Important Reminder

On Tuesday Room 15 children and some of the GEM's group are going on a bus trip to the Omarunui Landfill, as part of their Waste Awareness Programme. I hope the children remember to bring a warm jacket and closed shoes - having a holiday on Monday means I can not give a reminder the day before... Some children need to bring back the permission slip. Thank you to the parents who have offered to help with supervision. Tuesday June 10: Aquarium visit - FREE but we need transport. A note will go home on Tuesday 3.

Waste Awareness

This week Room 15 started learning about waste awareness.We went into our buddy class to do a survey to find out what they know about waste. We asked  them some questions like what happens to the waste after it goes in the school bin and why is recycling so important. Some answers were funny, some were interesting and some children didn't know anything at all. 

      

By Paris and Brodie

Girls hand-ball championships

                                

Sharnteigh and Paris were the only girls left in the hand-ball tournament out of the whole school.

It was a pretty big achievement for them. They struggled the whole way through the tournament but made it into the finals. Sharnteigh is very good at skimming the tennis-ball. Paris is very good at retrieving the skimming ball. The final result was that Sharnteigh won 20-9 so she is the champion and Paris is runner up out of  the whole school.

Weekly News

Even though I wasn’t here to start the new term with you, I am very impressed with the positive attitude most of you are already showing to your class work and homework. Most children have stickers for week one on both our Homework chart and Great Choices chart. Unfortunately, gold class awards look like they are going to be hard to come by, again, this term, which highlights the importance of having our own system to reward all those children who cause few, or no, problems in the classroom and playground.

Congratulations to Brooklyn, Jake, Kendyl, Liam, Emily and Sharnteigh (and a few dads!!) who were the only people who completed the Maths task on geometrical language. Two PPAs for those people. Consequently, the maths homework is the same this week which means those children who have already done it, have less homework. J Congratulations to Emily, Brooklyn, Brodie, Kendyl, Liam, Cameron and Angus who are taking on the challenge of The Primary Research Project, starting from today and continuing until Friday 23 May. Their reward is not having to do normal homework,J but I expect them to do the Keeping Ourselves Safe worksheets.

Extra homework this week will include worksheets connected to the Keeping Ourselves Safe topic. Please do these as it is important that parents are aware of what is being covered in class. An optional extra task is to design a bookmark for one of the NZ Post book awards finalists. I hope all children will go on to the www.nzpostbookawards.co.nz website to vote for a book so they will be in with a chance to win great prizes.