Week 11 Term 1

What a busy week we had last week which started with Monday morning prayer - we were all so impressed with your fantastic reading Mason and ended with our leading the Friday parish mass. Everyone stepped up to work as a team, with Alia making a really fantastic job of a difficult reading, then leading us with the offertory song. As we are all very keen to participate in the special jobs, I have a page where I am keeping careful track of who has done what so that these are shared throughout the year. We also had our class visit from Father Pat who shared with us the significance of "bread" in Bible stories, in both the Old and New Testaments. We talked about Moses and Elijah, which were less well known stories and of course as part of our learning about Jesus this term we knew about the loaves and the fishes as well as about the Passover meal and the significance of the bread in the Eucharist. Perhaps you could read some of these stories at home.

My apologies for no blog post last week - my internet at home kept cutting out and what I had done wasn't saved to put up when I arrived at school, which was an extremely busy week for me with BOT, netball registration, reading recovery in-service and I am also assisting with the Clyde drama "Noises Off".  Got your tickets? - it is a bit of a hoot, and anyone who has ever worked on a production will identify with so much of what is happening.  Back stage is often a dram in itself and someone has recognised this and written a script for entertainment.

Eisteddfods will be heard with Room 4 on Monday afternoon and after play on Tuesday. We need to present together as there is a cup for year 3 & 4 combined - it will take a bit longer to hear 44 readings.  Thank you for your support at home with preparing for this. The Eisteddfod Assembly will be on Thursday afternoon in the church please check the school newsletter for the time. Children presenting at this will be advised by Wednesday morning, I will post the names on the blog and they will also be published in the school newsletter. The choir and the school kapahaka groups will also be participating at this assembly.

This week our focus will be on Autumn, some super art has already been done with Mrs Waldron while I was at Reading Recovery In-service last week.  We will be thinking about "WOW" words which describe this special season.

Homework

• Spelling - will be tooled on Tuesday ready for 3 days of learning - last week was a BIG RE week for us and we prepared and led mass at spelling time!
• Reading - browse box books will come home for the first 2 days
• R.E. - "Jesus Is Present In The Eucharist" home worksheet

Please make sure that your child has all their clothing each night - we have had to do a fair bit of chasing up over the last couple of weeks as people shed clothing as the day warms up.

Have a wonderful holiday - thank you so much for your support this term.