Newsletter Term Three Week 2

Hi and welcome to Week Two for Term 3

It was great to see all the children again last week and hear about their exciting holidays and see them all working together for the week. It was great to welcome Justin Makinson from the University PE Teacher training group.

Please order your Wearable Arts tickets as it will be a great show and rthe children have worked very hard at theior pieces of art and at our class dance to introduce NZ Personalities. The Kapa Haka group has also practised hard as well as BEN J who is one of the main presenters.

Also, please return any West Zone Sports notices if you can help out next Tuesday.

Week One
This week we completed an Oral/Visual presentation in class in preparation for individual presentations over the next six weeks. We started a Badminton unit, prepared for our dance for the Wearable Arts and prepared our wearable arts. We looked at Antonyms and Synonyms in spelling and more statistic in Maths. We met with our buddy class, sang a song about heroes and started a new shared novel by Andy Griffiths.

Week Two
This week we will finalise our NZ Personalities class dance and our pieces of Wearable art. We will do some sewing of our dance costume (black NZ Silver fern singlets) and we will have lots of Senior School W.A. practices, Kapa Haka practices, model practices etc. So it will be very busy! We will also have two badminton lessons.
Notices
A few dates:

• Wearable Arts Performances - 7pm Monday 3rd and 1pm and 7pm Tuesday 4th August
• West Zone Winter Sports Tournament: 10am-12.00pm Tuesday 4 August
• Fendalton Zone Chess Tournament: Thursday 6 August
  
• Andy Griffiths' Author Visit - Wednesday 12 August
• CBHS Sports Lessons 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 August
• Student Led Conferences 2.30-5.00pm 19 August, 2.30-7.00pm 20 August (School closed at 2.00pm both those days)
• PSC Centrals Winter Tournament: Thursday 3 September
  
• School Photos: Monday 8 September
• CC Team to Nelson 23-25 September
  

Happy Birthday in July:
Louis 6th
Josh 7th
Maddison 25th
Class Captain: Logan
Class Secretary: Carina
7 min. Champions:

Newsletter Term Three Week 10

Hi and welcome to Week One for Term 3

Hi everyone and welcome back to Term Three in Team 7.

I hope you all had a good break and most of you are over end of term sickness. I was sick for all of the first week of the break and still have a bit of a cough but am ready to get into a full term. The rest of my family has been a little sick too so the break was mainly spent at home recovering!

This term is going to be action-packed with the Wearable Arts, Winter Sports Tournaments, Badminton, Oral/Visual Presentations, Rotary Speech competitions, Student Led Conferences and more.....

We welcome Mr Makinson from the University of Canterbury for the next four weeks. He is a trainee P.E. teacher. Unfortunately we say farewell to two Team 7 members who are moving schools. All the best to Michelle and Grace, we will miss both of you in Team 7.

Week Ten Term Two
The last week of term week we had our Levels spelling tests with many children going up a level. We finished some more of our science experiments and our football teaching from the CGHS girls was completed. We had a class meeting and the opening of the Junior Playhouse and a mufti day. Mrs Coats took us for more print-making and we looked at Statistics in the Room 7 maths class - including some Jelly Bean maths!

Week One Term Three
This week we will complete an Oral/Visual presentation in class in preparation for individual presentations over the next six weeks. We will start a Badminton unit, prepare for our dance for the Wearable Arts and prepare our wearable arts. We will start some Expositional writing and look at Antonyms and Synonyms in spelling.
Notices
A few dates:

• Wearable Arts Performances - 7pm Monday 3rd and 1pm and 7pm Tuesday 4th August
• West Zone Winter Sports Tournament: 10am-12.00pm Tuesday 4 August
• Fendalton Zone Chess Tournament: Thursday 6 August
  
• Any Griffiths' Author Visit - Wednesday 12 August
• CBHS Sports Lessons 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 August
• Student Led Conferences 2.30-5.00pm 19 August, 2.30-7.00pm 20 August (School closed at 2.00pm both those days)
• PSC Centrals Winter Tournament
  
• School Photos: Monday 8 September
• CC Team to Nelson 23-25 September
  

Happy Birthday in July:
Louis 6th
Josh 7th
Maddison 25th
Class Captain: Xiling
Class Secretary: Maddison
7 min. Champions:

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!