Room 17 2021

 Kia ora parents and whānau, congratulations on making it to the last week of term!  It has been a whirlwind of a term with lockdown and everyone has done a tremendous job getting to the end happily and safely. Thank you again for giving our students supportive and loving homes, the adjustment made to school was made a lot easier thanks to that.  Things on this week:  Monday - Principals Morning Tea. Congratulations to those students who were chosen! Tuesday - STEAM EXTRAVAGANZA  Wednesday - Catholic Schools Day, Room 17 library Thursday - Girls 7's Tournament at St Marys and St Vincent De Paul Liturgy  Friday - Golden Time.  Important messages from Mr Macmillan and Mrs Cato: Last week all Year 0-5 students should have brought home a letter inviting parents to provide some information for consideration re the 2022 class placement of their child. A copy of the letter and form is  here . Please note if you have more than one child at school we want ...

Tena Koutou everyone and welcome to our second to last week of school. Our first full week at school was spent with activities celebrating Maori Language week and learning through play. It is so good to see the kids giving it a try and taking part in the different activities and being creative.  As we are still at Level 2 we are still encouraging that our kids sanitize before they come into class. Please ensure they bring in a drink bottle as water fountains are still out of bounds. Thank you very much for your support in this. Last Friday, some kids came with some fabulous wigs to wear for the day. The school managed to fundraise $580 to go towards the Cancer Society. What a fabulous effort. What's happening this week: Wednesday: Library Friday: Golden Time It is so lovely to see the sun out today. Let's cross our fingers that this weather continues for the rest of the week. Have an awesome week everyone. Here  is the Week 8 Virtual Assembly.  Kahikatea Team.  Here ...

12/09/2021 Tena Koutou, We’ve been back at school for two days and things have seemed to go quite smoothly. Thank you all for helping us make the transition back to school. Children seemed to be very excited with their return to school and back to some normality for them. Just a quick reminder that children are to take all rubbish home in their lunches and that chromebooks need to be charged. The children have been good with hand sanitizing and washing down of surfaces. This week is Maori Language Week: " Kia kaha te Reo Māori " - Make the Māori language strong. We will be doing some fun activities around Maori language.  The Virtual Assembly for this week if you didn't see it is  Here  .  Our library is on Wednesday, please remind your child to bring back their books.  Friday is ‘Wig Day’ please bring a wig and a gold coin donation all proceeds go towards Kids Cancer. If your child is interested in any sport please enroll them to ensure they get on a team. Kia ...

  Wow!  Well done Room 17, there is a lot of reading being done.  I've just received this from EPIC and thought I'd share it with you before we got back to school.   Once we're back we can add it to our Readapillar on the board. Keep up the good work.

  Good morning to everyone on another lovely sunny day. Happy Fathers Day to all our dads, we hope you have a special day in your bubble. It's hard to believe that almost three weeks ago we went into lockdown.  A big thank you to all of our families for the support you are giving your children with their Home Learning Programmes during this time.  It has been a big learning curve for many of us and certainly a time of building resilience.  I feel so blessed to work in such a supportive and caring community. The Prime Minister announces late Monday afternoon what the next plan is.  Fingers crossed we move to Level 2 soon. This week we will continue with the Home Learning online. We have our daily meetings on Google Meet at 10am. The children and us teachers have been enjoying connecting and doing some fun activities. For Room 17's meeting tomorrow, come dressed in black or rugby gear (hope the All Blacks win their game tonight!). On Tuesday we will do our "Wh...

  Here is a link to our Week 6 Virtual assembly. Here is our latest school assembly. Enjoy the weekend.

  Wow!  Can you believe we are almost through another week of lockdown learning.  Well done to many of Room 17 children who have been very busy with their lockdown learning and using this opportunity to explore learning in a different way.   Thank you for sharing your work, photos and emails.  It makes my day when I hear from you.  Here are some photos of different activities people have been doing. Remember to email me a baby photograph by Saturday for our activity next week. God bless Mrs Tiedt