Term 4 Week 5

This week has been very busy and we are all quite tired. I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend.

The children have enjoyed their swimming lessons at Wharenui. They have all worked hard and made great improvements. Check out these photos:

Ruby, Neave, Kate and Harriet

Kempton

Bree

Bridget, Roisin and Trinity

Nicholas and Finn

Today we celebrated our school's Feast Day - Christ the King. We attended a liturgy in the church, then had a sausage sizzle for lunch - a big THANKS to the Parent Council for this. In the afternoon Room 5 and Room 12 took our scooters and bikes to Westburn Bike Park. We had lots of fun riding around the track then playing on the playground. Thanks Mrs A and Mr B for coming down with us. When we arrived back at school we were treated to an ice-block, A big THANK YOU to the Board of Trustees for this.

Next week we will be having production pracitces every day. On Monday we will attend Burnside High School's production, 'The Twits'. Monday is also library day. Please return library books so that a new book can be issued.

Have a great weekend - may the weather be kind for the Garden Tour.

Gold Mathlete

This morning Kate received a Gold Mathletics certificate. Ka pai, Kate, this is a fantastic achievement.

Ruby ordered some books from the Scholastic Book Club and they arrived today. It was exciting watching Ruby open her box and show us the books she'd received. Enjoy your new books Ruby.

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!

Gold Mathlete

A big congratulations to Ruby who has gained her Gold Mathletics Certificate. Ka pai Ruby.

Congratulations to Neave who was named 'Player of the Day' for her Touch Rugby team last week. Ka pai.






Today the children received their copy of the script for the end of year production, The First Noel. Only Year 3s have speaking parts, but the Year 2s have all taken the parts of the Room 4 Year 3s so we can practise in class. The Year 3s need to learn their lines and who they speak after. The scripts MUST be at school each day so we can practise. Please help your child learn their lines and remind them to put their script into their reading folder to bring to school. Year 2s need their script each day, but do not need to learn their lines.

On Friday we will be leading the school assembly. This will start at 12md in the school hall. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Term 3 Week 9 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Ruby attended her netball prize giving and received a medal for being the Most Improved Player. Ka pai, Ruby.

Samuel received certificates for participation at his soccer prize giving. Ka pai, Samuel.

This week is Social Justice Week. The theme this year is 'Family Ups and Downs'. Today we played a game and had a discussion about the things that happen in families. We all realise that we are fortunate to be in the families God has placed us in.

Finn H

Kempton, Neave and Harriet

On Wednesday we are having a Social Justice Liturgy at 12md in the Church. Afterwards we will share lunch. Each family is asked to bring a plate of food to share. Children will need to bring their lunchbox or a named bowl to eat from.

Term 3 Week 8 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Five girls have been attending a weekly Writing Club. Today  Neave and Lulu shared the books they'd co-written. What wonderful authors they are.

Ginger’s Chair By Neave and Ruby

 One day Lucy the little cat was sleeping happily on the chair. Along came Ginger, the fat cat. Suddenly Ginger hissed at Lucy.

Lucy woke up and notice that Ginger, the fat cat, was looking madly at her.

Ginger leapt up onto the chair and hissed at Lucy again. Lucy jumped off the chair and escaped from Ginger’s claws.

She raced up the steps to her cat door and dived through it.

Once she got inside , she was safe. She was smiling to herself.

The Cat that Can’t Climb Trees By Lulu and Harriet

Cute Cat was eating some food from Fat cat’s bowl. It was scrumptious.

Fat Cat cam running along and nearly pounced on Cute Cat but Cute cat sped away with Fat Cat right behind her.

Cute Cat climbed hurriedly up the tree. Fat Cat tried to climb the tree too.

Cute Cat climbed right to the top of the tree, but Fat Cat did not climb to the top. The branch was going to break!

Cute Cat said, “You can’t climb trees.”

Thank you for having your child at school early today so we could attend Mass. The children .were amazing during mass and I am very proud of them.

Term 3 Week 7

At today's assembly Ruby received a certificate.

Ka pai, Ruby, we are proud of you.

 This morning at Discovery Time we made kites. We then enjoyed flying them outside. Luckily the wind was favourable and our kites flew quite well. We did have a few casualties and tangles, which we will try to sort out next week.

Zosia

Gabrielle

Bridget and Roisin

For the past three weeks we have been learning about Fractions. We can state what a fraction is and can work out fractions of shapes. Working out fractions of sets are still a bit tricky, but we will keep working on them. We have made posters to show our learning. Come into the classroom to check them out

Fractions by Samuel and Declan

Next Tuesday we have our trip to the Air Force Museum. We will be leaving school at 9am and returning at lunchtime. Children will need their morning tea in a separate container or snap lock bag (must be named) to their lunchbox, and a named drink bottle. Please ensure your child wears their school polar fleece. (Some children are not wearing or even bringing their polar fleece to school. It can get very cold in the playground and children need their fleece to help keep warm.)

Term 3 Week 3

This morning Room 5 lead the liturgy at the school assembly. We each shared a verse from the psalms we have been writing in class. The children did an amazing job and I am very very proud of them. Thank you to those who were able to attend the liturgy and also to you all for helping your chid practice their verse at home. Ke te hiki tatou hai angitu.

Marissa received the Special Character Award

Marissa, you are a kind and considerate class member.

You take responsibility for making the most of learning opportunities.

You are a confident, connected, actively-involved learner

You are a positive role model.

Your attitude shows that you are ‘Stepping Up for Success’.

We are blest to have you in Room 5 and Christ the King School.

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

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 9 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Three people were recognised for their efforts at their Saturday sport. Congratulations to:

Finn C, rugby 'Player of the Day'; Samuel, soccer 'Best Trier'; and Ruby, netball 'Player of the Day'.

Last week we read Maori Legends. On Friday each group presented their legend to the class. I am very impressed at how well the groups worked to prepare for Friday. Everyone read their part clearly and with confidence. Thank you for the home support.

Roisin, Bridget and Zofia

Marissa, Samantha, Bree, Ariana and Natalia

Neave, Harriet and Ruby

Trinity, Kate, Jessica, Gabrielle and Lulu

Patrick, Finn C, Samuel and Declan

Term 2 Week 6 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Two people were recognized at their weekend sport:

Congratulations to Neave who received Highly Commended certificates for her Highland Dancing, and Nicholas who was named 'Player of the Day' for his rugby team.

 

This week we plan to have hockey sessions on Thursday and Friday. Please bring sports shoes and (girls) shorts to change into. There will also be a recorder lesson on Thursday. 

Writing

Today we created Wordles. We wrote lots of words to describe ourselves and the things we like, then we used Wordle to create a word picture. They are fun to do. Check these out: