Kia ora koutou katoa. What a fabulous atmosphere in the school on Wednesday at our Student-Led Conferences. It was so lovely to see and hear the great learning conversations that were happening. Thank you to those who came (so many of you) and for being such active participants in the conferences with your child. These conferences place the child as the leader, and present an opportunity for them to prepare, reflect on, share, and discuss evidence of their learning and growth.

The Kids for Kids Concert was held last night at the Bruce Mason Theatre in Takapuna. It was an amazing spectacle with fifty four children from Milford School attending. Jackie Clark and Nathan King hosted the show and really encouraged the children from eleven different schools to perform to the best of their ability. The children from Year 4- 6 have been practising all year and we were all so pleased that we were able to go ahead with the show. With so many disappointments throughout the year what a special night it was to celebrate. It will be a great memory of 2020.

This term we have been using the Pouaka Room green screen to produce a short video for our Wonder Project competition entry in STEM. We love the game ‘Among Us’ so we decided to use this as our theme in our video (see below), we hope you enjoy it! It even features a cameo from our very own Ms Cattell! A special thanks also goes to James from our Board of Trustees who has been supporting us with everything from engineering to editing over the last term and a bit!

Our year two ELLS have worked pretty hard to create a multilingual picture dictionary with the key vocabulary for their current Unit of Inquiry - HOW THE WORLD WORKS. They are amazing communicators and extremely knowledgeable students.

Room 2 is in search of 5 bear onesies for an item in the Year 6 concert. If you have a bear onesie you would be happy to lend for the concert on Friday 20th November, please email sophie.magaraggia@milford.school.nz

Next week, the Year 6's are pre-selling ice blocks for Year 4-6 students to be enjoyed after Athletics day on Friday 13 November. They are raising funds for their graduation event. Ice blocks cost $2 and money needs to be brought to school and given to the class teacher by Wednesday. Thank you for your support. 😀 There will be two further Ice Block days later in the Term for all students. Keep an eye out for the notices in coming weeks.

A current Unit of Inquiry for our year 5 students is being studied in ESOL too. To be able to express ourselves in a more sophisticated manner, our students are learning how to use proverbs and idioms in spoken and written language.

“Team Bridge” consisted of 7 boys and parents who competed in the Auckland Marathon – 11 km Transverse race on Sunday. This race went from Smales Farm, over the harbour bridge and finished in Victoria Park. The lead up consisted of individual and group runs and the boys were buzzing leading up to the event. On race day the boys did an amazing job and all ran 11km. It was an amazing event and they were full of energy, showed great motivation for each other and had so much fun!

Many thanks to the families who have signed up to run or walk the Shore to Shore on Sunday. We are sure you will have a wonderful day. The overall numbers are down somewhat from previous years but we have a large group who have entered and will help our school to get sports equipment. Everyone should have received their number by now as they have all been given out. Remember to pin them to your shirt to show you have registered. We hope you really enjoy your day!

Just to let you all know that we are again collecting for Age Concern. If you would like to donate something, please either send it along with your child to their classroom, or drop it off in the office. The elderly people who are recipients of these gifts absolutely love receiving the special messages from the children. Many are on their own and do not have family to share Christmas with. We will have all goodies ready for collection on December 3.

Each parent should have received an order form with their child's unique code on it so they can order online. Anyone who doesn't have their child's code needs to contact Sara Baker (via email) so she can give it to them.

Members of the Milford School APPA Choir will be performing with Takapuna Primary and Westlake Girls Cantare Choirs with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra in this free family concert. We are very excited to be able to perform and have this opportunity.

On Friday 11th December, the whole school will be celebrating Christmas with an evening concert. This is a concert where the whole school dresses in red, white and green and sing Christmas songs to you from the deck. Parents, please bring a picnic blanket, a picnic, and sit on the field and enjoy the singing! Families arrive at 5pm, and children will sing from 5.30pm for about half an hour. It is always a wonderful community event, so please mark it in your diaries!!

A FULL DAY OF DRAMA, DANCE, SINGING AND MORE!

See attached enrolment information for Skids before and after school programme, including their weekly activity plan for Term 4.

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