Christmas

Canterbury Athletics Championship

7 Athletes represented St Anne's.
Great day John 2nd Shot Put.
Jackson 4th 100m
Jospeh 5th Discus.

Tee Ball with Maria

Touch 2012

Some great actions shots courtsey of Gordon Trigg.

Ten Pin Bowl and Clip and Climb.

Great day out everyone loved the day.

Athletics 2012

St Anne's Athletics day 2012 was a great event with lots of fun and excitement.

Taste Testing Day 2

This time we taste tested with drinks it was fun and nobody was able to match the correct drinks.

Athletics 2012

Yesterday 41 children from St Anne’s took part in the South East Zone Athletics Championship.

The children were fantastically behaved and all did themselves proud.

Result highlights were;

John 1^st in the Discus and 1^st in the Shot Put

Melissa 1^st in the Discus

Graeme 1^st Shot Put and 2^nd in the Discus

Vaii 2nd in 100m and 2^nd in the Shot Put

Nadine  1^st in 100m

Jackson 1^st 100m

Joseph 1^st Shot Put

Movie Fun

On Friday the whole school went to see Madagascar 3. It was very funny.
Thanks go to Red Bus, Readings Cinema, Bluelight and Dreamworks.

Taste Testing and Southern Cross Engineering

On Tuesday 6th November Room 4 did a taste testing experiment.

Each student taste tested a number of foods and tried to describe each of them.

Also on Tuesday a group of students went to Southern Cross Engineering. They explored the factory and looked through the Drawing Room.

Swimming in PJ's

We learnt great survival skills while swimming in our Pyjamas.

 

Swimming, Athletics and Touch

It's been a busy week!

Linwood Log Rugby Seven’s Competition.

Recently St Anne’s has had 15 children involved in a ten week rugby sevens  tournament.

Both teams did themselves proud showing excellent skills and sportsmanship.

Teams were randomly selected. Team ‘Tonga’ was a mixed team with Thomas, Ihaia, Joel, Luke, Reuben, Kalem  and a number of Linwood Ave players.

Team ‘Argentina’ was Jackson, John, Zion, Ethan, Robert, Korban, Jeremy,    Jack Swain, Lingas, Julio.

Both teams made the finals with Tonga playing off for 5^{th and}  6^th  and Argentina playing off for 1^st and 2^nd.
Tonga played very well and won, 8 tries to 2 with some great tries and some super defence.
Argentina played in the grand final with all other teams watching them.

They lead 2 tries to nil at half time however this game was not all over and by full time the scores were ties at 3 tries each. Extra time was played.  With this almost up the opposition Bromley ‘Wales’ scored in the corner!! St Anne’s team, although upset were very gracious in defeat and showed wonderful sportsmanship.

Jackson Youngman was deservedly presented with Player of the Competition and the team won some new sports gear for the school.

A special thanks to Denver and Belinda Youngman for coaching and managing the teams, Royden and the team at Linfield Sport for organising the competition and all the parents that helped and supported over the weeks.

Class Mass and Ethan's Baptism.

A special day for Ethan and we were privileged to attend.

Storybird

Groovy Guitar Greats by etimeryan on Storybird

Zergg Movie

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Talent Contest

Term 4 Parent Letter

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.

Spelling and Reading log 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 Science topic for Term Four is ‘Systems’ – we will be looking at food experiments, digestion, energy systems, nutrition, taste testing and a number of other systems relating to food.

 

We will be joining with Room 6 for our end of year outing I will let you know more information as it becomes available.

Topics this term include fractions and decimals and geometry for Mathematics, athletics and small ball skills for P.E, recounts and instructions for Writing, and communion of saints for R.E.
 
Athletic training will start in week one. In week 3 on Tuesday 30 October we will have a selection day for athletes to see who reaches the standards and criteria  for the South East Zone Athletic Championship held on Tuesday the 13 November. The official school Athletics day will be held on Friday 23 November.
 
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’ - 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 to a very productive and successful term with your child.
 
Yours sincerely,

Ryan McInnes

 

 

Olympic Movies

Skate School 2012

Thanks to Cheapskates :-)

Science

The last three weeks we have been completing science experiments.

We made vinegar and baking soda rocket cars and yesterday we made Mentos and Diet Coke fountains, we had a lot of fun.

Catholic Sports Day

Great day of sport St Anne's did themselves proud.

