Hi all,
Welcome back, and to a busy Term Four. We hope you have had a stress-free, EASY school holiday period!
We throw ourselves straight into our 150 year celebrations with a dress up day this Thursday, taking us back to our grandparents era and before. Please don’t feel the need to buy special dress ups for this: utilising what you have at home is great! When we visited Pataka we looked at fabrics and styles of pioneering NZ. Boys wore shorts until the age of 14, colours were neutral and girls wore skirts with an apron over the top. Zips and velcro didn’t exist, and hats were compulsory (this is just a guide - just a token item of clothing will suffice!) We will spend some of this day transforming our class into an ‘olden day’ classroom. Fun!
As part of our focus on times past we have a trip planned to the Petone Settlers Museum to look pioneering life in the Hutt Valley. (Week 2). A notice will come home about this next week. We are very grateful to the Fundraising Committee for funding the buses there are back, which has meant no charges to families. Awesome!
We are due to visit the Hutt Library on Thursday 20th October. Any parent help will be appreciated.
Term Four requires all students to wear bucket hats during morning tea and lunchtime. Please ensure your child brings one to school each day, or even better, keeps a hat in their tote tray. Sunscreen is also highly recommended, and while we don’t keep sunscreen at school we can certainly help children apply their own sunscreen at lunch is required.
Fitness this term will focus on athletics skills, working towards a fun Athletics Morning at school in November. These fundamental skills focus on running, jumping and throwing through a number of different games and activities.
Our Discovery time on Fridays will continue with our Kowhanga construction theme, and we will reuse materials to create structures, art and sculptures.
We would appreciate any materials that could be used for this. e.g. cardboard, egg cartons, bubble wrap, shoe boxes, plastic bottles, paper. Thanks in advance!
At the end of week four we will be having another infamous Bring’n’Buy. If you happen to be having a clean out please save your old toys, books or games and bring them into school from the beginning of Week 2. Thanks.
We are grateful to Fiona Johnson Belle for the time and effort she gave our Kowhanga last term to teach us poi. We will be sharing our waiata and poi with the school on Friday 21st October during assembly.
Just a reminder: school will be open on the Saturday of Labour Weekend as part of our anniversary celebrations. Children are asked to come to school for the morning. School will be closed on Tuesday 25th October.
Wow, I hope I have covered everything…you may get a SeeSaw post in the next couple of days otherwise!
Can’t wait to see all your beautiful children,
Claire and Amy
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