Term 1, Week 3 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Dear Parents

Room 11 turned out another productive and enjoyable week last week with some excellent homework, in fact making it extremely difficult for me to judge overall winners!  However after long deliberation the following students were awarded with these results & chocolate:

Overall creativity – Alice &  Sam / Best lacing system – Lydia and Ellie / Most colourful – Patrick and Lucy S

Thank you to the parents who turned up to our ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening, it was a pleasure to meet you and I hope you found it informative.  We finished the week on a high with the school tryathlon, where I was impressed with all the students’ efforts in Room 11 who really did put 100% effort in ‘To Being All They Could’.  Congratulations to the girls with  1^st – Alice, 2nd - Lydia and 3^rd - Lucy S and in the boys race we had  1^st – Hayden, 2^nd – Sam and 3^rd – Nikau.  Also congratulations to the following students who received ‘fair play’ awards for helping other students without being asked; Dan, Ellie and Nikau.

This week will be continuing with our writing focus on recounts, finishing our timeline-excitement graphs and starting on a 5w + C framework, we will be using the reading comprehension strategy of visualisation, and our topic work is on leadership and active citizenship.  We will be focusing on breaststroke and starts / finishes for swimming, with the swimming sports the following Monday at Riwaka Pool 9.00 – 1.00pm.  In our grammar and punctuation focus we are looking at a range of different aspects to improve our competencies in these.  Fiona Bibby-Smith will be in this week on Tuesday, Wednesday morning and Thursday.  Some of this is for deputy principal release and the majority of the time is for the training with the new spelling programme that focuses on Yr 7 & 8 students.

Reminders & information: - Your child should come back with three letters about camp today; a permission letter, a health profile sheet and an information letter – you can start paying the camp fee - $160 – from any time now and a reminder that MOTEC fees, maths mate, diary, dictionary workbook, worksheet fees should be paid by now please.  We have the senior/intermediate swim sports next week on Monday, a big thank you to the families who are transporting, you should receive a letter from your child tomorrow about transportation.  Also the girls need to bring back their vaccination forms by tomorrow.  Home learning is concerned with the maths mate sheet and a reading comprehension activity test that should help them with test procedures.

Enjoy the week.

Yours sincerely

   Mandy Stephens

Dear Students

This week I would like you to do the following:

·        Complete maths homework (maths mate sheet  - Term 1, Sheet 2 – due in Thursday)

·        . This week I would like you to read the test given and then complete the reading comprehension questions on the sheet.  Remember to skim and scan for information and if it asks you for three pieces of information – include three pieces of information in your answer.  Also when it asks for an opinion, state yes or no and then justify it (back up with reasons).  Swimmers and Bikers reading groups must do ‘moving on’ activity as well.  Runners only do all the questions 1- 10.

A1 standards shown and due in on Friday