Week 5 is here already!

Evening everyone,

We are heading into week 5 already and I am super impressed with the magnificent Maths going on in room 22. Every room 22 student is working diligently to improve their basic facts knowledge and every group has been working on Knowledge hotspots and fractions, decimals and percentage workshops. These concepts make up a large component of the year 7 standard so it is very important for our children to have a solid understanding. 

We have a class tracker board for our times tables and the improvement since the start of the year has been phenomenal. Most of the class are practising in their own time as well as at school and it definitely shows. Good basic facts knowledge ensures our kids have a strong foundation to make learning harder concepts easier so I am super proud of our class for their perseverance and desire to succeed. It is fantastic seeing lots of room 22 on our Turanganui Mathletics leaderboard.

All the best to Attlee Waitoa who is currently in Napier with our school stage challenge team.

Congratulations to Lena-Marie Baty-Akurangi and Daelyn Taumata who received our class certificates at Assembly last Friday. Both of these students are a pleasure to have in our room and at Gisint. They both work incredibly hard, treat others with respect and kindness and are grabbing as many opportunities as they can. Well done korua!

Our Turanganui Waiata

Matua Puri composed this waiata (song) for our team. It contains our school vision 'To grow great people' as well as encouraging our kids to strive for excellence. Here are the words in both Te Reo Maori and English.

Have a great week everyone and please read our team blog thoroughly for some other important information.

Nga mihi

Ana

Welcome to week 4

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

We are already into week 4 and it has been a great first three weeks back at school. We have been working hard in class on setting up our values rubrics, goals, maths, reading, speeches and getting involved in extracurricular activities outside of the classroom. Please check back with your children regularly to see how they are tracking against the goals they set at our learning conferences at the end of last term. I would also expect every student in our room to be working on their maths and reading for homework and practising their speech over the coming weeks. I have noticed a significant improvement from all students with their timetable knowledge in our daily grids which reassures me that there must be a lot of extra work happening at home too. Thank you all for encouraging this as it will make a huge difference to your child's confidence and ability in maths. Our class is currently leading in the number of hours spent on Mathletics but the others are right behind so we will need to ensure we are on as much as possible. Well done to the room 22 students listed for earning Silver certificates and for spending the most time online in our class.

We have been lucky to receive a few donations of cushions and another couch for room 23 but would desperately like a few more as we have over 50 students in our team who regularly utilise this room during breaks as well as during learning time. Any cushion, bean bag or old and clean, foam mattress donations will be gratefully accepted. 

We have a few students turning up to school without their full PE uniform (Plain black shorts and their Turanganui PE top). Unfortunately this means they spend their lunchtime in the reflection room and have to bring a form home to be signed by you. If there is some out of the blue reason for your child not having their gear they will need to bring a mufti shirt, shorts and a note. Self Management is key. 

Have a wonderful week and please check our main team page for lots of other important info and celebrations. 

Here are some helpful Maths posters to show what children need to know at each stage of the NZ curriculum. The children should know what stage they are working on as we have charts in class with where they are at but if they have forgotten then they just need to see me. A lot of our class are working hard to fill any gaps that they have and each day we do a daily maths grid and a knowledge 'hotspot' session before our days work.