Notices for the coming week

Tues Dec 11th
-Movie
-Shared lunch
-Secret Santa ($5 - $10 gift)
-5pm Graduation Mass

Wed Dec 12th
-Mrs Tehuia-Holmes in Rm 6
-Gingerbread house competition. Please come well planned and prepared in your groups, incl ingredients and equipment.

Thurs Dec 13th
-1pm Prizegiving
-5:30pm Year 8 leavers family BBQ and boating at Lake Dunstan

Fri Dec 14th
-Technology, 9:00 - 12:30pm at Terrace. Final session

Have a super week everyone! What a fun time of year!

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this coming week

Hi everyone. Welcome to Week 8 of the term. Let's make it another great week and enjoy this fun time of year! Below are some notices for the week ahead, plus a reminder of your Must Do Learning tasks.

Tues 4th Dec
-Lookout Reserve volunteering. If possible bring gardening gloves and a paper face mask, don't worry though if you can't!
-Cricket Coaching with Willie Miller, 2:15pm, wear PE gear

Wed 5th Dec
-9am-11am Technology at Terrace
-1pm Alex Primary Production

Thurs 6th Dec
-9am Cricket Coaching with Willie Miller
-9:45am Reconciliation with Father Vaughan
-1:30pm Eco Nursery writing session

Fri 7th Dec
-Assembly lead by Rm 5 2:10pm

Must Do Learning Tasks
-Letter to Mr Yeoman due by Friday morning before school. Edited, proofread, up to published standard please. Remember I am expecting no less than half a page of reflection on 2018, plus half a page of anticipation of 2019. Our brainstorm of ideas in on the board in Rm 6.

-Maths measurement activities. Marked daily following your group session, these become homework if not completed in class.

-At least 20mins reading of your own book each night.

Thanks team! Have a great week!

Mr Yeoman

Year 8 Leavers Event

Kia ora all whānau of Year 8 students. Below is a message from Michelle Healey regarding the Year 8 Leavers Event. You should have all also received this in your email. 

Cheers!

Mr Yeoman

Hi year 8 parents

As we only have a few weeks left of school at St Gerards for our year 8’s I thought I better get in touch regarding their get together. 

The year 8’s have requested in a letter to Mr Yeoman that they would like to go out to the lake. How does everyone feel about meeting at the lake on Thursday 13th at the jetty’s on the rowing club side of Lake Dunstan at 5.30pm. This way everyone can swim off the jetty’s as well as do some boating. We will take our boat out & if any other families wish to take theirs then please do so.

To keep it simple and easy for food, I thought if everyone paid per head for each family member attending then we will just do burgers with meat pattie and coleslaw. I will confirm how much later this week. If you could please let me know how many will be attending from your family before Friday please that would be great. You could email me on healeyclan@hotmail.com or ph / txt on 027 9212601.

We will need to have a plan B if the weather is no good. We could meet at school and run a quiz & other activities? If you would be able to help out with the organising of this please let me know, I would really appreciate it. 

The year 8’s did ask if they could camp and stay out at the lake on the Thursday night. Obviously this would require at least 3 parents to stay and supervise. I can’t commit to help with this due to work which I’m sure is the case with many of you. Before we let them know that it’s not possible, is there any parents who be prepared to camp out with the children?

Please get in touch if you have any questions, look forward to hearing from you soon .

Many thanks

Michelle Healey

Sticks n Stones Ambassador Day - Friday 30th Nov 2018 - Important information

Sticks n Stones Ambassador Day - Friday 30th Nov 2018

Molyneux Park - Alexandra

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• 9am arrival at Molyneux park. We will leave from school 8:45am sharp for bus pupils.

