You will receive an email will further information about EOTC Week in Week 9. Please email your child's teacher if you did not receive this email.
Monday, December 3, 2012
EOTC Week in Week 9
Below is the EOTC Week timetable
You will receive an email will further information about EOTC Week in Week 9. Please email your child's teacher if you did not receive this email.
You will receive an email will further information about EOTC Week in Week 9. Please email your child's teacher if you did not receive this email.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Term 4 newsletter for Year 3 and 4
Term 4 newsletter for
Year 3 and 4
The year has
flown by so quickly! It is now Term 4 and thoughts are turning to Athletics
day, E.O.T.C week and the end of year Christmas concert.
Looking back
over Terms 1,2 and 3, it has been such a busy year filled with so many amazing
learning experiences. Ancient Greece, Wandering Whales, a beautiful Butterfly
garden, writing competitions, Artsplash... and this is only scratching the
surface! The teachers hope that you are able to visit your child’s class blog
from time to time and see for yourself some of the wonderful learning
opportunities that happen in their classroom.
The flowing
is an outline of what will be happening this term. Later in the year, extra emails
about E.O.T.C week will be sent by class teachers, so look out for those.
“Water,
water, everywhere...”
Every two
years, the Year 3 and 4 team aim to make a small difference in the day-to-day
lives of other people who live in different parts of the world. In previous
years we have raised money for the “Orphans of Nepal Trust” and “Green Gecko School’
in Cambodia.
This year,
as part of this terms inquiry into how water is used by different people around
the world, we hope to do a small amount of fund-raising to assist with
providing safe drinking water in parts of the world where safe drinking water cannot
be taken for granted.
Our children
will be given an opportunity to plan, prepare for and run a small fundraising
event in late November/ Early December.
Closer to
the time, your child’s teacher will email you to keep you up-to-date with
progress being made on the fundraising plan. As this is a ‘child driven’
inquiry, we may ask that you, at home, provide a bit of assistance here and
there, if your child needs it.
READING
AND WRITING:
Our
writing focus for this term is Persuasive writing, where we will be exploring how
to write a convincing argument. There is also the ongoing focus on embedding
effective editing and proofreading skills into every piece of writing the
children do.
Oral
language will focus on the oral presentation of their argument, with a focus on
using vocal expression and confident body language.
Reading
continues in all classes, with particular emphasis on reading for meaning and
(out aloud) for expression. There will also be a strong emphasis on ‘reading for
meaning’ as children read about the water cycle and how people in different
parts of the world use water.
NUMERACY:
We
have started the term in cross-grouped classes, re-visiting the addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division and fraction skills learned earlier in
the year. We finish the term by learning about the features of geometry and
looking at statistics.
Ongoing
basic facts practice and learning how to problem solve will also feature.
PE:
Each
Thursday morning, the children have taking part in Athletics practice, in preparation for the school’s Athletics Day, which is Monday, 5th November
(Week 4) , here at school. Look out for a reminder email later in Week 3.
Swimming
is scheduled to start around Week 7, however in reality this date is weather
dependent and we will not begin swimming until the weather has warmed up a
little.
ART:
We will be teaching your child how to sew this
term! Most classes have already started teaching children how to thread a
needle, tie a knot and sew a simple stitch. As the term progresses, children
will learn to cross-stitch and sew some simple patterns on material.
Other news:
Y3-4 Science Club
This
Term Mr Dobson is working with 20 students, chosen by classroom
teachers, each Friday lunchtime. Each week the science club will
investigate a scientific idea, conduct an experiment, and arrive at a
scientific truth. You can visit the Science Club's blog here http://muritaiscienceclub.blogspot.co.nz/
Gardening Club
The
Year 4 students who formed and have run the gardening club this year
are now looking at passing on their trowels and gardening gloves onto a
new group of (current Year Three ) students, who can form a Year 4
gardening club next year.
Please
check our class blogs! We would love to have you visit and leave a comment.
Your child will know how to do this and will be able to guide you through the
process. It’s easy! Just follow the class blog link at
the school website www.muritai.school.nz
To contact us, the easiest way is to
email us (teachers surname @ muritai.school.nz), or just pop in.
Kind
Regards,
The
Year 3 and 4 Team.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Term 3 Newsletter
Year
3 and 4 Newsletter
Term
3, 2012.
