Rubik's cafe

Today our Rubik's Cafe opened at school. We had lots of fun learning about all the things it takes to run a cafe, most importantly making a profit $$$$.

Thanks a lot to Mrs Davies, Mrs Sims and Viv for helping.





All the profit we have made will go to the Young Vinnies projects.
Thanks for organising the coffee machine Mr Macmillan.

Writing?

So this is what writing looks like in R4 when a VR set comes to school.

Can't wait to to read this writing!

Noah Production practice

We have been practicing very hard for the upcoming Production.

Make sure you get tickets from the school office.

Week 7 Term 4

Monday
School singing practice.

Tuesday
Library - returning books only - no new issues.

Wednesday
Show rehearsals
Ahurei performance.

Thursday
School singing practice
Show rehearsals
Advent Liturgy 10am.
Go4it PE - bring your PE gear.
Kapahaka practice
Coaches thank you evening

Friday
Rubik's Cafe - come have a coffee with other St Mary's whanau. 8:20-10:00am
R4 Banqer Kiwisaver retirement party.  Bring your old person outfit and accessories and a small plate for shared morning tea. 
Shared lunch for First aiders

Noah the Musical Tickets on sale from Wednesday 28th purchase at school office:

$5 per person.

4 shows:

Rooms: 15,11,1,3,12 and Year 2

Tuesday 11th December at 1:00 pm 

Tuesday 11th December at 6:30 pm

Rooms: 14, 13, 2, 4, 12 and Kakano

Wednesday 12th December at 1:00 pm

Wednesday 12th December at 6:30 pm

Bongani and Jett doing a great job cooking the sausages on Friday. 

Designing, making and re-making

We are really busy designing and making games for other students at St Mary's to play. There is a range of digital and offline games and even one game that requires a steady hand.

Come have a coffee with our community

A group of R4 students and helpers are opening a cafe at school. Come along and enjoy a coffee while making connections.

Week 6 Term 4

This is the last week for issues form our school library. 
No swimming this week.

Monday
School singing at 8:45am

Tuesday
Interschool Athletics


Wednesday


Thursday
School singing at 8:45am
Kapahaka

Friday
Sausage sizzle
PI group
Choir

From Mrs Hall

Noah Production Cast Rehearsals:

Hi All,

We are getting there…kids are doing well!

Rehearsals are:

Monday lunchtimes

Monday after school 3:15-4:15

Thursday lunchtimes

Thursday after school 3:15-4:15

Dancers:

Tuesday and Thursday Morning tea with Mrs Macashin.

Singing Soloists have rehearsals with Mrs Locke in R 13 at lunch times-these will be on the daily notices.

Thank You for your support,

Bernie Hall

Swimming in choppy waters

Today we practiced swimming in choppy waters to simulate swimming in rough water.

Electricity

Today we investigated where our electricity comes from and how it powers our devices.

We found out the there are renewable and non-renewable forms of energy and some are better for the environment than others.

Ordering the energy types by impact on the environment. 

Exploring how electricity is passed on through switches. 

Week 5 Term 4

We are swimming every day this week with instructors, bring your togs.


Monday
Swimming

Tuesday
Teacher strike day - school is closed.

Wednesday
Swimming
JPC orientation for Year 6 students.

Thursday
Swimming
Extra Production practices
Kapahaka


Friday
Swimming
Dress as a character day. Money raised will go towards Special Needs Christmas Party.
Choir
PI group
Sausage sizzle

Silly sausages with Miss Johnsen

Some students have been making silly sausages with Mis Johnsen this week. They then used Comiclife to record and display the instructions.

Week 4 Term 4

It's an exciting week, Athletics on Monday and Grandparents day on Friday.

Monday
Athletics day - Students to be dropped straight to stadium No. 2 field and collected again at 2:30pm. Come in house colours, bring a hat, sunscreen, water and snacks to keep you going all day.

Tuesday
Library - bring your books to exchange.

Wednesday

Thursday
Go4It PE - bring your PE gear. 
Kapahaka

Friday
Bring something to share for morning tea in our class - all Grandparents are invited to join us.

9th November Friday-Week 4:

Grandparents/Friends Day

• 9:00 Mass

New students welcomed at end of the Mass.

School to sing to them once they have had a blessing and received rosary beads.

• 10:00 Back to classes to show visitors around and shared morning tea in classes.

• 10:30 Performing groups to get dressed
• 10:30 Cuppa provided by PTA-Hall if wet or outside hall if not.
• 11:00 Mini concert begins (5-10 mins per group)

Outside on stage if fine, otherwise in the hall.

• 10:30 Photo Booth Open.

This year again for something different we would like to add a ‘photo board’ opportunity. Students with visitors to have their family photo taken with a cool backdrop to remember Grandparents /Friends Day 2018! Bring your cameras for this.

The Order for the Concert:

1st	Gymnastics Club
2nd	School Choir
3rd	Pasifika Group
4th	Item from R 2
5th	Marimba Group
6th	Kapa Haka

Morning tea in the staffroom

This morning Don and Bongani shared morning tea in the staffroom. This was paid for from  Bongani's Banqer account.

Don and Bongani enjoying their morning tea.

Writing book reviews for our library

We have been busy writing and producing some book reviews for our library. Our purpose is to help younger students be interested in reading by recommending what to read. We are also leaving a legacy by qr coding the reviews and adding them to the inside back cover of the books. This way when the younger students take a device to the library they can scan the code then se our review.

Books with our qr codes to access the reviews. 

We have also been deciding on the best ways to present our reviews. So far we have used Garageband, Imovie, Book creator, Doink Greenscreen and Google docs.

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