Merry Christmas Everyone!

Thank you to everyone for an amazing year. Your support for your children, me and the school has been invaluable. 

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday. 

End Of Year Awards

Rain, rain and more rain. It was definitely a squeeze in the hall for our final assembly. Thank you to the parents who came along to support their children, and thank you to the parents who would have liked to join us but stayed away to provide room for the family of the award recipients.

Congratulations to Julius and Thomas who received the Class Awards,  keep up the great work.

Summertime Reading Club

Want to become a reading whizz and maybe win an iPod Touch? Then check out the Summertime Reading Club run by the Christchurch City Libraries. Click on the link below or on the picture at the side of this blog. Their blog has some great ideas for books you might like to read over the holidays too.

http://www.christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/SummertimeReading/

Year 3 & 4 Celebration Gathering

Today the Year Three and Four classes went to Christ's College to sing for family and friends. The singing was beautiful. Thomas and Niamh did a great job reading out our verse of A Kiwi Jingle Bells, Thank you to everyone who helped us on the trip and to our audience for coming to listen to us.

Book Characters

Today we all dressed up as a character from a book. 

We told the class about the plot and our character and now we have some more ideas about what we might like to read over the holidays. 

Don't forget our book fair in Room 1.

Jellie Park Trip

What a fabulous day - the weather could have been better but everyone had a great time in the pools and on the hydroslides. I was very impressed with the way everyone behaved and your great manners. You did yourselves and the school proud. Well done! Thank you to all our parent helpers, Jane, Kristi, Michael, Scott and Sharon. You did a great job in the pool and on the slides!

Here are some extracts from our writing that show "pizzaz!'

The bus was bursting with excitement - Beth


I emerged shivering from the water - Sam


I felt like a torpedo being fired out of a cannon - Thomas


I went racing around the corners and finally SPLASHED into a warm shallow pool - Samantha


It was hard to breathe because water was splurting into your face - Niamh


It was so cold I felt like an ice cube - Grace


We were excited but scared - Anastasia


I was shivering from top to bottom - Julius

Jellie Park

Our trip today is still on, please make sure you wear warm uniform. You might even like to wear your swim wetsuit if you have one. Make sure you still bring ALL your clothes, togs, lunch, drinks, sunblock etc. We are looking at returning to school by 1.00pm instead of 2.00pm.