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WELCOME
TO TERM 1 2010
Some key events of this term include:
Alison starting her Reading Recovery training. This ensures that our
6 year olds that are in need of a boost in their reading will surely
receive it! Great news!
All the CTELA schools met on Thursday the 4th of Feb. to organise the years sporting and cultural fixtures and dates!
The big INQUIRY UNIT of this term is FEAST OR FAMINE.
It is looking into how parts of the world have such plentiful supply
of water and food and how others DO NOT!
In the senior classes they were looking at the reasons behind this.
In the junior rooms the focus was more on the similarities and differences
in the lives of children in poor countries and comparing it to our own
lives!
Teachers inquiring into their own practise3!! What a mouth full, but
what a start we have made. This is an important part of our annual plan
2010 and now teachers have their own blog set up to record their observations
nd thoughts on how they are impacting on children's learning!
Swimming IS BIG
Every year we put 4 weeks into intensive swimming! This year is no different.
Children are swimming two times a day.
The hot weather is meaning that the pool always has children in there!!
Turnbull Cup.
Here our elite swimmers are competing against children
from other school. Again we competed very well, with many highlights,
one being regan winning
the Yr 8 boy championship!
Parents Interviews
Two days were set aside, 23rd and 24th to allow all parents to
come to school and talk about the beginning of the new year at school.
This was very well supported as usual!
Smart board Training
Teachers are really getting capable using their smart boards!!!! This
year we will be having 5 sessions with our trainer Alison, and we started
off well on 25th of Feb..
Assemblies
These are held weekly, but fortnightly with parents in attendance. This
week it was Room 2's assembly and what a positive example it was of
children demonstrating their learning to a wider audience.
MATHLETICS
A real hit in Room 5 has been successful and may well lead to a school
wide purchase of this product. It seems that the children were highly
motivated
and engrossed in the competitive side of this learning tool! Will have
to research further!
Friday the 5th of March
SWIMMING SPORTS with all our colleague schools.
Toko School was in full chant!! What a fun day with a huge haul of certificates
showing off our learning in this area!!
FAMILY DAY
The entire school wet to the Pools in New Plymouth. Partly as an assessment
of our swimming skills. Each Yr 8 child can swim 200m. Most year 7
children can too!
Each class had its aquatic challenge! For the rest of the day it was
slides and lunches and talks and a really easy, enjoyable Family Day
OUT!!
ATHLETICS SPORTS PREPARATIONS
We have all now been out getting ready
for the athletics sports at the end of term 1. We think it is important
to prepare the children well
for this event that we host. As such we;we have been out two or three
afternoons a week learning to run , jump and throw!!!
Excellent helpers in Room 5 have been setting out the equipment and making it all work smoothly!
Well at the end if this term we SADLY we say goodbye to our Deputy Principal Charlaine! She has been here for 4 year and one term! We will all miss her! Good luck at your new school, Charlaine, Turuturu Primary School in Hawera.
Near the end of the term the Toko School BOT appointments committee
has appointed Shannon OBrien as the new DP of Toko School. Sadly she
can not start for about 6 weeks!
Richard will be in room 5 during the interim!!