Welcome to term 3! I hope you have all had a lovely holiday and are now back into the routines of school. A warm welcome to the new families who have recently joined our Junior School.
The last week of term 2 was busy with parent conferences, portfolios, dress up day for the Orphans of Nepal and staff (including Mark our caretaker) reading favourite stories in the library at lunchtimes. We enjoyed meeting with you to discuss your children's progress and hope that you have a better understanding of what they are learning at school and how you can support this at home. Room 4 parents are meeting with Ms Naik this week. If you have any questions about your child and their learning, please do not hesitate to contact us.
If you have not returned your child's portfolio could you please do so as we need to place this term's work samples in them. You get to keep the portfolio at the end of the year.
Over the holidays, you will see that rooms 4, 5, 6 and the Rainbow Room between rooms 2 and 3 were refurbished. They look wonderful and are a lovely environment for the children to work in. Thank you for your patience last week while the builders completed the work.
Peace Week
This week the children have been involved in some fun activities, organised and run by the children in years 5 and 6. As part of Peace Week our Junior children have had the opportunity to wear white clothing, have their face painted, play sports on the field, learn origami and do some colouring in as well as be an audience to a wonderful talent show and cooking demonstration, during the lunchtimes.
Immunisation
Please bring your child's immunisation details (in Plunket book or a print out from your doctor) to the school office so that the register can be up dated.
Full School assembly will be next Friday August 19th at 1.30 p.m. in the hall. You are very welcome to join us.
Free Parenting Programme!
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs, but one that comes with little training. This free (award winning) Incredible Years Parenting Programme, funded by the Ministry of Education, will be delivered in Wainuiomata by Family Works/Presbyterian Support Central. It is open to anyone who would like practical step-by-step ideas and strategies for parenting children between the ages of 2 and 8. Topics include setting boundaries, handling misbehaviour, praising and rewarding, playing and much more!
The programme starts on Wednesday 24th August 9.15am - 11.45am at 102 Main Road Wainuiomata and runs each Wednesday for 14 weeks. Help with childcare and transport is available for the course.
If you have any questions about this excellent course please do not hesitate to ask Mrs Buckley in room 3.
Hooked on Books
This very successful programme has started again and will go for the rest of the term. The adults who have been listening to children read can see marked improvements in each of the children. Feedback from their parents has been very positive . Thank you if you have been helping with this. If you would like to join in, please let me know.
Folk Dancing
Last term the children learnt some dances as part of our Dance programme and this will continue for the next two weeks. In term 4, when the weather is much better, parents will be invited to see what they have been doing.
Enrichment Programme
This programme started yesterday and will continue for the rest of this term. It involves all the children in the Junior school being part of a 'Tree' group e.g Pohutukawa or Kowhai. Each 'tree' group is made up of children in year 0 to 2 working on different activities in each classroom. In Room 1 they will be doing ball activities, room 2 music, room 3 construction, room 4 drama, room 5 French, room 6 art and room 16 te reo Maori. The children move around to a different classroom each time. They all absolutely loved it yesterday so please ask them what they did.
Have a great week.
Kind regards
Maureen Buckley
Deputy Principal
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