week 5

Swimming sports today they children were all great and tried their best. I think some children were inventing new strokes!!! AMAZING
This week reading every night and poem on Friday.
Sorry about the cancellation of assembly last week.
This week we have assembly on Thursday and Room 1 will be leading it, you are very welcome to join us.
We have started the Jesus RE strand today and we have talked about our house and Jesus house and how they are different.

WE WANT TO WIN
Please help us win $500 of INKIE stuff
Please go to Facebook today, the draw is Tuesday morning
What we need is for you too go to the moreFM website and take the link to Inkie, then find a comment from me saying I love Inkie at Alexandra paper plus St Gerards Room 1. Like this comment we need five likes to go into the draw. There is only three schools in the draw at the moment.
Thanks heaps
Have a great week
Julie

week 4

This week we were swimming today and will swim again tomorrow. For this swimming programme we are just going over what the children will be doing at the swimming sports next Monday.
Next Monday for the swimming sports the children need to be dropped at the pool, wearing house colours. If you have any questions about this please ask me.
Assembly is this week is on Thursday at 2pm in the hall and everyone is welcome to join us.
Only reading homework this week as we work on our clean sounds and our clean sound wall.
Have a great week
Julie

week 3

Week 3
Thank you to all who attended the school mass on Sunday the children were all extremely well behaved and a credit to all of you. Thanks also to parents who came to the meet the teacher evening it was great to see you. If you have any further questions about the class room programme just come and ask.
This is our first full week and this is whats happening. We are visiting the Kindy tomorrow morning before we get into our early explorers programme. We will leave school at 9am and be returning at 10.30am in time for our reading programme, you are most welcome to join us.
On Wednesday it is Ash Wednesday and we will join the parish at 9.15am in the church. You are also very welcome to join us.
Thursday we have swimming in the afternoon please make sure your child has togs and a towel at school. We will be getting a bus to and from the pool but you are welcome to come and help with swimming especially the getting togs on and off part. We will be at the pool from 1.15pm until 2.45pm.
On Friday Mrs Donaldson will be teaching as I have a release day.
Please if you ever have any concerns or problems come and see me ASAP.
Homework this week is reading and poetry on Friday. No spelling alive homework until we get this well underway in the classroom. Our class books for writing, maths and RE are well underway a lot of junior work is in these books as we work collaboratively. This will give you a clear idea on what we are doing in class you are more than welcome to come and look at these. We also do a lot of work on the whiteboards so not always in your child's books. The Room 1 class soft toy pet is out and about on adventures with your children this week, feel free to write about what your child has been up to with the toy or just take a picture and pop it in the book.
Have a happy and safe week
Julie

Week 2 News

A short week again this week, School will be closed on Wednesday for Waitangi Day. Another hot week is forecast so children can bring their togs and a towel again this week so they can run under the sprinkler on hot days. 

Homework will start this week. Room 1 will have reading and spelling alive homework each night. They will also have poetry homework on a Friday.

All children have now been handed out their books, please feel free to take these and cover them, however please have them at school everyday as children will need to use them.

Just a reminder that children need to have their sunhats at school each day. Also please put a piece of fruit in your child's lunch box each day for them to have at brainfood time. This is especially important now that we have changed out timetable and morning tea break is now 45 minutes later.  

Thursday night is our school BBQ / Picnic from 5.30 pm - 7pm.  School BBQ will be available. Please bring your own food and share your evening meal in the company of other families. At 6.15 teachers will share the programme and expectations within their classes. Then Mrs Eastwood will introduce the home-room system and Spelling Alive.

On Sunday it is our Opening School Mass at 9am. There is an expectation that all children will attend in correct summer uniform. Please be there by 8:55am. Children will be sitting with their class. Families are asked to bring a grocery item for the foodbank and a plate for shared cup of tea after Mass.

Thank you.