Swimming Sports at Stratford Pools with our local schools! Both junior and senior.

Parent Interviews for new teacher child combinations around week 4

Staff professional Development

Teams and coaches made for Jones Cup organised an fields at the ready.

Swimming and water survival skills plus sun safe as well to encourage the understanding of the need for sun hats.

All classes have intensive swimming instruction which culminates in an interschool swimming carnival. The skills developed are rather obvious. It is a big deal here that children learn to swim to save themselves!
Include some some safe and why hats are needed!
A feedback sheet.

Van Gogh

During the swimming season we will All be involved in an art unit based around the art of Van Gogh. A presentation of class art at the end of the unit at assembly and classroom walls looking full of children's art early in the school year.

SUNFLOWERS
5 weeks

An integrated school wide unit beginning around week 4 or 5, with a focus growing sunflowers and life processes. Teachers will have planned the theme together and then each taken a different aspect. All classes have will have an inquiry base using the rich ICT based environment they have at their disposal.In addition it needs to have a science content from the living world! A feedback sheet

THE

RICH

EARTH

Most classes are starting with a little ANZAC week unit to honour this important NZ day.
Rich EARTH. Integrated Inquiry unit term 2 2007.
Primary enterprises taking a holiday. With the staff involved in 3 Door inquiry training.

This is a feedback sheet unit.

Jones Cup Day and preparations May 14th

Parent Interviews
A major undertaking to get it all right, well prepared ad ensure that the children's voice is clear.

Every Monday throughout the term teachers, including 4 "relievers" will be taking an extension group in an area of expertise for the teacher and either talent or interest for the children. This is a significant component of the school term. Check out more details here This will run for the entire term and will be organised late in term 1.
Starts week two term 2.
Feedback Sheet

Interschool Play day Year 1 to 4 at Midhirst School

SCIENCE

Talent Contest

The term will begin with a school science unit.
New resources purchased eg magnetism and electricity. However, we want the question explored "What makes science.. science. This is to ensure that reading and writing and research are not confused and called science.
The Nature of science strand is to be highlighted.

Toko Idol style. Council Run!
Bookings of the Hall will be essential! Great fun!! Basically time set aside for kids to develop their own ideas and performances, during this winter term.

This is McLeod and Hurlestone Shield term! Lots of school rugby and netball . The first 6 weeks are all go for this event for Yr 7 and 8

Debating.
Toko School run this event.
Yr 7 and 8 basically.

Interschool debates at Toko. Yr 5 to 8

Speech Board Exams about week 7.

Interschool Cross Country Our group is joining the Rawhitiroa School Cross country with our cluster

June Reporting to the BOT, assessments in reading, writing, mathematics and spelling available.

Lester Flockton Days

New Zealand Speech Board Exams

Oral Language

Methanex

Mathematics Yr 5 to 8.

NZ Speech Board Exams
A MAJOR school wide focus. The actual exams are scheduled for Week 8

Preparation any less than 4 weeks leaves the children under prepared ..However, be careful not to memorize the content. It is a fine line between the two.

We completed this in 2004, and 2005 and 2006 and 2007. I believe this has had very positive results with children's oral language developing and their confidence developing too.

Please note that staff have a new syllabus and this should be read !! A very clear link with the school charter outlining oral language as the basis of all other learning! We are maintaining this initiative in 2007 at a cost of over $2000 and hope have received EDI funds to ensure the continuation.
Children are involved in preparation for a full four weeks to allow them the time needed to be successful.
A feedback sheet.


A mathematical unit focusing on research and investigations skills in a mathematical context. This is for Years 5 to 8. Year 7 and 8 spend up to 4 weeks in preparation. Work heads to the Methanex Spectacular competition in NP.Awesome Results
Year 5 and 6 more like two weeks.

We enter into the group investigations for Year 7 and 8 rather than other areas as I believe it develops a cooperative atmosphere in the classroom however could be a good individual project for keen kids to complete at home..
A feedback sheet.

ART INTENSIVE
TOSS WOOLLASTON

Working with art advisor Ray Stoddart we will look at the art works of Toss Woollaston.Our art works are to be displayed at the Percy Thompson
Gallery.

How Does Your Garden Grow

Where in the WORLD is Mr B

EOTC WEEK

How does Your Garden Grow
An integrated cross the school unit with a science base. Children will develop skills of gardening along with a wider appreciation of how things grow, the need for good food, budgeting and costs, health and food, caring for plants. Clear links exist to world hunger/ poverty.

A small one week interschool email game on offer for schools within our rural cluster! Week 2 term 4.

Swimming in Stratford 6 sessions over three weeks.

Children involved in a huge raft of outdoor activities 24th to 28th November

Lions Speech competition Yr 6 to 8

Concert preparations including songs and dances and lines!

Swimming in Stratford

Tabloid Sports at Midhirst School at end of term.

SCHOOL REPORTS

School Concert for schools.

For community

Final school concert.

Year 8 leavers morning tea.

Production Preparations RATBAGS

At the end of the year a significant amount of time is used in the development of the end of year concert. Year 7 and 8 take on the majority of the "acting", however, dance and movement, and singing is a large part of the preparation as well and extends right across the school .Preparation time!!!!

Oral
Visual
Music
Dance

End of Year Testing