TERM 3- Week 1

Monday: 

Teacher Only Day

Tuesday: 

1st day back at School for children.

Library day.

Wednesday: 

School singing- 8.40am.

Portfolios and Reports go home.

Thursday:

Kapa haka 2pm.

Friday: 

Mandarin with Ling.

Sausage sizzle.

No spelling testing this week.

Golden time- To be decided

Welcome back to term 3 everyone! 

I hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for another great term of learning and fun!  

Holiday reading photos

The holiday reading photos uploaded to the padlet so far are great! The rest of you have until Friday to upload your pic too.

There is a great prize up for grabs...

Holiday reading logs 
Can these please be returned to me this week. Remember- they don't need to be completely filled in. 
There are some neat prizes to be won in Mr Macmillan's holiday reading log draw too!

Portfolios and Reports 
These will both be coming home this Wednesday.

Junior Report: Your child will be getting a mid-year report. It has 3 graphs which show where your child is achieving in relation to The National Standards in Reading, Writing and Maths.

At the end of the report is a box with a few sentences of what your child can do, and some suggestions for next steps in their learning. 

The end of year report will be in more detail.

Portfolios: Your child's portfolio will contain a range of assessments from term 1 and term 2. It includes teacher assessments, self assessments, formal testing and practical examples of work. 

If there is a blank page in your child's portfolio, it means they were absent when the assessment took place. It is too hard to catch every child up on these. 

All Portfolios need to be returned in week 2 so that this term's work can be put into them.

Term 3 Learning Overview
* Concept 
This term we are learning about Cycles: the sun, moon, night and day. 

* Religious Education 
Our focus is around the Church Strand. We are learning how we belong, participate and celebrate being a part of our whanau, our school and our parish.

* Reading
We get straight into our Reading Programme from week 1. 
Our focus this term is on fluency, expression and comprehension.

*Writing 
In writing we will focus on both recount and explanation writing. 
Explanation writing is when you explain why or how something happens. 
The children will be learning how to add more detail to their stories, use full-stops and capital letters correctly and consistently proofread their work to ensure it makes sense.

*Spelling
Spelling homework will resume in week 2.


*Mathematics 
Number knowledge and strategies are our focus from Monday to Thursday.

Our Maths strand focus on Fridays this term is Time. We will look at days, months, seasons and telling the time on digital and analogue clocks.
Maths homework will also resume in week 2.

This term we also have Cross country, Parent interviews, Maori language week, The NED show, Mary MacKillop Day, Masses and Liturgies. 
So make sure to check the blog and the school newsletter regularly :)

Have a lovely week.
Eliana