• Wear mufti

• Bring lunch, snacks, water bottle, hat, sunscreen, medication

• Change of dry clothes for after water activities

• Cost is $4, pay to Mr Yeoman or to the school office (but let Mr Yeoman know)

• You will be broken into groups to work with pupils from other schools

• Timetable for the day:

9.15-9.25: Safety Briefing once students are in their groups
9.30: Rotation One

9.55: Rotation Two

10.20: Rotation Three

BREAK 10.45-11.00

11.00: Rotation Four

11.25: Rotation Five

11.50: Rotation Six

LUNCH 12.15-12.35

12.35: Rotation Seven

1.00: Rotation Eight (Alex Primary and Clyde Year 8s joining from this rotation )

1.25: Rotation Nine

1.50: Rotation Ten

2.15: Whole Group Game

2.30: Wrap up, Clean Up, Debrief

Any questions or issues please contact Mr Yeoman.

Dates, Notices and Learning Tasks for this week

Tues 27th Nov
-Public Library visit. Last visit for the year.
-Final Eisteddfod speeches

Wed 28th Nov
-9am-11am Technology at Terrace
-1:30pm Vege garden
-12:30pm Bike Trail App lauch (Rafferty, Owen, Mia, Jade)

Thurs 29th Nov
-Year 8 HPV vaccinations in morning
-1:30pm Eisteddfod Assembly

Fri 30th Nov
-Sticks 'n' Stones Ambassador day. Those participating please pay $4 to Mr Yeoman or to the office before Friday.

Must Do Learning Tasks - To be completed by Fri 7th Dec

-Reading = Please continue to do at least 20mins of reading each night of your current book.

-Writing = Please complete your letter to Mr Yeoman discussing reflections on 2018, and hopes and aspirations for 2019. We will discuss this further in class.

-Maths = Measurement (time, length, area, perimeter and volume) tasks to be completed.

Have a great week!

Mr Yeoman

Eisteddfod Assembly

Well done everyone on excellent Eisteddfod speeches, I really enjoy listening to them all. We had such a great range of topics and most of you had clearly put in a lot of work. Thankyou! Congratulations to these people who will be speaking at the Eisteddfod assembly on Thursday afternoon:

Nia Du Plessis

Imojen Constable

Charis Morrell

Libby Handford

Mika Tait

Mayce Williams

The order of classes speaking will be:

Year 6

Year 1 & 2
Year 3 & 4

Year 5

Year 7 & 8

Year 8s - Dunstan Transition Day

Year 8s - On Monday 3rd December we're heading to Dunstan High for them to welcome you and show you about before you arrive in 2019. Please make arrangements to either be at Dunstan by 9am, or to be at St Gerards by 8.45am and we will walk to Dunstan from there.

‘THE SEASONAL COOK’

Together we can make this a $50,000+ fundraiser for our school!! Two years ago conversations were happening around how we could raise a substantial amount of money for St Gerard’s. We talked about the need for a library to be reinstated, about the need for spaces for sciences, art and music so that classes could undertake exciting project based, student driven learning and about how we always felt like the school was running on a shoestring...what could we do to help? From these conversations ‘The Seasonal Cook’ was born. For the past two years many of you have been involved in the project ‘The Seasonal Cook’. We would like to say thank you. Thank you for your recipes, your testing and tasting, your sponsorship and your time. We received over two hundred and fifty recipes for the book - and in the end we could only include just over a hundred and twenty recipes. It has been a huge effort and we are so proud of the book that has been produced. ‘The Seasonal Cook’ was launched two weeks ago with a Home Tour. Once again thank you for your support of this tour. We have received lovely feedback about the tour and it is exciting to be able to report that the home tour raised over $11,000. We also sold over 90 copies of the book on the day. The sucess of this day and the support of our generous sponsors have enabled us to cover all the costs of printing our first run of books. ‘The Seasonal Cook’ is expected to raise over $50,000 just from this first print run. Once the books have sold then the exciting process of community consultation and planning can begin on how to best use the funds raised to benefit current and future students. What we need for this to be a success, is for each one of us in our school community to actively promote and try and sell ‘The Seasonal Cook’. It is $40.00 and there is a sample of the book at the school office.

