Week 1 Term 2

I hope that everyone had a great holiday.
We welcome to Room 1 and St Gerards School this week Danielle, Maggie and Gabrielle and their families. I will post their photo when school starts.
This term we start our PMP program. For this we ask parents to help set up and take a station. This happens in the hall on a Tuesday and Friday morning, set up 8.45am then the sessions from 9.05 until 9.45ish. If you are able to help starting next week please write your name on the timetable on the Room 1 door. This is a very valuable and important programme for our juniors and we see great benefits and improvements in children's achievements. If you are even able to help for one session this is appreciated. We will run a parent session on expectations and what to do being a parent helper at PMP next Wednesday after school.
This week I am away at a course on Wednesday and Mrs Donaldson will be teaching. On Friday I will am heading to Blenheim to run the St Clair half marathon, Mrs Eastwood will teach in Room 1.
Discovery time is on Fridays from 1.45pm until2.50pm if you are ever free to help with an activity that would be great. This programme is working really well. If you would like more details or more information about this please ask, there is a discovery whiteboard in Room 2 and photos on the wall in Room 1. The board in Room 2 will have the activities on it from Tuesday and children's names go up beside an activity before leaving school on Thursday.
For reading this week we will be testing children and running a new reading rotation that will mean children will complete two activities during reading time and are mixed with children from Room 2 in their activity groups. This rotation and the children's groups are on the wall in Room 2.
Homework this week will be reading every night and a poem on Friday.
Have a happy and safe week
Julie

PS The pie warmer is going children can bring anything in tinfoil, named in vivid. This goes in a basket outside room 1.

Please come and see me if you have any questions.