Kia ora, bring on week three!

This week in Tūhura we have had a blast getting to know your children and understanding how their characteristics and uniqueness will shape our class culture this year. It has been our goal this week to start creating those strong relationships with your children so we can begin to understand how we can best cater the curriculum to meet their individual learning needs. 

In week two we have focused on doing lots of team bonding games and activities to ease the children back into school and to help them become accustom to some of the expectations and routines of being in our team. This is something we will continue work on over the next few weeks as we finish off our class treaty and begin to get into some maths and literacy.

Over the last week we have also tested the children on some basics facts number knowledge and formed maths groups based on this information as well as last years data. These groups will remain flexible as we start our maths lessons on number knowledge next week. Along with this we have also formed flexible literacy groups based on past data. During this week we will be reading with the students in class and testing them to make sure they are in reading groups at the correct level. We are aiming to send students home with reading books in the 4th week.

In week 2 we have completed two art projects which we would love you to come in and see any time. There are also some photos of these posted below:

In week Three:

• Tuesday: Family picnic 5 - 7pm (info on school app), our team will be presenting at 6:15pm
• Wednesday: Sushi (order this through Kindo)
• Friday: Assembly 9.10 and Kapahaka starts for all students
• Please bring swimming togs each day
• Please name all sun-hats and uniform. We already have a number of unnamed clothes that we cannot return to their owner.

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Holly and Lynn