Welcome back everyone to
what looks like a very full term.
Congratulations to all
of you who ran in the Round the Clock Race - fantastic effort.
Special congratulations to those of you in the team placing second to a
team of 11 year 8 students from The Terrace. Next year should be all
yours!
Sunhats: a reminder that sunhats are a required uniform item this term. No hat = no
play outside, under the verandahs only.
Choir: At the end of last term Mrs Russell gave out
notices regarding 2 opportunities for performance. Please be sure that
you have these returned to her or to one of the choir leaders before Thursday.
The first performance is planned for this Sunday 20th at Dunstan High School -
a concert to raise funds for a student who has been selected for the National
Youth Choir. Looking at the list of performers this will be a very entertaining
afternoon. 2:30 - 4:30pm. All welcome.
Kapahaka: Ms Tamati has asked all of you to make a poi,
and practise catching it so that we can add this plus a haka to our latest
waiata. If you have younger brothers or sisters, or know of a younger
group member it would be fantastic if you could make an extra one and help them
practise too. Ms Tamati said there is a good clip on you-tube with clear
instructions. Our next session with Ms Tamati is not until 11th November,
so four weeks to practise and look pretty efficient.
Maths Buddy: information evening for parents this Thursday
7:30 in Room 2. Craig McBride from Maths Buddy will give an overview
of the programme and explain how this site can give parents regular reports
about progress. There will also be an opportunity for parents to use the
programme and see how its lessons and practice activities are structured.
Several people in room 4 have been registered all year and have regularly
used the activities to improve their knowledge and skills. We are hoping
to get parent feedback as to whether this programme would be worthwhile for all
students in the school.
The “Dyslexia” film - The
Big Picture will be screened on Wednesday 13th November at
school. This is well worth looking at – please let others know.
School Photos: will be taken on Wednesday 30th October.
Family photos from 8am. We have been lucky enough to have Ray
Dustow to do these again this year - he was last year's photographer. We
are hoping that he will also take sports team photos.
Thursday Night Touch: permission slips went home today and need to be
returned to me by Thursday. Please work hard to get someone to referee &
manage a team. Unfortunately Rhian Ward works on a Thursday, so he is
unavailable this term. We have enough names for 2 teams - a great
opportunity to get some ball handling in before the Catholic Schools Tournament
later this term.
Athletic Sports: will be held on Thursday 31st October. starting
at 9:30am. We have enough people to lead events but do need assistants.
I would be most appreciative of having names of people willing to help.
Athletic skills will be practised each afternoon for the next two weeks.
Please have your school t-shirt and black shorts to change into, so that
you can make the most of these sessions.
Friday Crafts Help: for the next three Fridays Room 4 will be
working on items to sell at the fair. Thank you for the pieces of material,
Selena and for the offer of sewing machines, Kath. It would be great to
have more fabric offcuts and some hands-on help for the sewing (machine &
hand). Does anyone have cotton thread? I'll pop in to Spotlight to
purchase extras that we will need. This Friday we'll make a start at 1:30.
Wheatbags & felt
Christmas decorations.
Homework
• Read and record reading in log
• Spelling - take care to tool and check against
the typed word each night
• Tables practice sheet - monthly table test on
Friday. Lots of people are now regularly in the 90's - keep this up.
There is also great tables practice on Maths Buddy
Probability
- Maths Buddy - our free trial ends on Friday 25th. Well done to those
people who have made the most of using this site.
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