River monitoring - Change of date

Hi everyone. The group that was going to be going on a River Monitoring trip on Wed Aug 1st will now be going a week later on Wed Aug 8th. Cheers.

Must Do Learning Tasks - Week 1 & 2

Hi everyone. Here's an overview of your Must Do learning tasks for the next couple of weeks:
-Student lead conference reflection sheet
-Te Reo Maori practice, role plays and assessment activity
-Personal Reading pages
-Current Events (if you're on the timetable)
-Spelling words to learn and activities
-Writing: Memoir writing piece, drafted, edited, proofread. Publishing is optional.
-Maths word problems (Number & Algebra focus)
-Maths digital learning activities (Algebra focus)
-Maths weekly plan activies

OPTIONAL:
-Book Letter
-Book Talk

Enjoy your learning! Get stuck in to the challenges!

Ngā mihi

Mr Yeoman

Dunstan Open Evening - September 13th

Here's a date for your diary - we have notice that Dunstan High School are holding their open night for next year's Year 9 students on Thursday 13th September at 7pm.

Term Three Week 1

Kia ora everyone. Welcome back from the holidays. I hope everyone had a great break and made the most of some time away from school. Term 3 looks to be full of interesting opportunities, in particular we have the Swim Safe program happening on Thursdays throughout the term, and we have the school production (Aladdin) practices beginning, this will be performed early in Term 4. Let's make it a good term for all of us!

Notices and Upcoming Events

Tues 24th July
-Matariki Breakfast 7am. See separate blog post.
-Student lead conferences

Wed 25th
-Public library visit
-Sing squad and music
-Vege Garden work
-Student lead conferences

Thurs 26th
-Maths problem Challenge No. 4
-Swimming. Please bring togs, towel, goggles

Fri 27th
-Technology at The Terrace

Coming up next week:
-Monday 30th July = School Cross Country. Postponement day is Tues 31st July.
-Wednesday 1st Aug = River Monitoring trip (see earlier blog post)

Curling Competition on Friday

Our teams are:

Team One - Sylvie, Jacob, Patrick, Mia

Team Two - Jade, Maggie, Rafe, Jessica

Come to school as usual and we will walk together to the rink. Briefing at 9:45. Play starts 10:00 sharp. All finished with prizegiving at 2:30pm. You will be busy playing games all day, with a short break for lunch.

Wear school PE gear, full tracksuits, plus suitable warm clothing. Bring a pen for marking score cards. 

Bring a house broom from home for sweeping your stones.

Bring lunch and a drink bottle. Hot chips, sausages and hot drinking chocolate is available for lunch, bring your own money if you want this. The canteen at the rink will not be open. 

Parents are most welcome to come along at any point during the day to support our teams.

At the end of the day you can either go home (if it is 3pm already, or with permission from parents - please txt Mr Yeoman 027 277 8466), or we will walk back to school together.

Looking forward to this day, it's always awesome!

Mr Yeoman

Library Books due - Thurs 5th

Hi everyone. Apologies but we are not going to squeeze in a library visit this week due to all the other activities already happening. This Thurs it will be three weeks since we visited the pubic library, so your library books will be due. In order to avoid fines please renew your books online here, or make your own trip to the library to return books. We will make sure we visit the library again in the first week of Term 3.
Thanks and apologies

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this final week of Term 2

Hi everyone. Welcome to the final week of the term, let's finish well! We have a fun week ahead so make the most of it, and enjoy sharing it with others.

Tues 3rd July

-9am Ice skating and curling
-Alter Servers Pizza lunch with Father Vaughan

Wed 4th July

-9am Ice skating and curling
-11:40am Sticks 'n' Stones
-1:30pm Sing Squad and Music
-2:30pm Jump Jam
** Writing due to be handed in to Mr Yeoman

Thurs 5th July

-9am Ice skating and curling
-Class movie
-Class shared lunch (either drop it at school on your way to the ice rink, or bring something that you can carry back from the ice rink)
-1:30pm Eisteddfod poetry assembly

Fri 6th July

-Curling tournament for Sylvie, Jacob, Patrick, Mia, Jade, Maggie, Rafe, Jessica