31 May
Dear Parents
Homework expectations for
the Junior Syndicate.
Please
see below the maximum time we expect the children to spend on Homework each
day. This homework is a reinforcement of
what has been taught in the classroom so will not be new learning. If these homework activities become
challenging for you or your child please see your class teacher.
Where
a number of pages have been specified for reading, please do not let your child
read beyond these as they will be part of the next teaching and learning steps
for your child.
Room
1 and 2: Reading and “First Words” as
required – 15 mins.
Room
3-6: Reading – 10 minutes, Basic facts - 10 minutes, Spelling words - 10
minutes, R.E. - 10 minutes as required.
On
Wednesday, Room 5 will bring home their Smart Words book to complete the Day 4
activity.
We would also
encourage you to take your children to the city library or use the school
library books for additional reading material.
As
always, please help your child return these resources in their home folder to
school each day.
I have completed a search for a
booklist and came up with these two websites that may be helpful. Ignore
the fact that they are for boys and choose some of the titles that I'm sure our
girls will enjoy as well. There were no explicit lists for girls!!!!
We
thank you for the support you give your children.
Otatara Bus
A
reminder the Otatara bus will not be running tomorrow. Parents are asked to
make alternative arrangements.
All Bus Children
We
ask parents to contact the school if their child is not going home on the bus.
Too
much time is being wasted looking for children in the playground, only to find
they have already been picked up. We would appreciated your attention with this
matter.
South Spell Competition
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Todays
Tip – Praise your Child
Children can never get
enough praise. It is often easy to
comment on what a child should not be doing, and we often forget to notice
all the great things that your child is doing.
· Catch your child being good – don’t save praise
for perfect behaviour.
· Don’t worry about spoiling your children with
praise.
· Increase praise for difficult children.
· Model self praise – e.g. “Wow, I really did a good
job with that!”
· Give specific praise for behaviours you want to
see more of.
· Praise with smiles, eye contact and enthusiasm.
· Don’t combine praise with correction.
· Praise immediately.
· Give pats, hugs and kisses along with specific
praise.
· Use praise consistently to build a new behaviour.
·
Praise in front
of other people.
More information can be found at http://www.incredibleyears.com
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Sharks Donate Basketballs
Sacred
Heart School are very lucky to have the Sharks Basketball coach, coming to
coach us on Mondays at lunchtime. It was so much FUN. We learnt heaps of things like, how to start
bouncing a basketball without picking it up and throwing the ball up in the air
and spinning around then catching the ball. But what we didn’t expect is that
Sharks coach Richard Dickel gave Sacred Heart School 10 new BASKETBALLS.
We
were so amazed that the Sharks would do that. It was so generous.
Altar Servers
Saturday 2 June 7.00 pm Sam & Nathan
Russell
Sunday 3rd June 10.30 am Sam & Charlotte Sherriff
Children’s Liturgy Trish
Sherriff
Sports
Results
Sacred Heart Stars lost to Rimu 6-3. POD Jake
Meikle
Sacred Heart Shooters won by 6-3. POD was
Caleb Brown
Achievements
Reilly
McLean received the ‘Player of the Day’ award for his Blues Rugby team last
week.
School
Fair - Sunday 4th November 2012 ~ As Peter has already explained in the past
couple of newsletters, the PTA is making arrangements for our biennial school
fair. This is a special year for the school and a reunion to celebrate its 50
years is being held this same weekend. We are hoping that many past students
will attend the school Fair as their last event for the weekend.
In order to make this a
special event and run a successful fair, we do need more helpers, and ask for
at least one volunteer from each classroom to help with the organising of that
classroom’s event, and where possible any other general fair requirements that
they may have the ability and time to help with. As an example Room 6 has in
the past helped organise and run the Devonshire Tea stall for the day of the
fair. The parent helper would co-ordinate a parent roster (using parents from Room
6) for the stall on the day of the Fair, help in ensuring we had all the
requirements for this stall i.e. ensure we arrange for scones to be made, that
the overall grocery requirements include the coffee, tea, milk, sugar, cream,
jam, serviettes, gloves etc. and arrange for any necessary urns. Other types of
events include bouncy castle(s), pony rides, cake stall, cake walk, face
painting, ice cream van, BBQ, chocolate wheel etc - these get shared out
between classes, BOT and the PTA and any willing volunteers.
The PTA has a working
document which tells us what we need to organise, order or purchase, with
quantities for all the stalls we have run in the past, so in a lot of cases
it's about working through this document and allocating who will organise each
requirement for the stalls involved. The more volunteers we have the easier it becomes
for all as the jobs are shared amongst many. This is a great event for the
school and our community, and we have raised more than $10,000 from the last
few school fairs. We're keen for parents to get involved and to hear about any
proven money making ideas which we may be able to add to this year’s fair.
If you are able to help we
would love to see you at our first Fair meeting on Wednesday 6th June at 7.30pm
at school. If you would like to find out more before the meeting, feel free to
talk to your classroom teacher, parents who were here for the last fair or any
of the current PTA. Times and days for future meetings will be discussed that
night. We estimate one meeting per month
of up to 2 hours. If you would like to be involved but are unable to attend,
please feel free to text Susanne Brown on 0212602243 or contact the office.
Room 8 Class Happenings
In Room 8 we have
been doing report writing. We can be either a news reporter or a newspaper
reporter. We are reporting on the Van De Graaff generator. What is a Van De
Graaff generator you might ask? Well I am going to tell you. A Van De Graaff
generator is a machine that makes static electricity. You might ask how it
makes static electricity. Well it’s your lucky day. The Van De Graaff generator
makes static electricity by the rubber belt, it spins around so fast it makes
static electricity. Some people touched it and got an electric shock. I touched
it and I never got an electric shock. It was so much fun.
For Art we have
been doing construction. Everybody got a partner and a country that we had to
research. With your partner you had to make a bedroom or a lounge room for your
country’s climate. Tom (my partner) and I are doing a bedroom for England. So
far it has been so much fun.
Written by Jacob Downing
Pedestrian Crossing
After a
spate of red-light-runners at the pedestrian crossing this term it has been
suggested that a “crossing supervisor “ role be resumed for the safety of the
children using the crossing before and after school. The most practical and
cost-effective method will be to have parent volunteers supervise the crossing
for about 15minutes before and after school.
If you
would be available to share this role on occasion please fill in the attached
form and return it to the school office by Friday 8 June please.
Name: ………………………………………………………….
Parent/carer
of: ………………………………………………..
Phone
number: ……………………………………………
E-mail
address:…………………………………………………….
I would
be available for crossing duty on the following days/times:
(please
circle those which apply)
Mon:
AM Tues:
AM Wed:
AM Thurs:
AM Fri:
AM
Mon: PM Tues: PM Wed: PM Thurs:
PM Fri: PM
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