Monday, 22 October 2012

BACK TO SCHOOL!- Mrs Reddy’s Classroom Newsletter

 
Kia ora,Talofa Lava Greetings!



I sincerely hope you had a  restful break and enjoyed the good weather and longer  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-the students showed great organisational skills.

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.



We are also looking forward to a Technology day  out of school as we are studying Food Systems – details will follow once final decisions are made.
Another event that we need to look at will be related to our role as the Young Vinnies of St Anne’s and at this stage we are looking at visiting one of the Senior Citizen homes. Finally Room 5 is responsible for organising the school Mass on Holy Souls’ Day  and  the end of year Mass later on the term. 



LONGTERM PLAN

RE- The last major strand for the term will be Communion of Saints Strand-Saints are inspiring people.
All Saints, Holy Souls, Advent ,and Christmas 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


TECHNOLOGY – Food Technology.
MATHS- Basic Facts Maintenance, Fractions and problem solving.
Reading-Focus on  Processes and Strategies,Purpose , audience and Ideas.
Written LanguageInformation 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


Term 4  Highlights

RE – End of Year Mass
TECH> CHALLENGE.
OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE.-Movie Outing.
Athletic Sports
Swim Week.
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 needed by your child.
·         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 –Tatiana and Julio
·         Prayer Table-Students  leading Prayers
·         SportsMonitors – Carina,Sofia and Chelsea
·         Laptop Monitors –Lingas and Solomon
·          Art Monitors – Mimi and Rhian
·         Music– Nadine,Gracyn,Amelia
·         Camera monitor – Jack  and Laverton
·         Recycling – Rosie and Freya
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Happy Birthday to: Freya ,Jack H, Lilly ,Amelia, Faith and Beth.




May God bless you all  ---------------------------------------------------------GRACE



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