Kyleigh's Research

Frimley Pools Fun Day Reminder

Thursday 10 December 2015

Frimley Pools Fun Day – Friday 11 December

Please note:  There is no postponement date.

Reminder Notice

Students require:

·     Togs, rash shirts (highly recommended as children are prone to burning in the water surroundings), wetsuit (recommended if you have one if the weather is “cool”). 

·     (Girls can put togs on when they arrive at school).

·     Towels x2

·     School sunhat

·     Sunscreen (Please apply sunscreen before school at home.  The children will reapply at morning tea and lunch time during the visit)

·     PE shirt to cover up with when out of the water

·     Packed morning tea and lunch – including an ESSENTIAL BOTTLE of WATER please

·     (NB: We have packets of chips and biscuits left over from a shared lunch and school camps that we will be taking to share)

·     Your school bag to carry everything

Parents are welcome to join us for all or part of the day.

Lunch will be around 12pm.

We are leaving school at 8.45am, so please make sure you are at school early enough to get yourself organised for the day. 

We will return before the end of the school day.  Students will receive their reports at the end of the day.

Students can come to school in their PE Gear.

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Term 4 Week 8 Homework for Room 4

Keeping you up to date … Monday: Splash Planet Fun Day Out for our Road Patrol Students. Tuesday: Ms. Edwards will be coaching the students in room 4 for gymnastics. Ms. Edwards worked in room 4 during the year as a Candidate Teacher and is an experienced gymnastics teacher. ALL students need their PE gear please. Wednesday: Police Marathon Madness for those students who have put their hand up to be involved in this exciting marathon. Thursday: The Librarians' Picnic. Friday: School-wide Tabloids Friday afternoon - starting @ 1pm.  REMEMBER YOUR PE GEAR + A DRINK BOTTLE PLEASE.  Sunday: Top-Schools @ Raureka for those 12 students in room 4 concerned. …………………………………………… REMINDERS … We are swimming every day - students are reminded to bring their togs to school please. This is an expected part of the school curriculum. If students are unable to swim, it is expected they have a note to excuse them please. Remember to return all your library books to school.  Please return any school journals and reading books to school.

Thank you to those parents who were able to attend our Team Mass on Friday.  Thank you if you were able to contribute a food item for the food bank also. Homework: There will not be any spelling words sent home this week. Students will have short sharp lessons on spelling this week in class as revision.  All students have free access to Spelling City for 30 days.  Take advantage of this opportunity. It has some excellent resources for reading and writing also. READING: Read for 10 minutes + your age every night.  Remember the more you read, the better you’ll get!  Variety is important also.  Choose from a range of different texts such as newspapers, fiction (make-believe), non-fiction (true), journals and chapter books.  TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FREE READING PROGRAMME AT THE LIBRARY OVER SUMMER. This is available at the Hastings, Flaxmere and Havelock North libraries.   Registrations open this week so get in quick! MATHS: We are learning about PROBABILITY in maths.  Visit IXL to practise the probability questions. Keep learning your basic facts too - Remember if you know the basic facts in maths, this helps you enormously when you need to use your strategies! The free access to MathsBuddy ends at the end of the year.

Check this out …

Harold's Healthy Lunchbox Competition features again - this time on Jax Hamilton's Blog.

Check it out @http://www.jaxhamilton.co.nz/blog/

Kid-Blog

Student's free access to their individual blog has finished.  

As a result, students are unable to post to their blogs.  

However these blogs can still be viewed.

Homework and Notices

Room 4 Homework - Week 7

Please read for 10 minutes + your age each day.
Use the online maths sites that will support your maths learning - IXL Maths, Studyladder and Mathsbuddy please.

Even if you are not joined up to IXL maths, you can still access 20 free questions each day. The students in room 4 are experienced in using this site, and understand they need to choose questions that will challenge them.

The Inter-school Athletics takes place on Tuesday 24 November for those students concerned. The students in room 4 were told if they are going last week. Notices may be late out due to camp.

We have our Team Mass on Friday 27 November @ 9:15a.m.  Room 4 is organising this Mass.  A donation of a non-persihable food item would be appreciated if able.  Thank you.

Please note:  Students are no longer able to post to their individual blogs.  Our free trial has  expired …

Camp Akitio 2015

Room 4 students have just returned form Camp Akitio.  

Although the first day was a little cool (to say the least), we braved the elements and explored the rocky shore and built scuptures using the driftwood on the beach. 

We had fantastic weather on day 2 when we visited the sand dunes and a 148 year-old woodshed.  

We had a fantastic group of parents on camp with us. They were all very supportive and participated in events alongside the students. 

We are very grateful for their help.

Harold's Healthy Lunchbox Competition

Today Lachlan, Matthew, Neila and Sammy-Lee particpated in the Harold's Healthy Lunchbox Competition at the Sports Park in Hastings. It was organised by the Life Education Foundation.  They came second in the competition. They worked well as a team too.

Here they are with Jax Hamilton who judged the competition.

Their lunch menu included basil pesto hummus with crackers and carrot sticks, pita pockets stuffed with salad ingredients, chicken and cranberry, and fruit and marshmallows kebabs served with vanilla yoghurt. YUM!!!

Room 4 Camp

It is just about room 4's turn to go on camp.

We are all very excited and looking forward to the experience.

We have lots of parents to help us on camp and we are fortunate to have their support.

Some of the things we will be doing at camp Akitio include:

• A visit to the rocky shore
• Sandcastle and driftwood sculpture competition
• A visit to a VERY old and historic woodshed which is still in use - we may see some sheep being shawn
• A visit to the sand dunes which is like our own private beach retreat
• Down time spent with our friends, team building activities and games
• A visit to the playground and domain in Dannevirke
• A swim at the pools in Waipukurau on the way home …

Congratulations to our room 4 talented authors and illustrators

Alice and Riley were winners in the annual St Mary's Book Awards.

Riley won the prize for Senior Illustrator.

Alice won the prize for the Fiction Book category.

Well done to Jordan, Neila and Jacob who were runners up in their entries.

Jacob and Jordan were illustrators, and Neila wrote a book.

All their work has been published and is now part of our library collection. Thank you to Mrs Greaney, our school librarian, who reads all the entries and works with authors to edit their work before publishing.