Kapa Haka

Kapa Haka Wednesday 5th September.
Awesome day for all St Anne's children.

Rugby Sevens

16 children from St Anne's are part of a seven week rugby sevens competition.

Kapa Haka and Olympic Assembly

A great warm up for the Cultural Festival for the Kapa haka and an interesting talk from Cathy Baker about the Olympics.

Technology

Monday Technology has been an a highlight this year.

Term 1 and 2 we learnt cooking and plastics and now in Term 3 and 4 we are working on woodwork and fabrics.
Room 4

Art Gallery follow up lesson

Art Gallery follow up lesson

On Thursday 2 August Susie from the Christchurch Art Gallery took a lesson related to the Art works we saw in town. We looked at pictures of the works and brainstormed ideas about how to decorate our Waka. Next we folded and glued the Waka and started drawing symbols that told a story about ourselves. Lastly we coloured and decorated the Waka.

Room 4

Grandparents Day

On Friday during the Grandparents Assembly Room 4 played the ukulele.

Christchurch Art Gallery Visit

On Wednesday 25th Room 4 travelled to the NG Gallery to view Michael Parekowhai's exhibition.
We really enjoyed the piano playing and seeing the massive bronze bulls.

Room 4

Term 3 Newsletter

Monday 16th August 2012

 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 Three.

 Homework this term will be slightly different with the inclusion of learning timetables. Each Monday 10 spelling words and 12 basic facts will come home in their notebook to learn. They also must complete a Reading Log which will also come home on a Monday. Please sign your child’s notebook and Reading Log to show they are completing these at home.

Topic	Communication -
Writing	This term we are looking at discussions which will lead into writing and presenting speeches and Narrative writing.
Maths	Multiplication and Division, Algebra.
R.E	Church and Sacrament.
P.E	Thursday Sport, Winter tournament, Fitness skills, invasion games.

 Please check that your child still has all stationery needed in Room 4. There were lots of issues last term relating to children not having what they needed to learn. Essential stationery is 5 pencils, an eraser, a red and blue pen, ruler, pencil sharpener, glue stick and colouring pencils.

 I hope you received your children’s Report at the end of last term please bring it along to interviews.

All dates and times of events and activities this term will follow in the school newsletter.

 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

 Please check out our class blog at -  http://stannes104.blogspot.co.nz

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

 Yours sincerely,

Ryan McInnes

Drum Fun

On Tuesday 19th June Rhythm Interactive came to St Anne's to perform to the school.
We all got a drum to play and it was great fun.
We had to copy drumming patterns and repeat lots of beats.
There will now be a free drumming workshop for year 7 and 8 children who are interested for 6 weeks.

Room 4

 

Snow Snow Snow

On Wednesday 6th of June we had lots of snow.

Bottle Art

Last Tuesday Room 4 started making mosaic art using bottles.

The first step was to rip the coloured paper.

Step two was to stick on the paper in the pattern we wanted.

Step three was to find any words we wanted to put on the bottles.

Step four was to use a vivid to go around the edges of the paper.

Lasting it’s time to hairspray it to make it permanent.

Fun fun fun.

South East Zone Cross Country

South East Zone Cross Country

17 children travelled to Ferrymead Park on Tuesday 29^th May.

After 6 weeks of hard training all athletes impressed with their performances.

Some outstanding results were: Indi Timms 7^th ,  Jackson Youngman 7^th, Melissa Burgess 10^th,James Harrison 16^th , Carina Bergamini 19^th

A big thanks for all the parents who helped with transport and supervision on the day.

Thursday Sport

Thursday sport at Hagley Park started this week.
St Anne's Netball Team won  13- 3 against Discovery 1 B.
St Anne's A Soccer lost 3-5 to Parkview.
St Anne's B Soccer lost 2-3 St Martins B.
All teams got 10/10 for sportsmanship.

Freshwater Frolicking

On Tuesday the 15^th May Room 4 and 6 went on a trip to The Groynes.

We learnt lots about the all the living creatures that live in freshwater.

We used special equipment to catch and sort the creatures and then investigated them.

Finally we played two games one about not feeding ducks and the other about keeping the water clean. The day was lots of fun.

Room 4

Zumba

On a Friday Room 4 and Room 6 are doing an Arts Swap on the even weeks Room 4 will do Ukulele's with Mr McInnes and on an odd week Room 4 will do Zumba.