Week 10, Term 3

WEEK 10!! 😮

Welcome to Week 10! 

On Monday, we have Mercy Day, we were founded by the Sister's of Mercy.  St John's Ranfurly will be joining us on Monday, for Mass and games.  I please ask all children to bring a can to school on Monday, this will be donated to the Alexandra Food Bank.

Tuesday-Thursday will be production practise.  If all the boys costumes could come to school by Thursday in a named plastic bag.
Girls are sorted! 

On Friday, it is the Singing Eisteddfod assembly at 1.30pm. I will let children know on Monday who got through.

It was awesome, seeing so many familiar faces in the Blossom festival parade, well done to all those involved! What amazing weather.

We're on the home stretch to the school holidays, I hope everyone has a well deserved break and all children come back excited to put the final touches on our school production - Aladdin.

God Bless

😃

Beeswax Wraps

Some people have been asking where I bought the beeswax from.. http://www.wildpure.co.nz/Wildpur_1./Organic_Beeswax.html

The recipe I used was from here http://korukai.co.nz/index.php?fc=module&module=csblog&controller=post&id_cs_blog_post=27&category_parent=7

Claire :)

Week 9

Kia ora,

I hope everyone had a wonderful week last week.  The Year 3/4 camp was lots of fun. Here is a link to the mural that the children completed at the Dunedin Art Gallery.  https://education.dunedin.art.museum/workshops/early-new-zealand/otago-gold/goldfields-mural 

Thank you to all the parent helpers during camp and the donations of food.  We wouldn't be able to go on camp without all of your support so thank you!! 

We didn't get through all of the Eisteddfod performances so this will continue into this week. 

We are nearing the end of Term, over the next two weeks we will be doing a lot of practise for the production. 
Here's the line up for this week: 

Monday 
9am No Whole School Prayer 
Kaboom Show in school Hall. 
Aladdin Production Practise 
Room 4 visit to the library  

Tuesday - Aladdin Production Practise 

Wednesday - Nukes Ukulele Workshop
Nukes performance  
ICT parent information evening - 5.30-7.00pm

Thursday - Deano Show in Hall 
Confirmation Meeting in Chapel (for those doing this programme) 6.30-7.15pm

Hope you all have a wonderful week!! 

Week 8, Term 3

Kia ora koutou,

Thank you to Jelena, Sophie, Jada, David and Bella, Pippa and Alia who all played a part in the Mass today (Sunday), you were awesome! Thank you to those who came too, it was lovely seeing a full church!


Wow, and look at that camp week is here! Hope all the Year 4's will be busy packing their bags and getting sorted. Each child will have a booklet, with their Mihi Mihi in it.  It's very exciting that the children will have a very memorable Maori Language Week - with experiences they will remember forever. :D


Singing Eisteddfod
Year 4's will be performing their Eisteddfod on camp and the Year 5's will be doing their's towards the end of the week with Mrs Chamberlain. Below is the marking schedule. 

WALTs:

·       Prepare and present a song using performance skills and techniques

·       Reflect on the live performances of the eisteddfod songs

Introduction State the name of the song Tell about who wrote it and /or who recorded it Say why you chose it	/5
Pitch Staying in tune throughout the performance	/5
Diction Singing the words clearly so that we can hear each word Remember to put the "t" or "p'' at the end of words Sing loud enough for the audience to hear	/5
Audience suitability Choosing something that Years 4&5 will enjoy Words suitable for our age group Theme suitable for our age group	/5
Preparation Know the song off by heart Actions? Costume?	/5

Thank you to everyone who brought in fabric for our Honey wraps.  We have all made one, and the Year 4's will be using their wrap during camp. Year 5's will bring their one home during the week. 

Many thanks

Kia ora rawa atu

WEEK 7!

WEEK 7! 

Tomorrow, we will be going to the public library in the morning, so please bring library cards and books to return. 

The Kapa Haka group have a couple of performances on this week, Monday they are performing at Ranui in the afternoon and Tuesday morning they are performing at Dunstan Educare and Little Oaks. 

School Photos are on Thursday. 

School Mass is on Sunday at 9am. 

Thank you to all of those parents who have signed up to Seesaw, we will continue adding to this to share our learning in class. If you are having trouble signing up, please come in and see us, we are more than happy to help get you set up. 

Year 4 students, during camp you will be performing your Eisteddfod singing.  So please start preparing this.  Year 5's we will listen to your Eisteddfod in Week 9, so the week after camp, so start practising too!! 

ALADDIN Production 

Parents of Room 4 girls, I will send a note home this week, telling you how much the costumes were. 

Parents of Room 4 boys - for the Aladdin production, the boys are guards.  They will need to wear, black baggy pants (black trackpants or similar) which they can pull up under their knees.  Also a plain white t-shirt (a t-shirt with a symbol, can always be folded inside out), they will also wear a sash around their waist.

 If you could please start to organise the track pants and t-shirt and  if anyone has spare material that could be used as a sash, could you please contact me - clairedwyer@stgerards.school.nz 

Thanks!