Newsletter Term Two Week Ten

Hi and welcome to Week Ten

Congratulations to our participants in the Northwest Choir on Tuesday - from all accounts you were super! Well done also to Rachel and Jessica who represented the school at the Primary Sports Canterbury Artistic Gym championships on Monday last week and did so well, especially to Rachel who helped the team do so well - look at the Sports Blog report.

The children are very excited about the Wearable Arts and may ask you to transport them to Creative Junk this week

This Tuesday is a mufti day and all Dads and boys need to get a ticket from the office for the Breakfast with the Boys ($5) at 7.30am on this Wednesday.

Week Nine
Last week we set to planning our Wearable Arts creations and did more science experiments looking at the qualities of materials. We had two football lessons, wrote our narrative stories, looked into words with silent letters and looked at statistics and geometry in the Room 7 maths class. We started some work on our dance for the Wearable Arts and also planned our creations.

Week Ten
This week we have our Levels spelling tests, will finish our science experiments and our football teaching from the CGHS girls. We have a class meeting, Fendalton Friends, opening of the Junior Playhouse and mufti day. Mrs Coats will teach on Wednesday (not Thursday) this week as I will be at Halswell Quarry.

Notices
A few dates:

• Mufti Day - Tuesday 30th June - children can dress as Heroes or someone who inspires you - Gold Coin donation for our World Vision Sponsor child.
  
• 7.30am Breakfast with the Boys - Wednesday 1 July - all Dads invited, tickets from the office for $5
• Elgergoe performances - Wednesday 1 July
• Last day of term - Friday 3 July - NO SENIOR SPORT
  
• Wearable Arts Performances - 7pm Monday 3rd and 1pm and 7pm Tuesday 4th August
  

Happy Birthday
Ben J. - 29 June
Xiling and Xiaoling - 30 June
Class Captain: Xiling
Class Secretary: Maddison
7 min. Champions:

Newsletter Term Two Week 9

Hi and welcome to Week Nine

This week we have 11 children involved in the Northwest Music Festival at Burnside High on Tuesday - the most of any class at FOS. The choir sounds fantastic and are a credit to themselves, the school and to Miss Alley who takes them. All the best for Tuesday evening!

Rachel and Jessica will represent the school at the Primary Sports Canterbury Artistic Gym championships on Monday - all the best girls, you have been practising very hard.

Annabelle had a great run at the Primary Sports Canterbury Cross Country last week and took 12th place in a field of 100 9 year old girls. This makes her a reserve for the Primary Sports Canterbury Cross Country team to run in Nelson in Term 3. She also helped the West Zone team to a Bronze in the teams' event. Logan came 68th in a very competitive 9 years boys race.

Children need their PE gear on Monday and Thursday for the CGHS Football lessons.

Next Tuesday is a mufti day and all Dads and boys need to get a ticket from the office for the Breakfast with the Boys ($5).

Week Eight
Lat week we started a unit on Football taken by CGHS Senior PE students - children need their PE gear and shoes Monday and Thursday this week. We stated some Science experiments looking at the qualities of different types of materials, looked at using metaphor in writing and started some narratives. We continued with our Printing Unit and sang a song about a "Rugger".

Week Nine
We are looking forward to planning our Wearable Arts creations and to more science experiments looking at the qualities of materials. We will work on our board games with our buddy class on Wednesday as well have some more books "sold" to us. We will look at silent letters in spelling and sing our "Rugger" song at the Senior Assembly on Friday.
Notices
A few dates:

• PSC Artistic Gym Champs - Monday 22 June
• Northwest Choir Practice (9am-12pm) and Performance(7pm) - Tuesday 23 June
• Mufti Day - Tuesday 30th June - Heroes or someone who inspires you - Gold Coin donation for our World Vision Sponsor child.
  
• Breakfast with the Boys - Wednesday 1 July - all Dads invited, tickets from the office for $5
• Elgergoe performances - Wednesday 1 July
• Last day of term - Friday 3 July
• Wearable Arts Performances - 7pm Monday 3rd and 1pm and 7pm Tuesday 4th August
  

Happy Birthday
Georgia - 22 June
Ben J. - 29 June
Xiling and Xiaoling - 30 June
Class Captain: Xiling
Class Secretary: Maddison
7 min. Champions:

7 Min. Wearable Arts Photos

Newsletter Term Two Week 8

Hi and welcome to Week Eight

This week Logan and Annabelle are competing at the Primary Sports Canterbury Cross Country Championship on Wednesday at Halswell Quarry. I will be there all day with them and as a selector/coach of the PSC CC team. Judy Anstey will be in the class.

Week Seven
Last week we had our last Hockey games. We had some more books "sold" to us at the Library and we sang a rugby song at the Senior Assembly. We talked about our Wearable Arts creations and we had our own wearable arts competition with 14 minutes, 2 sheets of newspaper and 1m of sellotape to make a head piece - look at our photos (coming). Three students completed the ICAS Science tests last week also.

Week Eight
This week we start a unit on Football that will be taken by CGHS Senior PE students - children need their PE gear and shoes each Monday for the next three weeks. We are starting some Science experiments looking at the qualities of different types of materials - any materials and equipment you can supply will be appreciated. We will continue with our Printing Unit and also plan our Wearable Arts creations.

