Room 14 2021

Talofa Room 14 fānau Week 4 was busy with some really awesome events. Students participated in a successful Cross Country and were able to experience their fitness training pay off. On Thursday we had a wonderful Pentecost liturgy run by the Kākano team. We ended the week on a delicious note by having a shared lunch. Thank you for the variety of kai that was provided.  What's happening this week: It is Samoan Language Week. On Wednesday and Friday lunchtime, Mr. MacMillan will be in Kakano with some Samoan-related activities for all students to have a go at.  I am also at a Josephite Colloquium learning about Mary Mackillop and Julian Tennison Woods. I will be away on Monday and Tuesday and Mrs. Pinfold will be in for those two days. Tuesday: Library.  Wednesday: Kapa Haka. Thursday: Singing practice Fri: Health and Wellbeing Concept day. Samoan Language Week Activities at Lunchtime. Friendly Reminders: - Chromebooks need to come to school charged. As we are a BYOD s...

Tena Koutou   to all our students and parents. We had a wonderful Ascension liturgy last Thursday run by the Kahikatea team. Thank you to all our parents who came to watch. This week we are growing on our concept of healthy lifestyles. On Friday we will be looking at eating healthily, exercising through games, and the ability to self-regulate through mindfulness. We also have Cross country this Wednesday in the afternoon. Children will get changed into their P.E. gear at the school before being transported to the Red Woods. More info below. Pick-up needs to be at 2:30pm.  Last week the students from rooms 12, 14, &15 all attended a morning Parish Mass. It was an excellent experience after mass we were joined by the parishioners and Father Thomas for the shared morning tea in the church hall. Thank you for sending your child with something to share.  What's happening this week: Mon: Rm 14 Library Wednesday: Cross Country  Thursday: Pentecost Liturgy 12:15 in the h...

These awesome mathematicians have been seeing our skip counting in a particular number can help us with our times tables. Here are our Batmen groups showing what they have learned.

 Malo e lelei to all our students and parents. We have had some wonderful learning taking place over the last few weeks. Our concept for this term is Health and Wellbeing and our children took part in some wonderful ignition activities, learning alongside different teachers and seeing the importance of eating healthily, exercising, how important parts of our bodies need to be looked after and the ability to self regulate through mindfulness. These will hopefully spark some interest and passion for our children. It is important to discuss this at home with your child too. This Friday Rm 14 kids will be attending the morning Parish Mass. This starts at 9am. All parents are invited. This will then be followed by a shared morning tea in the church hall.  We would like to ask that our students can bring in something light to share for this. If you are able to help with serving tea and coffee, that would be much appreciated too. What's happening this week: Tue: Library Thur: Ascensi...

 Check out these awesome kids learning about analogue time. Yes we know this is easy peasy Japaneesy, but these kids didn't just learn about o'clock. They had to draw their own clock and it was a bit tricky to fit the numbers that went around the clock face. We used the numbers 12, 6, 3 and 9 as our markers and filled out the rest from there. Next, we will look at half and quarter past of an analogue clock.

 These cool kids have been doing something cool called choral counting to help us see patterns. Today we skip counted and added a 10 to the next number. This is a really great way to encourage going into our hundreds numbers for numeral identification.

 Hello awesome peeps! We still have a few parents who have not yet filled out the form for Cross Country. If you haven't filled out the transportation form for the Cross Country day please do so, we will be needing parent support on the day both for transportation and marshaling if you are able to help we would appreciate it. Cross Country is in Week 4 of the term Cross Country Form Thank you.

Check out these cool kids adding 10 onto a number. We have been looking at skip counting and adding a 10 through choral counting. This has now helped us to se the pattern and add on a 10 from any number up to 100. 

 This term, one of our goals is to recite a Maori Karakia. We know that when we recite something, we are memorising it and then saying it. Here is Josh, Abby and Adam reciting a karakia about Unity.

  Tena koutou. We hope all our mothers were treated with some lovely surprises today. Happy Mother's Day to all our beautiful mothers! Most of our students completed a virtual Mother's Day card. It will be in their google drive account. Please keep in your prayers those children who no longer have their mothers with them. I wanted to thank everyone for the time you took last week to be involved in your child's goal setting for this term. It was a pleasure to see all of my parents and also to meet new parents. Our children looked so charming in their national costumes dressing up for 'Children’s World of Prayer' day. They looked so proud to be part of this. The mini-marathon on Friday was a great day out. It's nice to see our whanau support, running, and cheering on our tamariki thank you. If you haven't filled out the transportation form for the Cross Country day please do so, we will be needing parent support on the day both for transportation and marshalin...

Tena koutou and welcome to a new term of learning. The holidays have definitely allowed us to take some rest and to re-energise and get our brains ready for the wonderful learning that is going to take place this term. I am looking forward to seeing all of your smiles when we start tomorrow. Term 2 Learning: We have our goal-setting 3-way interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. If you have not yet made a booking  go to  this link  and then enter this code: 63c8b. I would love to touch base with all our parents if I can. This term our learning focus will be around Health and Well Being. We will start our term with an exciting ignition that will hopefully spark some interest and passion for our students. This will involve our children taking part in different activities with different teachers in Kahikatea and Totara team over the first two weeks. The activities range from healthy eating, exercise, functions of important organs of our body and mindfulness Literacy wi...