Cross Country Practise

Cross Country is coming up in Week 4! Room 12 have been doing 10-15mins of cross country practise every day to make sure we are ready for the race. Each day we try to beat the amount of laps we did the previous day and we are trying our hardest to keep running the whole time.

Remember to spend some time at home training for cross country, we want to make sure we are ready and able to do our very best on the day! The more we practise the better we will get and the more fun we will have!

Ascension Liturgy

This week we are learning about the Ascension and today we celebrated this with a Liturgy.

The Ascension is a Christian holiday that celebrates the time where Jesus ascended into heaven. We remember it as the time Jesus' body went to heaven and that he sits at the right-hand side of God the Father.

SLIME - Resources Needed!!

On Friday for Golden Time we have decided to make slime. We need either borax or contact solution to make it...does anyone have some at home that they would be happy for us to use on Friday? Or a fool proof recipe that you have tried before at home?
Thanks in advance!

Piggy Banks!

This term we have a new incentive that is all based on earning money and deciding whether to save or spend! We earn money by following our new Class Treaty, our school-wide Golden Rules and through showing our focus values of Courage and Excellence in our daily actions. We can then use it to buy different rewards such as choices, free time or treasure box items. 

We realised we needed somewhere safe to keep our money...so today we had a challenge! To create our own piggy bank by ADAPTING a recycled item. Our designs had 4 requirements:

* to fit in our desks

* have a theme

* be based on 1 recycled item.

* be able to hold and protect our money.

We had lots of fun thinking creatively, adapting and learning all about how to debug to fix problems and improve our designs. 

Keep your eyes peeled on our blog for more posts about the challenges we have to continue to ADAPT our learning environment!

Term 1 Photo with Whaea Eliana

We will miss you Whaea Eliana! Thank you for such a fun term and we hope to see you around school.

Week 2

Welcome to Week 2 of Term 2! I hope you have all had an enjoyable weekend and are ready for a great week.

Whaea Eliana had her last day as Room 12's teacher on Friday.We wish her and her family the best and look forward to seeing her around school every now and then as she does the occasional relief day. 

I am Nicole Hunter, and I am the new teacher for Room 12. I was born and raised in Rotorua, but have been working at a school down in Palmerston North for the past 2 years. My husband has been in the army down there, but is now making a career change which has enabled us to move back up to Rotorua. I attended St. Mary's and John Paul College when I was younger and completed one of my teaching practicums with Annie Russell at St. Mary's. I feel so lucky to be able to come back to St. Mary's as a teacher, and am really excited to work alongside you all for the rest of this year. I spent last week in Room 12 with your children; you are all raising incredible children and I cannot wait to work and grow with them this year. Please feel free to come in or contact me via email to introduce yourselves. My door is always open, so please never hesitate if you wish to have a chat about anything. 

This week will be a fun week! We have a couple of challenges planned for the children to help adapt our classroom, revisit our class treaty, and set our Term 2 goals. We are going to start using recycled goods in the classroom, so if you have anything at home that you no longer need then we would love them in our class! For example, picture or chapter books you no longer want, old cushions or rugs, empty containers or recyclable products such as jars, tins, plastic bottles and cardboard. 

We have Student Led Conferences on Wednesday and Thursday. Both Whaea Eliana and myself will be there and we really encourage all parents to attend. This is a time where you can celebrate learning with your child, where they can talk with you about their goals, and an opportunity for you to speak with Whaea Eliana or myself if you have any questions. To book an interview time please go to:

https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code?code=t8pq8

OR go to schoolinterviews.co.nz and the code to use is t8pq8

Wednesday  - bookings can be made from 3.15 to 5.50

Thursday -  bookings can be made from 3.15 to 4.45

Next Sunday is Mother's Day and our wonderful PTA have some lovely gifts available for children to buy for their Mothers. These will be sold in the hall on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday lunchtimes, and cost $3 each. 

Arts in Motion has been postponed until later in August rather than the original date in May. This gives us more time to practise and put it all together. Practise times will remain the same:

Wednesday 7.30-8.30am: Jazz and Lyrical

Wednesday 3-4pm: Hip Hop

We do have an Arts in Motion Blog which you can view here - http://stmartinmotion.blogspot.co.nz/

Also a reminder that Holiday Reading Logs need to be returned by Thursday this week! The draw will be done in Assembly on Friday. 

Please make sure you are encouraging Cross Country Training at home - we will be doing 15mins every day at school to prepare for cross country which is coming up at the end of Week 4 (25th May)!

THIS WEEK:

TUESDAY 8TH MAY
10am Ascension Liturgy

WEDNESDAY 9TH MAY.

7.30am Arts in Motion Practice

8.45am School Singing

3.05pm Student Led Conferences for Kahikatea and Totara.

3.15-4.30pm Arts in Motion Practice

THURSDAY 10TH MAY

HOLIDAY READING LOGS TO BE RETURNED BY TODAY.

2.05pm Kapa Haka

3.05pm Student Led Conferences for Kahikatea and Totara.

FRIDAY 11TH MAY

9.30am Room 5 Ice Skating

11.00am Pasifika

2.05pm Assembly - Holiday Reading Draw.

SUNDAY 13TH MAY. Mothers’ Day

Student Led Conferences

Three Way Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences are next Wed 9 May and Thursday 10 May for our Year 3-6 classes.  

To book an interview time please go to:

https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code?code=t8pq8

OR go to schoolinterviews.co.nz and the code to use is t8pq8

Wednesday - bookings can be made from 3.15 to 5.50.

Thursday - bookings can be made from 3.15 to 4.45.