Room 12 2022

WEEK 2 TERM 2 2022 Kia orana, We had a great start to the term despite the poor weather. Please make sure that your child has a coat or jacket. It is Cook Island Language Week this week.  3-way conferences are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. Just a quick note, if you need more time than 10mins please let me know and we can book another meeting. Parent-teacher interviews will be held at the following times: • 2:30pm - 6:00pm Tuesday 2nd August • 3:10pm - 5:20pm Wednesday 3rd August To book your interviews, go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz in your browser, and enter the event srprt . We had our first week practising for our school production the song that we are learning a dance for is Rock around the Clock. Friday is dance back to class day. Here is the music if you want to practise for Friday Dancewalk! | SoulPancake Street Team Mr. Macmillan will have some pizza vouchers to give out to our most enthusiastic dancers. One pizza per prizewinner and they can share their pizza with

  Museum Trip As part of our learning around the Local Curriculum this year, we have organized class visits to the Rotorua Museum. The students will be learning about Nga Korero o te Kura - Our School Stories. During the 2 hour visit, the students will uncover the unique history of the area our school is situated in. They will explore with the museum education team using taonga, landmarks, maps, objects, or photographs of what happened in the past and who were the people or events that contributed to change. Our class will be  - Wednesday 10th of August @ 9:30pm – 11:30pm   We need 5 adults to help with this. Please, if you can help please let me know asap. email - jilld@stmarysrotorua.school.nz We have also started today looking at how we can do a project at school around bringing our school community closer together. Over the past two terms, we have been exploring ways of creating friendships throughout the school community. We noticed that every day when we put the games o

 Sunday July 24th 2022 Week 1 Term 3 2022 Welcome back to Term 3 I hope that despite the poor weather you had a great break.   I am looking forward to a great term, especially with the production being performed at the end of the term. Children from Year 4-6 will be required to wear a mask again this term during class, mass/liturgies, singing and Kapa Haka. Please ensure that they have spares in their bags in case they break a strap or lose them. Many students have named their masks which make for easy identification. Please also ask your child if they have working headphones, these are a very important part of our online learning. We still had many students without or broken headphones. Please bring back your reading logs back in by Wednesday if you have misplaced the original just do your log on another piece of paper. Let's get 100% returned again this term. It looks to be a busy start to the term. 3 Way Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of week 2. Please mak

Bonjour Whānau ,  I have safely arrived in Canada and spent the most wonderful day with my family at my family farm.  A huge thank you to Mrs. Trask who has taken on Room 12 for the last week of this term. Please if you have any questions you can contact her on janet@stmarysrotorua.school.nz Huge thank you to all the parents, grandparents and Aunties who were able to come and celebrate our Matariki breakfast and look at the children's work. It was lovely for the children to showcase their learning and  make some really lucky people a coffee. Monday - Please bring your Library books to exchange so that you have new ones for the holidays. I am already half way through my book. Let’s make it two pizza parties in a row and aim for 100% again. Mrs Trask will send home the holiday reading sheet but you can also write down on a piece of paper.    Wednesday is the principals morning tea for a couple of kids from each class.  Have a wonderful break and we will see you in term 3.