Kia ora whānau,

Welcome to Week 7. It was lovely having the children back last week. The very quickly and happily settled back into the school day and class routines. You can continue to use studyladder at home as a resource if you wish to. Some children seemed to be missing their poetry books. If this is the case, could you please help your child look for it.

All Poetry books are to be returned ready for Friday's new poem - there is a poetry box behind the counter for your child to pop their book. A reminder, that no hats are needed this term.

Learning conferences:
Please remember to book your time for your learning conference.

Booking appointments for Learning Conversations

1. Go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

2. Click MAKE A BOOKING

3. Enter the code: z9eaz

4. Follow the onscreen prompts to complete your booking

If you have any issues with the booking please email sandy.vallance@thorrington.ac.nz.

Reminders for Week 7
Friday:
Poetry Day
Library Day
Sausage Sizzle

Heading towards week 8 :-)

Kia ora whānau,

Welcome to the end of Week 7.  Very surreal times for us all as adults, but for our children, it is largely" business as usual"! It is great that they are mostly still insulated from all the worldwide troubles that are surrounding us, and we are endeavouring to keep everything as normal as possible here at school. As per the MOE guidelines, please do keep your child home from school if they are feeling unwell- we greatly appreciate your support with this- we know it is not easy juggling sick children and work commitments.

We had our second session with Constable Ross this week and the children were well informed and engaged. Remember to keep filling in the 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' booklets that went home.

Please do encourage your children to leave special toys at home. If it is something valuable or extra special and they do want to "share',  please ask them to give these to their teacher and we can safely store these items in our teacher's office. This prevents these items from being used or carried around at playtimes and getting broken or lost.

Things to diarize:


Monday 23rd March:  School is closed for instruction as it is a Teacher Only Day.
Wednesday: TLC Mufti day. Please come in casual clothes and bring a gold coin donation to support the children's playroom at Christchurch Hospital.
Thursday: Library Day
PLEASE make sure your child puts their library books in the 'slot' in the desk and their library bags in the green box behind the desk before or on Thursday.

Friday: Poetry Day; IGNITE; Buddy Reading;

We hope you all have a lovely weekend. We know these are uncertain times for us all-  please take care and support each other and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or concerns :)

Kind regards

Anna, Sarah and Wendy

Week 7

Kia ora whānua,

Welcome to the end of Week 6. A sad good-bye today to Josh Marriage who is returning to the U.K. It has been wonderful having you in the L Space Josh - and we wish you all the best at your new school in Cambridge.

We had our first IGNITE session this morning. Lots of different activities were on offer such as musical instruments, puppets, lego and dinosaurs.

We enjoyed the lesson we had with Constable Ross this week. We have another lesson with him next week. Remember to keep filling in the 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' booklets that went home.

Colour Your Day
It was lovely to see the children in all their colours today and to have the community here at lunchtime.

Library
Library day is Thursday. PLEASE make sure your child puts their library books in the 'slot' in the desk and their library bags in the green box behind the desk before or on Thursday.

The Week Ahead
Monday: Singing
Wednesday: Whānau Hui 5:30 - 6:30
Thursday: Library Day
Friday: Poetry Day; IGNITE; Buddy Reading; Year 1 Assembly 11:45 am

We hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Ngā mihi nui
Sarah, Wendy and Anna

Week 6

Dear whānau
It's been another busy week but the children are well settled into our routines and are engaged in all our learning. Thank you for all your support at home.
We continue with our Keeping Ourselves safe programme this week with a visit from Constable  Ross, who will talk to the children about " Physically me". Please do support your child's learning by completing the homework book alongside your child.

We are starting to see a lot of "precious things" coming to school and unfortunately some of these things are going missing or getting damaged. Can we please leave toys at home, that way they stay precious and intact! Again, if your child does have something special attached to the outside of their bag, it may be safer to remove this and keep it inside their bags safely.

Tues/Wed 10/11th- Anna will be out of the team as part of her management role.
Wednesdays- Coding Club 3.15-4p.m HB12

Thursday –  Library day

Friday Week 7 20th March –  Timatanga Assembly 11.50 in the school hall. ** Please note the earlier start time.

Trash lab

Volunteers are desperately needed to help with the Trash Lab at lunchtimes. The Trash Lab is well-loved by the children and we need your help to keep it running. This involves being at school once a month or even once a term from 12.30-1.30pm. We will work in with what best suits you. To go on the roster, if you have any questions, or would like to pop down one lunchtime to see what it's all about please email thorringtontrashlab@gmail.com

Colour  your Day -  Friday March 13th 

Come dressed in colour!!

We would love our families and community to join us in this day of remembrance by also dressing in colour, and coming to share eating lunch with our children on the field at 12.15, Friday 13th March. If wet, your child will eat in their Home Base. As a school, we will also be showing our respect for the victims of last year’s tragedy, by observing a minute’s silence at 1.40pm.

Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington has chosen to not ask for a monetary donation for our students, but ask that they do come to school dressed in as much colour as possible. If you would still like to make a personal donation to St John- we will have a donation box available in the school office.

Registrations are currently open for Junior Netball- Years1-6
At Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington we, as staff, are not responsible for the overall running of these teams and they become parent-led teams during the season. We are however offering once again to collate the teams and enter them into the tournaments. In order for this to be done, we require all Registrations to be back by Friday 13th March. After this date, you may not be successful in getting into a team, or certainly the team you would like to. To register please visit https://forms.gle/S31JwqSCw2xB14XC9

We hope you all have a happy weekend. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all.
Kind regards

Anna, Sarah and Wendy

Week 5

Kia ora Whānau,

On Thursday we had a very interactive maths session with some of our senior students. They had made maths games and activities and joined us for our maths session to share these with us. All of the children were very engaged and enjoyed the time together.

