Week 8 Term 3 Notices

 It was a fantastic day for launching rockets on Friday. Click here to see some of the launches. 

We also ran our school assembly on Friday afternoon, Sean and Axiom will put together a highlights package to be shared with our whanau and community early next week. 

We have now completed our class speeches, Aaron and Chloe J will be representing R4 at the Totara speech finals next week. Everyone who presented their speech was super brave and the quality was really good. Speeches will be uploaded to Educa this week. 

Register for summer sports here. 

Next week:

Monday

New spelling lists and tasks will be posted on our learning site. 

Tuesday

Library

Bring books to exchange. 

Wednesday

Thursday

Warmer day

Bring something yummy wrapped in tinfoil to heat up. 

Plastic-free day - no single-use plastic please. 

PE - bring PE gear

Friday

Gym competition (gymnasts only).

Just a few burnt sausages ;-)

Thursday reminders

We have had a fantastic start to the new term in R4. There has been lots of exciting learning happening and all the students have been great. 

Some reminders:

Thursday

Cultural dinner in the hall - see the newsletter for more information. 

Warmer day - students can bring something wrapped in tinfoil to warm up for lunch. 

Plastic-free Thursday - Please try not to bring any single-use plastic to school. 

PE - All students need PE gear. 

Reading logs due tomorrow.

Please send in 1.5 litre drink bottles, tape (any type) plastic/ cardboard. 

Welcome to Term 3

This term our Concept is Exploration.  Much of our learning will be around this concept but we are also taking part in the Wonder Rockets project and the students who were in R4 last year will spend time designing, building and gardening with Mr G. 

Reading logs need to be returned by Friday, there are spare ones in R4 if needed.

Can you please send in and 1.5 litre plastic bottles for our Wonder Rockets projects. Lids are not needed. 

Please check Chromebooks are charged ready for learning on Monday. 

Week 1 schedule

Monday

Exploration Ignition - students will visit all 5 Totara classes to take part in different learning tasks related to Exploration. 

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Plastic Free Thursday (see below)

Warmer Day - Bring something yummy to warm up for lunch. Make sure it is small and wrapped in tinfoil. 

Kapahaka

Reading logs must be in today - last day to enter the draw for prizes. 

Go4It PE - students require PE gear. 

Friday

Sausage sizzle

The Young Vinnies are continuing to collect bread tags until the end of Term 3. Please collect and send them into class, Jet will be collecting R4's.

Warmer day and Plastic-free Thursday

Tomorrow students can bring something small wrapped in tinfoil to heat up for lunch tomorrow.  Some items we discussed in class are: toasted sandwiches, pizza, cookies, sausage rolls, mini pies...


We would also like to have a plastic-free Thursday. Watch this space for more information coming over the next few days. For tomorrow, please try to avoid any single-use plastic in lunchboxes.

This week there have been soccer games at lunchtime. Today R4 beat R1.

Please send back the parent/teacher reports to class.