Our top photo today is of Room 12 (Years 1 and 2) being Taniwha, as part of their Te Reo language learning with Tracye Eriksen this morning. The children learned about family relationships and what to call younger and older siblings as well as enjoying this fun action and vocabulary game called Kupu. It was a pleasure to spend the morning block with Room 12 today, I especially enjoyed their confidence and questioning. However, I know it’s time for a relaxing weekend when one of the children estimated my age at 70 in our discussion around birthdays! Thank goodness the next estimate was 18.

Check out this week’s episode of Milford School TV by clicking the link below.

The Year 1 students celebrated their 100th day at school on Wednesday this week. The learners had a memorable day filled with fun activities and games that involved the number 100.

Wednesday 11th August was our 100th day at school this year. The Year 2 team celebrated being 100 days smarter by having a day where most things were linked to one hundred. The Hive had fitness related to 100 where we jumped to 100, did 100 star jumps and estimated where 100 steps would take us.

Well done to all of the cast of ‘Sucked In’. You have done an awesome job learning your lines and are now putting in a huge effort to develop your acting skills.

As Math is a critical component of STEM learning, this week we focused on Run Length Coding. This involved translating black and white pixels into numbers and drawing the results. We had a lot of fun interpreting the number codes and also designed our own codes to create pixel art!

William in R18 has shown great learning focus and descriptive language today, in his writing of an emotions poem. William likened the feeling of being shocked with what it might look like, what colour it would be, what it would sound like, taste like and feel like. It was an amazing poem William! keep up the good work, you are showing that you are knowledgeable and a communicator!

Garden to Table is a programme that runs in Year 5 at Milford School. It has been a wonderful addition to the curriculum for this year group, with students wishing they could continue in Year 6.

As you will be aware, we are all working away and practising hard for our two upcoming productions, Sucked in and The Bee Musical. Ticket bookings open today, the links for which are below. We are using an online system this year which we are hoping will make purchasing your tickets easier.

Team Pete Needs Your Help! We have a wonderful family in our school community who have been with us for a number of years now, and we would like to ask for your help for them.

A big congratulations to two of our students who took part in the Turoa Parks Mini Shred at Turoa recently. Both girls showed lots of determination and resilience in the cold, wet conditions with Mia winning the gold medal in the primary school age group and Sienna close behind with silver. Well done girls!

Our amazing FOMS committee are planning on some exciting events this term and next term. See below for all the details. Save the dates to your calendars now!

Thank you so much to all the parents and school supporters who have saved Yummy Stickers and sent them into school. While this promotion goes all year, we do have to send our present collection in by the end of this term.

Milford Primary School is selling Entertainment Digital Memberships as part of this year’s fundraising initiative and we would love your support. Buy a Membership & your Milford School receives 20% of the purchase.

Contact milford@skids.co.nz to find out how to enrol your child.

We will be holding a ballot for out of zone students in October this year, for entry to school in 2022. This ballot includes out of zone siblings of students already attending Milford School. The final day to get a ballot application into school is Tuesday 21 September. The ballot will be drawn by our Police Education Officer on Wednesday 20 October.

Chris from M-Sports will be running a rugby skills clinic during lunchtime on Thursdays starting on 26 August.

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