Notices
A few dates:

• PSC Centrals Cross Country - Wednesday 17 June
• Hockey Trip to Porritt Park - Thursday 18 June
  
• PSC Artistic Gym Champs - Monday 22 June
• Northwest Choir Practice (9am-12pm) and Performance(7pm) - Tuesday 23 June
  
• Breakfast with the Boys - Wednesday 1 July - all Dads invited, tickets from the office for $5
• Elgergoe performances - Wednesday 1 July
• Last day of term - Friday 3 July
• Wearable Arts Performances - 7pm Monday 3rd and 1pm and 7pm Tuesday 4th August
  

Happy Birthday
Georgia - 22 June
Ben J. - 29 June
Xiling and Xiaoling - 30 June
Class Captain: Louis
Class Secretary: Madi
7 min. Champions: Amelia and team

School disco

On Friday 12 June we had our school disco.It was awesome!It started at 7.30pm and finished at 9.00pm.It was really funny because Ben C was dating Georgia and when Ben C and I were in line Georgia turned up and Maddison and Logan started shouting out to her ''here's your date Georgia" and "Ben C says you look stunning!".He even offered her $5 but she refused.I really enjoyed the disco although I wish we could have them more often.At the disco I bought a python snake,some chips and a bottle of lemonade.I reckon the the best dancer was probably Ben C although he accidentaly kicked Logan on the nose.Still,I reckon the disco was SUPREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Am The Tornado

I am the tornado who tosses the roads.
I am the roads who carry the cars.
I am the cars who are driven by people.
I am the people who pollute the atmosphere.
I am the atmosphere who protects earth.
I am the earth who has lots of volcanoes.
I am the volcanoes who vomits out lava.
I am the lava who is melts down houses.
I am the houses who are made out of flax.
I am the flax who is found on the ground.
I am the ground who has lots of little pebbles.
I am the pebbles who get blown by the wind.
I am the wind who creates tornadoes.
I am the tornado who tosses the roads.

Heroic Quality

My Ultimate Heroic Quality is...........

HONESTY

It won the final against respect because if you told a lie it would be hard to trust you.

By Madi.

ultimate heroic quality...

My ultimate heroic quality is

Responsibility

It won in the final against   Bravery

Because you have to be responsible to do your job.

My ULTIMATE heroic qualty

My ultimate heroic quality is ... COURAGE.

it won the final against BRAVERY .

Because you don't have to be the bravest of people you just have to have COURAGE.

The supreme quality

My superior quality is....ENDURANCE!

It smashed BRAVERY in the finals
It was an exclusive fight.
BRAVERY dominated the first half but ENDURANCE Destroyed in the second.
In the end ENDURANCE defeated Cache-Control: max-age=0

an style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">BRAVERY becoming New Zealands next top quality!

By Moss

The ultimate heroic quality

My ultimate heroic quality is...

kindness
It won against respect because i thought it was the best.

SAM B

Heroic quality!!!!

My ultimate heroic quality is................... ENTHUSIASM!!!!!!

   

It won the final against  Courage!!!!!!!!     Because  Enthusiasm is being polite and helpfull!!!

By Carina

                                  

My ULTIMATE hero quality

My ULTIMATE heroic quality is..........

 Commitment

It won the final against: Courage

Because: Commitment has two things that are important but

Courage only has one.

The ultimate heroic quality...

My ultimate heroic quality is  

RESPONSIBILITY

It won the final against  honesty

because you  need to be really responsible.

Heroic Quality

My heroic quality is bravery it won the final against courage
because it was a stronger subject

by
Jacob

My ULTIMATE heroic quality

My ultimate heroic quality is ... COURAGE.
it won the final against BRAVERY .

Because you don't have to be the bravest of people you just have to have COURAGE.

Heroic Quality

My utimate Heroic Quaiity is......
RESPECT

Natsuko

Newsletter Term Two Week 7

Hi and welcome to Week Seven

First of all, sorry for not writing a newsletter last week. With a short week and my parents arriving for Grace's 4th Birthday and the Student Learning Conferences in Week 5, it never got written!

Thanks to all of you who came to the conferences. Hopefully they were useful and gave you an idea of how your child is doing and some next steps to work on. The children who attended the conferences did very well and I was thrilled to see they knew what they were talking about

Week Five and Six
Over the last two weeks we have made Fudge with our buddies and sang about it at our Senior Assembly, looked at the root words of words with a suffix and my maths class has been working on subtraction using equal additions and by renaming using pencil and paper. We have started "selling books" at the library to our peers and in reading we are looking at finding the main point, reading in context and inferencing. We have played some Hockey games and continued with our 3 minute fitness sessions. We have looked at the qualities of a hero - look at our graph just inside the door.

Week Seven
We have our last Hockey games this week and next week we start a unit on Football that will be taken by CGHS Senior PE students. We will continue reading our new class shared novel - "Amongst the Hidden" by Margaret Haddix (from the Shadow People series). We have more book selling at the Library and Mrs Coats is starting a printing unit in Visual Art.

Notices
A few dates:

• North West Festival Choir Practice- Tuesday 9 June
• Gym team to Olympia - Tuesday 9 June
• School Disco- Friday 12 June
  
• Centrals Cross Country - Wednesday 17 June
• Breakfast with the Boys - Wednesday 1 July - all Dads invited, tickets from the office for $5

Happy Birthday
Georgia - 22 June
Ben J. - 29 June
Xiling and Xiaoling - 30 June
Class Captain: Louis Beckert
Class Secretary: Madi Hansby
7 min. Champions: Stella, Ben C., Michelle and Jacob