Kia ora whānau

Well, another crazy week done and dusted. It's hard to believe there are only three more weeks of the 2019 school year! Bearing this in mind we will be starting to alter our programmes at the end of this upcoming week. Guided instructional Reading groups will finish on Thursday, as we do need to get all of our school readers back into our resource room to do a stock take. To this end, can you all please have a look through your child's room, under the couch and in the backseat of the car, for any lurking school reading books or library books. We are still missing quite a few!

We will be continuing doing Reading throughout the team, but just in a different format combined with lots of Literacy based activities. Please do actively encourage your child to continue to read at home each night, and also over the holidays, so that they are able to maintain the wonderful progress they have achieved over this year.


This week will see us amping up our Art preparation for our big extravaganza in week 9. Your child should have brought home an invitation on Friday. Please have a rummage if you haven't seen it yet.
We will also be continuing to practice our beautiful singing voices so that we can amaze you on Thursday.

Timatanga End of Year invite

Congratulations to Jack Hodgson, Francie Stringer,  Jack Derry, Jane Kuntz, and Addison Aspros- for receiving a class certificate in yesterday's assembly. You make us all very proud of your achievements and for demonstrating the qualities of a Thorrington citizen

Reports and Class placements for 2020
We have been working very hard over the past weeks, both to complete all our assessments, reporting and general comments regarding your children, as well as thinking deeply about the best possible placement of your child in 2020. We do spend a lot of time thinking and discussing all the various factors that are involved when making up new Homebase groups. Please be assured that we do look at the whole picture very carefully, and take into account friendship groups,  past issues if any,  particular children's learning or social needs, class numbers, different personalities within a team, collaborative team members,  and much much more. It actually is a very complicated process!
Please remember also, due to the nature of our collaborative teaching at Thorrington, even if your child does not have their ' best friend' in their Home Base, throughout their collaborative team we have tried our very best to ensure each child has a friendship circle to support them.


Dates to diarise

Friday 6th Dec: 12-noon Timatanga Assembly- Athletics Certificates will be presented this assembly
Thursday 12th Dec: 11a.m Timatanga End of year celebration and shared lunch
Wednesday18th Dec: PTA Pizza Day
Friday 20 Dec: School finishes at 12.30.



 Have a happy weekend.

Sarah, Wendy and Andrea

Kia ora whānau

What a beautiful weekend we have had- just perfect for the Thorrington Boot Market. Hopefully, you have all had a restful enjoyable weekend.


Thank you for your queries and concern over Andrea's absence over the past couple of weeks. Her family has been dealing with a sudden serious illness and subsequent bereavement.  All of our support and sympathy are with Andrea and her family at this very sad time.

At this stage, we are uncertain as to when  Andrea will be returning to L3.
However, as Sarah and I are very aware of all the needs of our children through our collaborative teaching, our programmes are able to continue with minimal disruption to the children.


On a happier note, many thanks to all those parents who came along and supported us for our Timatanga Athletics day last week. It was a fabulous event and the children participated in everything with enthusiasm and positivity. Certificates for the Sprint winners will be given out in a later Timatanga assembly.

Congratulations to our Principal certificate winners last week- Jhai, Talia and Izzy.

Dates to diarise.

29 November: Timatanga Assembly
12 December: Art Exhibition and shared lunch



Many thanks

If you have any concerns or queries, please do not hesitate to contact Sarah or myself.

Wendy and Sarah.

Kia Ora whānau

Another busy week is over and the children have been practising very hard for our upcoming athletics day next week. We are also spending lots of time on producing some amazing art for our upcoming exhibition.

Some key dates and information to take note of

Tuesday 19 November: Timatanga Athletics 9.30-12.30. Pp date is Friday 22nd November. 

Please note House teeshirts are to be worn if possible.

On the day please ensure your child has 

• House colours shirt
• a polar fleece at school
•  a wide-brimmed hat (they cannot take part in any event unless they are wearing a sunhat)
•  a full water bottle
• suitable sports shoes 
• sunscreen applied

9.30am: Rotation of athletic skills

10.30am: Morning tea

11.00am: Sprint races

12.30pm: Parents and supporters welcome to stay for lunch together

Thursday 21 November:  Tuakana Gala

Our slot for visiting this exciting annual event is 11-11.30 on Thursday. Please see the attached information regarding this opportunity for your child to be able to buy some treats and support our senior student's initiatives in fundraising for the school. 

Tuakana Gala Day

Friday 22 November: Full school assembly 2 p.m. 

All are welcome. You will be notified if your child is receiving an award.

2020 Year 3-6 BYOD Parent Information evening - 7 - 8pm

Please feel free to attend this if you would like more information about the use of devices in the middle and senior school.

Thorrington Boot Market: Sunday 24th November 9- 2 p.m

Come along and enjoy this special Thorrington event!

Year Two writing

Some of our students have been doing some amazing writing based on Roger Hargreaves Mr. Men stories. We have even published our own book of these stories. Please feel free to come in and look at it.

We were very lucky on Thursday as Mrs. Harris came in to read and listen to, our stories with us.

 Have a happy and safe long weekend.

 Wendy, Andrea and Sarah.

Term 4 Week 5

Art & Nebulae
The children have all opted into a group for our visual arts unit this term. They will each be creating a piece of art which can be viewed at our upcoming 'Celebration of Learning' on the 12th December. More information to come.


Blue Tac

We have an on-going problem with disappearing blue tac in the L1-3 space. If you have discovered any little blobs of the blue stuff turning up home please have a quiet word to your child. It is very time consuming having to reattaching posters on a weekly and sometime daily basis.

HatsThank you for making sure that your child's hat is clearly labelled. It makes it much easier for the children to quickly grab their own hat on the way out to play rather than someone else's hat by mistake.TLC Mufti Day

Wednesday 13th November
Gold coin donation- proceeds to go to the SPCA
Come to school in mufti or dressed as an animal if you prefer

Canterbury Anniversary Day - Friday 15th November -school closed

Term 4 Week 4

Reminders and Up Coming Events

Athletics Day

Tuesday 19th November

We will be practising our running, jumping and throwing skills each day for the next two weeks in preparation for Athletics Day.
Please make sure that your child has suitable shoes and their sunhat at school each day.



Timatanga Celebration of Learning
Thursday 12th December

Save the date
More information to come



Year 2 Hosting Timatanga Assembly

12:00pm Friday 8th November

We would love to see you there if you are able to make it.
If your child is presenting, they will bring a script home to practise this week.


Sunhats
Please make sure that your child's sunhat is clearly named- big black lettering on the inside of the hat works well as the children often miss their name written on the tag.
If your child does not have a hat at school they must play in the designated shade area at play time and lunch time.

Keep up the great work with your maths bricks and daily reading!