What's happening Week 9?

Wow! The poetry eisteddfods that were presented this morning were fantastic.  Congratulations everyone - the choice of poems for the Room 3 audience was perfect.
We had a practice first in small groups, and gave each other suggestions for improvement based on our WALTs:    

• Present a poem to an audience    
• Use a clear voice
• Listen attentively to the presentations

    We revised what we needed to do to score points and how we could help each other to have the courage to present our poems.

      Well done to those people who managed to share their poems without the need for a copy of the words - you had obviously prepared well. 

     The Poetry eisteddfod assembly will be on Thursday 3rd July at 2pm in the hall. I will post when again when the Year 2 performers are finalised.  As part of the poetry eisteddfod learning this term, we met in small groups after the eisteddfods and talked about who should represent us, using the success criteria that we had on our score sheet.  The children gave amazing feedback about voice, volume, knowing the poem by heart and also the expression used.  Thank you for your help in choosing - the class selected Caity and Sully.  I will also choose another person after I check through my notes.

      Friday Mass - Term 3: Room 3 will lead the Friday Mass 25th July - first week next term.  It would be awesome if you could share this special celebration with us.

       Holidays: wishing everyone a fantastic holiday.  Hopefully we will all get time to recover from the bugs that  seem to be floating around.

Homework

       Spelling: please work through the Spelling Alive process each night.  There is an information sheet for parents to read in the homework book. All children should be totally independent with working through the conducting, tooling, recording and checking their words.  I have written your child's score from last week and indicated which words may need more work. Last week there were a large number of homework books at home on Friday, and quite a few books where spelling had only been worked on one or two nights of the week.  Please make sure that your child has their homework book in their reading bag each day.  On a Friday as part of the Spelling programme we glue our new sheets into our homework books and do the initial tooling ready to take home on Monday.  I will not be sending loose sheets home, I need to see each person's book, so that if someone is needing help I can work with them.

      Reading: will come home every night except Monday, where the reading activity is to read The Lord's Prayer.  It would great if this prayer was learned by heart over the course of the year.  Introducing this prayer is part of our God Strand religious education this week.

     Cross Country: The school cross country will be held on Wednesday 6th August, which is in week 3 of next term.  You might want to start doing a little bit of running over the holidays, as we will only have a couple of weeks at the beginning of the term to train here at school.