Dear
Parents,
Term
3 is now well underway, and we all hope you had a lovely time with your
children over the school holiday. Teachers were busy planning the term ahead,
and we have some exciting learning ahead this term centred around “Ancient
Greece”- Olympics (ancient and modern), Myths and Legends and lots more!
Term
Three, as always, is a big performing arts term. We are building up for 2 major
events- the Art Splash Choir performance on Wednesday 12th September
at the MFC, and the School Production “Uno’s Garden” which will happen in Week
10. There will be further emails about both these events; in the meantime, the
children are working hard at honing their performing arts skills.
Reminders:
•
Slippers: Term Three is an indoor term. If your child does not yet have
slippers at school, please help encourage them to do so. Slippers are worn
inside to keep the carpets dry and mud-free.
•
Drink Bottles: Children are still to bring drink bottles to class. Encourage you
child to regularly take their drink bottle home for a clean.
•
Equipment: Some children are running low on essential supplies such as
rubbers, rulers, pencil sharpeners, colour pencils. Please check with your
child to see if they require a top up of supplies.
•
Lost Property: It is crucial to have all clothing named so that it may be
reunited with its owner quickly. Encourage your children to look for their
missing clothing as soon as it is lost. If clothing cannot be re-united with
its owner, it is left in the lost property containers under the stairs outside
Room 7.
•
Beginning of the school day: When the bell rings at 8.40, it is time to get ready
for school. Some classes have spelling, handwriting or finishing off activities
to do during this time, so students who are late miss out on this, therefore it
is important that children are at school by 8.40am.
Reading,
Writing and the “Ancient Greece” Integrated Study.
Reading and
Writing will be strongly integrated with our Ancient Greece study as the term
progresses. Writing information reports and reading of non-fiction texts will
be the main focus during literacy time, along with spelling and handwriting
skills. Key information literacy skills, such as skimming and scanning for key
words and ideas, note-taking and note-making, summarising and questioning, will
be a big focus in both literacy and integrated study time.
The study of
Ancient Greece is going to be a highly motivating and exciting topic for most
children. However, it won’t be all Forums and Greek Gods! There will be some
very solid teaching and learning occurring in the area of questioning (open vs.
closed questioning skills), gathering and interpreting information from more
than one source, and making judgements on the usefulness of the information
gathered.
Maths
In
Term 3, children will be consolidating understanding of multiplication and
division, and apply this understanding in problem solving situations. Recall of
timestables features strongly this term, and you can assist your child by
helping them practise their timestables as part of the homework programme.
Basic
Facts: Basic Facts return to the homework programme for the last two terms of
the school year. The basic facts on the homework sheet align to curriculum
level expectations, and in most cases the strategy for working out each fact should
have already been taught. If in doubt, contact the classroom teacher. Additional
online practice for each week’s basic facts can be found at this website:
Your
child should be able to tell you what ‘stage’ they are currently on. Very
generally, Y3 students should be finishing stage 4 and starting stage 5, Y4
students should be mastering Stage 5, with some beginning stage 6.
Mathletics:
In Term Three and Four, maths class teachers will be setting the mathletics
homework, rather than your child’s class teacher. We think this will add an appropriate
level of challenge to the ‘compulsory task’ mathletics homework being set.
The
Arts
This
term we will be building on the painting and drawing skills we learned in Term
1 and 2, as we now explore the world of multi-media artwork. Classrooms are now
bursting with beautiful paintings, so come in a have a look! Term 3
traditionally has a BIG arts focus. The ARTSPLASH performance at the MFC is on September 12th, and
tickets for performances are available from the school
office or by phoning Mary Prichard on 027 448 4671. Tickets cost $5. Also upcoming is the
bi-annual ‘School Production, which this year will be held during Week 10.
Classes will start practicing their production items in the second half of the
term. Details about ticket sales will be forthcoming from the school office,
closer to the time.
Physical
Education
For
the first few weeks of this term, each class will participate in a number of
gymnastic sessions in the Hall. Children will experience opportunities to practice
balance, agility and poise as they navigate a number of gymnastics disciplines.
Later in the term the PE focus turns to the performing arts, with dance being
the major component of each lesson.
Slippers
and excess clothing
Slippers
can be worn at school during the day, and we encourage all children to have a
pair they can wear while in class. The current cold, miserable weather means
many children are bringing to school extra layers of clothing. Sometimes this
is left in the cloak bay or classroom after school. Please ensure that your
child’s clothing is labelled, so if it is left behind, we can find the correct
owner, asap.
