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Term 3 2024 What's Happening in our Class!

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Term Three is well underway! Nau Mai Haere Mai!

We have an Arts focus this term and it makes for a full curriculum.

Grandparents Day - Friday 23rd August - Please send photos of your children with their Grandparents to school NOW

Speeches and Poems - Week 6 Wednesday 28th August

Production 'Break a Leg' written by Judy Billcliff - Week 8 Thursday 12th September

Te Kuiti Music Festival - Week 9 Thursday 19th September

The Term 3 newsletter has important notes in it, please read it and keep it handy somewhere for reference throughout the term. We have included a copy of our class timetable for your interest.

Sacramental Programme starts as per the invitations sent: 25th August 2024

Congratulations to those students who have auditioned for the Korimako choir. They practise after school and will perform in the Waitomo Caves at the end of the year.

Congratulations and Thank You to those students who are in the Waitomo Music Festival choir. They practice at school with the conductor each Friday and perform in a massed choir with children from all the primary schools in Te Kuiti. This is at the Les Munro Centre.

Production 'Break a Leg' - is written by one of our students Grandparents. The seniors have the main roles with Rimu and Nikau students having a part singing and dancing within selected scenes.

We will be calling for help from our parents as the performance time approaches.

Class Trip 2024: There has been no decision on this yet, except we would like to keep it local this year. It will need to be in Term 4 to avoid Music Festival and Production focus in Term 3. We aim to keep the cost no more than $100/child.

Kaiako - Teachers

Mrs Laver and Mrs Downey

YCC Day! Young Catholic's Care / Your Choice of Clothing!

Gardening

Mrs Laver and Mrs Downey are the Teachers in Rimu.

Mrs Downey is teaching from 9.00 - 12.30 Monday - Thursday

Mrs Laver is in the class every day.

Mrs Boroevich and Mr Brooks will teach on alternate Fridays.

We are very fortunate to have Teacher Support from Sharon Mason, Pamela Dickinson and Mr Brooks.

Mr Rogers is continuing in the school with Technology on Tuesdays.

Digital Photography - Technology

Home Learning Term 2

Each morning your child is expected to have at school their; book bag/satchel reading book and on Friday's their library book

We have a focus this term on those HEART WORDS, that are so important to learn. Each child has a list of them in their homework book.

The sheet below is in the homework book each week. It shows the story for the week and the books to be read at home each evening. The box at the bottom is to record the two heart words that are practised at home.

Curriculum Happenings

The Concept throughout the school this Term is HAERENGA - JOURNEYING and NAVIGATING

‘He moana pukepuke e ekengia e te waka’ ‘A choppy sea can be navigated.’
'Remember we are but travellers here' St Mary MacKillop

All Curriculum Areas will be developed through the concept of Journeying and Navigating

Religious Education - integrated throughout the day -

BEING CHURCH - Where are you going? How the sacraments help us on our spiritual journey.

Science/ S Studies/ NZ Histories/ Technology - Digital technology focussed on images.
Mathematics - navigating the way to solve math problems through the Numicon approach.

Basic facts - need to be solid and memorised starting with addition and subtraction to 20.

Literacy -

BSLA is now extended to Year 3. Mrs Laver and Mrs Downey are both completing the course.
We continue to develop the students understanding of sentences; their structure and the different types of words that can be used to develop more interesting sentences.
Oral Language and presentation is developed when the speech and poems are delivered to an audience.

Health and PE - Large Ball skills - Miniball starts up Wednesday 4th September.
Arts - Music - singing and playing Dance - in the production

Digital Technology - Photography

Saint Mary MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart started our school in 1921. St Mary's feast day is on August 8th

Parent Help and Thanks

"Never see a need without doing something about it" quote from Saint Mary MacKillop. 😁 Her sisters in Te Kuiti sold violets to keep the school running!

Mrs Sheryl Knight has been sorting out our front garden along with Mr Grainger. Thank you Sheryl and Michael. It will be much tidier when it is finished and planted.

The children are growing seeds for the garden they cleaned up. It does need some more soil and a good digging over before this happens. If anyone is around and can do this we would appreciate the help.

Library books: We have a number that need to go into the library. They need to be covered. Do we have anyone who might like to take a couple home and do this over a week?

Production: We will need help with the Production as we get closer to WEEK 8 and September the 19th. Please consider offering your time and skills during this week.

Assessment and Reporting

Thank you for coming to the Interviews last term. If anyone missed out or would like to see either Rachael or Suzanne this term, please phone to arrange a time.

We welcome your feedback and support.

Mrs Laver and Mrs Downey are training for BSLA (Better Start - structured literacy approach). There has been some extra assessments of the students to obtain benchmarks for this course.

What does the water in our tohu (emblem) represent and where does it come from?

St. Joseph's School Tohu/Emblem

At the heart of our school is the Cross (Celtic cross). The cross is a sign of both Christ himself and that the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.

The blue and green colors are symbolic of the Rangi me to Whenua (sky and earth), from which life comes and goes.

The railway line is Te Ara Rerewe o Turongo that runs through Te Kuiti. Its korero holds a place in our local history. Te Ara Tika is St Joseph’s link to Te Kuiti town and the facilities we use as a Kura.

The awa is the Mangaokewa. Water is especially significant to us in our liturgies and symbolises the respect we have for all life from conception to natural death and the environments within which life journeys.

Originally the design was created by our students and overtime has been developed into the tohu it is today.