● Have you got yourself a copy of ‘The Seasonal Cook’?
● Do you have people to get Christmas presents for who would love ‘The Seasonal Cook’?
● Do you have family or friends, especially those who do not live in Alexandra, that would love a stylish cookbook?
● Can you help out by manning a stall at the local markets to sell the books?

Books can be purchased at:
● The School Office (cash or EFTPOS)
● www.theseasonalcook.net To send a message direct to the committee: email recipebook@stgerards.school.nz or pm us on our facebook page “The Seasonal Cook St Gerards School Cookbook” Thank you for your support - what a great school community we have!

Eisteddfod Speeches

Kia ora everyone. As we've discussed in class this morning the Eisteddfod Speech assembly is next Thurs Nov 29th. Our class Eisteddfod speeches will therefore be held next Monday and Tuesday, Nov 26th and 27th. Below is a link to the marking schedule, as well as some tips for writing and presenting your speech.

Eisteddfod Speech - Tips and Marking - Room 6 2018

Have fun with it, I look forward to your presentations!

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this week - Term Four Week Five

Kia ora everyone. Here's the outline for the week ahead, pretty full-on week coming up!

Tuesday 13th Nov
-Dunstan Zone athletics @ Molyneux park

Wed 14th Nov
-Ukelele Jam. See previous post. Leaving school 8am

Thurs 15th Nov
-No school. NZEI Teacher strike day.

Fri 16th Nov
-Technology at The Terrace

Learning Tasks Due
-Book Letters are due to Mr Yeoman before tech on Friday, as we discussed in class today, and several times over the past few weeks. Remember the expectation - show me your absolute best!

Kia pai tō wiki

Mr Yeoman

Central Otago Primary Schools Ukelele Jam

As you already know Room 6 are taking part in the Central Otago Primary Schools Ukelele Jam next Wed 14th November. Here’s all the details you need to know:

• Where: Queenstown Primary School.

• When : Wed Nov 14th. We will depart from the St Gerards church car park at 8am and return around 2pm. The ukelele event runs from 9:30am - 12 noon.

• What to bring: A packed lunch and water bottle, school PE gear, medication.

• If you volunteered to bake and bring a morning tea contribution please remember to bring this!

NOTE: You will need to make transport arrangements in order to be at school by 8am on Wed morning!

River monitoring trip - Parent help still required for Nov 21

We now have parent help available for the science trip on Dec 4th, we do however still need a parent to help Mr Hogue on Wed 21st November. Please contact Mr Yeoman asap if you can help with this. No previous experience required! A fun day out around our beautiful Manuherikia catchment!

Notices for this week

Kia ora everyone. We've another full week ahead with lots of interesting opportunities. Please be organised and make the most of it all!

Tuesday 6th Nov
-Public Library visit 9:15am
-University of Otago Soil Science sessions 10:00 - 12:45
-Athletics practice 2:10pm (wear PE uniform)

Wed 7th Nov
-PAT testing (Reading)
-Student council meeting 12noon
-Vege Garden potato cook up at lunch time
-Athletics house meetings 1:45pm
-Athletics practice 2:10pm (wear PE uniform)

Thurs 8th Nov
-School athletic sports @ Molyneux park

Fri 9th Nov
-School athletics postponement day
-If athletics is not postponed then:
-Ukelele with Baz 9:00am
-PAT testing (Maths)
-Mounted Rifles display
-Buddy Reading
-Assembly lead by Room 3 2:10pm

Kia pai tō wiki!

River Monitoring Trips - Parent Help required.

Hi everyone. We have two more water monitoring trips planned around the Manuherikia catchment before the end of the school year. The following students will be on one of these trips:

-Imojen, Harry, Grainne, Cody, Millie, Lucas, Libby, Thomas, Mika, Rafferty, Mayce, Hannah, Charis, Liv and Patrick

-The trips will be happening on Wed 21st November and Tues 4th December, lead by Mr Hogue.

