Aydin's Birthday

 Aydin celebrated his birthday on the last day of school for term three. Have a great holiday Aydin and all of Rooms 16 and 17.

Shared Lunch Thursday-Celebration

To celebrate the end of this term we will have a shared lunch on Thursday. 

Please bring a plate of food to share. Fruit and crackers are welcome!
In the afternoon we will be having some games!!

Davey's birthday

It was Davey's birthday on Saturday 23rd of September, so we sang Happy Birthday to him. We will be having a shared lunch on Thursday to celebrate the end of term and all recent class birthdays.

Weekly Notices, Week 10, Term 3, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 10 (25 - 29 September 2017)

This is the last week of term 3 before two weeks school holidays. First day back is Monday 16th October. Thank you for all of the support you have given this term with your child’s learning. This week we will be finishing off portfolio-blog work, doing a little testing and completing of assessments. We are well ahead with this already so should be able to do some extra fun and interesting activities this week.

Holiday reading logs have been given to children. I have sourced some summer themed prizes: boogie boards, skim boards, snorkel and flippers as well as all the other stuff and they are now on display in the hall foyer. Please encourage your children to start the logs as soon as they get them. Children are able to take journals and class library books home if they ask. There is some fantastic stuff going on at the City Library over the holidays too:

http://www.rotorualibrary.govt.nz/what-we-offer/children/whats-on/Pages/School-Holiday-Activities.aspx

There will be a celebration in the staffroom on Thursday at 9:45am for several children nominated from each classroom, who have done particularly well this term. Nominated children will be notified early in the week.

Pasifika practice in the hall 11am on Friday.

Reminder:

Forms for parent input into 2018 class placements were issued the week before last to each student. Parents  - please note these forms need to be returned by Friday 29 September if you wish us to consider your input. The forms need to be returned to the big blue postal box in the student foyer.

Thanks to those parents who have already returned the form for their child/ren.

If you have mislaid or not seen the form you can collect a copy from the School Office or go to this link

Touch Rugby starts this week for those students signed up, so check practice times. Mrs Hall’s Weka's team will be training on Tuesday at 12:30.

ALIM GROUP SHARE THEIR LEARNING

THANKS FOR COMING TO SEE AND HEAR ABOUT OUR ALIM WORK!

School Disco Thursday

Science with Mrs Barker

 Mrs Barker the science lady from Waikato University came to model some science for Ruma Weta children and the teachers on Tuesday.
We learnt Notice / Think / Wonder

Weekly Notices, Week 9, Term 3, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 9 (18th - 22nd September 2017)

Welcome to Week 9 in Room 16. Only two weeks until the holidays. Children will be preparing their portfolio blogs over the next two weeks, before the school holidays.

MATHS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK-CLICK ON HERE!

Holiday reading logs will go out again soon. We have sourced some summer themed prizes: boogie boards, skim boards, snorkel and flippers as well as all the other stuff.

Please encourage your children to start the logs as soon as they get them.

There is some fantastic stuff going on at the City Library over the holidays too. :http://www.rotorualibrary.govt.nz/what-we-offer/children/whats-on/Pages/School-Holiday-Activities.aspx

On Tuesday we will be lucky enough to have Anne Barker from Waikato University coming in to model science for some classes and run a staff meeting. Rooms 16 and 17 will have their turn in the afternoon.

Kapa haka is on this Thursday - 2pm.

Gymnastics competition at Migs - Friday, letters will go out to students involved.

Pasifika Group meet on Fridays at 11am.

PTA disco this Thursday 21st   5.30-7pm.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be completing our strand work, finishing assessments, testing some students in reading and up dating our student blogs.
In week 2 of term 4 we are hosting assembly. The students may have some things to practice for it at home. 
Golden time Friday is Wheels Day so bring in something with wheels and we can have some fun!
Please encourage your child to practice their spelling words.

The words are found on the homework label.

NETBALL CAPTAIN MEETS OUR GIRLS!

KATRINA GRANT SPENT PRECIOUS TIME WITH ONE OF OUR NETBALL TEAMS LAST NIGHT!

WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY!

Science - Pohutu Geyser

 Mr Billing came to our class to do some science about geysers and how they work. We enjoyed discussing what was happening and seeing the simulation outside. We talked about data on a graph and drew our own labelled diagram.

