Room 4 Newsletter: Term 2, Week 2
Sunday 7th May, 2017
This
week we begin the Sacramental Programme for 2017 in our Parish. If you would
like your child to undertake this programme, please register their name and
details with Father Pat McGettigan.
Term
2: Sacrament
of Reconciliation
Term
3: Sacrament
of Confirmation
Term
4: Sacrament of First Holy Communion
These
sacramental celebrations are an important part of our children’s faith journey,
and can be undertaken from Year 4 onwards. This Thursday, 11th May,
there will be a Parent Meeting at Father Pat’s place at 7pm. Your child is
required to attend this meeting with you. This will be followed by four
liturgy sessions which take place within the 9 am Mass each Sunday. The
Sacrament of Reconciliation is scheduled for Tuesday 27th June at 6
pm. Please do not hesitate to ask Father Pat or myself any questions if you
need more information.
Important
dates coming up:
· Monday 8th May:
Monday Whole School Prayer, 9 am in the Church. Please join us.
· Swimming: Tuesday 9th
May & Thursday 11th May. Come prepared with all your gear. On
Tuesday we will leave for the pool at 12.15 pm, and on Thursday we will leave
for the pool at 1.15 pm. Well done for such good organisation last week!
· Wednesday 10th
May: Parish/School Mass in the Church at 9 am, led by Room 4.
· Thursday evening at 7pm:
Parent meeting for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, at Father Pats.
Room 4 Writing:
We have begun various projects in Room 4 this term to
develop our Writing and Keyboarding skills.
1.
The first
is Narrative writing. The children made an excellent start on their stories last
week after some initial brainstorming and sharing of ideas. When these have
been completed and edited, some writing will come home for publishing by email,
like we did with the holiday stories at the beginning of the year. I would
appreciate if you could support your child to key-in as much of their own
stories as possible. Keyboarding is an excellent skill to build confidence in
the presentation and publishing of their work.
2.
Information
Reports: We have also begun reading and researching a Pacific nation (in
groups) using books, COEC resources, maps, and the internet. There are two
parts to this Report project – one is
the ICT component with lots of opportunities to research and google their topic
and pictures, with the information being presented as a poster. The other is
the written version of the report, which will encourage sorting of ideas into
paragraphs, using their own technical and topic-related vocabulary, and editing
their writing in their books.
Both of these writing projects have cross-curriculum
links to Reading, R.E., Science, ICT, and Social Science because of their focus
on the effects of Climate Change, developing an awareness of other places and
cultures, and presenting information in both print and digital media.
Have a great week everybody. Regards, Markelle Ward J
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