First Week Highlights

On Monday we welcomed our new principal Mr Wichman. Our amazing kapahaka group welcomed Mr Wichman with a lovely powhiri. Everyone sang I Sing to Mary, Haere Mai and He Honare. Our old principal was there and he handed over the school bell.

On Tuesday Group 1 did an experiment for the class. They had to see if a scrunched up piece of paper would fall to the ground first or a normal flat piece of paper would get there first.

On Wednesday we were4 practicing our song Grandparents Day for singing to all the grandparents who were coming to school on Friday for our St Anne's feast day assembly.

On Thursday Room 4 and 5 went to the library and there were two people from Christchurch City Libraries there. One of the librarians was wearing blue and white spotted pyjamas.Their names were Zac and Saskia. They read snippets from New Zealand Book Award finalists and we guessed which book it was from and the winners got a 3D bookmark if they were correct. Then we came back to class and watched Group 2 do a paper ripping experiment.

On Friday we had the St Anne's feast day and also the grandparents day concert and Room 5 sang their song.It was a really lovely song one grandma said. A while later we got iceblocks from Mr Wichman and some people from Room 5 got orange piggy banks as well.

It has been a very busy week for us.

By Ashlyn and Chloe

A TERM OF EXCITING LEARNING AND FUN WE SHALL REMEMBER FOR LONG!

Dear Parents/Caregivers
I am flying up to London tomorrow night at 8.30pm  and will be away for six weeks .Thank you for your support throughout this term. The students are just delightful and I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching them this first half of the year and they are a credit to you – progress has been very pleasing as you will see in their Mid-Year reports. I shall arrange interviews with you in Week 5.

During my  holiday  I shall be visiting London(where I will go to watch WIMBLEDON), Ireland and some other parts of Europe.I shall be with my son and daughter-in-law who are living there.
In my absence, Mrs Grant will be teaching in my class for the first 4 weeks -the students know her and I am certain that she will do a great job helping them to learn.
Mrs Grant will also take the Music Festival choir since all choir members are from Room 5.You will be given the opportunity to buy the tickets early in Term 3.Mrs Nicholson will organise this through the school office.

I shall miss Macarius and wish him all the best at his new school. 

The term is planned and I shall give you the details when I get back.
Have a pleasant, warm holiday and once again –THANK YOU!
God Bless
Grace.

LEARNING FROM OUR PAST SHAPES OUR FUTURE AT CANTERBURY MUSEUM ON TUESDAY JUNE 30

Thanks to the Christchurch City Council and David,Naps and Kay our parents  who helped to make this excursion possible. special thanks to Ms Grice too.

FIRST SETTLERS

Anthony introduced early settlers talking about the Charlotte Jane and how it was the 1^st ship to sail to NZ. on 2^nd of September and arrived in early December. We played a game about survival on ship. On the ship there were approximately hundreds of people who were working class who slept in small places whereas upper class families lived in cabin 3mby 3meters equal to a  bathroom.

Dressed up!

Clothing differences between rich and poor was big There was a working class and  upper class. Cane was used to give strap to those who  wrote with left hand and were naughty at school.Left hand people were regarded as sinister people. On the ship there were approximately hundreds of people who were working class who slept in small places whereas upper class. Families lived in cabin 3mby 3meters equal to bathroom.

WhunnDaa,Macarius,Ben James Benjamin

 

THE MUMMY

When Anthony showed us the Egyptian  stone, He showed us the Mummy.  There were two groups that went with Anthony and it was my group.  Anthony  told us that a person has to be mummified first to become a mummy and told us that a mummy was an  important person in Egypt. The mummy’s  name was TABIOSA. Her height was 147cm high. Some of us are  taller than her . After he was done talking about the mummy we went around the place and looked at the mummy’s face and the mummy’s x-ray.. All of us had a great time.

Written by Tina,Ema,Kavalla,Ashlyn,Amy, Micayla

 

 Hieroglyphic Writing

 

After morning tea we looked at Mummy and Hieroglyphic words. We had to change our name into stamps with pictures on it. Once you were finished you wrote your name. We only chose  the ones that was about our name. We took the away the vowels because there are none in the Egyptian language. We  liked Hieroglyphics  because it did not make sense in English and they looked funny.

By Chloe,Samoa,Ruby,Elizabeth,Anna,and Joyce

We all went outside to the botanical gardens for morning tea. Later we learned about mummy’s .For lunch we went back to the Botanical Gardens. Later we  played hind and seek with Noella’s dad, Davie. We also played What’s The Time Mr Wolf which was fun .A great day!