WELCOME BACK –TERM 4!
I sincerely hope you had a restful break and enjoyed the Rugby World Cup as much as I did.
I would like to thank you sincerely for your tremendous support and contribution which made our Mission Fair a great success two weeks ago.
I look forward to working with you in the last term of the year which looks rather exciting and very busy.
At the start we shall be completing work and evaluations from term 3 followed by testing in all the core subjects.
The students are consistently setting goals including behavioural ones, achieving them and then setting new ones.
This is an important ongoing activity which started at the beginning of this year. It helps learning progress and needs close monitoring.
The students should be doing something similar to help homework and the learning at home.
. Term 4- CHANGE
The big concept that weaves through all our learning is CHANGE.
We are also looking forward to a one day Outdoor Education Experience – details will follow once we have decided .
Another event that we need to look at will be related to our role as the Young Vinnies of St Anne’s. I shall discuss this with the students, keeping in mind the Communion of Saints Strand. which we shall be studying.
Finally Room 5 is responsible for organising the end of year Mass.
LONGTERM PLAN
RE- The last major strand for the term will be Communion of Saints Strand.
All Saints, Holy Souls and Advent will be taught from the Liturgical Year module.
Maori is well integrated in RE.
Standard letters will be sent out to you as soon as we begin the studies informing you of the content of studies in your child’s RE exercise book. Your child will come home with home activities regularly to be completed requiring your input. This exercise allows you to support the learning that happens in class .It is important that you sign each activity on completion and write a comment at the end of the study in each strand. Note that the Family Whanau book is an invaluable resource for parents to have at home as it gives you all the necessary information about the RE programme from Year 1 to Year 8 and may be borrowed from the school office.
Please contact me if you need any help.
MATHS- Basic Facts Maintenance, Fractions and problem solving.
Reading- Reading for Knowledge, Connection and Inference.-non Fiction Focus.
Written Language- Argument/Exposition
PE- ATHLETICS CHALLENGE , Small ball games to develop skills to play cricket and baseball. Develop positional play, fair play and become competitive. Experience team work, leadership, achievement and goal setting and SWIMMING – Improve skills to next level .
PA – Jump Jam, Skipping, running, fitness circuits swimming etc. to develop stamina .
THE ARTS – Drama focus
HEALTH – Puberty
MATHS- Basic Facts Maintenance, Fractions and problem solving.
Reading- Reading for Knowledge, Connection and Inference.-non Fiction Focus.
Written Language—Information Report
PE- ATHLETICS CHALLENGE , Small ball games to develop skills to play cricket and baseball. Develop positional play, fair play and become competitive. Experience team work, leadership, achievement and goal setting and SWIMMING – Improve skills to next level .
PA – Jump Jam, Skipping, running, fitness circuits swimming etc. to develop stamina .
THE ARTS – Drama focus
Student Reminders
Do your homework ,Sleep at 8.00pm, Bring your homework to school daily
Reminders to Parents – please check daily.
Please replenish the stationery as needed.
*Your child will need the following supplies kept at school-a pencil, a ruler, red and blue pens, and glue stick and scissors.
* A separate set of supplies should be kept at home.
*Please check and tick off homework checklists each night and sign the reading log.
* Homework is done each night and signed by you.
Term 4 Highlights
RE – Parish and School Mass and End of Year Mass
CAMP- Ice Skating
ICT – Room 5 Blog
Room 5 Blog-please visit
Athletic Sports
Swimming at Aquagym
End of Year Reports
Daily Homework-Monday to Thursdays.
· RE-regular home activities.
· Reading for 15 minutes each night
· Spelling and skills exercises based on their list of word
· Basic Facts revision as suggested in the PLPs.
· Extras- if required to complement learning at school.
· Physical activity- 30 mins /day at least.
· Any unfinished work in class.
Student News
Student Council Representatives for R5 - Zoe and Zion
Prayer Table-Ella and Melissa
SportsMonitors – Connor,Ihaia,Meresia,Hoki
Laptop Monitors –Quinten and Korban
Art Monitors – Tyler,Luke
Music Specialists –Nadine,Vanessa,Tatiana,Zoe
Camera monitor – Kolose
Recycling – Eva and Sasha
Birthdays Fatima,Meresia,Cindy,Sasha,Korban,Kalem,Ella.
I hope you all got a hard copy of this letter last week.
Kind regards
Grace