As
you can see, Term 3 is going to be an incredibly busy time!
As
always, feel free to contact your child’s teacher at school by either emailing
(surname@muritai.school.nz) or popping in
before/after school for a chat.
Kind
Regards,
The
Year 3-4 Teaching team.
(Richard
Dobson R7, Karen Chao R8, Sheena Naik/Hayley Skilton R9, Annabel Smith R15)
Friday, May 4, 2012
Term Two is now underway with lots of exciting and
interesting learning occurring in all four classrooms.
Last term we followed the lead of the Year 1-2’s and
turned our vegetable garden into a “Butterfly Garden”, with lots of nectar
flowers and swan plants. A big thankyou to Mrs Ryan in Year 1 for helping us
with this project.
Term Two is a very busy time. Student portfolios will come home on at the end of term, and will be discussed at Parent-Teacher interviews. The children put a lot of time and effort making each ‘artefact of learning’ that make up each portfolio, to provide a snapshot of what they have been learning so far this year. We hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity to meet with us and discuss your child’s progress and celebrate their achievements.
Term Two is a very busy time. Student portfolios will come home on at the end of term, and will be discussed at Parent-Teacher interviews. The children put a lot of time and effort making each ‘artefact of learning’ that make up each portfolio, to provide a snapshot of what they have been learning so far this year. We hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity to meet with us and discuss your child’s progress and celebrate their achievements.
Dates for your Diary:
- Tuesday May 8th (Week 3) Year 3-8 Cross Country at Williams Park, 9.45 onwards.
- May 15th (Week 4) Year 3 Field Trip to Island Bay Marine Education Centre. 9.00-12.30, traveling by BUS.
- Friday May 18th (Week 4) Year 4 Field Trip to Island Bay Marine Education Centre. 9.00-12.30, traveling by BUS.
- Friday 25th May is the 40 Hour Famine weekend
- Monday 4th June is Queens Birthday, no school on this day.
Reminders:
• Slippers: Term Two and Three are indoor terms. If your child does not yet have slippers at school, please help encourage them to do so. Slippers are worn inside to keep the carpets dry and mud-free.
• Drink Bottles: Children are still to bring drink bottles to class. Encourage you child to regularly take their drink bottle home for a clean.
• Equipment: Some children are starting to run low on essential supplies such as rubbers, rulers, pencil sharpeners, colour pencils. Please check with your child to see if they require a top up of supplies.
• Lost Property: It is crucial to have all clothing named so that it may be reunited with its owner quickly. Encourage your children to look for their missing clothing as soon as it is lost.
• Beginning of the school day: When the bell rings at 8.40, it is time to get ready for fitness. The focus changes as the year progresses, but at the moment on fine days we are going out for cross country training. Students who are late miss out on this, so it is important that children are at school by 8.40am.
The major focus for the term, after the ANZAC DAY study concludes, is “The Wonder of Whales” This is a major science focus for Term 2. Students will explore the anatomy of whales, develop an understanding of why whales migrate and explore the historical and cultural contexts of whaling (and other examples of the exploitation of whales) It should be a very exciting and stimulating investigation! Throughout the study, student will be engaging in small science demonstrations and experiments, where we will be teaching the scientific principles prediction, observation and questioning skills.
In Literacy, news-telling is the focus for oral language development. The children will be learning how to ask open and closed questions, and know the different purpose of each. In Writing, the focus is on children understanding of, and their increasingly independent use of, the language features of Narrative and Report writing. As always, the children also work hard at learning how to improve their writing by editing and revision. Your child’s teacher will provide your child with honest feedback on what they are doing well, and what skills they need to develop next. In Reading, the key skills of self-monitoring, questioning and summarising are a focus this term. These skills are taught within the context of Reciprocal Reading, a reading strategy that encourages and scaffolds deeper reading of text.
In Mathematics, from weeks 2-8, we are teaching using a cross-grouping structure on Monday to Thursday, During this time the major focus is on developing knowledge and strategy in Addition and Subtraction. Later in the term the focus will turn to Measurement and Statistics.
In Art, the main focus is Painting, with an emphasis on experimenting with colour mixing, using different brush strokes.
Our PE focus this term is firstly preparing for the school cross country, followed by ball skills. Training for the cross country has already started, leading to our school cross country competition in Week 3 (see ‘Dates for your Diary’)
Around the middle of term two, the second major round of data collection occurs in Reading, Writing, Maths and other key areas. This information will be used by teachers to give you accurate and up-to-date information on your child’s progress in the end of term report, and the mid-year interview.
