Welcome back! We hope you have all had a
wonderful break.
The amazing pod is up outside Room 8 and I
would like to welcome Miss Brooke Young to our team. She will start her
teaching career with the Term 4 New Entrant children and be part of Team Star, working
with all the children in our collaborative environment. We also welcome her
students Mikko, Isabel and Hunter who started school today.
Term
overview:
The Junior team have been very busy
planning an exciting term.
Our inquiry this term is entitled ‘I like
to move it, move it’. This topic will focus on how we can use our bodies in a
variety of ways that are fun and safe.
Here are some of the activities that we
have planned. Please mark these in your diary.
Week 1: Monday
12 October: Powhiri to welcome all new staff and children.
Week 2: Tuesday
20 October: Craig Smith author of the Wonky Donkey show.
Week 3: Thursday
29 October: Grandparents Day and folk dancing demonstration. (8.45 – 11.30)
Week 6: Thursday
19 November: Y0/1 Athletics Day. (10.00 – 12.30)
Week 7: Friday
27 November: Beach Education at Waimari Beach. (All day)
Week 9: Monday
7 December: Visiting the Christmas Grotto and singing in the Cathedral. (All day event)
Thursday
10 December: Y0/1 End of Year Assembly. (9.30am)
Week 10: Tuesday
15 December: School finishes 12.30 pm.
Team
Star Programme:
We will be collaboratively teaching again
this term with the four teachers for literacy and numeracy from 9.00am – 12.30pm.
In the afternoons we will be completing our oral language programme and
handwriting. From 2.15pm onwards we will be working with the Y0/1 team on
athletics, folk dancing, music with Mrs Tasker, and later in the term swimming.
Sarah
Learman
Wonderful Mrs Learman will be Miss Young’s
release teacher this term on a Friday.
Sun hats/Clothing/Drink
bottles
This term all children must have a named
sun hat, which they leave at school on their hook. Please also name sweatshirts
and all other clothing, particularly as this will be a swimming term (usually starts
after show weekend). Named drink bottles, full of only water, are needed every
day.
Library
The lovely Jenny, a grandparent of a child
in the school, has again offered to issue and return library books from the
mobile collection. This will be on a Thursday afternoon, so please make sure
that your child’s book is in their reading folder.
Communication
The weekly newsletter will be sent home in
Communication books or emailed to everyone on a Monday. A hard copy of this
will be put on the parent notice board outside Room 8. If you want to contact us
outside school hours just email cara.wallace@stalbans.school.nz
or brooke.young@stalbans.school.nz.
There will be separate notices regarding
the term’s planned activities and an activity fee/permission slip notice for
the children to attend these events. Please check reading folders regularly for
notices.
Parent
help
Please if you want to pop in for half an
hour or longer any time of the day, Team Star would love you to join us.
Whether it is reading stories to the children at reading time, helping them
play maths games or getting them to talk about their stories we would welcome
you. We also would love some support on a Monday and Thursday afternoon at 2.15
for athletics practice eg. long jump, high jump, or sprint marshals.
We look forward to a fantastic term of fun
and learning.
Cara Wallace
Brooke Young
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