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Kia ora tatou, Greetings to all
Dear Parents and Caregivers
Welcome back to the Manuka team. We hope you all enjoyed two weeks of safe and happy family time. Term three is going to be an exciting ten weeks. We are welcoming the new children and their families into Room 21 along with their teacher, Miss Hedstrom. Our team now has six wonderful classes of energetic and enthusiastic children who are keen to be at school and are motivated to learn!
August 2011
Dear Parents,
Kia ora tatou. Greetings to all and welcome back for the second semester. We hope you have had a very enjoyable break with your families. We are looking forward to another exciting semester of learning as we move towards springtime and the excitement of the Rugby World Cup being hosted in our country. We also look forward to meeting many of you in week three during your parent interview time.
Please click on the link below to access the Junior School Newsletter for February 2011
Please click on the link below to view the Totara newsletter.
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.