Week 5 and 6 Update

Kia ora koutou

Please refer to seesaw as we are moving across to that blog.  If you are not able to get into seesaw please get in touch with me.  Important dates:

Swimming starts on Monday
Tuesday 4 December                     Extravaganza with Buddy class at 2.30pm . Please bring a plate
Wednesday 5 December                Hangi    still some tickets available.  Get in quick

We had great fun learning about the surf

Difficult to see in these pictures but the lettuces receiving worm juice are about 20% bigger than the lettuces not receiving worm juice.  PLEASE GET YOUR WORM JUICE FROM THE CLASS.  IT ONLY COSTS $2 PER BOTTLE!

Week 3 and 4 T4 Action

Chess stars

Cricket Stars

We are hoping to place signs along the Avon to promote a Clean river

The Year 5's spent time getting to know each other

Year 5's getting to know each other

Resilience in action

Term 4: First two weeks and important dates

Kia ora Whanau

Term 4....Wow!

Some of the early action:

High Jump at the Athletics Sports Day

Working with Clay.  We will be painting our clay constructions on Monday

Razif and his team grew some wonderful radishes.  We are also growing lettuces in two planter boxes.  One box of lettuces we are giving water to and the other we are giving water and worm juice.  I will keep you updated on the progress......

Please could you click on your child's link in Seesaw.  Seesaw is another form of blog.  It will be a lot more efficient than this current blog.  The plan is to be able to send pictures of your child's learning directly to you.  I will keep both blogs going this term and then just run the Seesaw blog next year.

Important Dates:

Wednesday 31 October    Day at The Groynes   Please send your child to school with a raincoat

Monday 19 November     Beach Education        We are still looking for parnts to assist on the day

Wednesday 21 November  Parent/Teacher interviews

Thursday 22 November    Parent/Teacher interviews

Monday 26 November     Swimming starts         We will swim for a fortnight

Tuesday 11 December     Year 6 Leavers Dinner at Lone star

Tuesday 18 December      Final Assembly.      Please collect your child at 12.30pm

The message below is from the PTA: 

MESSAGE FROM  PTA 

Dear Parents

The PTA has organised a quiz night on Tuesday 6 November 7-10pm at Sixty 6 on Peterborough.  Details are in the attached facebook link, with teams of 6-8 people.  The PTA needs as many parents, family and friends as possible to come to the quiz to help our fundraising for the school.  As part of this, we thought you might like to consider organising a team (or teams) of parents (and partners, friends, family etc) from each class.  If you would like to organise a class team, we have attached a word document that you could either ask people to fill out online, or otherwise provide a hard copy in the classroom for people to fill out.  Any questions please contact the PTA at pta@ilam.school.nz.

For more details on the quiz night please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/events/280537006130146/

Ngā mihi nui

Nigel

Week 9 and 10 Term 3

Kia ora Whanau

I hope you're all enjoying the term break.  Some of the highlights of the final fortnight of the term:-



Receiving this Certificate from the University was unexpected but we felt proud of our achievement.



We enjoyed the Tongan dance with our very own Talumeimu'a playing the lead role!



Our weekly community service around the school is enjoyed by the tamariki.  I know Victoria appreciates our support!




The tamariki have really enjoyed the Rube Goldberg experience (making something simple really complicated...!) This has also given the tamariki an opportunity to develop their teamwork.



During maths we have been learning about shapes.  This task was the opposite of a Rubics cube.  the tamariki had to make a cube with different colours in each of the 6 sides!  Well done to Matisse, Brianna and Tristan for achieving this difficult task.

Have a great break.  I hope the children are all practising their athletic skills!  Athletics Day is on Wednesday 24 October.

Ngā mihi nui
Nigel

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