6 August

Dear Parents

We welcome Hunter Thompson and Tyler Pool to our junior classrooms this week. We hope they enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart.

What a busy week this has been. The children who represented the school at Polyfest once again put on an excellent display. Thank you to Miss Tagomoa.
Practises are also underway for the Choral & Gym Festivals.
This week Meg O’Connell and Mackenzie Wild represented the school at our Cluster Speech Competitions. Well done Meg on placing 3rd.
Good luck to Abby Humm & Georgia Mackie who are representing our zone in the Southland Netball Tournament on Wednesday.
Today the school Science Fair exhibits go on display in the hall. A lot of work has gone into these and I am looking forward to seeing them. We would like to be able to leave them up longer, but this is not possible.
Next week the Life Education Van will be here from Tuesday to Thursday.
Raewyn Green will also be here on Tuesday to work with the teachers in Rooms 7, 8 & 9.

Helen Campbell – Parent Meeting 3.15 pm Thursday 12th August
Next Thursday Helen Campbell will be holding a parent meeting outlining techniques for reading with your child at home. While this is a feedback for the children and parents whom she worked with, she has let us open it up to all interested parents. She will cover:
Reading to your child
How to use magnetic letters for spelling
How to use syllables
as well as other useful strategies. The meeting will run for approx 1 hour.

Flu Epidemic
You may have noticed in the news reports of yet another occurrence of the H1N1 Swine virus. While it is not back in the south, we have had a minor virus spreading through the school in the past two weeks.
Please help us contain this by ensuring your child knows how to blow their nose and reinforce the hand/arm over mouth when coughing.

Postcodes
Thank you to those who have rung the office. Please let us know if your postcode is different from 9810, so we can update our files. Thank you.

Windmill Holiday Programme
This programme provides a variety of activities for people of different ages who are on the Autistic Spectrum, or have intellectual or physical disabilities.
The programme is operated within a safe and appropriately stimulating environment. The individual needs of each participant are assessed, and a management plan is created. Parent input is encouraged.
The programme will be running from Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm during the school holidays. If you have any questions, please contact Angela Olsen (specialised care co-ordinator) 03 4550714 or angela.olsen@dunedinhomesupport.co.nz



Entertainment Book
For the people who purchased the Entertainment Book from the PTA fundraiser, this organisation would like to inform you that ‘1st on Windsor’ and ‘Jagz on Village Green’ will both now honour the voucher in this book.

Altar Servers
7th August 7pm = Isabella & Mackenzie Wild
8th August 10.30 am = Georgea Newell & Patrice Brookland

Children’s Liturgy = Nicki Brookland

Congratulations To:
Patrice Brookland who was placed 2nd overall in level 3 at the Southland Championship competitions for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics & also to Ashleigh Baker who was placed 3rd overall in Level 1. The girls had an Olympic judge judging them who was very impressed with the Invercargill girls.

Table Tennis Results
Reuben Brown & Ronan Harvey lost to Windsor North.
Damian Mitchell & Harry McLean won against Otatara.

Dodgers Softball Club – Tay Street
Opens Days: Sunday 8th August 1 pm & Sunday 22nd August 1 pm

Polyfest







Room 3 Class Happenings

As part of our Inquiry unit for Term 3 we are learning about floating and sinking. We have been carrying out experiments to test our predictions. A prediction is when we say what we think is going to happen. Below are a few samples of what we have done and our findings.

Floating Egg Experiment

My prediction: The egg will float because it is soft inside the egg.
Result: The egg sank in the water. Then we put some salt in the water. The egg went a wee bit up. Then we put some more salt in. Then the egg went up an up to the surface. God made that magic ~ Nick

My prediction: I think that the egg will sink because of the shell.
Result: The egg sank at first in the water. But when we put the salt in the water, it floated. We put in ¼ of a cup of salt ~ Brooklyn F

My prediction: I think that the egg will sink because it has a hard shell on it.
Result: We put the egg in the water and it sank. Then we put some salt in the water. The egg sank. We put some more salt into the water. Then the egg floated. We left it over night and the egg still floated. It was fun~Emma


On Friday last week we were able to bring a soft toy to school as part of a maths unit on mass.



We had lots of fun weighing our special friends using a range of measuring tools.

Remember to check out our blog at www.room3shsinv.blogspot.com to see what we have been doing in class.