Rooms 1, 2 & 3 Term
1 2016- Junior Syndicate Newsletter
Dear Parents and Caregivers
We look forward to a wonderful year with your
children. Our emails are marie.andrewartha@sfxtawa.school.nz faencha.nicholls@sfxtawa.school.nz naomi.johnson@sfxtawa.school.nz
However we often don’t clear our emails until after
school so if your message is urgent please email school or ring the office
Each room has a class blog . If you would like to have a look just log
on to the address below.
2016r1sfx.blogspot.co.nz 2016r2sfx.blogspot.co.nz 2016r3sfx.blogspot.co.nz
or you can go in via our school
web site. Our people/our
students/class blogs
We hope you enjoy it. Please leave us some comments! Don’t forget to let family and friends know
about our blog
Our topic for this term is
I
am a Good Friend-We cooperate together so we
can grow together in a happy environment
-as part of this the students will be discussing the qualities of
friendship, what this looks like sounds like, feels like and sounds like. The
Life Education Trust van is visiting us during week 4: 24-29 Feb. The children love visiting Harold the Giraffe who
will be helping us learn about ‘Being Friends Together’
Our RE strand is ‘Church’ we belong to our class/family/church. We
will visit our church, meet Father John and find out about his work. Please
come to our Junior Rm 1, 2 & 3 Liturgy
at Our Lady of Fatima Church 11.30am Monday 22nd Feb
Goal Setting Interviews Mon 29 Feb 3-7; Tues 1 Feb 3-5pm
Tues 9thth Feb is Shrove Tuesday and we will be making pancakes
and having pancake races. Join us for this celebration, races are at 12pm- if
you can help with the pancake making please let us know.
Ash Wednesday 10th Feb: please join us for a special Ash
Wednesday Liturgy in the School Hall at 11am.
Year 1
& 2 Sports Day@ St Francis Xavier Tues
8th March.
St Patricks Day 17 March will be a GREEN Mufti Day- The children
wear Green clothes and bring a gold coin donation for the CARITAS Lent appeal.
Our Easter Liturgy will be
on Holy Thursday 24 March at 1.45pm
in the school hall.
Swimming will be on Thursdays Weeks 2-9 beginning the 11th
Feb at the Tawa School Pool, please make sure all your child’s clothing is
named. We would also appreciate any help with walking down to the pool and
helping with changing our young ones. Rooms 1, 2, 3 (30 minute sessions)- if fine we will walk to
the pool/if wet we will travel by bus
1st group- Room 3:
10.30-11am-leave school at 10am
2nd group-Room 2:
11-11.30am-leave school at 10.30am
3rd group-Room 1: 11.30am-12pm-leave
school at 11am
Home Learning
We would like to share
some positive ways in which you could help your child with literacy and
numeracy development.
Set aside a regular time
each night to read to your child. The bedtime story is a most valuable way to
ensure a healthy attitude towards reading. Make this time enjoyable and free
from tension.
Most nights your child
will bring home some reading in their book bag to share together. On Fridays
they will bring their poetry books home. Listen to your child read and help him
or her to point to the words. Encourage your child to gain sense from the
story. Resist jumping in and correcting mistakes but ask questions like- “Does
this make sense?” “What can you tell me about?”
The pictures are important
information about the story- please don’t cover them up. Your child needs those
vital clues. Encourage your child to point to the words, one by one with
his/her index finger as they read.
Praise your child’s efforts!
Encourage your child to
retell a story in their own words. Words are everywhere, when you go out and
about read signs and labels together.
We will be giving each
child a set of high frequency word cards- play fun games with these e.g. Let’s
see if we can find a word the same as this one, Memory, word snap, Can you
find… Can you write any of these words?
They will also be given a
set of number cards 1-20. Children can practise ordering them, first 1-10 and
when they can do this then 1-20. They will be learning about numbers that come
before and after a given number on the number line 1-20.
Rooms 1&2 visit our
school library on Fridays and Room 3s library visit is on Tuesdays. The
children will bring a school library book home; they will need to bring their
book back to school by the following library day. We will visit the Tawa Library once a term; you will need to return
these to the Tawa Library.
Meet the Teacher- Rooms 1& 2 Parents meet your Teachers before
the picnic Tea, at 4.30 in Room 2 then gather on the field and bring your
dinner/ Fish and Chips -5pm Thursday 4th
We aim to provide a happy,
secure, caring environment with each child actively involved in the learning
process.
Gods Blessings Marie Andrewartha, Faencha Nicholls, Naomi
Johnson.
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