4 July

Dear Parents

Next week will be a very busy one for the children with the production and end of term. We will be rehearsing at Centrestage all day Wednesday, and performing on the Wednesday and Thursday nights.  School on Thursday morning will be very low key, and you are most welcome to let your child sleep in and bring them late to school that day.

We need help for various jobs on the nights of production.

If any parents are able to help it would be much appreciated (and also a way to see it for free…) Are you able to help with:

• Videoing the performance – we have video cameras, we just need two people per performance.
• Cleaning up after the shows – general clean up in the seating.
• Transport for moving props to and from Centrestage – Wednesday morning and Thursday evening.
• Ushers – we need two people over 18 each night.

Well Done to the children who took part in the Southland Cross Country last week. Special congratulations to Justin McLean (9) and Tylee Fiebig (19) who were placed in the top 20.

Good luck to Max Forde and Jake Meikle who will travel to Dunedin this Saturday to represent Southland in the Otago/Southland Chess Tournment.

Our prayers are with the Kean and Portia Brown families.

Teachers Only Day – 19^th August

There will be a Teachers Only Day on August 19^th to enable all staff to attend a Writing Course. Changes to the way the Ministry funds us for relieving teachers, makes the cost of a school of relievers prohibitive.

Newsletter Survey

Our school newsletter is published on a Thursday, printed and sent home to all families. It is also emailed to those who request it and is posted to our school blog site (no picture at present).

One of the options, as part of our website upgrade is a much improved newsletter page.

Please indicate your preferences below in regards our newsletter. Multiple yes answers are acceptable:

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Week 9  ~  In the words of Pope Francis...

Crossing the threshold of faith leads us to forgive and to be able to put on a smile; it is drawing near to everyone who lives a marginalized existence and calling him by name, it is caring for the frailties of the weakest and supporting their tottering steps, certain that whatever we do for the least of our brethren we do for Jesus himself (Mt 25:40).

Shoelaces

There are two types of shoelaces that are available to buy, the round ones and the flat lace type.  If you can, please put the flat type in your child's shoes, as the round ones constantly come undone and can really be a pain for the teachers.  A great holiday challenge is for children to learn to tie their own shoelaces!!! Thank you.

Altar Servers

Saturday 6 July            7.00 pm            Sam Sherriff & Caleb Wolf

Sunday 7 July               10.30 am          Jacob Sullivan & Max Forde

Children’s Liturgy                                Cecelia Russell

Achievements

Congratulations to Aimee Brookland, Breyah Takitimu and Aubrey Page who made it to the second round of the ‘Southland Super Stars’ auditions on Tuesday.

Also to Josh Cooper and Cory Foleni who made North Town Rugby Teams.

Correction to last week’s newsletter

Well done to Matthew Winter who performed ‘The Flash Mob’ at the Sharks Basketball game on Friday night.  He also went on to perform a “Grease” item at the Sting game on Sunday night.

Hockey Results:

S.H. Super Stars played Otatara and lost 2 – 6. Player of the day was Joshua Newell.

S.H. Super Ballers played Myross Bush and lost 1 – 2. Player of the day was Jack Harding.

Autism Course – Thursday 15^th August 10 am – 3.30 pm

Anyone interested in attending this course, can see Christine for more info.

Production Tickets: Are available from the school library tomorrow, Monday and Wednesday before school.

Name:

Wednesday 10^th July or Thursday  11^th July (please circle)

Adults @ $12                                   ………………………………………

Child @ $8                                       ………………………………………

Family @ $30                                   ……………………………………..

Number of seats required          ……………………………………..

Total                                               $ ______________

Class Happenings  ~  Room 9

Behind the Scenes of Our School Production

Dancing with Miss Hannah ~ Every Wednesday, when it’s around 12:00pm, we go to the hall and dance our legs off. We all rush to the door to get in our lines like it’s the end of the world. When we get to the hall we all wriggle about until Room 7 comes in, and we start our dance lessons. We rush to our lines and the music starts. “5, 6, 7, 8” And GO! The first line goes, and we all start dancing. We add new parts every time to make it look perfect! My favourite part would DEFINITELY be the dominos! Miss Hannah has got a lot of cool dance moves up her sleeves!  And the awesome thing about it is we still have one more dance to learn! Charlotte

Biblical Timeline ~ In Room 9 for Maths we have been working on a biblical timeline.

For the biblical timeline we had to find out about B.C and A.D. We had to apply our past knowledge. We learnt that B.C meant before Christ and A.D meant after Jesus’ death. We learnt that the numbers for B.C are backwards, for example Daniel was born in 623 B.C and he died in 539 B.C. To understand this you need to know about integers.

How we created the scale for the timeline ~ The first thing we did was measured the length of the 4 windows making sure we will have enough ribbon to go right across the top. The windows were 5.92m long. Next we cut the ribbon to a 6m Length.

We wanted the timeline to go from 8000 BC to 2000 AD

The first time we did this we subtracted 2000 from 8000 instead of adding. Once we put the ribbon up we realized that we had used the wrong operation. So we had to start again! This is how we worked it out correctly. 8000+2000=10000

We decided that we would have a scale of 1000 years.

This is what we did to reach this decision ~ We found out that between each 1000 years was 55 cm which means that there were 5.5 cm between each 100 years.

Then we placed the ribbon on the top of the window.

Placing the Biblical Characters on the Timeline ~ We then researched other biblical time lines to find out when Noah, Moses, Joseph, David and Goliath, Jonah, Abraham, Elijah, Jacob and Jesus were around. After that we printed off clipart about those people and coloured them in. Finally it was time to put all the pictures up on the timeline. We initially just guessed where they should go but Mrs Lieshout told us to round it out to the nearest 100. This was quite a challenge but this is what we did. We found out that between each 1000 years was 55 cm, which means that there were 5.5 cm between each 100 years.

What we learnt from making the Biblical Timeline  

 -We used many different strategies including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  

-We learnt a lot about AD and BC.

-We also learnt about what happened when Moses, David and Goliath, Joseph, Daniel and Noah were around.

All together it was a great learning experience and was also very different to what we were used to.