Cardboard City

Cardboard City

Thurs Sept 28 – Fri Sept 29

St Gerard’s School

7:30pm

Dear Parents

This Thurs-Fri Room 6 students will be taking part in the annual St Gerards ‘Cardboard City’as a part of Social Justice week. Cardboard City is an opportunity for the children to experience a small taste of some of the real-life conditions other children their age  around the world face on a daily basis.  Hopefully it will help them to gain a greater thankfulness for the things we have – a warm bed to sleep in and good food to eat. We also hope it will encourage in them a greater generosity.

The children will come to school on Thursday night at 7:30pm having had dinner already. They will sleep outside the school library/staffroom area in cardboard boxes, will have a simple porridge breakfast and rice meal for lunch. No other food or snacks are to be brought.

As with everything we do, we will need parents to stay the night.  No you do not need to sleep in a cardboard box (but it would be great if you choose to!), a tent or a bedroll on the floor inside would be fine. Parents do not need to stay at school during the day on Friday but I would appreciate help with parents cooking the rice for lunch.  

On Friday all cardboard boxes must be taken home and equipment collected by 3pm.

The children will need to bring:

Cardboard box big enough to sleep in

Bedroll, warm sleeping bag, pillow

Warm clothes, woollen hat

Toilet bag – toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, hairbrush

Bowl, spoon and cup

Torch

NO electronics and NO cell phones

Any medication your child is on in a named bag handed to me please.

If you are able to stay the night, or can deliver some cooked rice to school for lunch on Friday please contact Mr Yeoman asap ollieyeoman@stgerards.school.nz

Thanks for your support

Mr Yeoman

Homework & Notices Term Three Week Ten

Task One: Wow night preparation

You are all required to present at least one piece of work from this term that you are proud of. This might be your Inquiry project (even if it’s not completely finished), or it might be a piece of writing that you have published, or have drafted but would like to publish. Please use class time and home time to make sure this is completed by the end of school on Wed.

Task Two: Personal Reading & Spelling testing

-Please make sure you complete your personal reading pages by Friday. As you finish books make sure you add them to your reading log and let me know.

-Test your spelling words each night and make sure your activity is completed & marked by Thursday.

Task Three: Cardboard City

Please have your cardboard box ready for cardboard city on Thurs night 7:30pm, and be organized to have this removed again before the end of the school day on Friday.

Task Four: Eisteddfods

If you are one of the people representing Room 6 in the school Eisteddfod assembly on Friday, please look carefully at the feedback you got from your class presentation, keep practicing, and be prepared to present on Friday afternoon.

Notices & Dates

Mon 25^th September:

-Athletics & Kapa Haka. Please wear PE gear.

Tues 26^th September:

-River monitoring trip. Plesase wear mufti. Bring lunch, drink, medication, pencil case, gumboots, sunscreen, sunhat, warm clothes.

Wed 27^th September:

-11:40 am Visiting authors event with Des Hunt and Fifi Colston. Awesome opportunity to learn from some of New Zealand’s most successful authors!

-2:10pm Athletics. Please wear PE gear

-5-7pm WOW night

Thurs 28^th September:

-Public library trip to return books

-Shared lunch

-1:45 Takiura Maori performance

-7:30pm Cardboard City. No early arrivals please.

Fri 29^th September

-1:30pm Eisteddfod assembly.

 Mr Yeoman

Round the clock race

"Here are our teams for the Round the Clock Race this Friday night. In order to enter every team needs three adults to supervise and support them (one adult at the start/finish and two adults on the hill). Can you please look at which team your child is in and confirm with Mr Yeoman immediately if you can be present to supervise. Entries are due immediately! Kia ora"

Rockets team(10)  = Paddy, Olly, Seb, Thomas, Hayvin, Sully, Adam, Mason, Kayla, Immy

Mountain goats team (9) = Cody, Lachie, Charlie D, Grainne, Harry, Millie, Ana, Zaria,  Mika

Chamois team (9) = Ethan, Rafferty, Jack S, Dilan, Jack O,Pippa, Hannah, Mayce, Tadhg

Homework Term Three Week Nine

Task One: Social Justice Week

Last week you glued a ‘Connection Card’ into your homework book and began completing tasks. Remember that you need to choose 1 task from each of the sections to complete. Be ready to report back to class on Thursday on what you did for each task.

