Tai Tapu Pet Day

Disco

                                                      Senior Disco

On Friday the 28^th of October at 7.30 The St Anne’s Senior disco was held. It was a fantastic event with good music, lots to buy and lots of cool games. Heaps of people came which made it  fun.

Mission Centre Opening

Planting Flowers

Planting Flowers

On Tuesday the 25^th of October St Anne’s School walked down to the old nugget factory which was damaged in the February Earthquake and was later pulled down.

When we got down there we met a man called Andrew who told us what we would be doing. He gave each person a spice shaker with sawdust and wild flower seeds in it and we found our own area and sprinkled the seeds.

We then went and got into pairs and got an old sack and filled it with mushroom compost and sprinkled this over the seeds.

We hope it grows into a beautiful place where people can go and enjoy.

Planting Seeds

Flower Power

I hope it grows nice and big!

Compost Time

Term 4 Newsletter

Dear Parents/Caregivers of Room 4 Students,

Welcome back to another exciting term, I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break.

This letter is just to let you know a little about what will be happening in Term Four.

Homework, spelling and tables will begin this week and will be the same as it was last term.  Please sign your child’s notebook and reading log to show they are completing these at home.

Our Health topic for Term Four is ‘Change’ - looking at topics including body change, growth, fitting in and social relationships. We will have a learning experience in relation to this during the term, more information will follow about this.

St Anne’s will be entering a team in the South East Zone Athletic Championship which will be held on Tuesday the 15^th of November. selection for this will occur in the first three weeks of term. We will also have a school athletics day on Thursday 24^th November more information will be in the school newsletter.

Topics this term include fractions and decimals and geometry for Maths, athletics and small ball skills for P.E, reports and instructions for Writing, and communion of saints for R.E.

Please check that your child still has all stationery needed in Room 4 including a red pen, ruler, pencils, colouring pencils, eraser etc.

This newsletter will be on our class ‘Blog’ and ‘Wiki’ sites with examples of some children’s work and a number of educational sites go to stannes104.wikispaces.com   or  http://stannes104.blogspot.com

I hope this answers some of your questions. If you have any other queries please feel free to contact me at school for an appointment or e-mail at ryan@stannes.co.nz

I look forward a very productive and successful term with your child.

Yours sincerely,

Ryan McInnes.

Mission Fair

A fantastic day with lots of fun had.

Solar Ovens

Last week, Room 4 carried out an experiment about Solar Ovens. This is how we made Solar Ovens: with a pizza box, gladwrap, tinfoil, black paper, scissors and glue or tape. First we had to write our plan down on how we guessed how it would work. we then got into groups of 3. Then we put the box together with all the materials provided. Next we put the ovens in the sun so that the bread could cook. When it was cooking some of the ovens got blown over and the bread fell out and the stick fell over and the flap closed. At two thirty we went outside to get the bread to see if it was cooked, unluckily only one side of the bread was cooked and the other side was still as plain as normal bread. We then put our ovens inside and cut the bread into three even pieces for each of the three people in the group. We had a choice to put either jam, apricot jam, marmite or nothing. In the end we all enjoyed the bread/toast and thought that solar ovens were a good idea.

By Jack.S and laverton

Hooked On Cricket

On the 29^th September Julio, Jack S, Rhian, Kupi, Cheska, Tatiana, Nadine and Quinten went to Hagley Park and played Hooked on cricket for our school. First  we got on the bus that was full of children. Secondly, we had to get Waltham school then Woolston and heaps more. Next, we went to Hagley  Park and we played Cricket against Aranui and we lost against them because they were a great team. The next game we played against Phillipstown and we lost again. Then we had some morning tea. We had apples, bananas and biscuits. Then we played our last game and we won. We had a sausage with bread and sauce.  After we went back to school.

The Team was: Cheska, Kupi, Quinten, Jack S, Tatiana, Nadine, Rhain and Julio.

First Holy Communion

On Sunday the 2nd of October we had our First Holy Communion.

We all had to get up early to get dressed in white. Then everyone started to arrive from our school and some kids  from different schools. We counted but there was only ten children, one girl was missing!!!  We kept looking at the door then the girl arrived. Our Mums and Dads took lots photos of us. Finally we went into church when we went in we felt like we were famous because everyone was taking photos of us. When we went up to the Priest we felt that God was with us. After Mass we went in to the hall to celebrate, there was a big feast we felt so special. We really enjoyed our day. We would like to thank our parents and every one who helped

First Communicants Indi, Amelia, Mimi, Jeremy, Finn and Faith.