Week 7 and 8

Well done to everyone for the dress up day on Thursday everybody looked great.

On Friday in Room 1 and 2 we have been focusing on St Patrick as it is his feast day on Sunday.
The school triathlon will be run this Monday 18^th  March at the Alexandra Aquatic Centre. This year there will be no team events and all children will compete as individuals. The distances have been adjusted so they are achievable for all children. It is all about participation and everyone having a go!  Year 1 to 4 need to have bikes dropped off and picked up at the pool as they will catch a bus to and from the pool. The event will begin at approximately 12.30pm starting with the year 1 and 2.
Children need to be picked up from the pool on Monday afternoon. Please make sure your child is wearing school sports uniform and has appropriate footwear for running, a bike and helmet for the bike leg, and swimming togs, towel, goggles etc for in the pool. Also a warm set of clothing in case it is cold as well as a hat and sunblock. They will also need a big lunch and lots of water to drink on this day. Children will not be able to get a lunch order on this day. This is a house event so children need to wear house colours to school over their sports uniforms instead of their uniforms.

Have a safe and happy weekend and a great week 7

Thanks

Julie

Week 6

Welcome to Bobbie who started in Room 1 today. We also welcome his family to St Gerards school.
This week is walk and wheels week so everyone is encouraged to walk or bike etc to school. If you are on a bus and walk to the stop that is fine.
Assembly is this week on Thursday at 2pm and Room 1 children will be starting with leading prayer.
I promise that this is really the week assembly is on!!!!
We have a display of words in Room 1 and it is Room 1's race to space, children need to read the words to move upwards towards space. Then there will be more words on planets and stars to move towards. I will pop a copy of the words in the children's homework books on Tuesday.
Please remember your child needs to start training for the school triathlon. We will start this week with some running every day. Next week children can bring their bikes and we will practice riding on the grass.
Have a great week
Julie

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.

Week 1 Term 1 2013

Welcome to all new families and welcome back to everyone.  Welcome Tadhg and Nicolas to Room 1 and Imojon to Room 2, we hope you have a fantastic time at St Gerard's school.

We hope that everyone had a fantastic holiday. Please remember to read our Blog every Monday the website is roomoneandtwostgerards.blogspot.co.nz. This year for homework children will have reading every night with reading books from Monday till Thursday and a poem on Friday. The children have a notebook that is a reading log and these need to be signed every night. Children will also having spelling alive homework and Room 2 children will have basic facts. We started reading today with  children being introduced to daily reading activities. Reading groups and homework will start next week. Room 1 have a new friend who will be going home with the leader he has a book to write about his adventures this will also start next week. With this hot weather we encourage children to bring their togs so we can get wet if it gets too hot. Please name all uniforms. Children will also all need to have their sunhats at school everyday. The terms events will be all up on the blog by the end of the week. We have swimming coming up during the first part of term 1.  If you have any questions or concerns please come and see us. If you would like to cover your children's books these can go home on Friday and need to come back on Monday. 

Have a happy first week.

Julie and Rebecca