Task Two: Maths Grids & Worksheets

-For those who were over the 4 minute limit on Monday please complete a times table grid each night this week.

-Some of you have a short maths worksheet task to complete as homework. This is aimed as a ‘booster’ to help you out so please make the most of it and do your best.

Task Three: Personal Reading & Spelling testing

-Please make sure you complete your personal reading pages by Friday. As you finish books make sure you add them to your reading log and let me know.

-Test your spelling words each night and make sure your activity is completed & marked by Thursday.

Task Four: Inquiry Projects

You will need to spend some extra time on your Inquiry projects, preparing to have something ready to present on the WOW night next Wed. Remember you might present using a science fair board, a powerpoint, a film, a booklet, a poster…or any other way you like!

Notices & Dates

Mon 18^th September             Athletics Rotation 1                                  Please wear school PE uniform

Tues 19^th September             Eisteddfods presented in class             Please be prepared & ready

Wed 20^th September             Eisteddfods presented in class             Please be prepared & ready

Dance with  Mrs Chamberlain              Please wear school PE uniform

                                                      Mrs Annan teaching in afternoon       (Mr Yeoman@ Enviroschools)

Thurs 21^st September            Dance & Athletics                   Please wear school PE uniform

Fri 22^nd September                 Kapa Haka to perform @ The Gathering

NOTE – The Gathering this Friday: Parents need to contact the office to confirm whether you will be attending school on Friday. All Kapa Haka students are expected to perform at The Gathering but may leave afterwards.

CARDBOARD CITY: This will now be happening on Thurs 28^th Sept. Get a cardboard box ready to sleep out

Keep up your hard work. Kia Kaha!

 Mr Yeoman

Cardboard City Thurs September 28th

This will now be happening on Thurs 28th September. Get your cardboard box organised! The following Friday is the last day of term, it is essential that people are organised in advance to have all their gear and their boxes removed from school by the end of the school day.

A reminder - The Gathering - Next Friday

A reminder: 

Friday 22nd all staff will be at The Gathering,  learning with other Catholic teachers from Otago and Southland. 

School is open but we only have 3 relievers available so need a clear indication if your child will be at school or not. Please let me know or Chrissy in the office.

The Kapa Haka group are needed to welcome the visitors but can go home after that has taken place @approx 9am.

We are still after a parent or 2 to walk any Kapa haka performers back to school. Please let Chrissy know if you are available for this.

Eisteddfod

Eisteddfod Speech Assessment

Name: _______________  Topic: ________________________   Sept 2017

Writing:

• Write a speech sequencing ideas logically.

Do this using the Hamburger format by:

• Having an appetising introduction/hook – an exciting question or ‘did you know’, and tell briefly about the other things that will be in the speech.
• Layers: each layer will be about a different part of the speech topic, each layer will flow to the next layer, because it makes sense to speak about it next.
• Conclusion: will remind the audience about what the speech has been about, or leave the audience with a thought provoking question.

Presenting/Speaking:

• Speak clearly and with appropriate volume, so the audience can understand and hear all that is said.
• Maintain the interest of the audience by speaking slowly and carefully, trying to change the tone of voice, and by using pictures, other props, other visual aids, as well as movement.
• Become so familiar with the material that there is confident eye contact with the audience.

Content ( _/9)	Below expectation (1)	At expectation (2)	Above expectation (3)
Speech is well organised and has an appropriate structure (introduction/main body/closing conclusion).
Speech covers a range of ideas connected to the overall topic and dicusses these ideas in depth.
Vocabulary and content is appropriate and entertaining for the intended audience of the speech.
	Rarely (1)	Usually (2)	Almost always (3)
Delivery (_/18)
Volume and clarity is appropriate
Expression is evident
Pace is appropriate
Eye contact is made
Stance is relaxed and confident
Gestures/visual aids are used appropriately
General Comments: Well done – Next Steps – Content:          /9              Delivery:     /18                            Total:                        /27