Term 4 Week 10 - Year 3 Graduation Day

This morning we attended a graduation ceremony for the Year 3s. This was a special time when the Year 2s prayed for the Year 3s, the Year 3s prayed for their parents and we sang 'In God's Circle of Love' before the Junior School leaders, Kate and Joe, handed the leadership mantle onto two Year 2s.  Each Year 3 child was then presented with a special certificate to mark the end of their Junior School days. Morning tea followed - thanks for all the yummy food.
Parents, thank you for attending today's ceremony and for all your support this year.

Gabrielle, Ariana, Harriet, Lulu, Ruby, Jacky
Jessica, Kate, Preston, Neave, Kempton

Term 4 Week 3

This morning Room 5 lead the liturgy at the school assembly. We shared about the Rosary then lead a decade of the Rosary. Everyone spoke very well and I am very proud of them.

Bridget received the Special Character Award.

Bridget, you are a kind and considerate class member and a positive role model.

You support and encourage your class mates.

You are a confident, connected, actively involved learner

who makes the most of all opportunities.

Your attitude shows that you are ‘Stepping Up for Success’.
We are blest to have you in Room 5 and Christ the King School.

Ariana received a certificate. Ka pai, Ariana, we are proud of you.

Ruby was presented with her Gold Mathletics Certificate. 

Ka pai, Ruby, for your consistent effort on Mathletics.

This afternoon three of the school's successful speech winners presented their speeches to us. We were all entertained by Danny, who spoke about The Midnight Scoffer, Elizabeth, who spoke about the Rain Forests, and Isla, who spoke about the additives in food.

These three were very impressive in their delivery. The Year 3s are looking forward to their turn at speech writing and presenting next year. 

Thank you Danny, Elizabeth and Isla.

Looking ahead to Week 4:

Production: The Year 3 children will be reading their lines each day. Please ensure scripts are brought to school each day. The Junior Syndicate will practice the songs each afternoon.

The Year 3 children will have tennis lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Please bring sports shoes to change into.

Wednesday 4 November at 2pm, in Room 5, the children will be presenting the plays they worked on with Mr H.

Friday 6 November we will be attending 9am Mass. Please be at school before the 8:45am bell so we can complete the roll and be seated in church before 9am.

Enjoy the weekend - Go the All Blacks!

Reading in Room 5

We enjoy sharing our reading books with each other. Sometimes we read to a buddy and sometimes we tell a buddy what our story is about. Check us out:

Preston and Ariana

Finn C and Marissa

Samantha and Nicholas

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Term 2 Week 5 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Ariana.

Ka pai, Ariana, you are a superb role model and it's great to have you in Room 5.

This morning we had a run down on the weekend sporting activities. Two people received sports certificates.

Congratulations to Samuel, 'Player of the Day' for soccer, and Declan, certificate for the best 'rip' in rippa rugby.

Notes for Week 5:
We are learning to create Wordles. Click here to create your own.

We hope to have hockey lessons on Thursday and Friday this week. Please bring sports shoes and shorts (girls) to change into.

Term 2 Week 2 News

We had an exciting day today. This morning two librarians from the Christchurch Libraries came to share some stories with us. We all enjoyed the three books they read: Mix It Up, Use Your Imagination and and adaptation of Who Sank the Boat.

Ariana and Samuel helped act out tWho Sank the Boat..

This afternoon Leah took a dance workshop. Room 6 joined us as well. We warmed up with a couple of games before practising haka walking. Then we made up a four step dance to the words: Kia ora, ko our name ahau. Ak your child to show you their dance. Thanks, Leah, you are an amazing teacher and we can't wait to have you come and teach us again.

Term 2 Week 1

Welcome back to school. It was lovely to see everyone this morning and to catch up on the holidays. Sounds like everyone has had a good break. This is an eleven week term, so it should be a little more relaxed than last term.

Today we celebrated two milestones that occurred during the holidays:


Patrick turned 7 on 12 April, so we sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished him all the best for the coming year.

Lulu gained her first Silver Mathletics certificate - ka pai, Lulu.

This morning we wrote about our holidays. Here we are sharing our recounts with a buddy:

Ariana and Bridget

Finn C and Samantha

Lulu and Ruby

Patrick and Kate

This week we will be focusing on ANZAC Day and what that means. We will be reading a different ANZAC poem each day and this will be part of the reading homework. Spelling homework also begins again.
There will be NO school assembly on Friday as the Senior Syndicate is on camp at Hanmer Springs.

More Silver Stars

Congratulations to Ariana and Bridget who each received their first Silver Mathletics certificate today. Keep up the great work.







Congratulations, too, to Nicholas for receiving a certificate and medal at the UC Athletics Club prize giving last night. Nicholas was 2nd in his grade for the season.

Term 1 Week 8 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Neave.

Ka pai, Neave, it's great to have you in Room 5.

We had lots to celebrate this morning:

Yesterday Ariana turned 7. We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished her all the best for the coming year.

Over the weekend Neave competed in a Highland Dancing competition. She received several certificates and a medal for coming 4th. Well done, Neave.

Samantha was presented with the Homework certificate for her outstanding sentences - she wrote some compound sentences. Ka pai, Samantha.
Kate and Mairssa also wrote some great sentences.
I am impressed with the way the homework has improved over the few weeks we have been doing spelling.
Thank you for the home support.

Important note for tomorrow - Tuesday 24 March:

The Run, Jump, Throw Display will start at 11:15am. Whanau are welcome to come along so we can show you what we have been learning. Children may wear sports gear - shorts, t-shirt and shoes - to school tomorrow.

Wednesday 25 March - Rice Day. We will be having a liturgy before being given a bowl of rice for lunch. This is to remind us that some children only get one bowl of rice to eat each day. Children need to bring a named, plastic bowl and spoon as well as a gold coin for Caritas. 

Friday 27 March: Room 5 will attend the 9am Mass. Please have your child at school before 8:45am so we can take the roll and then be seated in church before 9am. Thank you.

Term 1 Week 5 Assembly Certificate and Other News

At today's School Assembly Trinity received a certificate.

Ka pai, Trinity, we are proud of you.

This morning the Fantail Reading Group presented a play, Lucky Dip. They did a great job and spoke clearly so we could hear. Well done to: Gabrielle, Kate, Ariana and Marissa.

We had two things to celebrate today: more Bronze Mathletics certificates and great homework sentences.

Congratulations to: Lulu, Neave, Nicholas, Roisin and Marissa, Bronze Mathletes.

Congratulations too, to: Bridget, who had the best homework,

and to Declan, Gabrielle, Marissa, Samantha, Ariana and Kate for their homework.

Patrick had an exciting afternoon, spending time with Andy and Ben from the Crusaders. That's Andy's signature on Patrick's arm.

Looking ahead to Week 6:

Monday: Library 

Tuesday and Thursday: Run, Jump, Throw - please bring sports shoes and shorts to change into

Friday: School Assembly

Term 1 Week 5 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Bree.

Ka pai, Bree, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Ariana received the homework certificate for her great spelling sentences. 

Here is a photo of Ariana''s work as a model of what is expected. Ka pai, Ariana.

It was exciting to be able to present the first Bronze Mathletics Certificates this morning. Congratulations to: Jessica, Ariana, Samantha, Declan, Bridget and Trinity. Keep up the good work. We will present the first Bronze and the first Silver certificates for each child in class. A Gold certificate, which represents 20 weeks' worth of certificates, is presented at the school assembly.

A reminder that we have another Run, Jump, Throw session with Anita tomorrow (Tuesday) so sports shoes and shorts need to be brought to school.