How we use water.

Meleki, Cailyn and Tom used an ipad to make a trailer about the uses of water.

Harvesting from our school garden

Today we helped in the school garden and harvested these yummy carrots. 

Steam Puddings

STEAM PUDDING!!!
Steam pudding with custard will be for sale at school on Thursday 30th of July for only $1.50 order through classes. Proceeds will go to support activity of the Whanau Group.

Cailyn was in the Daily Post

The Ned show

Today Room 1 joined the school watching the Ned show.

NEVER GIVE UP
ENCOURAGE OTHERS
DO YOUR BEST

Learning what NED means.

"Never give up."

Week 2 Term 3

Week one flew by. The children made me feel very welcome in our class and around the school. This week is Maori language week so we will be making sure to learn some more Te Reo during class time.

Here are the key events happening this week.

MONDAY 27TH JULY. 

• 10.30pm Church Choir Room 15 
• 3.00pm - 6.00pm Parent Interviews 

TUESDAY 28TH JULY

• ICAS English pm 
• 9.00am The NED show 
• 3.00pm - 6.00pm Parent Interviews 

WEDNESDAY 29TH JULY

•  8.45am Singing Practice.
• 7.00pm PTA AGM Staff room. All welcome. 

THURSDAY 30TH JULY

• Library

 FRIDAY 31ST JULY

• Chinese lesson with Mr Jack.
• 12.30pm Pasifika group meet in Room 15 
• 2.10pm Assembly

Counting to 10 in Chinese

This morning Mr Jack came into our class and helped us learn a our Chinese numbers to 10.

Here is a short video to help us remember our Chinese numbers.

Hit It on a cold morning

This morning we had PE where we were out on the courts and it was freezing. Some of us thought we would be ok in bare feet but it was far too cold. We had to run back to our classroom to put our shoes on.

Putting our shoes on again.

Learning the correct grip.

Concentrating on hitting the ball.

Ni Hao,

I am looking forward to meeting all students and parents over the next few weeks. I am excited to be back in the St Mary's community along with my wife Cindy and children Mackenzie and Samuel. Here is a link to our travelling blog.

It is going to be fun getting to know students who I have not yet taught as well as meeting up again with students who have been in my classes previously.  I know you will all be able to help me settle into Room 1 by being helpful and understanding if things are a bit different.

This week:

Monday: 
Teacher only day (you lucky things, have an extra day of holidays).

Tuesday:
First day of Term 3 see you in class before 8:45am

Wednesday:
Hit It (Bring your P.E. gear)
Reports and Portfolios out today.

Thursday:
Hit It (Bring your P.E. gear)
Library

Friday:

Thank you

Thank you for the lovely send off last Friday. I received so many presents and beautiful flowers (see photos below). Another wonderful surprise was the 'secret' morning tea which was definitely a surprise for me. Thank you to Rachel Schuster for organising the morning tea with the children and a number of equally devious staff members. Thank you to you all!

I wish you all a great holiday.

Kind Regards Mrs Nieuwboer

 Our Marae trip