Weekly Notices, Week 8, Term 2, 2017

Ruma Weta - Rooms 16 & 17, Weekly Notices, Term 2, Week 8 (19th - 23rd June 2017)

It is great to see so many children spending more time on the Maths Whizz and lexia these past two weeks. We are giving a raffle ticket for each child who does their 60 minutes on these programmes. The promotion finishes at the end of the term, just before the 3rd All Black Test, when we are giving away lots of rugby paraphernalia in a prize draw. There were a lot of St Mary’s families at the Giant Haka on Saturday amongst the 7700 who were there. It was great to see. A large number of people there were Lion’s supporters.

Please note - children should be completing 60 minutes minimum on Maths Whizz and 60 minutes on Lexia, every week regardless of the prize draw. The children get plenty of time to complete this at school but of they don’t they are expected to complete their time for homework. Some are not doing so.

Tuesday 20th June is Interschool Cross Country - several children out.

Thursday 22nd June 9:30am - EPro8 challenge at Rotorua Intermediate.

Friday 23rd June - gymnastics students out to Te Puke.

Friday 23rd June - 9am mass - Feast of the Sacred Heart - at St Mary’s church - all welcome.

Friday 23rd June 11am Pasifika practice - with Mrs Wallbank.

The Young Vinnies are collecting non perishable food and good unwanted clothing to help the homeless. Please send in any donations to your child’s class before week 9.  Each item donated will be worth 1 house point.  The class that collects the most house points overall will have a mufti day just for their class!

Science - water as a solid - ICE

Getting children to talk about their observations when doing science is very important. They need to distinguish between true observations (just what our sight and other senses are telling us) and inferences (stories scientists make up to explain why things are happening using the evidence from observations).

Science Science everywhere

More science from rooms 16 and 17 - Ruma Weta - water tension activity, Mr Bach demonstrating to the class and Science experts from the council come to the class to teach about water.

Weekly Notices, Week 7, Term 2, 2017

Ruma Weta - Rooms 16 & 17, Weekly Notices, Term 2, Week 7 (12th - 16th June 2017)

Children will be undertaking a number of assessments over the next 2 or 3 weeks in reading, writing and maths and a mid-year report will go out early next term. Please encourage your children to do their best in all tests and assessments so we can get an accurate picture of where they are currently with their learning and what they need to learn next.

Ruma Weta will be at a community mass on Tuesday 13th June at 12 noon until 12:30.

Class photos are being taken this Friday 16th June. The Middle School should be having theirs done after morning tea (So rooms 16 and 17 will be sometime after 11am). We would like to remind parents that the close off for ordering school photos is THIS Thursday 15th June 12.30pm. After that parents will have to order photos directly with Photolife.

The week has come for our JRock group to perform. There has been a lot of last minute rehearsals taking place and it’s looking pretty good. It is a shame that the venue has had to change, but the show carries on. We have been extremely lucky to have had the help of Rebecca Daniels and the JPC students. Thanks also to Annie and Anne for coordinating the children and liaising with Rebecca. There is an optional late start for JRock performers on Tuesday morning 13th June, if children are too tired in the morning.

ICAS spelling and writing exams are on Wednesday 14th at 9am with Mr Volschenk.

Some children will be out on Friday at Ripper Rugby with Whaea Eliana from 9am.

Maths Whizz at home - Click on this link to help you understand how your child can make the most of their Maths Whizz account.

The Young Vinnies are collecting non perishable food and good unwanted clothing to help the homeless. Please send in any donations to your child’s class before week 9.  Each item donated will be worth 1 house point.  The class that collects the most house points overall will have a mufti day just for their class! Ohhhh, I’m getting excited about it already!!!!

Week 7 Maths Whizz information for our parents!

Maths Whizz information for parents. Please do look at this link to learn more about the online maths resource your child is using. Encourage your child to keep up their 60-90 minutes a week!
We have some neat prizes up for grabs for all those who earn 60 minutes this week.

Information for Parents of Students in Y3-6 Click on this link to help you understand how your child can make the most of their Maths Whizz account. Kind Regards The Team at iLearn Interactive on behalf of Maths-Whizz and Linguascope Copyright © 2015 iLearn Interactive, All rights reserved.

Science with ice and salt!

This morning we had to observe ice balls and what it looks, feels, sounds and tastes like! We put some salt on the ice ball and then we squirted some coloured water on the ice and observed what happened next.

The salt sank into the ice leaving a trail where we sprinkled it.

Why? What is happening?

Science Water Testing

Ruma Weta did some more water testing last week. The children went through samples of materials netted from the Utuhina Stream to look for signs of invertebrate life (water bugs etc). The children found that it contained a number of species including Koura, caddis and stonefly that gave us some evidence that indicated the water was of good quality.