Week 3 Term 1 2019

Hi everyone

We hope you all had a relaxing weekend.

This week we have swimming at the pool :

Tuesday 19th Swimming Practice Day

Children in Rooms 3, 4, 6 and 7 are to be dropped at the pool by 8:55am. Please do not go into the pool, wait for your teacher. If you are coming to school by bus and need to be taken to the pool, let your classroom teacher know by Monday, so that transport can be arranged. Rooms 7, 3 & 4 will return to school by bus at 11:10.

We would welcome any parents willing to get into the water  with the children, and to assist with dressing afterwards.

School Swimming Sports

Thank you to the 5 people who have offered help as timekeepers on this day. We are looking for 18, so if you haven’t already made contact we look forward to your help.

chrisbeilby@stgerards.school.nz

Also this Sunday 24 February there is the school Mass and picnic outside at 10.00am at Pioneer Park. Families are to bring a salad or dessert and there will be picnic games before lunch. Children who started school this year will be presented with their Bible at Mass.

You will have noticed that children are bringing home their alphabet books every night. Once letters have 5 ticks more will be added. Remember the children need to name the letter, the picture, and the sound the letter makes.

Thank you to those families that have followed the instructions and joined up to Seesaw. It is a learning curve for the teachers too, but hopefully this will prove to be a valuable link between home and school.

We now have a definite date for our Room 7, 3 and 4 Camp, which is Thursday 7th/Friday 8th March. We are camping overnight at school on the Thursday and doing various activities on the Friday. We will need 4-6 person tents for the overnight camp, parents to help erect these, some parents to stay overnight and/or join us for the activities on Friday. A camp notice will be sent home this week.

This week in Religious Education we are starting to learn about Jesus. There will be an overview pasted in your child's homework book.

Also we are starting a class Prayer Bag this week. Children will have turns bringing the prayer bag home each Thursday and will keep it at home for the week. This is to encourage the children to pray together with their family. There is a sheet of suggestions to help with this inside the bag.

Have a great week,

Sue and Julie