Kia ora Kawakawa whanau, 

Another weekend is nearly over. It was a perfect day for the show on Saturday and it was nice to see some of you when I was there.   If you were, I hope that you went and had a look at our class entries and also spotted the other things that class and school students had done. WELL DONE and CONGRATULATIONS to those class members who got a placing,  I was very pleased and proud of the work that the the class did.  I have collected all of the art work and the prizes for anyone who got placed and will give this to students tomorrow.  Even though Kawakawa became experts at cleaning up the mess we made, I have to say that the school cleaners were very pleased on Tuesday when we finally had our seed/grain pictures done.   

I am at school tomorrow but have some release time so Mrs Kennard will be teaching in Kawakawa for the day.  We have school photos on Tuesday so please ensure your child is wearing correct summer uniform for this, I will try and keep everyone looking 'photo ready' until we have our photos taken.  Mrs Livingstone will be in the classroom in the morning for my CRT release time. There is a whole school assembly on Tuesday afternoon and we are hosting this.  The assembly will be held in the Hall and will start at 2.30pm.   

We did SMART testing for reading and maths last week and still have the writing assessment to complete this week.  Both of the assessments took longer than I had expected which cut into our literacy time and meant that reading got missed out some days, so I apologise for this.  We will be doing our  reading programme each day this week so please look out for reading books in book bags.

In maths both Year 4 and Year 3 and doing statistics and collecting data.  In phonics Year 4 are learning about the suffixes ful and less and Year 3 are learning about the suffixes ly, er and est. In writing we will be planning and then completing our SMART writing assessment.  In topic this week we will be doing some follow up work from Harold last week.  We learnt about feelings and how to show resilience and bounce back when things don't go our way.

Please remember to return the permission slips for the Year 3 / 4 Big Day Out tomorrow if your child hasn't done this yet.  Once I have all of these back then I will work out transport logistics and when I have finalised the arrangements for the day I will loop this information out to everyone.

Have a fabulous week.  We look forward to seeing those of you who can make it to assembly on Tuesday.

Regards,

Julia

Kia ora Kauri whanau

I hope you all had a great time at the show if you went. What fantastic weather for it! Kauri did soo well with their entries. Congratulations to those who got placed and to all of the children for all of their time and effort. I am very proud of them all. 

Monday, is of course, our 'Big Day Out' in Christchurch at the Antarctic Centre. All details have been sent out but do contact me if you have any questions. When your child gets to school, Kowhai and Kauri doors will be locked so please go straight to Kanuka. (middle room)

We have school photos on Tuesday morning. Please ensure your child is wearing the correct summer uniform for this. Our assembly day has been shifted to Tuesday at 2.30 in the hall. As always, you are all welcome.

In Phonics this week, we are doing sound revision activities and going over basic sight words. In maths, we are are looking at calendars and the operations of addition and subtraction. In story writing, we will be looking at writing non-fiction and fiction stories, using brainstorms, which the children are getting good at. We are very much looking at correct full stop and capital letter use, especially for the year 2s. We will continue to learn about 'Antarctica' until the end of the week. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I will see most of you on Monday, all ready for our exciting day! 

Kind regards,

Karen Digby

If your family has more than one student at Wakanui School and would like a sibling photo taken on Tuesday morning, please email the office by 3pm on Monday to confirm.

Many thanks

Coming home today in your child's bag will be a food donation slip and a gear list for our upcoming camp.

Please can you return the food donation slip to us.

Thanks,

Ross and Dylan

Next week's School Assembly has been changed to Tuesday November 3rd, instead of the Wednesday. The assembly is hosted by Kawakaaw.