Mrs. Dinniss's Reading Challenge

 In case you miss out on the hard copy create your own. Here are the details, we have worked so hard this term, let's not slip.

Mrs. D's

More Challenge  

• Try to read for at least 20 minutes each day. Lexia (20min) listening to a story read to you (Epic, parent) or personal reading works for an entry. You need to read for at least 10 sessions to be eligible for the Lunch Prize Entry.

• Write down what you read and get an adult to sign off your reading entry each day.

• Return your reading log to Mrs. Dinniss by Wednesday, May 5th to go into the prize draw of lunch with Mrs. Dinniss. If the whole class reads Mrs. D will be pizza for the class instead.

• HAPPY READING!!! 

My name              

Date	My Reading (write down the title and pages read)	Adult

Date	My Reading (Write down the title and pages read)	Adult Signature

         

Last Week of Term 1 (Week 11 - Term 1- 2021

 April 11, 2021

Welcome to Week 11

April 12th - 16th

Bonjour Parents and Caregivers

We are about to commence the last week of Term 1, which will be followed by the beginning of two week's school holidays. It has been a busy term with lots of important learning and everyone is feeling ready for a break to recharge the batteries. Thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given your children, and the school, over the course of Term 1.

Swimming is finished until Term 4 and children will not be required to wear a hat next term when outside. 

On Sunday we had many of our students being confirmed and making their First Holy Communion. This is a very exciting time for them, please keep them in your prayers.

Coming up this week:

- No Swimming this week. 
- Cricket on Monday. 
- Library  on Tuesday

- ICT Club on Thursday.

- No assembly this week
- Interschool Swimming Sports
- Senior School Art Exhibition - Friday.

Two Messages From Mr Macmillan:

‘During the holidays we celebrate ANZAC Day (Sunday 25th April). I am hoping to have a strong representation from our school attending the parade. If your child would like to join us and walk in the parade and participate in the Civic Ceremony at the Bay Trust Forum, Energy Events Centre, Queens Drive please make sure they are at the Lakefront Memorial (intersection of Fenton St and Whakaue Streets)  by 8.30am in their winter school uniform. Jersey, not fleece top. The ceremony concludes at the Energy Events Centre and should be over by 11.00am Parents are also invited to be part of the parade and service. Children just might want to be part of the parade. If you have a poppy your child can wear, please pin it on them. I will have some spare ones to give to children at the parade.  This is a very special ceremony so I do encourage our children to be part of this. ALL STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE.’

At the start of Term 2 children must be in winter uniform. Uniforms can be bought from our uniform shop. The shop is open Monday 8.30am, Wednesday at 2.30pm, Friday at 8.30am and on Monday, the first day back in Term 2, at 8.30pm. I want to make sure our students are wearing the correct uniform in Term 2.  At this point, I would also like to mention that our Lost Property is *overflowing* with items left around the schoolyard by students.

Friendly Reminders:

- Chromebooks need to come to school charged. As we are a BYOD school, many of our learning activities now require devices. Headphones are essential, please. If your child's Chromebook is not working, I recommend contacting Paul (see contact details below).

- Please LABEL your children's clothing, we have quite a few issues with shorts/dresses ending up on the wrong body.

- If you need headphones still, Kmart, The Warehouse, or school have them ranging in price from $8

-Please collect bread tags and yummy stickers, if you need a chart please have your child come and see Mrs. Dinniss

Have a great week.

Mrs Dinniss and

Team Kahikatea

Week 10 - Term 1

  Good Afternoon Whānau, 

I hope you had a lovely long weekend with friends and family 😊

Last week we celebrated Palm Sunday and Washing of the Feet through liturgy. We also enjoyed our own version of The Last Supper before heading into Easter. These experiences were meaningful and reminded us all about the true meaning of Easter. 

Coming up this week:
- Swimming all week. 
- Cricket on Wednesday.
- Chess Club on Wednesday and Thursday lunchtime. 
- Library and ICT Club on Thursday.
- Whakaue Golden Time on Friday. Students in this house can bring their colours to school. 

Friendly Reminders:

- Chromebooks need to come to school charged. As we are a BYOD school, many of our learning activities now require devices. Headphones are essential, please. If your child's Chromebook is not working, I recommend contacting Paul (see contact details below).

- Each child needs a school hat. They can be purchased from the uniform shop for $13.

- Please LABEL your children's clothing, we have quite a few issues with shorts/dresses ending up on the wrong body.

- If you need headphones still, Kmart, The Warehouse, or school have them ranging in price from $8

-Please collect bread tags and yummy stickers, if you need a chart please have your child come see Mrs. Dinniss

Week 9 Highlights

 Week 9 - Term 1

01/04/2021

by Jill Dinniss

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Week 9

 

This is has been a fantastic week in R12 this week. We have had no interruptions, and it's Holy Week.

Maths:

Children should be able to complete their Math Whizz time at home. If you would like to practise at home, have your child do doubles and halves or 2, 5, 10, 11 times tables as if they learn these the others are easier.

 

This week our focus has been on compensation/place value subtraction questions at different levels.

 

46 - 27= 40 - 20 = 20+6 = 26 - 7= 19

 

Writing this week we have been focusing on meeting our individual goals and learning all about adjectives. Adjectives are describing words for our nouns. Check out our silly stories and our Monday Funday write. We are very proud of our writing this week and how we have made it interesting for others to read. We didn't do our spelling words this week and will test on Wednesday so if you have a chance over the next five days please have a read.

 

This is a very important week in the Catholic church, we have been learning all about the week that led up to Jesus's resereaction. Please ask us what we have learnt. We celebrated this week with a last supper, breaking of the bread (students received a hot cross bun) and fruit. Thank you to Mrs. T. who provided us with figs they were fantastic.

 

We will be swimming for three days when we go back to school next week. Please put in togs and a towel. The pool is heated so the children will be warm while swimming. This will be our last week of swimming for term 1.

There is no school on Friday, Monday or Tuesday next week.

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

Mrs. D