Year 8 Leadership day Info

When: Wednesday Feb 25th. 10:00am-2:15pm. Come to school as normal and we will walk there together.

Where: Alex netball pavilion.

Bring/Wear: Lunch, drink, sunhat, warm top, sports uniform.

What: Leadership day for Year 8 students, run by Alexandra & Districts Youth Trust.

Homework Term one Week Five (Feb 23 - 27)

Task one: Report writing

As you all know we’ve been working on writing reports. We will be working in class on your draft copy of your report on your chosen topic.

1     1.) Please use your time at home to have your draft copy completed by Friday (you’ll need to take your draft book home and return it to school every day.)

     2.) Please have a parent read over it also, perhaps they can help you with editing once you’ve proofread and edited it yourself.

Remember to include the features of a Report that we’ve discussed in class!

Task Two: Current Events

If you are on Current Events any time this week (see the timetable on the board in Rm 6) please be prepared, complete the tasks outlined in the Current Events scrapbook and return the book to school the next day.

Task Three: Spelling

You should each have your list of words for this week. In class we have done your ‘tooling’. If you need to repeat this at home to be confident with your words for this week then please do. Test your words every night and be ready for a spelling test on Friday.

Task Four: Reading

Thanks most of you for your reading summaries last week, well done. As usual please spend at least 15 minutes each night reading your book. This week please design a new cover for your book, think particularly about the most significant events and characters. Use one whole page of your homework book for this task.

Notices:

-Wednesday 25^th Feb: Year 8 Leadership day, more details to come soon.

-Friday 27^th  Feb : Technology at The Terrace again this week.

-The sun is still STRONG please make sure you all have hats here everyday this week.

Let’s enjoy week 5!

Mr Yeoman

Newsletter

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Many thanks

Julie

Softball and Tee-ball this week

A change of plan to the original draw. As all the St Gerard's teams are playing against each other Softball and Tee-ball games will happen at St Gerards immediately after school on Tuesday.

Homework Term one Week Four (Feb 16th-20th)

Well done everyone on such a great job of research last week, I was very impressed with the efforts of most of you! Because of your hard work we have no topic homework for this week, I expect your other tasks to be completed to an extra high standard as a result. Let’s get our spelling off to a great start! Many of you will also be working on your house leadership speech.

Task One: Current Events

If you are on Current Events any time this week (see the timetable on the board in Rm 6) please be prepared, complete the tasks outlined in the Current Events scrapbook and return the book to school the next day.

Task Two: Spelling

You should each have your list of words for this week. In class we have done your ‘tooling’. If you need to repeat this at home to be confident with your words for this week then please do. Test your words every night and be ready for a spelling test on Friday.

Task Three: Reading

Great to see people getting organized with reading books and enjoying some reading time last week. Please spend at least 15 minutes each night reading your book. Please write a short summary of what’s been happening in your book (around 5-10 lines). This would include the main events and a description of some of the main characters. I’m looking forward to hearing about your books.

Notices:

-Wed 18th, 12 noon, Ash Wednesday Mass.

-Thurs 19th 1.30pm, New Zealand Playhouse, school visit.

-Fri 20^th February we are running assembly. Parents are invited to come along and enjoy.

-School swimming sports Monday 23rd February 9am-12noon.

-Wednesday 25^th Feb Year 8 Leadership day, more details to come soon.

Let’s make it another great week in Room 6!

Mr Yeoman

Term one Week Three (Feb 9-13)

Welcome to week three of term one! Hoping everybody had a fantastic Waitangi weekend. Room 6 students have been working really hard on developing our understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi, I've been really impressed by people's keenness to learn and the fantastic questions they've all been asking. Well done, let's keep it up! Here's what's going on in the week ahead.

Homework    

Main Task – Choose three of the following areas that interest you most and carry out some research. If you have other questions which interest you then you may choose another area to investigate (check with Mr Yeoman). Write a paragraph about each.

• ·      Summarise the story of Kupe and the Great Fleet in your own words.
• ·      Can you find out about some women who signed the treaty and tell us about them.
• ·      Who were some of the early missionaries to New Zealand and what were they trying to achieve?
• ·      Find out some of the reasons why early European came to New Zealand.
• ·      Explore some of the reasons why did Maori population decrease so much in the 19th century?
• ·      Find out about the Maori wars. What? Who? When? Where? Why?
• ·      Find out about Parihaka. What? Who? When? Where? Why?

Task Two: Current Events

If you are on Current Events any time this week (see the timetable on the board in Rm 6) please be prepared, complete the tasks outlined in the Current Events scrapbook and return the book to school the next day.

Task Three: Reading

You should all now have a chapter book that you’re reading. Please spend at least 15 minutes each night reading your book. Remember to also bring your book to school every day to read. Be ready to share with me and with others in class what is happening in your book.

Notices:

-Please show your copy of the class treaty to your parents and return it to school once you’ve discussed it and signed it together.

-Those who have a public library card and have not brought it for me to photocopy yet could you please do so.

-Swimming on Tues, Wed, Thurs this week, remember togs, towel and goggles.

-Meet The Teacher night this Thursday 12^th February, 530-7pm. (Room 6 talk at 615pm)

Thanks!

Mr Yeoman

Homework Term one Week Two (Feb 2-5)

Hi Room 6. Apologies for the lateness of this, I thought I'd posted it and only just realised I hadn't!

Main Task – Room 6 Whakatauki

Now that we’ve discussed it in class you should all understand what a Whakatauki is. Your main task this week is to research online and find a Whakatauki which you think would be appropriate for Room 6 to use as our own Whakatauki, at least for Term one this year.

1.     Find a Whakatauki you like and copy it into your book.

2.     Find out it’s translation into English and write it in your book.

3.     Write a short paragraph explaining what you think the writer of the Whakatauki was trying to say to people.

4.     Write a paragraph explaining why you think this would be a good Whakatauki for Room 6 to adopt as our Whakatauki for Term one.

Task Two: Reading book and Public Library card

1.     From now on we will be having regular reading sessions in Room 6. Sometimes Mr Yeoman will have reading for you but you will also need your own chapter book to read. Please find a chapter book, either from home, from the school library, or from the public library, before the end of the week.

2.     We will soon visit the public library, please bring your library card to school, Mr Yeoman will photocopy it so you can return it home again immediately. This means when we visit the public library you can issue books. If you brought your library card to Miss Passmore or Mr Yeoman last year then you don’t need to worry about doing this as we already have copies of yours.

Notices:

-Please see the attached notice regarding Technology at The Terrace School.

-Swimming on Tues and Wed this week, remember togs, towel and goggles.

We have a short week this week with Waitangi day holiday on Friday, therefore homework is due on Thursday morning please in the homework box.

Great start to the year, keep it up!

Mr Yeoman