Welcome to Week 4.
What a great weekend for New Zealand, the All Blacks did a great job winning the cup back to back. I am sure Mr Macmillan will be very happy.

On Friday as part of the Grandparents/ Grandfriends Day we are asking if students could bring in some morning tea to share.

This Week
Minecraft
For all those students who have been busy making their Minecraft entries at home, I need to send them in at the end of the week. I am available this week to help if students need some to take pictures or video of their creation. They also need to write a few sentences describing what they have created

Monday- All Souls and All Saints Liturgy has been moved from the Church to the school hall. It is at 10:00. All are welcome to attend.
           
Tuesday- Swimming
                Hit It for Year 4's
                Kapa Haka

Wednesday- Library

Thursday- Swimming
                 Hit It Year 4's

Friday - Grandparents' & Grandfriends' Day and Mass,  9:15am in the church. After Mass grandparents (& families) are welcome to come and take a look through their grandchildren's class/es. This will be followed by a shared morning tea picnic on the school fields and some concert items.

Symbolism

Symbolism

This week we looked at the differences between symbols and pictures. Here are our ideas on a padet.

Created with Padlet

Celebrating China Day

We learnt how to do some Tai Chi, we saw some very cool pictures from China, we played a great game called Jianzi- Feather Kick where we kicked a shuttlecock thing a bit like a hacky sack, we made and ate some delicious dumplings and we learnt to do some calligraphy in mandarin.
A special thank you to Imogen's Mum, and Molly's Mum and Grandma for helping out in the kitchen with the dumplings.

 As well as celebrating China Day the school had a Black Out Day to show our support for the All Blacks. We also donated food for the food bank. Room 29 did a great job and brought in heaps of food. Thank you very much to everyone who brought in something.

Golden Time

Prayer Spaces Week 3

More Prayer spaces that we have had a go at making ourselves. It is really nice to see now how the students are thinking about how they set up our shred prayer space and our class altars.





The children have enjoyed making prayer spaces during prayers time. It gives them a real focus and makes prayers time that extra special .

Week 3

Malo Ni everybody.
 A Big congratulations to Ann Maria from Room 15- (29) whose name was picked out of the Holiday Reading Draw, she won for herself a brand new chrome book, how exciting!!
Apologies for last weeks Middle Team Museum trip newsletter, the children picked up on quite few  errors. Just goes to show how important it is to get someone else to double check your written work because it can easily be missed, Mrs Waititi was obviously in a bit of a hurry.  Here is an edited copy of the newsletter. We are requesting that children bring $2 to cover the cost of a canvas for their art project. Please start sending this in ASAP.



Quite a few events happening over the next few weeks,
Week 3: China Day, we are looking for parent helpers please. If you free please let us know.
Week 4: All Saint's Liturgy, Grandparents Mass
Week 5: Museum Trip
Week 6: Athletics Day

Exact Dates will be on the school calendar.

Here's what's happening this week

Monday: Labour Day
Tuesday:Swimming for everyone  and Hit It for Year 3 children.
Wednesday: Library
Thursday: Swimming for everyone and Hit It for Year 3 children. Mandarin.
Friday: China day.

Prayer Spaces

Rm 29s Assembly

Week 2 Term 4

Week 2
Talofa and welcome to week 2.
Well done to those children that lead/ helped to prepare our class assembly. A special mention to Jayden and Liam R, who were awesome MC's. It is so rewarding being able to see children that wouldn't normally volunteer for a job like this, feel that sense of pride in what they have accomplished. Well Done boys.

There are still a few Holiday Reading Logs that need to come in. Mrs O'Leary would like them in by this Tuesday please.

Just to clarify this term we will swim every Tuesday and every Thursday and every second Friday. If you have a daughter that is swimming, could you please advise her to give her hair a quick dry with her towel. I have seen the backs of uniforms saturated from wet hair. I'm sure this little tip will help with that.

Here is what's happening this week:
Tuesday: Swimming
Wednesday: Rosary
Thursday: Swimming
Friday: Swimming, GT: Fear Factor, Assembly

Request: Over the next few weeks, the children will be learning about Prayer Spaces. If there is anything that you have at home, that you no longer need, to donate to our altar ( candles, cloths, vases etc) we would be very grateful to have them. Please don't go out to buy anything, like the saying goes, someone's trash is another person's treasure.

Check out our Assembly Presentation below.

Term 4

Term 4

Hello and welcome to another great and exciting term. I hope you have all had a restful break and are looking forward to our last term of the year.

I hope you have all had an excellent holiday and are ready for school. I know you have all been keeping up your reading over the holidays- and have or will fill in your reading logs to bring back to school.

Learning

Our concept of focus for the term is Symbolism: messages within images.

Literacy learning

 ( Reading and Writing) and art will encompass this terms concept.
The children will be looking at and creating their own Rebus story, which are stories that have some words substituted with pictures.

Trip

In week 5 of this term the children will have a trip to the museum. These are the times and days for each Middle School classes. Each class will catch a bus to the museum. We will need parent help to accompany us.
Monday 9th November 9.30am -11.30am (Rm 15) plus 12.30pm -2.30pm (Rm 14)
Tuesday 10th November 9.30am -11.30am (Rm 17) plus 12.30pm-2.30pm (Rm 16)

RE

The children will be learning about the Rosary over the first few weeks and then moving on to Holy Spirit. The focus will be on the Fruits of the Holy Spirit and how we can be more like Jesus.

Swimming

This term our class will be swimming every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays and on every even week Fridays too. Please ensure children have brought in their togs and a towel on these days. Swimming caps and goggles are optional. If for some reason your child cannot swim, please let me know with the reason by email or a written note.

Uniforms

For the first two weeks of the term, the children can wear either the winter uniform or the summer uniform. Please do not mix them. By week three the expectation is for everyone to be in summer uniform and sun hats will be compulsory. If you don't wear a hat, you have to stay in shaded areas. Please name your uniform especially your hat.

Library

Our Library Day is on Wednesdays.

Home Learning

Please read every night or go onto Maths Whizz (link here )or complete classroom tasks that have not been completed during class time. These can be accessed through the Middle Team Sites page (link here).

Golden Time

Please see below for the Golden Time activities for each week.