Top Team, swimming, Life-Ed and more!

Literacy

This week for literacy we have been focusing on writing letters based on our recent Waipara camp. We have continued our focus of sentence structure, and have been practicing writing simple, compound and complex sentences. This week we have also completed our PAT listening test.

Numeracy

We have been looking a range of strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems such as rounding and compensating, tidy numbers and place value partitioning. 

Top Team

Students were out and about participating in Top Team on Tuesday. This was lots of fun and it was good to see our students out there supporting and encouraging the younger ones. 

Life-Education

This week we have been at Life-Education where we have been learning about a growth mindset and how to stay resilient when things are not going the right way. See below for some students in action.

Swimming

This week we had our final swimming session for the term. We recapped our learning on pool entries, sculling and treading water.

Maths Whizz

Congratulations to the following students who have received Maths Whizz certificates this week: Lily Wilson, Cohen Poilly, Luke Kuipers and Hope Jones

Next Week

Literacy: Next week we will be completing a writing sample as well as completing our camp letters. 

Numeracy: Next week we will continue looking at a range of strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems.

Integrated learning: We will be starting our 'taking action' for this term. Students have selected a 'taking action' project that they will work on over the next couple of weeks. 

Mr Forman's taking action- Waipara camp survival guide. Students will look at the learner qualities and design a guide for future students.

Mr Muirhead's taking action- Cultural belonging. Students will be looking a cultures from around the world and create their own 'language week' resource from their chosen culture.

Mrs Fuller's taking action- Life-Education. Students will look at the difference between distress and eustress and then design an anti-stress tool that they could use when feeling stressed or worried. 

Whole school assembly- This has been postponed. 

Teachers professional development: Mr Forman, Mr Muirhead and Mrs Fuller will be out of the classroom Monday afternoon for some professional  development. 

Next Week's Timetable