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__The Great Stick Your Head in a Book Athon__  Hey parents/caregivers & family members, check out the website []

and see if our class is on the leaderboard for our school. All children gain points if you donate to them online, no matter what the cost. Please check it out!

- Please make sure your child has sent you the link via e-mail so you know you are donating towards them.  Remember that the reading starts getting logged on the 1st week of Term 4!   __Visiting Northcross Intermediate Kapahaka Group__

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Hi everyone, I feel like everytime I post I'm saying that this term is flying! The whole year seems to be flashing right before my very eyes. We have started our journey on podcasting and many of the children have been asking some good questions around how we are going to create this. In our class the journey is up and we will be continuing showing our journey as we go. I just thought I'd update you all on some of the events happening around the school before the end of the term. Many of you have probably (I hope) seen the letter handed out to the children last week around student led conferences. These are happening on the Wednesday and Thursday afternoon-evening of week 9 (we are in week 8). On the Friday all children will receive their reports to take home with them. The following Wednesday is our whole school assembly from 930am then we break up for the school holidays that Friday. I would like to say a big thanks to all the children who participated in the seniors Shakespear Planting Day, and a big thanks goes to Room 23 for the organisation of the event that will be an annual event for the senior children. (Photos will be up soon, just have to get them from the camera onto the laptop) I hope you all have a good week and you get a good rest before the school holidays. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Will see you next week at student-led conferences. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Mary Carter. = = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">My favourite Youtube links <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">- Here is the Whatipu movie, just realised that I hadn't posted the link on here, very sorry. Will get around to posting the childrens songs on Youtube and link it onto the wikispace. = = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Welcome to Term 2 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Hasn't this year flown by so far! I can't believe we have already started the second quarter of this school year. It has been a very busy time for the children and myself. Last week was a busy one for me as I attended a 2 day course presented by Lane Clark, what an amazing speaker she is! Very glad to have gone and brought back some amazing teaching ideas for the classroom. Then Friday evening we had our school festival and I can honestly say the children made me proud and put in alot of effort and time in creating their piece to perform.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">This week the year 6's are off to their school camp at Benson on Kawau Island and on Tuesday we have auditions for the production Bugsy Malone - Fortunately open to the year 5,6, & 8's! Also there is the HBC primary school children's writing competition coming up. The details for Bugsy Malone & the writing competition are on the window of our classroom so come and have a look.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">If any of your children (or yourself) have any pictures from the festival, could you please ask your child to bring a flash drive home (from me) and pop them on so we can show the class/pop them on our wiki page. Speaking of the wiki page, over the next week I will make sure all children are part of the page.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Hope you and your family enjoy the next week and thank you heaps for coming down and seeing your child's performance. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Hope to see you all soon, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Mrs Carter

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Week 9 - Term 1 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">This week is a big one for Gulf Harbour School pupils. We have our Orbiting the Arts Festival on Wednesday night from 4pm-8pm. All the children have been working really hard in creating their music pieces and recording their voices on top of the music. The children have had their ups and downs in creating the pieces with one group having to start from scratch after finishing their project and the saved file 'disappeared'. They have shown all the attributes of a GHS student through resilience, bravery, fun and responsibility. Throughout this last week we only have 2 groups left to finish off their recordings and we will be setting up our classroom for the big night ahead.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">If you have any of the following items, it would be much appreciated if we could borrow them for our room: Fairy lights and disco/light balls (if unnamed I will name each item as they come in so I can get them back to you)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">We will have a programme up of when each group will be speaking about their piece of music, we are hoping to do this once every hour, but will be confirmed closer to the time.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">I look forward to seeing you all down at the festival. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to flick me an e-mail and I'll reply as soon as possible, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Regards, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Mary Carter

= = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Parents, When the children are at home, please get them to create a wiki login and request to join this wikispace with their name in the comment box. Once accepted, they will be allowed to edit their wiki page on this space and you can check what they've been up to in class. Children, please do not post anyones first and last name on this page for confidentiality reasons, just first name will be sufficient. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Mary Carter = = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Here are some of our class photos <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Click here <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">If you have any pictures from camp, feel free to post them on our class photos page

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Here is a link to some YouTube clips we've looked at in class: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Click here

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Term 1 Week 4

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">We have had an incredibly full week at school. On Monday the learners had Mrs Hart in the room as I was at home sick, Tuesday all the senior teachers had a meeting so the learners had Mrs Morgan and they created some amazing pieces of art....JANDALS! Come in and check out our wall covered in Jandals decorated with Koru patterns. The class did a fantastic job on their Jandals!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Wednesday was an incredibly busy day with swimming sports. Almost all pupils participated in the day and in our class we have some amazing swimmers. We will hopefully find out next week the placings of the events. Almost all of the girls were swimming in the competitive section and I'm sure all the children had fun swimming with the teachers at the end.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">We then got back into the swing of our routine on Thursday & Friday and only have Monday & Tuesday left before we go to Camp Whatipu on Wednesday! Looking forward to spending 3 days with the children. Any photos taken throughout the weeks will be posted under the class photos page.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Hope you enjoy Room 21's wiki!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Mrs Carter

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