The Mad Hatter visited us!

Faithfest

Melania performed in the Samoan group at Faithfest along with other StAnne's children.

 

Music

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We have all enjoyed our music lessons with Mrs.O this year.

Advent is a time of waiting.

 We are lighting the Advent candle at prayer time. We are waiting for the coming of Jesus.

We are also waiting for the playground to be finished!

Enjoying Lunch on Pasifika Day

 Room 1 and 2 read the story of "The Fifty-five Feathers".
We have made this storyblanket about it.
We all made the feathers and the plaiting for the tree.
Marquees and Brayden drew the pukeko.

Look out for our story blanket in the Linwood Library.

A & P Show

Blankets that Tell a Story

We really enjoyed the visit from Kirsten and Dan from the Christchurch Library. They showed us three beautiful blankets about Maori myths. We sang waiata and listened to stories. It was great.

Working with our visitors from Star of the Sea

Term 4 Newsletter

Dear Parents,     

Welcome back to the last and busiest term of the year.

Our theme for this term is INNOVATION. We will be looking at ways early Maori used natural materials to help meet their basic needs. This will be a Social Science focus but we will also integrate DANCE: Telling Stories and VISUAL ART.

Later in the term we will be having a visit from a city librarian who will show the children blankets that have been designed around different Maori legends. With the help of Room , we will create our own blanket about the Legend of the Fifty-Five Feathers. We are aiming to put this on public display.

Our main genre for ENGLISH is narratives. For PE will continue our very popular Kiwi Sport programme as well as athletic skills. In RE we will be learning more Bible stories, the Saints strand and Advent.

For those of you who are new to our community, the Junior School has 2 regular fixtures in the last term. Rooms 1 and 2 will perform a Nativity play on Wednesday afternoon, 18^th December.  We will be asking you to provide a simple costume for your child. Please let extended family know about this play. All are welcome.

The other yearly event is a visit to the A & P Show on Thursday, 14^th November. There is no cost associated with this this year, thanks in part to the Parents and Friends. We will be requiring parent/grandparent help so please inform me if you are able to help. This is always a most enjoyable day but it is not suitable for pre-schoolers.

Thank you for all your support.

Marian

Cultural Festival 2013

"In The Beginning"

 

Here is our artwork of the children of Papa and Rangi.

The St Anne's Good Values Shield

On Friday we had St Anne's feast day. Mr C gave us a special award for cleaning up the whole school of rubbish.We were very proud of ourselves and Mrs Jones was proud of us too.

James and Salu

Term 3 Newsletter

Class Newsletter     for Room 2      Term3 2013

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I have enjoyed hearing about all the fun things that the children did during the holidays. Thanks to the fabulous weather we had, a large number of children enjoyed time at the beach. Let’s hope the good weather lasts. It will help keep winter ills at bay.

We are ready now for another busy term.

On Friday we will celebrate St.Anne’s feast Day. This will be such a nice way to get the term up and running. Our Religious Education programme this term is a mixed bag. We will be exploring ways to pray and experience the presence of God through our senses and through dance and music. In the first few weeks we will be focusing on a health unit on Sexuality and it will have a strong RE thread running through it. In the second part of the term we will be looking at social justice issues around the theme of work. We will conclude the term with our annual Mission Fair.

This ties in really well with our overall theme for the term which is CITIZENSHIP and our school value of INTEGRITY. The key competency focus will be RELATING TO OTHERS.

The Perpetual Motor Programme and Kiwi Sport will continue this term. If you find that yourself available to help with PMP on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning please let me know. We are always looking for volunteers. Thank you so much to the parents who do help.

At the end of last term we had a big problem in this class trying to eradicate an outbreak of lice. Some children still have lice despite their parents’ best efforts.  Every child’s hair needs to be checked regularly in order to get rid of them. Tying girl’s hair back helps a lot. Thank you for your support in this.

