River Monitoring Term 3 - Parent Help Needed

Hi everyone. Next term we will be continuing our Manuherikia Catchment Water Monitoring science project. Mr Hogue will once again be leading these trips but needs parent help to cover transport and safety. No prior experience is required. Please contact Mr Yeoman if your child is involved and you can help with one of the following days:

Wed 1st August

1.     Cody

2.     Rafe

3.     Jessica

4.     Mia

5.     Imojen

6.     Millie

7.     Libby

Wed 22nd August

1.     Harry

2.     Patrick

3.     Maggie

4.     Amber

5.     Grainne

6.     Mayce

7.     Kayla

Thanks!

Mr Yeoman

Must Do Learning Tasks

Kia ora. Here are your Must Do learning tasks for the next two weeks. Remember that I expect that everyone is also reading every night, and working on some of their Must Dos in order to complete them to a high standard.

Reading:
-Personal Reading Book
-Curious Minds Reading Task (Plus, Minus, Interesting)

Maths:
-Word Problems
-Weekly Plan tasks

Writing:
-Elsie Locke or ODT publishing
-Other published work
-Optional Book Letter

Speaking:
-Eisteddfod Poetry performance to prepare

Other area:
-Movie proposal task on goggle doc (for Homework)
-Share lunch task on google doc and to be prepared at home
-Science preparation and write up

Plus:
Enviro Group member working on Plastic Free July display in the school foyer.

Enjoy your learning!
Cheers

Mr Yeoman

Week 9 & 10 - Notices & Dates

Hi everyone. Welcome to a new week. Not long until the end of term, and mid year holidays. Let's make sure we finish the term well. Here's some things coming up in the next two weeks

Tues 26th

Skating/Curling - Meet 8:50am at the ice rink. Wear school PE gear, tracksuits, warm jackets, hats, gloves, warm shoes/boots.

Wed 27th

Sing Squad and Music. Bring an instrument if you play one.

Thurs 28th

Skating/Curling - Meet 8:50am at the ice rink. Wear school PE gear, tracksuits, warm jackets, hats, gloves, warm shoes/boots.

Bring Science Equipment

Cultural Assembly

Fri 29th

Technology at The Terrace

Next week...

Mon 2nd 

Class Eisteddfods - Poetry

Tues 3rd

Skating/Curling

Wed 4th

School Mass lead by Room 6

Thurs 5th

Skating/Curling
Shared lunch
Class Movie
Eisteddfod Assembly

Fri 6th

Curling Tournament - 8 year 8s (teams still to be confirmed)

Skating Timetable & Information 2018

Timetable:

• 9am – 10 Rm 6 Hockey or Curling

Travel:

• Room 6 meet Mr Yeoman at the rink at 8:55. We will walk back to school afterwards

Dates for all rooms:

        Thursday  21st June (those not playing Rippa), Tuesday 26th June, Thursday 28th June, Tuesday 3rd July, Thursday 5th July.    

Room 6 only: Wednesday 4th July, and Curling Tournament (for some students) Friday 5th July.

Health and Safety regulations: from Ice-In-Line

1. All children are to wear appropriate warm clothing such as track pants, hats, jackets and gloves – no skirts or shorts.
2. The wearing of cycle helmets (or similar) is compulsory for school groups.
3. If taking part in curling activities, rubber soled shoes are essential on the ice rather than plastic or leather soled.
4. Running is not permitted on the ice surface or the rink surrounds.
5. If there is water on the ice surface, the instructor may make the decision to stop the curling activity and students may be offered ice skating as an alternative.
6. Bring your own drink bottle filled with water – spillage from people trying to fill drink bottles is a hazard to others as spilt water turns to ice making the walking surface slippery.

Suggestion: that children NOT wear 2 pairs of socks or really thick socks as this can affect the size skate that they require.

Term 2 Eisteddfod - Poetry

Room 6 Poetry Eisteddfods will be heard in Week 10 of this term, on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd July.

You will need to recite the poem in a way to make the poem come alive, as the poet meant it to be when read aloud. We are looking at performing the poem rather than just reading it.

Chosen poems should be of a reasonable length - 16 to 20 lines is a good length.

The performance is scored out of 50:

•   10 marks for the introduction - state the title, the poet, some interesting facts about him/her if you have some. Why you chose this poem? The meaning you take from the poem?

•   10 marks for the preparation - how well have you learned it? What ideas have you used to perform it? Do you bring any props?

•   10 marks for diction - how clear are the words? - can we understand all of them? and can we hear them all?

•   10 marks for audience suitability - Room 6 are the first audience, and later the whole school - is this a poem that suits this audience? I know that we all enjoy humorous poems, animals, adventures, narrative poems that tell a story and ones with interesting nonsense words.  Many people also seem to enjoy poems that have a clear rhythm and rhyme.

•   10 marks for the overall presentation - this is the pure performance and entertainment factor.

Rippa Tournament Reminder

Central Otago Rippa Rugby Tournament

Molyneux Park

What: Central Otago Rippa Rugby tournament

When: Thurs 21^st June. 9am – 2:30pm (first games begin at 9:30am so please arrive no later than 9:15am)

Where: Molyneux Park

Who: Yr 3-8 students who have chosen to take part. We have two year 7-8 teams entered:

St Gerards Thunder =

Charis, Hannah, Jade, Kayla, Patrick, Harry, Owen, Cody, Lucas

St Gerards Scorchers =

Amber, Grainne, Mayce, Millie, Rafferty, Mika, Rafe, Jacob, Thomas

Bring: PE uniform. School tracksuit. Warm clothes. Lunch and drink. Money if you want to buy food from the canteen.

Registration: All players are required to register with the Rugby union. Please click on the link below and fill out the registration form. It is important you let Mr Yeoman know once you’ve completed this.

Registration Link

NOTE:  Students either need permission to go home from the park, or they will return to school with Mr Yeoman at the end of the day. Please email Mr Yeoman before Thurs, or text  him on 027 277 8466.

Thanks!

Mr Yeoman