As always, feel free to pop in and see your child’s teacher if you wish to discuss any aspect of your child's progress at school. Email is a very handy way of communicating if you are unable to get to school- each teachers email address is surname@muritai.school.nz. Over the last few years, classroom blogs have become an important way that teachers can communicate with parents about what is happening in their classroom. Please visit your child’s classroom blog to see what has been happening, and leave a comment. To get regular email alerts when a classroom blog is updated, become a ‘follower’ of the blog by simply clicking the 'become a follower of this blog' link on the right hand side toolbar.
As you can see, we are planning to have a very busy term with a very solid academic focus. Thank-you for your support so far this year, especially is you have volunteered your time to help in different ways. We really appreciate this!
• Slippers: Term Two and Three are indoor terms. If your child does not yet have slippers at school, please help encourage them to do so. Slippers are worn inside to keep the carpets dry and mud-free.
• Drink Bottles: Children are still to bring drink bottles to class. Encourage you child to regularly take their drink bottle home for a clean.
• Equipment: Some children are starting to run low on essential supplies such as rubbers, rulers, pencil sharpeners, colour pencils. Please check with your child to see if they require a top up of supplies.
• Lost Property: It is crucial to have all clothing named so that it may be reunited with its owner quickly. Encourage your children to look for their missing clothing as soon as it is lost.
• Beginning of the school day: When the bell rings at 8.40, it is time to get ready for fitness. The focus changes as the year progresses, but at the moment on fine days we are going out for cross country training. Students who are late miss out on this, so it is important that children are at school by 8.40am.
The major focus for the term, after the ANZAC DAY study concludes, is “The Wonder of Whales” This is a major science focus for Term 2. Students will explore the anatomy of whales, develop an understanding of why whales migrate and explore the historical and cultural contexts of whaling (and other examples of the exploitation of whales) It should be a very exciting and stimulating investigation! Throughout the study, student will be engaging in small science demonstrations and experiments, where we will be teaching the scientific principles prediction, observation and questioning skills.
In Literacy, news-telling is the focus for oral language development. The children will be learning how to ask open and closed questions, and know the different purpose of each. In Writing, the focus is on children understanding of, and their increasingly independent use of, the language features of Narrative and Report writing. As always, the children also work hard at learning how to improve their writing by editing and revision. Your child’s teacher will provide your child with honest feedback on what they are doing well, and what skills they need to develop next. In Reading, the key skills of self-monitoring, questioning and summarising are a focus this term. These skills are taught within the context of Reciprocal Reading, a reading strategy that encourages and scaffolds deeper reading of text.
In Mathematics, from weeks 2-8, we are teaching using a cross-grouping structure on Monday to Thursday, During this time the major focus is on developing knowledge and strategy in Addition and Subtraction. Later in the term the focus will turn to Measurement and Statistics.
In Art, the main focus is Painting, with an emphasis on experimenting with colour mixing, using different brush strokes.
Our PE focus this term is firstly preparing for the school cross country, followed by ball skills. Training for the cross country has already started, leading to our school cross country competition in Week 3 (see ‘Dates for your Diary’)
Around the middle of term two, the second major round of data collection occurs in Reading, Writing, Maths and other key areas. This information will be used by teachers to give you accurate and up-to-date information on your child’s progress in the end of term report, and the mid-year interview.
As always, feel free to pop in and see your child’s teacher if you wish to discuss any aspect of your child's progress at school. Email is a very handy way of communicating if you are unable to get to school- each teachers email address is surname@muritai.school.nz. Over the last few years, classroom blogs have become an important way that teachers can communicate with parents about what is happening in their classroom. Please visit your child’s classroom blog to see what has been happening, and leave a comment. To get regular email alerts when a classroom blog is updated, become a ‘follower’ of the blog by simply clicking the 'become a follower of this blog' link on the right hand side toolbar.
As you can see, we are planning to have a very busy term with a very solid academic focus. Thank-you for your support so far this year, especially is you have volunteered your time to help in different ways. We really appreciate this!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Term One, 2012
Hi Everyone!
With the start to the new school year well under-way, it was time to send out our first Y3-4 newsletter for the year. What a great start to the year each class has had, judging by the buzz in each classroom. "The Twits", "Charlottes Web" and 'Tornadoes in a bottle' all seem to be topics of conversation in each class!
