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 – 19th August
There will be a Teachers
Only Day on August 19th 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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Newsletter Preference
Please
circle your preference and return the slip to the school letterbox in the
junior corridor.
I
would read the newsletter on-line Y/N
I
would read the newsletter via email Y/N
I
would only read a printed version of the newsletter Y/N
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 15th 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 10th July or Thursday 11th July (please circle)
Adults @ $12 ………………………………………
Child @ $8 ………………………………………
Family @ $30 ……………………………………..
Number of seats required ……………………………………..
Total $
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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.
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