Kia Ora Parents and Caregivers

I am sending this notice to clarify the nasty rumours that were circulating after school today. 

We did have a medical incident at school today and staff took the appropriate action to ensure the staff member was cared for appropriately and got to hospital. Students were kept away from the situation as best we could and I visited the relevant classes this afternoon and spoke to students about the facts we were able to share.

Our thoughts are with the staff member concerned and their family and with all staff as we show kindness, compassion and concern for our colleague.

Dianne Prendergast

Tumuaki/ Principal

Kia Ora e te whānau,

Already in the second half of the term! A huge congratulations to our class mates who were successful in gaining a Leadership role as Head students, House Captains and Cultural Captains. This week everyone had their first leadership hui where they are able to contribute their ideas to the school life. We look forward to our year 8s contributing and making a difference to our school.

In week 3 we had our swimming sports day and we are so proud of everyone! The ones who had a go, you made us smile and everyone else who cheered along. 

In our class we have had a big focus on ‘Class expectations’ - about what that looks like, sounds like and feels like to be in our class and as a whole they have been trying their best. 

Jess and I have both found that with these high expectations our daily routines have run smoothly and we can see a big shift with your child’s motivation and engagement to learn. 

In class we have been learning about:

Maths-  Integers on a numberline (positive and negative numbers) and adding and subtracting integers

Reading- each week we focus on one text, each day we unpack it from vocabulary, the purpose, summarising it, 

Writing- We’ve been learning about  poems and unpacking the structure/purpose of why they’re written and having a go at writing poems.  

Sports- Each week our class get two ½ hour sports sessions and they have been enjoying these time. Every day we have been doing fitness and the activities are usually based around co-operation and team work. 

Just some reminders about uniforms, in term 1 hats are a part of the school uniform. Hoodies and other jerseys are not part of the uniform. We have great school jerseys and jackets. Hats are still needed for term 1.

Kapa Haka has also started up, currently we only have 2 students from our class going but we would like to see more have a go. Congratulations to Ronan who is the Kaea (leader) for our roopu. 

What to look forward to- in the next few weeks our focus in class is going to be around ‘Financial Literacy and ‘Places that are significant’ to them or your whānau. If you could have a korero with your child about some of these places, that would be great. 

Have a beautiful day and enjoy your weekend.

Noho ora mai rā,

Hinehau and Jess.

Good morning,

We are part way through Swim Week. Thank you for having your children organised for this each day!

Learning focus - ‘Ko wai tatou - who are we?’ is our integrated learning for this term. We have been reading lots of class picture books that have themes around friendships, our strengths and challenges, and getting back into school routines. Maths for the first part of the term has been statistics. We investigated our shoe types and created graphs to show the different shoes that we were wearing that day. We found out lots of different things and were able to make lots of statements about the data. You hopefully would have seen our work in the school newsletter last week. In maths we have also been looking at the numbers that relate to us and how we can present this information in different ways. We have created posters that we’d love for you to come have a look at on our class wall!

Library book bags - Rimu will be visiting our school library on a Friday this term. Please can you provide your child with a book bag (or something similar) so that they can keep our library books safe whilst travelling to and from school.

Junior Assembly - This is being held 2.30pm Monday 23 March. It will be hosted by Kowhai class. All welcome!

Rimu Reporters / News Days:

We have a specific topic or focus each week:

Week 5 - Would you rather be a cat or dog?

Week 6 - Your favourite book

Week 7 - A sea creature you like

Week 8 - Would you rather live in a tree-hut or a cave?

Week 9 - What would you like to have a life-time supply of?

Please make sure any items sent along are small enough to fit in our news tub (where they stay for the day). The tub is about the size of a shoe box. Feel free to email me a photo of any bigger items. 

Upcoming dates:

Monday 2 - Friday 6 March - Junior Swim Week

Monday 23 March - Junior Assembly 

If you have any questions or concerns, please make contact via email rebekah.clement@ashborough.school.nz

Nga mihi

Rebekah