You will have met your child's teacher at Parent Interviews already, but you may not know some of the other teachers in the Y3-4 Team...
Room 7: Richard Dobson/Ruth Holmes Y4
Room 8: Karen Chao, Y4
Room 9: Sheena Naik Y3
Room 15: Annabel Smith Y3
This year we are also very lucky to have Narelle Ferrier working in Year 3-4 as a teaching assistant, from 9.15-12.30 Monday-Thursday.
Sarah Richardson (Learning Support teacher) continues in 2012 to do amazing work with a number of our Y3-4 students each day.
Upcoming events later this term:
Friday 24th February is the date of our trip to Days Bay- 10.00-2.00pm. We require lots of parents for supervision (since we will be on the beach and near/in the water). We had a wonderful time last year and hope lightening strikes twice! If you would like to come along with us, please let your child’s teacher know via email.
Wednesday March 7th Year 3-4 Swimming Sports, 9.30-12.00 at Eastbourne Pool. We do require a number of parent helpers for the day. Please let your child’s teacher know via email if you can help.
Main theme for 2011
The school-wide main theme this year is "Make it happen". This theme will help us encourage our students to persevere in times of struggle, proud of their effort in times of achievement, and willing to put in the hard work to achieve. Teachers will take a little bit of time each week to visit this theme and encourage the children to make it happen’.
Curriculum:
Literacy
Our focus for writing this term is recounts. Children will be learning to structure their writing by sequencing events chronologically, linking ideas in a variety of ways and adding an introduction and conclusion. During this topic we will also be focussing on the writing process and encouraging children to plan their ideas in a variety of ways before writing. Children will be learning to edit their own work by proof reading to check for meaning and by using simple dictionaries to correct spelling.
Mathematics
The major part of the term will be spent on number knowledge and strategies, particularly Place Value. This will include a focus on problem solving and algebra. Cross-grouping of students during Math time will begin in Week 5 and continue for the rest of the term.
P.E.
Swimming is the main PE focus for the first 6 weeks, followed by large ball skills later in the term.We are lucky to have the skilled instructors of Swimming NZ taking each class for 8 lessons over 2 weeks. Their focus is on fundamental swimming skills. In addition, each Wednesday and Thursday afternoon this term, we are very lucky to have specialised football coaching from the New Zealand Football (NZF) - Football in Schools Programme coaches. Each class will get a weekly 45 minute football coaching session. With both swimming and football this term, the children will be very active!
Integrated Study:
“A Butterfly Garden” is the term long science and technology investigation for Term One. Students will be learning about the anatomy of a butterfly, the metamorphosis a caterpillar undergoes, and what butterflies need to survive. The Year 3-4 vege-garden will be converted into a ‘butterfly garden’, with the children choosing butterfly-friendly flowers to plant. This should be a fun investigation!
Homework:
During weeks 3 and 4 of Term One, your child will sit a range of tests in Reading, Writing, Maths and Spelling. Teachers use this test information to help plan a more individualized, needs based learning programme for your child. Teachers also use the spelling and maths results to help set suitable basic facts and spelling homework. Therefore, the ‘official’ homework programme of Reading, Spelling and Basic Facts will not begin until Week 5, once testing is complete.
Housekeeping:
Drink Bottles
Children may take a bottle of water into the classroom to drink from during class. Please help reinforce with your child that it is water, not fruit juice or other sugary drinks that can be drunk during class time.
Sunhats
As all children are required to wear sunhats during outdoor activities, please ensure that your child has a named sunhat that is to be kept at school.
Lost Property
This is kept under the stairs outside Room 7. At the end of 2011 there was estimated to be over $1000 worth of unclaimed lost property left after the last day of school. Please help clothing be re-united with owners by naming as much clothing as possible. Lost property will now be shown at assembly so please encourage your child to look out then for any lost belongings.
Keeping in contact
Have you visited your child's class blog lately? Teachers (and students) regularly update these, so they are a great way of keeping up to date with what is happening at school, and the teachers and children enjoy reading the comments visitors make.
As always, teachers can be contacted by our email address (surname@muritai.school.nz), or feel free to pop in before/after school for a quick chat. Thanks for your support so far this year, it has been a wonderful start to the school year.
Kind regards,
The Year 3-4 Teaching Team.
