Room 17 2021

  Bonjour to all Parents and Caregivers, Firstly we would like to thank all parents and caregivers for the wonderful work they have been doing with homeschooling their children during the level 4 covid-19 lockdown. We hope you have had no problems accessing the learning on the Middle School Kahikatea site. Remember that all the information regarding home learning can be found on the class blog from either this week or last week. If you have any concerns or questions do not hesitate to contact me. We realise that many parents will be working from home and that time to help children with their learning may be limited. The learning posted on the site is intended to be independent work for the children as much as possible. Please encourage your child to do as much work as is feasible given the lockdown realities in your household bubble. You will be well aware now that we will be moving from Alert Level 4 to 3 and this takes effect from midnight on Tuesday 31st August. The school is presen

  Covid Level 3 Update Saturday 28 August 2021 Kia ora Parents/Whanau The news from the Prime Minister is that we will be moving to Level 3 from 11.59 pm on Tuesday evening. We are waiting for the Ministry of Education to update Alert Level 3 guidelines which could be slightly different from the guidelines we were following at Level 3 last year. Once we have received these we will let you know our plan. In the meantime,  could you please complete a Level 3 survey for each child you have in a class at school? You will find the links to the surveys at the bottom of this newsletter. The Government has decided as part of moving to Alert Level 3 that schools may reopen for teachers and students. There are a few key details for you to be aware of. They are: 1. Distance learning for all school-aged students is still the preferred and safest option. If you are able to maintain this for your children, you should do so and keep them at home. 2. Opening schools for students is primarily for the c

Hi everyone Hope you are enjoying your weekend and doing something fun.  Nice to see a little sunshine in between the rain showers.  Here is our week 5 Virtual Assembly . It is great to celebrate the achievements and hard work of our tamariki last week. Well done to everyone for the effort you are putting in.

  Well done everyone with the creativity and enthusiasm that you are tackling online learning with.  I really enjoyed our Google Meeting this morning and everything worked smoothly for our Scavenger hunt.  It's been great to see joyful, smiley faces showing respect for those who are sharing by muting your microphone and leaving your camera on. I loved the creativity shown with good ideas for crazy socks.  Beaude's banana socks were hilarious.  (I wonder if he ate his sock for morning tea?) I have sorted out Mr. Tiedt's sock drawer and have quite a few pairs to bring to school for us to make puppets with.  Here is a link if you want to go making something out of old socks at home. Sock octopus Stay safe and remember to be kind. Mrs Tiedt

  Kia ora whānau and tamariki, Firstly, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this blog post carefully. We have tried to simplify our online learning this time around. If you have any questions after reading this blog, please feel free to send an email to me at  lorettet@stmarysrotorua.school.nz Secondly, it is really important that you all received the email from me earlier on today. Thank you to those who responded.  If you did not receive the email, please contact me on the above email address and I will send it to you.  As most of you will already know, we are having our first class Google Meet tomorrow morning from 10-10:45am and will continue this at the same time for the days we are in lockdown. Your children have all been sent the invitation for this via Gmail. Please remember that s tudents are not to create their own Google Meets or chat threads. They can use the chat feature in a Google Meet only in a meet created by the teacher for learning purposes. Because c h

To our amazing parents and caregivers, We are sending this email to help and support you as you work alongside your child for online learning. We would like to stress that it is most important for you to look after your's and your child's/rens well-being during this challenging time. We have planned a range of tasks for our tamariki and we want you only to complete the activities that are manageable within your household. We will be available via email if you have any queries regarding home learning and shall endeavor to get back to you as quickly as we can. Online Meetings: Your child will receive an email with a link to the Google Meet session on Sunday. This will be the same link every time.  We will post instructions for how to use Google Meet on our Blog. Kahikatea kids have their sessions scheduled from 10 am to 10:30. Where to find online learning: There are multiple places where you and your child can access online learning. Our  Class Blog  will have the general weekly

  Good morning everyone I hope you are all doing well and enjoying time at home.  I look forward to our Google Meet meetings every day at 10am to 10:30am, starting tomorrow. Here is our class meeting code.     room 17 Instructions for Students When logged into your google account go to your nine dots     Find Google Meet (or Google Hangouts - they are the same thing) in your apps and select it Click on Join a meeting and enter the code your teacher gave you. Note: Students will need to request to join the meeting during the times the teacher indicated and the teacher will need to be in the meeting before you can join. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.  Don't panic if you can't get it right, just send me an email and we can problem solve together.   Enjoy the beautiful sunshine today. Love from Mrs Tiedt

  Notices Week 4 Term 3 -  August 15, 2021  Bula Vinaka everyone. We were so blessed to have such beautiful weather for this weekend. Although windy, seeing the sun out is uplifting for our spirits. This morning at our 10am mass we had a lovely turnout of students coming to celebrate the Assumption of Mary. There was a procession shortly after mass where we walked with some parishioners around the block. It was a heartwarming experience. Last week we celebrated Mary Mackillop Day with mass and fun school activities. The children had such a great time learning about the person who established our school. Below are some photos of the afternoon tabloid sports. Our children have just started learning about how to recite a poem for our annual Kahikatea Poetry Competition. Please encourage your child to learn their poem by memory. Classroom competitions start in week 5. We will be looking for, expression in our students' voices, the use of gestures/ actions as they read, and trying to ga