Week Three

Kia ora koutou,

Thank you to all of those who came in for Room 12’s assembly on Friday. The children did incredibly well as they were given the task of organising everything themselves with minimal help from me. I think they did an exceptional job and I am very proud of them all! Was great to see the whole school getting involved in their activities.

I would also like to thank you all for coming in for student led conferences. The students were all able to express what they are proud of from terms 1 and 2 and what they are working towards in the upcoming terms. It was nice to see the children taking ownership of their learning and acknowledging what they have achieved.

Coming up this week we are starting our resilience topic off with a movie, we are continuing our ICT reading unit and are all continuing on with their creative writing tasks about ‘how lucky we are’. I am intrigued to see what the kids come up with. If you would ever like to come in and have a look at their books or have your children bring them home, you are more than welcome to as long as they come back in time for the next reading/writing lesson.

Looking forward to the rest of the term:
- Next week we are starting our Novel Study and the children will each be given a novel that they are to read, study and write about for the rest of the term. Room 12 did this in Term 2 and it is now our turn to share our learning with Room 13. The children really enjoyed their books last term so I’m hoping to get the same result this term.

- We also have speeches coming up towards the end of the term. I would like everyone to attempt to participate in this, even just within the class. It is a great time for children to build their confidence which everyone in our class is definitely developing.


Thank you all again for taking the time to come in and meet with me, I appreciate it very much. The term is flying so I am excited to see what we can produce as a class in the upcoming 6.5 weeks.

Have a lovely week :)

Nga mihi nui

Briar McKenzie