TERM ONE DATES 2022

• 14/4/2022 Last day of Term 1

• 17/3/2022 St Patrick's Day - Dress Up Day (Green, Green, Green!)

• 13/4/2022 Wednesday 3pm - Students last day for Term 1.

• 14/4/2022 Thursday - Teacher Only Day (TOD)

• 15/4/2022 Good Friday / Easter Break / School Holidays start

TERM TWO DATES 2022

• 2/5/2022 First day of Term 2 / Our new principal, Mr Justin Bertrand, starts with us.

Other term dates to be advised.

Mrs Hazelton has been running our Breakfast Club in the hall extension since Term 4, 2011. Breakfast Club is run everyday from 8.30am to 8.50am and all students are welcome to come and have a kai during this time.

On the menu - Weetbix and a glass of milk.

Mrs Hazelton is known for making the BEST Weet-Bix in the world. YUM!

So good to be back in the classroom this week.Thank you to Mrs McGhie and Mrs Maisey for helping out with Room 1. We have two new students visiting this week in preparation for their start at school next term. Our Letterland work is u, k, j and v and we are all working on using our spelling fingers to sound out words. This is a very useful tool when solving words in both reading and writing. In Maths we are using our number knowledge to play Maths games in pairs. The children are loving this and their counting skills and adding skills are improving greatly. Look out for a board game that will come home in book bags to play this week. Please return it to school the next day. Thank you. Our topic will include the life cycle of a chicken and we will start our learning on plants as well.

Kia ora koutou,

I am away this week due to being unwell. Mrs Maisey is looking forward to being in Room 3.
I hope you all have a wonderful week.

It’s great to see our class growing again, I look forward to seeing everyone back soon. This week we have a visit from Jo Matthews ‘Maths ALIM advisor’ who will be visiting Room 6 to see how we are doing in our maths learning. On Friday I have my CRT day and Mr Mike Barker will be in.

We have been learning a lot about plant life cycles and now we are going to look at living creature life cycles for the final part of the term.

In Maths we will be completing our learning on fractions and direction. We will be looking at addition and subtraction for the rest of the term.

We have started learning to use Scratch a digital programming platform where we are using our learning of directions combined with digital technologies.

Kia ora koutou,

Room 8 should congratulate themselves for being resilient learners over the last few weeks as we have had to juggle classes. They have been using their self management skills to proceed with set tasks and activities. Ka pai to them all. For literacy this week, we are using our class novel Gangsta Granny to sharpen our predicting skills, and also to make sense of words we don’t understand. For literacy we are also tying in with our topic inquiry, where we are researching online platforms to seek information and summarise our findings. In maths we are moving on to multiplication and division. Students have already been practising their 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables facts everyday, so they are well and truly ready to move on to learning how to solve larger number multiplication problems. Our weekly learning is also available through students google drive on an easy to access and follow slide and is updated daily. I do expect students to send me their learning from home if they are well enough to do so, this helps them keep up to date with what we are learning in class, and I can see how they are going. Have a great week everyone, stay safe and be kind to all.

Nga mihi. Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Ginever.

Kia Ora Koutou,

Room 9 have shown themselves to be resilient learners that are developing their self management skills. They continue to produce high quality work while showing flexibility. We are so proud of you guys! This week we are looking forward to spending a few days combining with members of Room 10.

SHOUT OUT: Year 7 tamariki that are currently placed in cooking at Tech deserve a special mention. We have had excellent feedback from Te Aroha College regarding their positive attitude and listening skills. Ka Rawe!

Literacy: In reading we will be delving into some A.N.Z.A.C based literature. A great way to start reflecting on the upcoming remembrance day. In writing we will develop our structure and punctuation skills through a series of quick writing exercises.

Mathematics: We continue to develop our understanding of decimals. This week we will solve subtraction problems.

Life Cycle: We will be observing the growth of our dwarf seeds. Students are making predictions and then observations. Each week they will test their hypothesis.

Home Learners: Don’t forget you have access to your in class learning through our home learning slides. Send an email and say hey! We would love to hear from you.

Stay safe and look after each other! Two weeks left until the break. Kia Kaha!

Room 10 has taken quite a covid hit and students who are at school will be in a blended class with Room 8 and Room 9. We are very grateful to these teachers for having us. Mrs B has set online learning and will be back with us on Thursday.

Please take care and look after yourselves.

Arohanui - Mrs B

dp@tearohaprimary.school.nz

Students are reminded to have long hair tied back and shoes that cover their feet (no slides please!) Masks are also required to be worn on the bus and in the College Technology classrooms. Roll call is outside Rm 10 at 8.30am. If your child is running late, please take them directly to Te Aroha College on Friday morning.

School Lunches

We need these firms to keep our school cashflow and community relations going strong. They are generous to us which enables us to benefit your children so I would ask you look at the team of sponsors and where possible, use them as we all gain.

Please use these tools we provide - we use them to alert, inform and effectively communicate with parents.

Check it out - there is plenty for you to find out.

If in doubt please ask your child’s teacher as we will be using these platforms on a regular basis to keep our parent community informed and up to date.