Flossie's poetry recital

Congratulations to Flossie for gaining the "Highly Recommended Dugdale Trophy" in her poetry recital last weekend. She spoke so clearly and had great voice projection. Well done Flossie!

Week 11

Wow we have finally arrived to our final week! It has gone very quickly! I must say we have learnt some wonderful skills over the term.
 Please check out your child's blog in the tab above. Putting posts onto the blog involves quite a lot of new skills that the children have learnt, like ensuring the posts have titles, adding images, embedding work from google drive. Congratulations to all of the children for getting your posts onto you blog.
 This Sunday a few children from our class will be making their First Holy Communion and Confirmation at mass. May God bless you on this special day when receiving these Sacraments: Sarah, Sara, Zoie.
Bishop Steve will be visiting this Friday to see our wonderful children and what they have been learning. 
Holiday reading logs will be going out this week. Please encourage your child to read and add to their log. We had one person last term who didn't get theirs in on time. Hopefully next term it will be 100% returned.

I wish you all a lovely holiday! May God bless you over this time.

Hit It

The children have been learning some valuable skills in the Hit It programme. Here they are practising badminton with their rackets.

Extra class helpers

We were very lucky to have mrs YTT's niece and nephew come to our class help us with school tasks! Thanks  Sean and Chanelle! The children absolutely loved you! Too bad you have left for Auckland! We would have loved to have you in again this week!

Pepeha with Tellagami

The children have been reading their pepeha using the Tellagami App. Check out their blogs to listen to their pepeha.

Week 10

We started Matariki off with some wonderful lantern work last week. We will try and get some more of these activities around Matariki completed this week.
Please check out your child's blog in the tab above. They have been learning some wonderful skills.

This week:
Monday - Hit It - please bring your PE gear
              - Fr Tovio 20th Anniversary of Priesthood.
Wednesday - Hit It - please bring your PE gear
Thursday - 5.30pm Cultural Dinner - all invited to this potluck dinner - last year it was a fantastic event. 
Don't forget there is a week 11 this term.  I did explain this to some very tired students the week!


Have a great week, God bless

Making a screen shot

Today we have learnt how to make a screen shot of our Maths learning.
On an HP you press ctrl and (screen small square above number 6) on a samsung you press ctrl and ( small square above the number 6) on a mac you press command shift and 4, then highlight your area.

Matariki Lantern Art

Today we learnt about Matariki. Matariki marks a new year for the Maori.

I have 7 stars, Matariki and a Maori symbol.

Liam's bucket experiment!! Video.

For Home Learning the children were given a bucket challenge to complete. Liam has done this with success! Well done Liam!

Week 9

Tena Koutou ki te whanau! I hope you all had a great week with Mrs Whibley. She really enjoyed being in our class and teaching you all!! The time in Wellington gave me a chance to think about my teaching around Religious Education and how to improve on this. It was also a great chance to get to know representatives of other schools and what they are doing in their schools. 

Matariki starts this Thursday. Matariki is the cluster of stars that is also known as Pleides and it comes around late May, early June. For Maori it symbolises the start of a new year. Some of our learning over the next week will focus around Matariki!

The Whanau Group would like to extend an invitation to all staff and their families to a pot luck dinner on Thursday the 25th of June at 5.30pm. The dinner is to celebrate the cultural diversity we have in our school. EVERY FAMILY IS INVITED.

Come along for some fun conversation and get to know our community. Last year was great fun.

Here's what's on this week:

Wednesday: Singing Practice. Library.

Thursday: Matariki Starts.
3.45pm Filipino parents’ mtg in Staffroom. AGENDA. National Stds Feedback and General Business.

Friday: Golden Time. Assembly. Home Readers bring in your books!

Our time with the Pope

 Mrs Rush and I were very lucky to see the Pope at the Conference we attended!

Week 8

Bula Vinaka everybody.
I am away at a conference from Tuesday to Friday and you will have Mrs Whibley to fill in for me. She will do her best to keep to the class routines and has access to the middle school sites page, so the learning will carry on as normal.
Children will be bringing home their RE books this week. Please talk with your child about what they have been learning. We have had many discussions on our value this term RESPECT and how we are respectful to God, our parents, our world, our class belongings. Fill in the padlet below of how you have showed respect over the past few weeks.

Here's what's on this week

Wednesday: Library
Friday: Sacred Heart Mass at 9am.
Golden Time and Assembly. Home Readers please bring back your books.

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Lucy's Hippo Report

A few children in our class have been reading stories about hippos. They have recorded themselves reading their reports on an app called Tellagami.

Jayden's Hippo Report