With the start to the new school year well under-way, it was time to send out our first Y3-4 newsletter for the year. What a great start to the year each class has had, judging by the buzz in each classroom. "The Twits", "Charlottes Web" and 'Tornadoes in a bottle' all seem to be topics of conversation in each class!
You will have met your child's teacher at Parent Interviews already, but you may not know some of the other teachers in the Y3-4 Team...
Room 7: Richard Dobson/Ruth Holmes Y4
Room 8: Karen Chao, Y4
Room 9: Sheena Naik Y3
Room 15: Annabel Smith Y3
This year we are also very lucky to have Narelle Ferrier working in Year 3-4 as a teaching assistant, from 9.15-12.30 Monday-Thursday.
Sarah Richardson (Learning Support teacher) continues in 2012 to do amazing work with a number of our Y3-4 students each day.
Upcoming events later this term:
Friday 24th February is the date of our trip to Days Bay- 10.00-2.00pm. We require lots of parents for supervision (since we will be on the beach and near/in the water). We had a wonderful time last year and hope lightening strikes twice! If you would like to come along with us, please let your child’s teacher know via email.
Wednesday March 7th Year 3-4 Swimming Sports, 9.30-12.00 at Eastbourne Pool. We do require a number of parent helpers for the day. Please let your child’s teacher know via email if you can help.
Main theme for 2011
The school-wide main theme this year is "Make it happen". This theme will help us encourage our students to persevere in times of struggle, proud of their effort in times of achievement, and willing to put in the hard work to achieve. Teachers will take a little bit of time each week to visit this theme and encourage the children to make it happen’.
Curriculum:
Literacy
Our focus for writing this term is recounts. Children will be learning to structure their writing by sequencing events chronologically, linking ideas in a variety of ways and adding an introduction and conclusion. During this topic we will also be focussing on the writing process and encouraging children to plan their ideas in a variety of ways before writing. Children will be learning to edit their own work by proof reading to check for meaning and by using simple dictionaries to correct spelling.
Mathematics
The major part of the term will be spent on number knowledge and strategies, particularly Place Value. This will include a focus on problem solving and algebra. Cross-grouping of students during Math time will begin in Week 5 and continue for the rest of the term.
P.E.
Swimming is the main PE focus for the first 6 weeks, followed by large ball skills later in the term.We are lucky to have the skilled instructors of Swimming NZ taking each class for 8 lessons over 2 weeks. Their focus is on fundamental swimming skills. In addition, each Wednesday and Thursday afternoon this term, we are very lucky to have specialised football coaching from the New Zealand Football (NZF) - Football in Schools Programme coaches. Each class will get a weekly 45 minute football coaching session. With both swimming and football this term, the children will be very active!
Integrated Study:
“A Butterfly Garden” is the term long science and technology investigation for Term One. Students will be learning about the anatomy of a butterfly, the metamorphosis a caterpillar undergoes, and what butterflies need to survive. The Year 3-4 vege-garden will be converted into a ‘butterfly garden’, with the children choosing butterfly-friendly flowers to plant. This should be a fun investigation!
Homework:
During weeks 3 and 4 of Term One, your child will sit a range of tests in Reading, Writing, Maths and Spelling. Teachers use this test information to help plan a more individualized, needs based learning programme for your child. Teachers also use the spelling and maths results to help set suitable basic facts and spelling homework. Therefore, the ‘official’ homework programme of Reading, Spelling and Basic Facts will not begin until Week 5, once testing is complete.
Housekeeping:
Drink Bottles
Children may take a bottle of water into the classroom to drink from during class. Please help reinforce with your child that it is water, not fruit juice or other sugary drinks that can be drunk during class time.
Sunhats
As all children are required to wear sunhats during outdoor activities, please ensure that your child has a named sunhat that is to be kept at school.
Lost Property
This is kept under the stairs outside Room 7. At the end of 2011 there was estimated to be over $1000 worth of unclaimed lost property left after the last day of school. Please help clothing be re-united with owners by naming as much clothing as possible. Lost property will now be shown at assembly so please encourage your child to look out then for any lost belongings.
Keeping in contact
Have you visited your child's class blog lately? Teachers (and students) regularly update these, so they are a great way of keeping up to date with what is happening at school, and the teachers and children enjoy reading the comments visitors make.
As always, teachers can be contacted by our email address (surname@muritai.school.nz), or feel free to pop in before/after school for a quick chat. Thanks for your support so far this year, it has been a wonderful start to the school year.
Kind regards,
The Year 3-4 Teaching Team.
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