Weekly Notices, Week 8, Term 3, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 8 (11th-15th September 2017)

THIS WEEK IS MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK SO IN RUMA WETA WE WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT FOCUS EACH DAY. WE WILL ROTATE ACTIVITIES ON THURSDAY SO ALL STUDENTS GET TO DO SOME NEW ACTIVITIES AND LEARN MORE ABOUT MAORI CULTURE AND CUSTOMS.

STEAM PUDDINGS FOR SALE WEDNESDAY – Yummy Yummy!

Steam pudding with custard will be for sale at school on Wednesday the of 13^th September for only $2. 

Please order through your classroom teacher.

Proceeds will go to support activities run by the Whanau Group. 

If anyone is available to assist with the delivery of the puddings on Wednesday. Please come along to the hall kitchen at 1pm. 

FYI:

Within an area that a marae stands on, you are going to have a set of buildings. The main buildings are the whare tipuna, the ancestral house, the wharekai, or the dining room, and those are the key buildings. Apart from those buildings there will be an ablutions area, there will be cooking facilities, there will be other buildings that may or may not exist on all marae. Nearby there may be a whare karakia, a church. There may also be other buildings like whare kaumātua, kaumātua flats. There could even be a kōhanga reo, so beyond that also then there might be homes. Some marae may have a memorial, a memorial to soldiers, a memorial to a particular tipuna and, you know, there are some marae also that may have prominent tipuna buried on that marae and, you know, in a way it just helps I suppose consolidate the collective or the whānau's responsibilities to that marae. Depending on the purpose for gathering, the flag will be raised. Again it indicates to a community that something is happening at the marae and it’s generally up for the duration of that gathering or that hui. For tangihanga, where I come from (and probably in most areas as well) the flag will be raised to the top of the flag mast, but once the corpse or the tūpāpaku arrives on the marae then it will come down to half mast. Then again it indicates to people going past there is a tangihanga in progress. So all of those things, whilst it may not be known, they are all signs that communicate certain things to people who are aware of that.

Brian Morris – Te Reo Māori and tikanga expert

MATHS GAME OF THE WEEK:
KNIGHT AND PRINCESS MULTIPLICATION-CLICK ON HERE TO PLAY!

THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME TO MASS ON FRIDAY TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF MARY. WE WERE IMPRESSED WITH THE CHILDREN'S ANSWERS AND SINGING...WELL DONE!!

MONDAY
MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK -BASIC MAORI-MUST KNOWS
SPELLING TEST
TUESDAY
CALENDAR ART BEGUN
WEDNESDAY
SINGING
GO 4 IT
THURSDAY
KAPA HAKA
MANDARIN
FRIDAY
GOLDEN TIME-WHEELS DAY
ASSEMBLY

Our Church Mural

We are making a mural of our Church. We have learnt many new things about our Church and why there are the things in there.

Maths Whizzing It

Ruma Weta children clocking up their Maths Whizz minutes.

Rugby visits - Marist and Bay of Plenty Teams

 Last week St Mary's was lucky to receive visits from two rugby teams - Marist and Bay of Plenty. They talked about various aspects of playing rugby and gave away some free balls.

Weekly Notices, week 7, term 3, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 7 (4th-8th September 2017)

Could parents please make sure that they are helping us to ensure children complete 60 minutes of maths whizz a week minimum. The children should be completing this in class, but if they don't it is part of their homework to get there. Lexia children should also be completing 60 minutes of Lexia per week.



Granny Grand Prix click to play!

We have our Nativity of Mary Mass on Friday at 9:000am. 
All welcome..our new families will be welcomed at this Mass also.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE NATIVITY OF MARY

• Date: September 8
• Type of Feast: Feast
• Readings: Micah 5:1-4A or Romans 8:28-30; Psalm 13:6AB, 6C; Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23 or Matthew 1:18-23 (full text here)
• Prayers: The Hail Mary, Prayer for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Ruma Weta recently had maths observations by an independent advisor. She was impressed with how we rotate groups and what resources we are using in numeracy time. We use a range of text book, digital, board games, wild card activities, and maths whizz and also two teachers working with groups at any one time.

Great work..the results of our students in Maths has been enormous this year so far!!