetings for parents to present the results of the recent school organisation survey.

Meetings will be at 1.45pm and 7.00pm

Week 5

MOTAT Trip

Please remember to get your permission slip in as soon as possible. We are looking forward to looking at the different ways people lived and the transport they used in years gone by

Inquiry

We are continuing with our inquiry on movement and are really enjoying our airport and boat role-play areas.

Cross Country

We have been practicing hard and are getting really fit. Come and see us show off our running skill at Edith Hopper park on Thursday afternoon.

Week 3 Term 3

Inquiry Launch

Sadly we couldn't go on our beach walk today as the weather was not kind to us but When Mr Stilwell and Mr Winter went to see if the beach was ok for us they found something really interesting! They decided to bring all the items back for us to investigate...

It appeared there had been a shipwreck and some luggage had been left behind on the beach. We unpacked each of the 4 bags and thought about who they may have belonged to, where they had come from and why they may have left.

When we got back to class we made a pirate ship out of all the bits and pieces, it was great fun!

In the afternoon we had a visit from a Dan Godoy, Marine Scientist who showed us lots of amazing photos and told us all about the work he does to help marine animals especially sea turtles. We learned about why it is so important to try to reduce our plastic usage and make sure we put our rubbish in the bin so it doesn't find its way out to sea.

Maths

In maths we have been learning about fractions. Identfying halves and quarters of shapes and reading the symbols for these. This week we will continue with this and will learn to find half of a set by sharing objects equally.

Writing

We have had lots of great inspiration for writing from our inquiry provocation so look out for some great stories in our books this week.