What’s On Next Week in Year Two: Week 5

Tuesday 3rd March - Parent information session KOS

Wednesday 4th March - Coding Club 3.15-4p.m HB12

Thursday  5th March –  Library day

Friday 6th March –  whole School Assembly 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm.

Keeping Ourselves Safe programme

This programme enables children and young people to learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. More information can be found at the Keeping Ourselves Safe website here. All Timatanga Homebases will be working through this programme in weeks 5, 6 and 7 alongside our local community police office, Constable Ross.

We are having a parent information session run by Ross on Tuesday 3rd March at 2.15p.m in the school staffroom. If you would like to attend this- please RSVP to the office.

Reading:  Reminder for your child to keep all their instructional reading books in their Reading folder for the whole week. This allows them some browsing material for over the week and rereading texts is a brilliant way of building knowledge of sight words and increasing comprehension and fluency. Your reading teacher will empty your folder each Monday.

Poetry: We hope you are enjoying listening to your child read their poems from previous weeks and this week. Reminder to please put your poetry book in the poetry box every Monday.

We hope you have all had a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Week 4 update

Kia Ora whānau

Well- that was another busy week that passed in a blur! But it was a happy one and the children are settled and enjoying all their learning and activities. We are now pretty established in our morning routines of Reading, Writing and Maths. In Week 4 we are starting our full collaborative teaching of Maths and Writing as well as Reading, so your child maybe with a different teacher for each of these. 
We aim to rotate our teaching groups for all subjects in the last week of each term so that all children will get a chance to learn and interact with each teacher in the different subject areas. At the same time, this allows a block of 8-9 continuous weeks with the same teacher, so that a high degree of rapport and trust can be developed in each group. This depth of knowledge and information will then be shared with the next teacher.

What’s On Next Week in Year Two: Week 4

Wednesday 26th February- Coding Club 3.15-4p.m HB12

Thursday  27 February –  Library day

Friday 28 February –  Timatanga Assembly 11.50 in the school hall. ** Please note the earlier start time.

Keeping Ourselves Safe programme

This programme enables children and young people to learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. More information can be found at the Keeping Ourselves Safe website here. All Timatanga Homebases will be working through this programme in weeks 5, 6 and 7 alongside our local community police office, Constable Ross.

We are having a parent information session run by Ross on Tuesday 3rd March at 2.15p.m in the school staffroom. If you would like to attend this- please RSVP to the office.

K.O.S Programme

Reading:  We have had a couple of queries about " what do we do with our reading books?" We would love your child to keep all their instructional reading books in their Reading folder for the whole week. We will write the name of the book that has been read that day in your child's notebook. This allows them some browsing material for over the week and rereading texts is a brilliant way of increasing fluency. Your reading teacher will empty your folder each Monday.

Puzzles:  Thank you to those families who have donated some puzzles to us- we would love some more!

Maths

We have been learning all about Statistics and learning what information we can get from tally marks, bar graphs and pie charts.  Last week we went and counted all the traffic going past our school and graphed all the different results. We had great fun while we were learning!

We had fabulous fun at Discovery Day yesterday!

As always please come in and have a chat with us if you have any queries or concerns.

Sarah, Wendy and Anna

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3

Kia ora Whānau,
It has been lovely getting to know all the children this week and to begin our routines. We had a whole school discovery day on Friday - your child probably had some lovely treasures that they brought home to show you! We have also been finishing off our self-portraits and these should be soon up on the wall for everyone to enjoy and to further brighten up the classroom.


Reading: We have spent last week listening to the children read and introducing the reading routines. From next week your child will be bringing home reading books every day. Whilst we try to ensure that they pack their reading folder at the end of the day it might be a good time to get into the routine of checking it is in their school bag at the end of the day. Instructions for 'Reading at Home' are in front of the notebook. The reading folder gets put into their book box at the beginning of each day. Any questions please ask.

Puzzles: If anyone has any spare puzzles at home that are no longer being used we would love to receive them! The children are really enjoying doing puzzles and word games in the literacy time.

Reminders:

Stationery: Some children have not yet got all their stationery. Please make sure that your child has got everything including a poetry book and a notebook.

Library Day is every Thursday. Return library books from the previous week to the slot on the desk in the classroom.

Poetry: A new poem is read every day with the children. The poem is glued into their poetry book every Friday and the book comes home for the weekend. Please take some time to enjoy this week's new poem and to reread the poems from the previous week. Poetry books are to be returned to the Poetry Box every Monday.

Rubbish: We are finding it very difficult to keep the cloak bay area tidy and free of rubbish. On Friday, as well as a lot of rubbish, we found several plastic bags that children have had in their lunchbox lying on the ground. Please help us and the environment by using labelled containers instead of gladwrap bags to put snacks in. 😀

• Wide-brimmed sun hats are compulsory for all students.
• Please send a full drink bottle of water each day.
• Whānau Picnic 5.30p.m Week 3, Thursday 20th February.
• Our first Timatanga assembly will not be until Week 4 (28th Feb)this term (fortnightly on even weeks).
• Full school assembly 2p.m Friday 6th March.

As always please come in and have a chat with us if you have any queries or concerns.

Sarah, Wendy and Anna