Newsletter Term 4 Week 6

Hi there and welcome to Week 6 of Term 4 in Team 7 - only 5 weeks to go till the end of the year!

Well done to all of our athletes who represented the school at the West Zone Champs on Thursday. Cille (pictured), Logan and Annabelle all qualified for the centrals on Tuesday 1 December at QEII. The week before Ben J. took third in the Rotary Speech contest (see blog below). This week our musicians take part n Mini-music evenings - all the best to them.

As the pool warms up we will go for swimming lessons most days - can children please bring their swimming togs and towels or a note if there is a reason they cannot swim.

Week Five
Last week we had our last Spelling Levels test, an art session on Wednesday with a visitor - some stunning action drawings were completed. We swam twice in the pool, looked at the structure and tense of Information Reports and sang about the Sea. We looked at nouns in language and different aspects of weather by interpreting photos.

Week Six
This week we will finish an information report on seasons, play some touch rugby and swim, meet with our Fendalton Friends group and our Buddy class and perform our Sea Song at the Senior assembly. We will continue our language focus on parts of speech and have some more inter-school sport on Friday. The boys will have their second session of Boys' Choir on Friday.

Notices
A few dates:

• Tuesday 1 December: Centrals Athletics @ QEII
• Friday 4 December: READ, FEED, SPEED from 11.30am-1.00pm - ALL DADS PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY!!!
  

Happy Birthday in November:
Nobody
Class Captain: Madi
Class Secretary: Sam
7 min. Champions:

Speech Success for Ben J.

Congratulations to Ben J. who took third place at the recent Rotary Speech Competition finals on Nov. 5th at Heaton Intermediate. Ben's speech on Michael Jackson had him singing close on twenty lines of the iconic pop star's songs. Well done Ben, Team 7 is very proud of you! Aoife from Team 22 won the Year 5 section and Sam V from Room 9 won the Year 6 section - a great night for FOS!

Newsletter Term Four Week 4

Kola and welcome to Week Four for Term 4

This week is yet again another busy one with Athletics and our last Gym visit. We also say farewell to Miss V.

The Athletic sports for everyone are on Tuesday (they were postponed from last week) 11.00am-3.00pm. Team 7 had some superb performances last Thursday evening with Logan becoming the Junior Boys' Champion ahead of Ben C. and Cille and Annabelle placing 2nd and 3rd. Stella won both the Junior Girls' Discus and Shot and many other Team 7 children performed superbly.

Week Three
Last week we will continued looking at syllables in language and also continued with the written form for multiplication and division in Room 7 Maths. We had a trip to the gym on Wednesday, Athletics Finals on on Thursday and many of us went with the the Kapa Haka group trip to the Art Gallery on Thursday.

Week Four
This week we will start writing some Information Reports as we also continue looking at the Weather - our new Inquiry Topic. We have a class meeting, some more Touch Rugby lessons and some more work on Area in our maths strand on Thursday.

Notices
A few dates:

• Gym visits: to QEII Chch. School of Gym 9.00am-11.30am - 4 November
• Athletics Dates: Tuesday 3 November School Athletics 11.00am-3.00pm, Thursday 13 November West Zone Athletics.

Happy Birthday in November:

Class Captain: Louis
Class Secretary: Amine
7 min. Champions:

New class member Nibblet

This is Nibblet the mouse.She has been here for two weeks.She has shiny dark fur and due to her lazyness and hunger she is quite FAT.

At first she was shy and hid in her little house.But now she is coming out more often.She also has an adorable habbit of nibbling on your finger when you stick it in her cage(Hence the name Nibblet). We had a stall that was orginised by Jessica,Stella and Xiling (With a little help from Xiaoling and Theresa).We all love her very much.

Newsletter Term 4 Week 2

Shalom and welcome to Week Two for Term 4

It was great to see all (well not Louis - SUNBURN!) of the children back last week and we also welcomed a new member to our class - Jiwon, as well as Miss Annalise Vannoort and also not forgetting "Nibblet" the mouse, our class pet - well done the the Pet Committee who organised this! (photo coming!)

Well done to all our members of the Senior Choir who performed at the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival on Friday. My Uncle went along to support Avonhead School and said it was a marvellous evening of stunning singing - well done!

This week we have the Athletics Eliminations, a visit to the Gym again and a visit to see the Middle School Production.

Week One
We had our first of four gym visits to the Christchurch School of Gymnastics, we looked at the written form for multiplication and division in the Room 7 maths' class. In language we looked at Homophones and we sang a song about the Homework Blues. Miss V read us a neat story and we enjoyed our new class shared novel, Maurice Gee's "Under the Mountain". We made our "Christmas boxes" to send overseas.

