Month: May 2018

Vanessa and Nadia are very talented writers and so they were thrilled that one of their published works made the school newsletter. Not bad for year one huh?  Super proud teacher!!!  These two are quite incredible.

Poor Miss K was sick today so we didn’t have Te Reo.  We did a BIG phonics session instead on Zz.  We looked at z words and practised writing the letter Zz for handwriting.

A huge thank you to Scarlett’s Mum Cedar and Aunty Cilla who came and taught us some Samoan words, a Samoan song, and showed us some Samoan treasures.  We then did our phonics using the Samoan alphabet afterwards!!  Happy Samoan language week everyone.

 

 

It was lovely to see Scarlett’s little sister Storm join us for our Samoan lessons this morning. Faafetai Cedar, Aunty Cilla and Storm.  We know you are going around the whole school today sharing your wonderful Samoan culture.

We had such a busy day we thought we would give ourselves a little treat.  It was nice to finish the day playing on the big playground for ten minutes.  I do try and get photos of everyone and make sure there is an even spread of all the gorgeous faces.  I don’t always succeed but please know I try.  (AND yes you may have noticed I have worked out how to make photos bigger which is so exciting).

Mrs Brown was on lunch duty today so some little helpers went and got my duty tool kit. Thanks teacher helpers!

Little Room 5 got the Tidy Kiwi Award AGAIN.  We must be really tidy children!  So proud.

When children have been at school for more than 6 months and speak English as a second language they go into our ESOL programme.  They do some great project work building their vocab and doing either extension work or extra support work depending on their needs.  It is a great system and children thrive with the extra boost.  Erynn runs the ESOL programme, one of our senior teachers.

Our Room 5 Paddington Bear’s had a great weekend with Nadia and Vincent.