Term 2 Week 8

Geometry Art Trip and Dancing Practice!

Timatanga had their Art Trip this week. Year 2 went on Tuesday to the Christchurch Art Gallery with lots of parents. The children had a great experience and got to take time to be guided around the gallery before settling into making and creating. It was such a pleasure to take in the wonder of the exhibition pieces and learn about how an artist creates and shares their work.  Our Year 2s asked some fantastic questions demonstrating how curios they are about what they saw. See below for some photos. 

Art Gallery

Dance Inquiry 

We are also finishing off our dancing sessions ready to share with our buddy reader groups this Tuesday. We will show our dance and then have time to teach our dance moves to our buddies, telling them all about the skills needed to become great dancers. This is a great finish to our Term Inquiry! 

Big Idea:

Dance fulfils different purposes.
Big Question:

Why do we dance?

Enduring Understandings / Lines of Inquiry:

What are the elements of dance?

Where do we see dance?

How might we express ourselves through dance?

St Margaret's Show Performance next week! 

Year 2 are lucky enough to have been invited to attend the matinee performance of Alice! by the St Margaret's students on Monday of week 10 (July 2nd). A big thank you to Emily's mum, Megan Hurd, who has invited us. We have free tickets so all we have to cover is the cost of the bus journey. 

A quick reminder to keep those permission forms coming in! Thank you to those parents that have put their names down for parent help. We will be limited this time due to seats available for the show and we will select based on 'first in'. 

Paid Union Meeting (PUM) this Tuesday 

Please inform us if your child needs to stay on Tuesday afternoon - click here for a link to the school newsletter with details 

Thanks to Mr Crossan

This Term we have had the privilege of learning with Dave Crossan in the Year 2 space as a student teacher. His last day was on Friday and the children wished him a fond farewell with a song and many goodbye messages in a class card. Dave has had a very successful Student Placement here at Thorrington and both teachers and students have greatly benefited from his time here. We wish him well on the next part of his teaching journey, knowing he will continue to succeed. Thanks Dave! 

Term 2 Week 7

NEw Zealand Playhouse and Matartiki Activities! 

Week 7 started off with a fantastic performance by the New Zealand Playhouse group as they performed their  modern fairy tale 'Red Riding Robyn Hood'. Our week finished with a wonderful day of activities with our Buddy Reading buddies to celebrate Matariki. 

New Zealand Play House 

Matariki Activities

Click on this image or click here for links to the videos and activities we did across the school! 

Geometry in Art Trip (click for more details)

This Tuesday Year 2 will be taking a trip to the Art Gallery for some Geometry Art activities to support our maths learning this term. 

We will split the classes and all those who offered to help on the day are welcome to come along as Parent Help and be at school 15mins before we leave. 

L3 and half of L2 will leave school at 9.30am and be back by 12pm 

L1 and half of L2 will leave school at 12.00pm and be back by 2.30pm 

Assembly

We will have no Timatanga Assembly this week as we have our Whole School Assembly. This has been brought forward from Week 10 so as not to clash with Whanaketanga (middle team) swimming. 

Time: 2.15pm

Date: Friday 22nd June

Place: School Hall

Cheese Rolls 

We are still looking for helpers for the PTA Cheese Roll Fundraiser! 

If you can help please Email 

Sausage Sizzle 

Every Friday - $2 a sausage.  Money to be collected in Home Bases before School in the morning.

Term 2 Week 6

More Dancing and our first Ignite Block! 

Another great week in Year 2 despite some power cuts and cold weather! We continued our chosen dance workshops and this week we started our first block of Ignite for this term.  HB3 students will take Discovery sessions for this term. 

See below for our Ignite choices for this block (3 weeks)!

Discovery (HB3) - Mrs Bruce/Mrs Jones

Superheroes - Miss Sinclair

Underwater - Fish, Sea - Mrs Clarke

Domestic Animals - Mrs Price

Unicorns (Fantasy Creatures) Mr Scurr (Ms Rennell in Week 6)

Origami - Mrs Rodda

Making Robots - Mrs Skelton and Mr Crosson

On Monday the whole school will get to watch this excellent production by The New Zealand Playhouse group - click here for their website about the show! 

Geometry in Art Trip (click for more details)

Thanks to you all for returning the permission slips and to those of you who have offered to help on the day by coming along. We will email and confirm you as a parent helper this week. If you have put your name down then consider yourself a parent helper for the day. Thanks again! If you still need to return the slip then please do so asap this week so we can plan our numbers. 

Matariki 

As part of Matariki Celebrations the whole school will be running activities this Friday between 11am and 12.30pm.

Assembly

We will not run a Timatanga Assembly this week as we will be running our Matariki activities at the usual assembly time on Friday. 

Cheese Rolls 

We are still looking for helpers for the PTA Cheese Roll Fundraiser! 

If you can help please Email 

Sausage Sizzle 

Every Friday - $2 a sausage.  Money to be collected in Home Bases before School in the morning.

Term 2 Week 5

Dance Workshops and Special Guest! 

We had an exciting week of dancing in Week 5. First we were lucky enough to have a specialist dance teacher come in and teach us some Classical Dance from India and then we got to choose our own dance workshops to take part in! 

You can see more of our Inquiry in the class room, feel free to come and take a look!

Big Idea:

Dance fulfils different purposes.
Big Question:

Why do we dance?

Enduring Understandings / Lines of Inquiry:

What are the elements of dance?

Where do we see dance?

How might we express ourselves through dance?

Assembly 

We will be sharing some more about our Indian Dance Classes at this weeks Assembly. 

L1 are hosting this week. As always you are warmly invited to attend. 

Time: 12.00

Place: School Hall

Date: Friday 8th June 

Art Trip 

Tuesday 19th June: Thanks for all permission slips for our Art trip in Week 8. If you have not returned then please return this week to your Home Base Teacher.

New Zealand Playhouse Performance 

Monday 11th June: Another permission slip to hand in! Please be sure to return these by Thursday 7th June. These need to be returned to the DROPBOX in the School Office. 

Reminder

When arriving after the morning bell or late in the afternoon please inform the office that your child is here even if you have made contact with a teacher. Our system relies upon our office staff knowing that you have arrived at (and left) the school.