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 8

Natalia, Kate, Bree, Roisin, Bridget and Zofia

WOW! The children were amazing performers in 'The First Noel' junior production. I am very proud of them all. A special mention goes to Kate, who stepped into the role of Mary, and Samantha who stepped into Kate's role when the original Mary was sick.

Kings Kempton and Preston

After Tuesday's Touch Rugby games Neave and Samuel were named 'Player of the day' for their respective teams. Ka pai, Neave and Samuel, keep up the great playing.

Term 3 Week 9

Congratulations to Jessica who received a certificate at today's school assembly.

Ka pai, Jessica, we are proud of you.

Congratulations to Preston, Lulu and Natalia who all received spot prizes in the draw for the Knowledge-a-thon. A big THANK YOU to the amazing Parent Council who organized this fundraiser. We really appreciate your efforts and support.

Enjoy a relaxing weekend - only one more week left of Term 3.

Silver Mathletics Certificate

Congratulations to Preston for gaining his first Silver Mathletics certificate.






Today we had another turn at flying our kites. It wasn't very windy so they didn't fly as well as last week. We still had fun with them though.

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 3 Week 6 'Star of the Week'

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

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

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

Congratulations to Natalia for gaining her first Silver Mathletics Certificate. Keep up the good work, Natalia.

Bridget has been awarded a certificate for outstanding homework.
Ka wani kei, Bridget, keep up this high standard.

This morning we made butterfly kites. We decided that kites don't 'fly' because they aren't controlled and they can't gain altitude under their own power. Check out our kites.

Remember to bring your green Knowledge-a-thon forms to school as soon as possible. The quiz will be on Friday.

More Mathletics Success

Congratulations to Preston and Kempton for gaining their first Bronze Mathletics certificates.

Mathletics Silver and Room 5 Stars

Congratulations to Zofia who has gained her first Silver Mathletics Certificate. Keep up the great work.






Thank you to those who were able to come along and watch us perform our plays this afternoon. What amazing stars we have in Room 5! The children have worked really hard and really stepped up today. I am so proud of them. Look out Hollywood!

Ruby, Harriet, Jessica, Lulu, Declan & Nicholas

Trinity, Roisin, Bridget, Neave & Gabrielle

Declan, Finn C, Finn H, Kempton, Preston & Samantha

Bree, Ariana, Kate, Marissa, Zofia & Samantha

This morning we finally had our last hockey session. We have remembered lots of skills so we were able to enjoy some relay races using the skills before playing a game. Next term (on Thursday 23 July) we will have a celebration afternoon when we will play games against the other junior classes.

Ruby

Preston

Trinity

Sirayah

Term 2 Week 7

 Patrick was presented with a certificate at today's school assembly.

Ka pai, Patrick, we are proud of you.

We have been learning about symmetry. This has provided us with some challenges, but also lots of discussion. We have been trying to work out lines of symmetry for capital letters. We discovered that 10 letters have no lines of symmetry, 4 have two lines and 12 have one line of symmetry. Check out these photos of us working out the lines of symmetry:

Lulu and Jessica

Trinity and Zofia

Jacky and Preston

Samuel and Finn C

A reminder about the Character Day on Tuesday 9 June. Keep thinking about what your character looks like, their emotions, what they like and what they do. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Enjoy the weekend - keep warm.

Happy Birthday

Today was Samuel's 7th birthday and now that he is really old he needs his walking stick!
We sang Happy Birthday and wished Samuel all the best as a 7 year old.

In maths we are learning about symmetry. We have been exploring the different shapes we can make when we fold a piece of paper in half and cut along the folded edge. We know that both halves are the same. Come in and check out the wall display. 

Here's some of us cutting our shapes:

Zofia and Natalia

Bree and Marissa

Kempton and Jacky

Preston and Finn H

Term 2 Week 4

Today concluded a very exciting week for us.
I am very proud of the way the children behaved on Wednesday. It was a bit overwhelming for some of them, but they kept smiling and did themselves proud.

At this morning's assembly Samantha received a certificate.

Ka pai, Samantha, we are proud of you.

Preston and Jacky also received certificates as they are 'Reading Recovery Stars'.

Ka pai, Preston and Jacky, we are proud of you.

Today is Zofia's Feast Day - this is a Polish tradition where people celebrate on the feast day of the saint they are named after. Szczęśliwy święto dzień Zofia.

This week's Homework Awards

Declan, Roisin, Marissa and Patrick

Harriet and Gabrielle

Today Neave had her dancing exam. She is a very good dancer and her exam card was full of 'very good' and 'excellent' comments. Neave performed a sword dance for us - minus the swords.







Unfortunately the rain caused the cancellation of this afternoon's hockey session. We still hope to have four sessions and plan to decide on dates next week.
Please have a look at the RE sheets from today's and yesterday's lessons and have a discussion about them. Please help your child to complete the sheets and bring them back to school ready for Tuesday's lesson. 
Spelling homework is going well. Thank you for your support with this.
Enjoy your weekend.

Prince Harry Recounts

Prince Harry's visit gave us something exciting to write about. Here's some excerpts:


We went to see Prince Harry. Prince Harry is amazing. Finn H

I got nervous when Prince Harry was going to talk to me. He asked what sport we played and I said, "I play netball." Ruby

Prince Harry asked, "What sports do you play?" I said, "I play rugby." Preston

Today our class saw Prince Harry. We had to wait a long time. Zofia


Mrs K-C said that we had gaps in our teeth so Prince Harry looked at our teeth. Neave

Prince Harry was in an awesome car. Before his car there were about ten police cars. There was a red one. I felt excited. Patrick

Term 1 Week 4 'Star of the Week'

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

Congratulations, Jessica, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Today we had our last swim session. It was a busy but fun session of water safety. We were in small groups and had four different things to do: make waves and a whirl pool, ride in a rubber dinghy, jump in the pool and swim with life jackets on, and jump in the pool fro the starting blocks and move down the pool by pulling along the side. We were all buzzing on the way back to school.

Check out this link for some photos:

Swimming Feb 2015

Remember to bring sports shoes and, for some girls, shorts for the first of our Run, Jump, Throw sessions tomorrow.

Term 1 Week 2 Assembly Certificates

This afternoon we had our first school assembly for 2015.

Two Room 5 people, Zofia and Preston, received certificate.

Ka pai, Preston and Zofia, we are proud of you.