Week 4 Term 2

Thank you to the parents who were able to accompany us to the show on Friday.
Thank you also to those parents who have indicated they can help with our Museum trip on Friday morning and the cross country in the afternoon. I will be in touch to confirm times early this week.

Chromebooks: Please make sure your child charges their chromebook at home overnight ready for learning. Students will not be able to charge their own chromebooks during learning time. Thank you parents for your support with this, hopefully with your support your child can be organised and ready for learning.

Monday
Cross country training bring your PE gear

Tuesday
Squash - bring your PE gear

Wednesday
8.00 am J-Rock
School singing practice
1.30pm J-Rock Practice for all dancers. Hall

Thursday
Warmer day - bring something wrapped in tinfoil to heat up.
ICT club
Art with Mrs Kusabs - bring anything you might like to add to your recycled and reused art.

Friday
Museum trip
Cross country - Below is the outline of the day.
No sausage sizzle

Annual Inter-House School Cross Country.

Our annual Inter-House school cross country will be held on the afternoon of Friday 26th May 2017 in the Redwoods Forest. This event is for Yr 3-6 students.

Children need to be assembled in house groups at our school ‘HQ’ near the Redwoods Visitor Centre, Long Mile Road by 12:50pm ready for a briefing.  The first race will be at 1:00pm with the event finishing by 2:30pm.

Children come to school in full uniform and change into PE gear for the afternoon’s events.  For the event children will need:

• Running shoes

• Polar  fleece jacket /school jersey

• A drink bottle, lunch / snacks

• Raincoat

• Spare set of clothes

• Any medication required

To make this a successful & enjoyable event for everyone we require parental assistance both with regards to transport and marshalling on the day.

We will need the following help at various times on the day from parents:

12:30pm Transporting children from school to the Redwoods Visitor Centre

1pm – 2:20pm Marshalling in the forest on the day

2:30pm Transporting those children who catch a bus or require after school care back to school

All other children are to be collected by their parents by 2:30pm from the Redwoods.

If you have already indicated that you are available to help with transport for the cross country , thank you and I will be in touch early in the week.

Event outline:

1:00pm 7 & 8 yr old Girls 1.10pm 7 & 8 yr old Boys

1:20pm 9 year old Girls 1:30pm 9 Year old Boys

1.40 pm 10 year old Girls 1.50pm 10 year old Boys

2.00pm 11 year old Girls 2.05pm 11 year old Boys

Thanking you in anticipation for your help and support to make this a successful day.

No sausage sizzle next two Fridays

There will be no sausage sizzle this Friday and next Friday due to trips.

R4 Newshub

Here is our first episode.

Week 2 Term 2

Thanks to the parents who were able to come to New World on Thursday.

Spelling lists will be posted later tonight. Please take the time to your child learn these words, it makes reading and writing so much easier. Other home learning this week should include Maths Whizz and reading through the persuasive writing that the children are still working on. Your child can also tell you a lot about what they learned during our Food for Thought lessons last week.

Our first edition of the St Mary's Newshub will be out this week.  Many of the students in R4 have been working hard to get this up and running, they have done an amazing job so far.



Monday
Cross country training bring your PE gear

Tuesday
Squash - bring your PE gear

Wednesday
School singing practice nd Reading log draw.
Cross country training bring your PE gear
1.30pm J-Rock Practice for all dancers. Hall

Thursday
Cross country training bring your PE gear
Warmer day - bring something wrapped in tinfoil to heat up.
ICT club - Google sites for making easy websites. Parents are welcome. 12:30-1:10pm

Friday
JPC show
GoldenTime: Baby pics identification competition. Students are to send Mr James a baby photo if you have not already.

Sustainability poster

Yesterday we took some photos of students holding the letters spelling Sustainability. Today Brendon and Angus used these photos to make the poster below. They used Pages on a MacBook and have used a number of tools including green screening to make the students stand out on the orange background. Pretty impressive.

This poster will be displayed in class

We also made a start on our R4 News hub - watch this space.

Heathy Food

Today Andy the health person came in to teach us about healthy diet she showed us the food pyramid and told us that we can control what we eat and how much sugar in our every day lives. We also learned about carbonhydrates and that it gives us energy.

Squash

Bella practicing her racket skills. 

More squash fun. Today we were refining our racket skills through some relays.