Thorrington Year 2 2019

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