Tomorrow sees Father Pat visiting the room and sharing more about the Sacrament of Baptism. Thank you so much for the baptism photographs that have been shared, and also the beautiful gown that Annajhay brought to show us. These are special times - baptism being the first sacrament of welcome to the church family. On Wednesday Mrs Donaldson will release me to do testing, while she completes some amazing butterfly art work on which to display or butterfly writing. Much of this writing is really impressive, as we begin to use a variety of interesting sentence starts as well as WOW words. Go, Room 3.
Friday Mass: the school will be attending the 12 noon mass. We welcome you to join us.
Uniform this week:
Tuesday & Thursday: athletic skills training, so runners, school sports uniform, track pants and school jersey or sweatshirt.
Wednesday: School Sports team photos: if you played in a school sports team you need to have your correct school sports uniform for the photo. Don't forget that if Mum or Dad coached a team we would like them to also be in the photograph, and there is an afternoon tea in the staffroom to thank them for their work at 3pm. For times of photos please contact Mrs Flannery or Miss Passmore.
Friday - School Photographs - full winter uniform. A reminder that family photos will be taken from 8am before school. Everyone received a form last Wednesday about photos and this needs to be returned to Mrs Bennie in the office by Wednesday please.
School Athletics = Thursday 23rd October - it would be good to hear from any parents/grandparents who can help on this day.
Mercy Day Celebration with St John's Ranfurly
This will be celebrated on Monday 22nd with St John's travelling to Alexandra this year. There will be a mass in the church at 11am. It would be wonderful if parents or grandparents joined us for this. A BBQ lunch will follow. Forms to order the lunch items went home in last week's newsletter. Please be sure to get your family's order to school this week. The PTA will be catering this lunch. After lunch there will be rotations of games to enjoy with our St John's friends before the head back home.
Musical:
Rehearsals for this are well under way. I did try to update our blog last week unsuccessfully to add our costumes. Room 3 are the "going to the ball” group of performers along with Room 4. Girls will need to wear a dress or skirt and blouse, boys - trousers, shirt - perhaps a tie or bow tie to look smart. Costumes need to be at school on Thursday in the last week of term. Check the newsletter for the date of the dress rehearsal. Reading Homework this week is learning the words to all the songs - especially "Your Feet Are Too Big" where we have a leadership role. This week we have lots of rehearsals as we aim to have the musical to presentation standard by the end of next week. The first week next term will then just be polishing it and setting it on the Alexandra Theatre stage.
Eisteddfod Speeches:
Year 3 have a planning sheet in their homework books from Mrs Ward - when checking the homework at the end of last week, only 1 person had recorded on this. I am hoping that you all have your speech under control as you have been working on this in Room 4.
Year 2 have worked on what a speech looks like in class - a hamburger with an exciting opening, some interesting facts and an ending. Most people have told me what they are working on at home. I have helped some people get their speech together and I am happy to help. Please email me if you are unsure or if you would like some assistance. Our speech needs to be about 1.5 minutes long, be about something we know lots about and perhaps enjoy doing. I will start to hear the speeches on Monday morning. Remember we talk about our topic - this is not a speech to be read out slowly from a piece of paper. We need to present our ideas orally. I will not be using a copy of your speech to check that it is memorised. It is about an interesting presentation to our class. Remember it is fine to bring things to show as part of your speech.
Eisteddfod Assembly: Thursday 25th September
Homework
Reading: Musical words the most important thing this week. Texts will also come home, but most will be from browse boxes as we work on our musical item.
Spelling: Long "i" spelling patterns this week and next week. Please work on these each night - conducting, tooling, listening and recording.
Maths: I have some new games designed to practise basic facts - I am happy to send copies home for you to play with your child/ren. (I attended another Basic Facts course last Monday after school).
Another busy week as we count down to the holidays. Please be aware that there is another round of the tummy bug, so encourage your child/ren to wash their hands.
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