Kia ora e te whānau. What a wonderful way to end our term celebrating Literacy Week and Chinese Language Week! Students have dressed up, attended storytimes with guest speakers and so much more! The newsletter is full of these wonderful experiences and celebrations.

The team at Milford School wishes you a very happy holiday and can't wait to see you back at school soon. Check us out busting the moves in the video below.

This week, children have enjoyed a range of activities celebrating all things literacy as part of our annual Literacy Week. In addition to the activities set by teachers, children had the opportunity to join daily Story Time readings carried out by some of our lovely teachers here at Milford.

To celebrate Chinese Language Week, Emily from room 10 shared a song for her teacher and class to enjoy.

The lucky children who have attended school in level 3 have been busy with a variety of activities and learning. Today, as part of the Year 3 learning, Piper and her two artistic assistants, Stella and Orla, designed, built and decorated a 3D house, complete with shade cloth, a sparkly pool, grass, a patio and people! They had a great time painting! Riley decided to write an exciting story on her chromebook, and Alexander was busy too. Then we had the chance to hear Mrs Hewitt read 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' over zoom.

What a wonderful way to end Term 3 with Literacy Week! On Wednesday, we arrived at our zoom meeting dressed up as our favourite book characters. Can you tell who we are and which books we come from?

The Year 2 team had a combined Zoom meeting on Wednesday as part of our Literacy Week. We came dressed as a book character. There were pirates, witches, princesses, Harry Potter, Star Wars characters, bees, unicorns, mermaids, dogs, Batman, Cat in the Hat, Cookie Monster, aliens, to name a few. We joined in a dance then broke off into breakout rooms to share our book and character. We then came back together and Mrs Cattell read us an awesome Dr Seuss book which had some great messages in it. To finish off we had a couple more songs and dances. It was so much fun seeing our friends across the year group. Thank you to everyone who joined us and for the great effort you went to in dressing up.

This week the Year 3’s have been celebrating Literacy Week and Chinese Language Week. On Wednesday, we had a great turnout on Zoom from Year 3 children who dressed as their favourite book characters. The students were very excited to share their costumes and stories with their class.

To link with our current Unit of Inquiry as well as Literacy Week - the Year 5’s were challenged to write a job application for a position in a fairytale. They were asked to be persuasive with their writing and to ensure that the reader knew the skills and qualities that they possessed in order to take on the role. Here are a few of the examples…

The Specialists would like to say a huge thank you to all the amazing students who have completed our activities during lockdown. We have loved planning them for you and have loved reading and watching your responses.

Reid has been "hooking into a good book" this lockdown: Tiny Timmy by Tim Cahill. Tiny Timmy is based on the author Tim Cahill's journey as a footballer. His goal is to help kids to read and inspire them to follow their dreams. You can read Reid's book review above and see a picture of Reid dressed up as Tiny Timmy for our recent school dress-up day.

In Year 4 we’ve started our new unit of inquiry, Sharing the Planet, which will continue into next term. This unit focuses on the most important thing of all - our planet and all the lifeforms on it.

To celebrate Literacy week at Milford School, Room 16 students came to their zoom this morning dressed as their favourite book characters. We saw Rapunzel, Shark in the Dark, Cinderella, Maui and the sun, Little Red Riding Hood, and so many more. What a great effort by everyone.

Room 14 has been working very hard over lockdown and were very excited at the prospect of a book character zoom! After days of secrecy about what we were going to dress up as, the big day finally arrived. We had Mermaids, Fairies, Elsa's, Spidermen, a dolphin, a witch and a teenage mutant ninja turtle! We took turns asking each other why they were our favourite books and characters. I think that Room 14 is full of very knowledgeable and excellent thinkers. Ka pai Room 14!

Literacy week kicked off to a great start in Room 10 on Monday - We had Monday Funday and we all talked about our favourite books on a shared class zoom and had a literacy quiz. Some of the questions included "What is Winnie the Pook's favourite game?" and "What creatures are the Wilburforces in Under the Mountain?" Tricky questions but some students managed to get most of them right!

Our lovely Tommy and Melissa Kim are leaving Milford School earlier than planned. They had their little gift contactlessly delivered . We will all miss Melissa and Tommy and wish them and their family all the very best.

Thank you so much to all the parents and school supporters who have saved Yummy Stickers and sent them into school. If you have any completed sheets at home, please drop them into the school letterbox or bring them in to school next week so they can be tallied. Every sticker counts and goes towards new sporting equipment for our school.

Join sKids virtually for some fun sessions this school holidays! Sessions are FREE and open to all students of Milford School. You may also bring a friend, sibling or cousin to join you!

AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES 2021and Holiday Workshop

Join National Championship winning coaches Matt Lacey & Sonny Tuaputa in camp these Holidays. Saints Basketball is running a 5 day camp at Rosmini College for boys and girls aged 7-15 years. The camp will have a major focus on skill development as we head into Term 4 and the off-season.

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