Monday 30 July 2012
New South Wales Exams
The English exam will be held tomorrow at 9:00 in Room 5. A practise sheet went home tonight so that you can become familiar with the general layout. The maths exam will be held next Monday at 9:30 in Room 5. Make sure that you have a pencil, rubber and ruler. Good preparation for the maths exam would be to work through a variety of tasks on maths buddy.
River Safe Programme
This programme starts on Friday for Room 4 and runs every Friday in August - 5 weeks in total. The class will walk to the pool, leaving school at 10:35ish for the 11:15 lesson. Each week there needs to be 3 parents able to walk with us. A note has gone home today explaining what the students need to bring for the next two weeks, along with a tear off for parents to indicate which days they are able to assist. Thank you to those people who have already texted offering to assist. I have 2 parents already for this week, so only need one more. Once I collate the slips, I will send a roster home so that dates can be marked on calendars. The lesson lasts for 30 minutes, so we will be back at school before lunch. We are lucky that there is no cost for this excellent programme.
School Cross Country
The training for this event is well under way. Congratulations to those people who have filled in their training logs in the homework books. Thank you to the parents who have given up their lunch times to take small groups of keen runners for a run.
Miss Rodgers has one parent able to help with the school cross country next Tuesday afternoon and needs more volunteers urgently. Please contact the school if you are able to help.
It has been great to see everyone wearing school sports uniform for our daily training. On Tuesday please come to school in your school tracksuits, remember to bring an extra drink bottle for after your race. Check out the school newsletter for more details.
Miss Rodgers has one parent able to help with the school cross country next Tuesday afternoon and needs more volunteers urgently. Please contact the school if you are able to help.
It has been great to see everyone wearing school sports uniform for our daily training. On Tuesday please come to school in your school tracksuits, remember to bring an extra drink bottle for after your race. Check out the school newsletter for more details.
Saturday 21 July 2012
Week 2 Term 3
Welcome back to the new term. Everyone should have been able to access the information for the term from the hard copy of "what's happening?"in the homework books and also from the very clear planner that Mrs Eastwood has attached to the newsletter last week.
Interviews:
I am looking forward to meeting with everyone Tuesday and Wednesday this week to discuss progress so far this year and where to for the next two terms. Being able to book on the internet programme has been really simple. I have tried to contact all those people who have not made a time, and have seen for myself how simple it is to book a time. If you have not managed to book please contact Mrs Bennie at the office, it only takes a second to sort.
Alexandra Library:
We will be visiting the library at 9:00 on Tuesday morning. Thank you Angela for indicating your availability to walk with us, another couple of parents will be needed to meet our EOTC supervision ratio. The school library will open for us to use next week. It is looking fantastic, thanks to Mrs Rendall and some other helpers. Mrs Rendall has "dotted!" the books in the same way as at the town library so that we can easily find the level of texts that we enjoy. Book Fair this week - the theme this year is "Grandparents", so please encourage any local grandparents to come and browse the selection of books, (and hopefully buy), and also contact the office if they are happy to read to children in different classes over this week. Friday = Favourite Book Character. Come dressed as your favourite book character - be prepared to talk about your character. I will expect that you will be that character for the day - it could be a very interesting class.
Cross Country:
At school we have marked out a course, which is about 422m long, that we are using to practise for the cross country on. Remember to bring runners and track pants or school sports uniform to wear for training each day. We are keeping a log of the distance we are running each day as a measurement maths activity - I wonder how far towards Cromwell we will run over our training period? The school Cross Country is on 7th August - watch the newsletter for more details.
As part of homework, everyone is expected to be working on their personal training programme and recording the results in the log in the homework book. Training runs for those representing the school at the Central Otago Cross Country will be held after our school event in preparation for the CO event on Wednesday 15th August.
Swim For Life - River Safety Programme:
Starts next week on Friday 3 August and runs for 5 weeks, finishing on 31st August. We will walk to and from the pool, leaving school at 10:40am and returning after the lesson finishes at 11:45. Three parents will be needed each week to walk with us. I am meeting with the tutor on Thursday, so will advise everyone as to the clothing required each week. Goggles are not needed at any time for this programme.
Maths Buddies:
The school has a free trial of this maths programme, which covers all aspects of the NZ curriculum. http://www.mathsbuddy.co.nz/ Passwords are glued into homework books and it was pleasing to see how many people were on the site the very first day. There are some revision activities that I have put into the programme on here and I have left the whole site open so that you can check out all the different activities that are available. This term we are starting our maths learning on Geometry - shape, moving on to multiplication and division as our numeracy focus, then statistics.
Tools For the Trade:
A number of people need to purchase rulers and rubbers as these are important tools for learning especially in our maths topic.
Interviews:
I am looking forward to meeting with everyone Tuesday and Wednesday this week to discuss progress so far this year and where to for the next two terms. Being able to book on the internet programme has been really simple. I have tried to contact all those people who have not made a time, and have seen for myself how simple it is to book a time. If you have not managed to book please contact Mrs Bennie at the office, it only takes a second to sort.
Alexandra Library:
We will be visiting the library at 9:00 on Tuesday morning. Thank you Angela for indicating your availability to walk with us, another couple of parents will be needed to meet our EOTC supervision ratio. The school library will open for us to use next week. It is looking fantastic, thanks to Mrs Rendall and some other helpers. Mrs Rendall has "dotted!" the books in the same way as at the town library so that we can easily find the level of texts that we enjoy. Book Fair this week - the theme this year is "Grandparents", so please encourage any local grandparents to come and browse the selection of books, (and hopefully buy), and also contact the office if they are happy to read to children in different classes over this week. Friday = Favourite Book Character. Come dressed as your favourite book character - be prepared to talk about your character. I will expect that you will be that character for the day - it could be a very interesting class.
Cross Country:
At school we have marked out a course, which is about 422m long, that we are using to practise for the cross country on. Remember to bring runners and track pants or school sports uniform to wear for training each day. We are keeping a log of the distance we are running each day as a measurement maths activity - I wonder how far towards Cromwell we will run over our training period? The school Cross Country is on 7th August - watch the newsletter for more details.
As part of homework, everyone is expected to be working on their personal training programme and recording the results in the log in the homework book. Training runs for those representing the school at the Central Otago Cross Country will be held after our school event in preparation for the CO event on Wednesday 15th August.
Swim For Life - River Safety Programme:
Starts next week on Friday 3 August and runs for 5 weeks, finishing on 31st August. We will walk to and from the pool, leaving school at 10:40am and returning after the lesson finishes at 11:45. Three parents will be needed each week to walk with us. I am meeting with the tutor on Thursday, so will advise everyone as to the clothing required each week. Goggles are not needed at any time for this programme.
Maths Buddies:
The school has a free trial of this maths programme, which covers all aspects of the NZ curriculum. http://www.mathsbuddy.co.nz/ Passwords are glued into homework books and it was pleasing to see how many people were on the site the very first day. There are some revision activities that I have put into the programme on here and I have left the whole site open so that you can check out all the different activities that are available. This term we are starting our maths learning on Geometry - shape, moving on to multiplication and division as our numeracy focus, then statistics.
Tools For the Trade:
A number of people need to purchase rulers and rubbers as these are important tools for learning especially in our maths topic.
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