Friday, 4 March 2016

week 6 weekly newsletter



Room 6 Newsletter Term 1 Week 6

The Swim Carnival was a great success. The sun shone and the children did themselves proud with participation and swimming their hardest. The children (and adults) were pretty exhausted after their big day. We had a quiet afternoon! Many thanks to any of you who supported the event by helping out. It is much appreciated.

Testing is over apart from catch-ups for those who missed their tests. Classroom programmes will be back to normal this week.

Jewellery
Just a reminder that jewellery is not to be worn at school. For those with pierced ears, earrings should be small plain studs. If your child wears a necklace of cultural or religious significance all the time, please let us know by letter or email. Otherwise your child will be asked to remove the item and we will hold it safely until hometime.

Swimming
Now that the Swim Carnival is over we will be cutting back on our class swimming times to give us more time for the other learning areas. Check the week’s programme to see when we are swimming this week. Next term the children will take part in seven free weekly swimming lessons at Lloyd Elsmore pool. They will be taught in small groups.

Maths
We are fortunate to have Mrs Desiree Stuart to take a group of children from each class at Maths time. This will reduce the numbers in our classes to allow us all to better meet the needs of all our students at Maths time. The children concerned will have received a letter in regards to this.

Reading Homework
If for some reason your child does not have a reader as expected, they can read from a book on Sunshine Online. You could also read to them that night and talk about any words they don’t understand, ask them questions, ask them to talk about part of the story with justification for their views or retell the story in their own words.
Username: howick
Password: howick

This week
March 7 - 11:
Monday
Money for Hotdogs to be put into an envelope and placed in the PTA letterbox in the office with the newletter.

Tuesday
Class Swimming
Library

Wednesday
Bees Mufti ($2) and Hotdog Day ($2)
More information to come from the PTA.
No Class Swimming

Thursday
Class Swimming
2.15: School Assembly


Friday
Bible
Kung Fu, Art, Dance classes
Ice blocks for sale $1
Return Reading Logs (Put in the box before school)

Coming Up
March 15 & 17
Three-way Conferences
School classes will finish at 12.30 on Thursday 17th. Children can either go home or be supervised at school for the afternoon. Think about any arrangements you need to make for this.
Booking information will be available shortly.

Friday March 25 to Tuesday March 29
The school will be closed over this Easter holiday. Note that schools are also closed on the Tuesday of Easter.

Mathletics Homework
It is great to hear how exicted the children are about how many points they are earning on Mathletics each night.  We also run a fortnightly competition within the school for the class with the most points overall. 


Kind regards

April Hobby


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