Mathletics Passwords Are Coming Home Tonight

Keep an eye out for Mathletics passwords in bags tonight.  It is not compulsory to do Mathletics, it is used widely throughout the rest of the school.  If it works for you in year 1 that is great, if it doesn’t work for your family for home learning it is not a problem.  Give it a go though and let us know what you think.  Choose the new Mathletics – explore new Mathletics option.

International Women’s Day

We are celebrating International Women’s Day in Room 5 by talking about inspirational women in our lives and in the world.  We also wanted to say thank you to some inspiring women around the school.  We also wanted to acknowledge Mr Heap as you don’t need to be a woman to celebrate International Women’s Day.  Today is for boys and men too!

There are lots of inspiring women in my family and our house is very pink with lots of girl power with my two strong and fabulous daughters! May all our children always support each other and reach for the stars.  Thank you to Nadia and Scarlett who brought in inspirational books from home!

There are so many wonderful women and men around us!  Thank you teachers, leaders, Mr Heap, Bruce, mothers, fathers, grandparents – Happy Women’s Day!!!!!  We are talking about having a Celebrating Men and Boys Day too!!!!!! Just because we are celebrating women and girls today doesn’t mean boys aren’t cool too!!!!

Lunch

We always miss out on the good tables BUT not today!!!!!!!  We went out a smidge before the bell so we got the seats we wanted.  We also went over our lunch rules about not sharing our lunches, sitting down while we eat, showing the duty teacher when we have finished – so much to remember.

Busy Teachers…Always Learning As Well

Principal Alison, myself and Gardner Road Kindergarten Head Teacher Gaylene are the  Schools and Early Childhood Transition Leaders for Auckland Central Educators. Our goal is to connect early childhood organisations and schools to facilate best practise amongst our community.  Our goal is to give children the best possible start to school by working together.  AND because teachers need to keep learning we invited our KTS Team Leader Felecia to talk to our group about supporting special needs children in the classroom –  needs such as anxiety, learning needs, behaviour needs etc, there is such a huge range.  Felecia has vast experience in this area and we are so lucky to have her at KTS and we wanted to share her expertise with the group.  We had a great night.  Meadowbank School hosted the evening.