Don’t forget to check out our blog. We would love to have more followers and for comments to be made about the various posts.

www.stannes102.blogspot.co.nz.

Please don’t hesitate to see me about any concerns you may have and you are always welcome to come in before or after school to see your child’s work.

Regards

 

Marian

 

 

 

Techno Expo

Yesterday we showed some of our parents and grandparents toys we have made. They asked us questions about how we made them.

Charlotte's Stable

Our Snow Poems

The Drilling Machine by Ashlyn

Snowing at StAnne's

 

Today there are only ten of us at school because it is snowing outside.

Fearless Phil

 

Salu drew a great picture of Fearless Phil.

A Visit from the Librarians

Our Assembly

Our Wobbly Toys

 

A Visit from Brayden's Baby Sister

Newsletter for Term 2

Term 2     Newsletter    Room 2

 

 

 

Dear Parents and caregivers,

I hope you have had a wonderful holiday with your children and enjoyed the amazing weather we had most of the time. I’m looking forward to another jam-packed term. Let’s hope we all manage to stay healthy and well.

The theme for this term is CHANGE with a technology focus. We are going to be looking at the toys/characters in Toy Story 1 and construct a Buzzy Bee out of an egg carton. From there, the children will design and make their own simple toy. We will have a whole school celebration of the children’s creativity and learning. More information will follow about this in the newsletters.

The genre we will focus on for English is Instructions.

This term the Perpetual Motor Programme will be up and running again, as well as Kiwi Sport. Not only do all the children thoroughly enjoy the PMP activities, they benefit in many other ways – fitness, balance, memory, co-ordination to name a few. On behalf of you all I express a very big thank you to our parent volunteers. We could not run this programme without you.

In RE we will be concluding the Holy Spirit strand at Pentecost. On the 22^nd May we will celebrate Catholic Schools Day and special events for this are planned. After that we will focus on the Church Strand.

Our Arts focus this term is Drama.

We will continue to put posts on our blog this term.

        stannes102.blogspot.co.nz

Please register as a follower and give feedback to the children’s work.

Thank you for all your support.

 

Marian Jones

Cross Country Fun

Kiwi Sport Warm Up

James' Easter Story

Swimming in Pjs

Swimming

 

Art in the Botantic Gardens

Growing Corn

 

Great artwork by WhunnDaa and James

Welcome to Room 2 , 2013

Newsletter for Room 2 Term 1 2013

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to the 2013 school year. The children are looking keen and ready to go and they are very happy to see each other again.

 We would like to welcome 3 new pupils and their families. They are   Noella, Melania and Eliza. We hope you enjoy being part of the St Anne’s family.  Some children are still overseas but when they return I will put up photos of our class on our blog. www.stannes102.blogspot.com

The focus for this term is Energy. We will be discovering   energy at work through different curriculum areas. In Science we will be mixing and melting materials and in Health and PE we will look at good foods and keeping active. We will also relate this theme to the Arts, especially Dance.

We are starting the year by building an understanding of our friendship with Jesus and developing a prayerful relationship with Him. We will also be following the season of Lent and Easter and we will explore the Caritas Lenten unit.

Our English genre for the term is Descriptions. This lends itself to building a rich vocabulary. Please take every opportunity to use descriptive language with your child.

Room 1 and 2 hope to take advantage of the beautiful weather we have been having and use the expertise of the Art Gallery staff by a visit to the Botanic Gardens on the 27^th February. We will be involved in a 90 minute lesson on Watercolour painting. We will leave school at 10am and return by 3 o’clock.  This incurs a cost of $5 per child for the bus and the lesson.

Thank you for ensuring that your child has all the equipment needed to get off to a good start. Please make sure that the reading folder is returned to school every morning and that the poetry and library books are returned by Friday. Please encourage your child to be responsible for this. It is all part of being a good learner.

I am looking forward teaching such a delightful class.  Please feel free to come and chat or to visit the classroom before or after school to see your child’s work.

Thank you for all your support.

Marian Jones