Week 3 Term 4

A short but busy week.

We have Harold and Pip in the LIFE Education bus at school and will be visiting this on Thursday and Friday mornings.  Year 3 will be in the bus with Room 4 to take part in the years 3 & 4 programme.

Congratulations to everyone on the excellent skills and sportsmanship shown at the athletic sports on Thursday.  Some people received notes from Miss Passmore about the Central Otago sports next Tuesday at Molyneux Park.  Please make sure that you return any information to her. You need to be 8 years old by 1st October to qualify to attend these sports. Thank you so much to the willing band of parents who helped out at this event.  We do appreciate your help and couldn't run successful events like this without your support.

The Year 2,3,4 cricket team will practise on Wednesday at lunchtime. Your first game is this weekend at St Gerards. I am gathering contact information for Mr Ryan so it would be great to have all the permission slips back as soon as possible.  This means that Mr Ryan can contact team members directly.  Thank you to the parents who have indicated that they can assist Mr Ryan with the team.

Tee Ball starts on Tuesday this week at Molyneux Park/The Terrace School. Those in teams have been given notes.  Remember that in line with school sports policy, if you are unable to play for any reason you need to let your coach or manager know.  Some year 2 people did put their names down, but due to the numbers of years 3 & 4 wishing to play, there was no room in a team this term for all of you to play. Those people who have turned 7 have been included in a team.  Only a few weeks until you people are year 3!

Mrs Donaldson will be teaching Room 3 on Wednesday while I have release time for individual assessments.

We have all worked hard on practical activities with sand as we learned about capacity. Using a tally chart (statistics) to record our results, we have compared and shared information using the mathematical language in our WALTs.  Mrs Donaldson will take our final activity where we will be using our prediction skills with popcorn.  I have 2 popcorn makers on my table - thank you so much for these, and for the other offers I have had.  She'll have a popping good time.

Homework books/poetry books: a number of these are somewhere at home.  There were only 15 homework books in the tray on Friday.  As the weekly spelling is in this book, it is hard for some children to prepare their spelling for the following week. Please check that this book comes back to school each day.  Loretta is working with a few people to give them extra individual work to help them master their skills.

Scooters continue to cause problems outside the classroom.  The rules are clear - they need to be stored behind the seats outside the classroom during the day and be put into the corridor after school - against the walls please so that Mrs Brown can lux the corridor. It is a privilege to have a scooter at school and a responsibility to use it sensibly, ride it in the right areas (the court) and put it away so that no-one will trip over it.  I will be very joyful if this could happen!!

Homework: reading, spelling, R.E. (saints), maths - doing stuff  with water and playing games.