-We will need a parent on each of these trips, to help transport students, and to supervise the collection of data (no previous experience is required and you would be supported by Mr Hogue).

If you are able to provide transport and supervision on either of these dates please contact Mr Yeoman asap.

Thanks!

Week 3 Term 4 - Notices, Dates, Learning Tasks

Kia ora everyone. Welcome to another week of term. Well done on the amazing job you did in the Aladdin production, so many people have commented on how impressed they were and how much they enjoyed it. I want to also say a big thank you to all those people who helped backstage, you did a great job and were so helpful and responsible.

Here's some things coming up this week:

Tues 30th Oct

-Enviro group students go to Thyme Fest Enviroschools room with Mr Yeoman for the morning.
-2pm Athletics practice, wear PE gear

Wed 31st Oct

-Ukelele with Baz, 10:30am
-2pm Athletics practice, wear PE gear
-Thyme Festival Percussion workshop 9:30-12:00  (Jacob Fonseca, Owen, Amber, Maggie)

Thurs 1st Nov

-2pm Athletics practice, wear PE gear
-Thyme Festival Percussion workshop 9:30-12:00 (Charis, Jade, Rafferty, Rafe)
-Thyme Festival Art workshop 9:30-12:00 (Jessica, Mia, Sylvie, Nia)

Fri 2nd Nov
-Technology at The Terrace

Ukelele Jam - Transport reminder

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that we need some parents to transport children to the Ukelele Jam in Queenstown on Wed November 14th. We already have 3 volunteers, thankyou, we will need some more however.

We'd also be keen to hear from anyone who has access to a people mover/van that we might be able to use on this day in order to reduce the number of vehicles we need to take to Queenstown.

Please contact Mr Yeoman by email olllieyeoman@stgerards.school.nz if you can help with either of these requests.

Thanks

Welcome Back! Notices and Learning Tasks for Week 1 of Term 4

Kia ora everyone and welcome back to school after the holidays. I hope you all enjoyed your holiday, there are many things to look forward to in Term 4. Here's some notices for the coming week, and see below for our learning tasks.

Notices

Tues 16th Oct
-Public library visit. 9:30am. Please be ready to return books and issue new ones.
-Fish and Game visit. to school.  Paul Van Klink will speak to us to further our learning about issues and ecology in the Manuherikia River catchment.
-Production rehearsal 1:30pm

Wed 17th Oct
-9:00am-11:10am Technology at The Terrace. Remember you need closed toed shoes, hair tied back, and full school uniform.
-Production rehearsal 1:30pm

Thurs 18th Oct
-Ukelele with Baz 11:40am
-Production rehearsal 1:30pm

Fri 19th Oct
-Production rehearsal all day. Meet at the Theatre on Skird St, 9am.

Learning Tasks

One: Curious Minds Reading & Letter Writing

Two: Learn your lines and songs for the Aladdin production. Practice hard, be awesome!

Three: Reading pages of your personal book, enjoy reading each night! And be ready for a book letter, due end of week three.

Four: Thyme Festival 'Letter to the Future' activity.

Ukelele Jam - website, and parent help needed

Kia ora whānau. We have the exciting opportunity, following on from our ukelele lessons with Baz, to take part in the Central Otago Ukelele jam.

When: Wed Nov 14th, 9:30am - 12:00noon

Where: Queenstown

We will need parents who are willing to transport students to Queenstown for the day. Please contact Mr Yeoman if you are able to help with this.

Here is a link to the songs we will be playing so you can practise hard and have some fun jamming between now and then!

Central Otago Ukelele Jam Music

Reminders for the next couple of days

Swimming - This Thurs Sept 27th please remember to bring your pyjamas/clothes for the swim safety program.

Cardboard City- Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th, 7:30pm

You 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.

On Friday all cardboard boxes must be taken home and equipment collected by 3pm. Please make arrangements for this to happen as we do not want things left here over the holidays!

