Lochiel School Newsletter

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Kia Ora Lochiel School Whānau

It was fantastic watching the children work alongside Janet de Wagt last week. We will know soon how we can view the pupils art work in a public display. Huge congratulations to our students on making such great pieces with recyclable materials.

I would like to congratulate our students on all giving 100% at the Eastern Sub Zone Cross Country last Friday. Many of our students are going through to Central Cross Country on Friday, 11 June, 2021 at Dipton. We wish you all the best at this event.

Support Staff week is next week and I would like to thank all our Support Staff who assist us in making our school a fantastic place to work and teach. Norah Thomson, Summer McKerchar, Graham Scobie and Mary Taylor - we thank you. All their work supports our children to be the best they can be.

The staff on Friday, 11 June, 2021 will be completing their LETRS training for Literacy. Relievers will be in classrooms on this day and Mrs Cimone Page will be the Lochiel School teacher representative at the Central Cross Country Event due to our professional development training occurring.

Don't forget that tomorrow is a Teacher Only Day.

Ngā mihinui,

Mary Miller
Lochiel School Principal

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Summer McKerchar

Cross Country fun at Browns!

We had lots of smiles and wet shoes by the end of the day, but what fun we had!

Marcia Ferguson

Social Science Fair

Room 5 is frantically preparing research presentations for the up-and-coming Social Sciences Fair in Invercargill.

Marcia Ferguson

Jump Jam Information

Here is some important information for our Jump Jam teams.

Marcia Ferguson

Jump Jam tickets

Here is some important information about tickets for the up and coming Jump Jam competition...

Ella Morrison

Room 1's Cross Country Stories

On your marks, get set... GO! Room 1 had a blast at their very first Cross Country experience last Friday. Here are some of our stories we wrote about our day.

Summer McKerchar

Cross Country fun at Browns!

We had lots of smiles and wet shoes by the end of the day, but what fun we had!

Mary Miller

Teacher Only Day - Friday, 4 June, 2021

We have our second Teacher Only Day coming up on Friday, 4 June, 2021 for the year. Lochiel School and After School Care will be closed for instruction on this day. The Teacher Only Day in June will release staff to work on discussing achievement data and writing mid year reports. We have chosen this date to give you an extended Queens Birthday weekend should you wish to utilize it.

Marcia Ferguson

ANZAC Mixed-media art

While half the class was out playing chess, the rest of Room 5 created mixed-media art with an ANZAC theme.

Norah Thomson

Junior Gate Science

10 students from Room 2 and 4 attended a day of fun science activities.

Cimone Page

Great Grams

In Room 4 over the past few weeks for Strand Maths (Weight/Mass unit) with Mrs Page we've been learning to recognise a 100 gram mass, recording measurements in kg and g using whole numbers and accurately measure specific amounts of materials, using objects of 1kg mass to estimate the mass of other objects, discussing the need for having and using standard measures of mass, making sensible estimates about the mass of given objects and explaining the meaning of metric prefix terminology (e.g kilo) and more!