| September 2010 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 |
Please click on the link below to view the newsletter.
Please click on the link below to view the newsletter.
Totara Team
Rooms 25-26-27-28
11 February 2010
Dear Parents
Welcome to the Totara Team, especially to new families who have moved to our school. We hope you have all had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday break. The year has begun well and we are all looking forward to the exciting learning that will take place and the challenges of 2010. The establishment of routines across our team are a consistent focus, and most of the children are aware of the structure of a day at school beginning promptly at 8:55 am. To encourage independence we want the children to hang up their own bags, bring in their book bags, brain snack and water bottle, plus their news items for the day, help put the chairs down and put out their writing folders. This means it would be helpful if your child could arrive between 8.30 am and 8.45 am.
Please click on the link below to view the homework policy.
Rooms 19, 20, 23 and 24
11 February 2010
Dear Parents
Welcome to the Manuka Team, especially to new families who have moved to our school. We hope you have all had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday break. The year has begun well and we are all looking forward to the exciting learning that will take place and the challenges of 2010. The establishment of routines across our team are a consistent focus, and most of the children are aware of the structure of a day at school beginning promptly at 8:55 am. To encourage independence we want the children to hang up their own bags, bring in their book bags, fruit snack and water bottle.
Curriculum Topics for this term:
The overall theme for 2010 is “Am I making positive connections with the world?”
Social Sciences: “We are Historians” – “Tapestry in Time” – looking back at our past and discovering how we are connected.
Health: Mental Health - Cool Me, Cool Class (Positive Classrooms/Working Together/Learning Community)
Language, The Arts (Dance, Drama, Music, Visual Art), Technology, Maori and ICT are integrated with each theme. Reading, Mathematics and Language programmes are delivered daily.
If you have any old blue recycling bins that you don’t need anymore please bring them into school. To drop them off and to find out more please take them to Room 20 and talk to Miss Jackson.
Thank you.
Today is my first time visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum. We got on the bus at nine-thirty. My buddies were Orphelia and Taila. We talked and laughed. Around ten o’clock we arrived at the museum.
We entered the museum and made our way to the NZ Natural History Land. We drew pictures and wrote the names of the birds and insects we saw on a notebook that our teacher, Ms Cope, gave us. We saw cave wetas, fresh water fish, forest birds, mountain birds and a giant moa. We also saw huge dinosaur fossils and they were very big. One made a big sound that frightened me. We saw butterflies, moths, crickets, rats and lots of other species. We were all very excited.
Rooms 18, 19, 24 & 27
Term One 2009
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Welcome to the 2009 academic year and a special welcome to all of our new children and parents starting at Epsom Normal Primary School this year.
We have four classes in Manuka syndicate this term : Nicki Kirk teaching in room 18; Jocelyn Goodman teaching in room 19; Andy Faulder teaching in room 24; Andrea Morgan teaching in room 27.
Shelley Quinlivan (Junior School Liaison) is available if you have any queries that cannot be answered by your child’s classroom teacher. Please make an appointment through the school office or email her on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Year One team of teachers plans together during weekly planning meetings to develop a well balanced and stimulating programme that is delivered in each of the classes. Our major topics for term one are ‘Now I Am Five’ and ‘ Under The Sea’.
Rooms 20-21-22-23-28
11 February 2009
Dear Parents
Welcome to the Totara Syndicate, especially to new families who have moved to our school. The year has begun well in this syndicate and we are all looking forward to the exciting learning that will take place and the challenges of 2009. The establishment of routines across our syndicate are a consistent focus, and most of the children are aware of the structure of a day at school beginning promptly at 8:55 am. To encourage independence we want the children to hang up their own bags, bring in their book bags and their water bottle, plus their news items for the day, help put the chairs down and put out their writing folders. This means it would be helpful if your child could arrive between 8.30am and 8.45am.
Curriculum Topics we plan to cover this semester are:
HOMEWORK POLICY - Please keep for future reference
Totara Syndicate
Rooms 20, 21, 22, 23 and 28
Homework will include the following:
1. Reading a book, or selected pages from a book provided by the teacher, or selected independently by your child from his / her group box. This task should take 10-15 minutes. Parents are asked to sign and complete the book list, which is included in each child’s Home-reader bag. Each Friday your child will bring home a Poetry book to share the current Focus poem.
2. Children are asked to prepare a brief item to share during our morning news
programme. The Weekly News Programme is designed to encourage participation in a range of speaking opportunities. Children are also learning to listen to others and to ask relevant questions or make interesting statements.
15 December 2008
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
We would like to remind you of the following procedures for the Cultural Concert on 15 December 2008 at 6:30 pm:
• Children who are performing are required to be at school in the allocated classrooms (see list below) before 6:00 pm to prepare.
• Car-parking procedures:
There will be no drop off or pick up in the staff car parks.
• Children, after being dropped off, are to go to the classroom allocated for their first event. They are to be collected from the rooms assigned for their last item. For children who have forgotten the details, a notice will be posted on the Hall doors and on the entrance doors to the Junior and Senior blocks.
• On collecting children from their rooms, parents/caregivers need to ensure that the child they are collecting is signed off the list held by their classroom supervisor.
• Children in the Concert have put a lot of time and effort into their performances. If your child is in the show and you are watching the Cultural Concert we would appreciate you staying for the whole performance as audience moving in and out of the Hall is most disruptive to the children who are on the stage.
• If you are NOT watching the performance you are more than welcome to pick up your child from their allotted classroom, ensuring they have been signed off by the room supervisor.
• No flash photography or videos please as a number of children in our school are not to be recorded or photographed.
Items and allocated drop-off/pick-up rooms are on the link below.
Cultural_Concert_Newsletter.pdf
Kate Cope
Cultural Concert Coordinator
If you would like a memento of school activities throughout 2008 put into a 30-page colourful book, place your order in the money box (opposite the front desk at the office) in a sealed and named envelope with the correct amount . . . limited number of copies.
$22 per copy.