Must Do Learning Tasks for Week 9-10

Here are your Must Do Learning Tasks for the next couple of weeks:

Writing
 - Choose your favourite memoir story that you've written recently. Edit it (use your quality writing check sheet!), proof read it, publish it for our writing wall.

Reading
 - Curious Minds reading & activity ( see other doc that I shared with you today)
-Reading Challenge (update the google sheet each day)

Maths
-Weekly Plan worksheets on %s, fractions and decimals
-Think Tank activities x 8

Eisteddfod Singing
-Presented to the class this week. Be ready by Tues 18th Sept

Maori
-Practice your new Te Reo and recap what we've already learnt

Have fun! As always please be proactive and ask me early if you have any questions or issues.

Ngā mihi

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this week - Week Nine of Term 3

Kia ora everyone. We enjoyed a great 'Kaboom' show today, weren't they amazing?! Great to see many of you inspired for your own creative percussion acts! Keep it up. We have an exciting program ahead this week with plenty of opportunity to be creative, and to enjoy and be inspired by other people's creativity.

Tues 18th Sept
-Father Vaughan to visit Room 6
-Eisteddfod Sining in Room 6
-11:40am Production practice
-1:30 Sing Squad and Music

Wed 19th Sept
-Mrs Tehuia-Holmes in Rm 6 (Mr Yeoman @ Enviro schools training event)
-Ukelele with Baz
-11:40 am Production practice
-2:00 'The Nukes' Ukelele show
-5:30pm Community 'Tech' evening

Thurs 20th Sept
-Swimming (leave school 9:15am, swim 9:45-10:15am). Bring pyjamas/clothes
-Creative writing workshop with visiting author Dean O'Brien
-1:30pm Deano Creative Writing show.

Fru 21st Sept
-Technology @ Terrace
-Blossom Fest Round the Clock Race!

Kia pai to wiki! Have a good week!

Mr Yeoman

Notices for this week - Week 8 of Term 3

Kia ora everyone. This week is Maori Language week, as well as Social Justice week, and is already Week Eight of the term! Here's a few things we have coming up:

Tues Sept 11th

-Sing Squad and Music 1:30pm
-Sticks 'n' Stones with Vanessa, 2-3pm

Wed Sept 12th

-Frisbee tournament with Rm 5 (wear PE gear)
-River monitoring group out with Mr Yeoman and Mr Hogue (see separate blog post - wear mufti)
-Vege garden
-Production singing practice

Thurs Sept 13th

-Swimming 1:30pm, early lunch. Wear PE gear

Fri Sept 14th

-Must Do Learning tasks to be completed.
-Ukelele with Baz 11:40am
-Buddy Reading and Assembly

Kia pai to wiki! Have a great week!

Mr Yeoman

River Monitoring - Trip Number Five Wed 12th Sept 2018

·      What - Continuing work on our long term science project, monitoring water quality around the Manuherikia River catchment.

·      When – Wed 12th Sept. 9:30am-3pm.

·      Where – Meet at school. Travel all around the Manuherikia catchment, including Chatto Ck, Lauder Ck, Dunstan Ck, Ida Burn and Manor Burn

·      What to bring & wear – Wear mufti. Warm clothes, rain jacket, beanie, sunhat, gumboots or old shoes, sunscreen, lunch, water bottle and any medications.(Optional: camera - you are responsible for this!)

·      Team members on this trip – Jess, Maggie, Sylvie, Amber, Lydia, Mia, Jade and Shannon.

·      Adults supervising this trip -  Mr Hogue and Mr Yeoman

Cardboard City Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

Cardboard City 

Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

St Gerard’s School

7:30pm

Dear Parents

On the final Thursday night of this term Room 6 students will be taking part in the annual St Gerards ‘Cardboard City’ as a follow up to 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 – security, 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 a 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. Please make arrangements for this to happen as we do not want things left here over the holidays!

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