Kia ora, e te whānau,
We trust that this finds you having had a very safe, happy and relaxing Easter break, and now part way into an equally safe and happy school holiday break.
Our heartfelt thanks to you all for the amazing support you have given your children and the staff throughout the first term this year. We appreciate every offer of help and support, both small and large!
Congratulations to the tamariki, who have had an amazing term, making impressive progress in their learning, including social and emotional as well as academic. This includes our little newbies, many of whom may have only had a few days at school, and who have all stepped into their new role as primary school learners, willingly embracing the challenges with positivity and enthusiasm.
For those of you who would like to view (or view again!) the Literacy videos we've shared over the past term, here are those valuable links once again, including those at the Stage 2 level:
These videos will help you with understanding what our literacy stages involve and what you can be doing at home to support your child.
We also thought we'd include some links to fun Maths at Home activities and ideas. These links come from the Families and Whānau section of the NZMaths website:
...and now for our photo gallery, which includes images from our scone-making, building towers, showing persistence, outdoor fun, balance and physical challenges, art and craft activities and so much more!
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| Impressive focus being shown here! |
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| "That will be $1:50, thank you." |
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| Art and craft in the art space. |
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| Beautiful, careful colouring! |
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| Oh, my goodness - what's going to happen next? |
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| At the vets. |
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| At school, playing schools :) |
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| Skip and Bounce will love this handwriting. |
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| Great balancing in the next three photos. |
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| Such wonderful focus and care being shown here. |
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| The result of one of our Science experiments using dye and flowers... we followed the sequence: question, hypothesis, test, observe, discuss and conclude. |
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| Playing one of Sonya's beautiful board games! |
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| A favourite puppet. |
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| My hand shape: traced around, coloured and trimmed. |
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| What an amazing set up this team has created. |
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| Animal dress up day - what a gorgeous little lion cub! |
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| A cute little mouse showing great focus here. |
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| A cheetah teams up with a unicorn. |
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| Great physical skills on display! |
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| Fun and games in the sandpit. |
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| What a beautiful smile :) |
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| Wonderful focus on display here. |
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| An enthusiastic member of the jigsaw puzzle team. |
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| We love books... |
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| ... and numbers! |
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| All dressed up, having made a selection from the dress up box. |
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Scone-making photos from our final day of Term 1...
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What a wonderful line up of photos of our wee ones! As we've said, their learning across all areas (including social and emotional) has been nothing short of incredible throughout Term 1. Very well done, tamariki :)
For now, we hope you continue to enjoy the school holidays, and we look forward to seeing all of those beautiful, wide smiles at the start of Term 2, on Wednesday, April 26th.
Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou,
Elizabeth, Stacey, Georgia, Nicola and Sonya
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