Week Two
This week we have the Fendalton Spelling test and an Asttle Reading test also. We have a visit to the CSG on Wednesday and a visit to the Ngaio Marsh Theatre on Thursday to see the Middle School Production - parents are welcome to join us on either of these trips. We have another Touch lesson in P.E.
Notices
A few dates:

• Gym visits: to QEII Chch. School of Gym 9.00am-11.30am 21, 28 October and 4 November
• Visit to Ngaio Marsh Theatre for Middle School Production: Thursday 22 October 12.30-3.30pm
  
• Athletics Dates: 19 October - Eliminations Day, Tuesday 27 October School Athletics 11.00am-3.00pm, Thursday 29 October Finals Day 4.30pm-7.30pm, Thursday 13 November West Zone Athletics.
  

Happy Birthday in October:
2nd: Madi
21st: Logan
Class Captain: Yoo-kyung
Class Secretary: Josh
7 min. Champions:

Newsletter Term Four Week 1

Hi and welcome to Week One for Term 4

Well, the last term for 2009! We had a great finish to last term and were sad to see Mr Prattley leave us but today we have Miss Annelise Vannoort from the University starting with us for the next four weeks.

Well done to Annabelle (pictured) who ran so well at the Inter-Regional Cross Country last term.

Mrs Norton said the Flow Day was great and all the children were fantastic for the last two days of term and helped clear the class as our carpet was cleaned over the holidays.

Week One
This week we will have our first of four gym visits to the Christchurch School of Gymnastics - can children please wear School P.E. uniform each Wednesday for the next four Wednesdays. We will look at the written form for multiplication and division in the Room 7 maths' class. In language we will look at Homonyms and in writing we will finish some work on persuasive writing. We will sing a song about the Homework Blues and finalise our Athletics qualifiers for next Monday.
Notices
A few dates:

• Gym visits: to QEII Chch. School of Gym 9.00am-11.30am 14, 21, 28 October and 4 November
  
• Athletics Dates: 19 October - Eliminations Day, Tuesday 27 October School Athletics 11.00am-3.00pm, Thursday 29 October Finals Day 4.30pm-7.30pm
  

Happy Birthday in October:
2nd: Madi
21st: Logan
Class Captain: Yoo-kyung
Class Secretary: Josh
7 min. Champions:

Newsletter Term Three Week 8

Hi and welcome to Week Eight for Term 3

This week we have the Student Led Conferences on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon and evening. The children are looking forward to showing you some of their learning. Be prepared to play badminton, participate in a maths' game and listen to a mihi and some singing!

Well done to Sam and Moss who helped the A Hockey team win the Centrals. All the best to Ben J. and Moss as they represent the school at the Current Events quiz. The children are all sharing their speeches this week and we have the Senior School finals on Wednesday morning.

Well done to Madi (pictured below on the left with Jordyn from Room 22) and Sam who helped the Fendalton Ski Team to 3rd= in the Canterbury Schools' Ski races at Mt. Cheeseman on Saturday.



Mr Prattley (Jason) or Mr P. to the children, is taking charge of the class from Wednesday for the next six days. We will be teaching together and we will get lots done!

Week Seven
Last week we continued with our Oral/Visual presentations - see them and their grade at your Student Led Conference. We wrote a three minute speech, played our first session of Korfball and stared athletics - the shot put. Most of us were assessed on our mihi pronunciation and we sang "She'll be right" at the Senior assembly.

Week Eight
We will participate in more athletics events and have another korfball session. Ben J., Rachel, Stella and Jacob will compete in the Inter-school orienteering next Saturday and Sunday. We will have our class speeches over the next two days and then have Senior school finals on Wednesday. We will continue looking at prefixes and then suffixes in language and continue with exposition writing and our calendar art with Mrs Coats.

Notices
A few dates:

• School Photos: Monday 7 September
• Korfball Sports Lessons Wednesdays 9, 16, 23 September
• Senior School Speech Finals - 9.00am-10.30am Wednesday 9 September
• Student Led Conferences 3.30-5.00pm Wednesday 9 September, 3.30-7.00pm Thursday 10 September
  
• CC Team to Nelson 23-25 September (Annabelle)
  

Happy Birthday in September:
9th: Rachel (and Emily Norton is 12!)
17th: Jooyoung
Class Captain: Natsuko
Class Secretary: Ben C.
7 min. Champions: