Week 9 - Holy Week

Stations of the Cross Liturgy - Tuesday 10am in the Church. Room 12 & 15 are presenting this liturgy. You are all welcome to attend. Each child in our class has a brief acting part (non-speaking). The liturgy will be about half an hour.

Washing of the Feet Liturgy - Thursday 10am in the Hall. You are all welcome to attend.

Reading Night - Monday 5:15-6:00. Rooms 8, 9, 10 & 12 are putting on a reading evening to give you ways to help your child at home in reading. This is targeted towards our children who are below or just below in reading. These children will have received an invitation on Friday to bring home. Please indicate on Monday morning if you are able to attend.

Congratulations to Abbie and Aleena. There was a competition on the mufti day to see who was the best dressed in the Philippines colours (red, blue, yellow & white). From each class a winner was selected and in our class we had two! Well done girls!

 

Golden Time - we will have our Golden Time on Thursday this week as there is no school on Friday. The children have voted for a PJ Party. 

Library - Thursday. Bring your book back from last week so you can get a new one.

Holiday Reading Log - these will be coming home towards the end of the week. Please continue to read with and to your children during the holidays. If you are looking for more books, the Rotorua Public Library has books that are similar levels to the ones we have at school. Remember to fill out our class reading logs at the same time. 

This week our normal programme is not running. In addition to our liturgies and Holy Week activities, we will be completing portfolio assessment tasks and reading & maths testing. Reading this week for your children will be poems so that testing may be completed. 

Last Day of Term 1 is Thursday 2nd April.

Term 2 starts Monday 20th April at 8:45am. Children need to be in winter uniform. Velcro shoes are great for juniors for winter. 

Check out the post below for pictures from Friday. We had the Donkey Parade, a Rice Lunch and Wheels Day for Golden Time.

Donkey Parade, Caritas Rice Lunch & Wheels Day

What a busy wee Friday!! We were lucky the weather played nicely and the donkey was able to come to school to help us re-enact Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on the donkey.

 

 

 

Our rice lunch and mufti day were to raise funds for Caritas for the people in the Philippines.

 

 

 

And for Golden Time we had wheels day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 8

Swimming - We are swimming this week. Please bring your togs, towel & a plastic bag each day. If you are not swimming please provide a note as to why.

Lenten Loving Tree - All of our Lenten promises and the kind and loving hearts the children have been bringing in are on our tree. If you still have hearts, please continue to bring them in. There have been some lovely actions from the children recorded on the hearts.

  

Annunciation Liturgy - Wednesday at 10am in the church. You are welcome to attend.

Library - Thursday. Remember your book from last week so you can get a new one.

Palm Sunday Donkey Parade - Friday 10am. The donkey is coming to school (on the field) so we can recreate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Please bring some Jesus clothes to wear for this. These can be plain dressing gowns, dad's t-shirts (plain colours or turned inside out), a tea towel to go on your head. You are welcome to join us to celebrate this.

Caritas Rice Lunch & Mufti Day - Friday - Gold Coin Donation. 

PHILIPPINE CARITAS LENT APPEAL MUFTI DAY

CARITAS CHALLENGE

RICE LUNCH

Please bring a donation to cover mufti day and rice lunch

Mufti Day - please wear the colours of the Philippine flag

Rice Lunch - For lunch we will be having rice - this is to remind us that others in the world consider themselves fortunate if they have a bowl of rice a day as their only food.

Juniors: can bring morning tea

(Some bread will be available for those student who cannot eat rice - please let the teacher know prior to Friday so we can organise this)

(Students on special diets can bring their normal lunch - please let your teacher know)

Golden Time - The children have voted this week for Wheels Day for golden time. Please bring a scooter, bike, skateboard etc on Friday if you are able. Please also bring your helmets. If you are unable to bring anything "wheels", please don't panic - we will share what the others bring.

Published Work - Come on in and check out the new published work up in our room.

  

    

Week 7 - additions

NO HAT = NO PLAY. Children who continue to not bring their hats to school will no longer be allowed to play during morning tea and lunch time. Children will be taken to the designated area at the start of each break. 

GOLDEN TIME - The children have voted on Dress Ups for golden time this week. They need to come to school in their uniform and bring their dress ups in their school bag. If they do not have any dress up costumes, daytime clothes are fine.

LUNCH EATING - We are trialling a new time for eating this week in an effort to a) reduce the rubbish that is accumulating on the field and around the school, and b) get the children to eat their lunch. This is happening school wide. Children now head straight out to play at morning tea and lunch time. When the bell goes they come inside and have their eating time then. So far so good. I've noticed a huge improvement in the amount that is being eaten. 

Week 7

St. Joseph's Mass - 9am Friday in the church. All friends and family are welcome to attend.

Kapa Haka - Starts this week on Thursday at 2pm.  All children who want to have a go are welcome to try it during week 7, 8 & 9. 

Harold Pens $2 - if you wish to purchase a Harold pen, bring your money to class and I will send the order/s together. 

Life Education - We have our second (and final) session in the Life Education van on Thursday morning.

Singing Practice - Wednesday 8:45am in the hall. Please be at school on time. 

Library - Thursday. Remember your book from last week so you can get a new book this week.

Life Education

WOW!! We went to see Bernie and Harold today in the Life Education truck. 

 

                         Harold came and said hello to us         Grace got a birthday hug and kiss to give  

                         - he was still asleep when we               to Abbie (who was a bit shy of Harold)                                       got there!

 

                         Harold tried to eat his breakfast           We found out lots of things we need 

                         but he needed a shower first                 to do to stay healthy and grow big

We did a role play to see how Olivia could

help Luke who had fallen off the monkey bars

There are Harold pens available to purchase for $2 - buying them is optional. Bring your money to class and I will send the money altogether. The pens have a part that slides out with pictures on it. 

Our next session with Bernie and Harold will be Thursday next week. We have each been given a booklet with some activities in it that we will do during class. These booklets will come home at the end of next week.

Week 6 - Term 1

Gala Winner - Congratulations to Chloe!! She choose the key that unlocked the padlock and won the Go-Pro for her family. Well done Chloe!

  

Swimming - We are swimming everyday this week. Hopefully the weather plays nicely. Please bring your togs, towel and a plastic bag each day.

Singing Practice - Wednesday 8:45am in the hall.

Library - Thursday. Remember to bring last weeks book back so you can get a new one.

Life Education - Over the next two weeks during class time, we will be having lessons in the Life Education bus with Bernie. Our first lesson is on Thursday. Our focus during our time in the Life Education bus will be kindness, actions impacting others and recognising different emotions and why people might be feeling these. In addition to the lessons with Bernie there will be follow up work in class.

Gala - It was great to see so many of you at the Gala last Thursday. My mission for the evening (apart from taking fabulous photos) was to see how many of the children in Room 12 I could take a photo of without them seeing me first. I think I wore the wrong coloured top (bright pink) because the majority found me first. Here are some of the photos I did manage to get - on the sly and posed.