Auckland Botanic Gardens

It was fantastic! Nearly all the Year One children went to the Botanic Gardens yesterday or today in Manurewa. The bus trip was exciting and then we had a lesson with a special Garden person who helped us plant our own bean. We also planted seedlings in the ground and swept up the yard too! The gardens are huge and we walked and walked around the big lake, saw ducks and so many different plants and trees.
The day was very interesting and it was fun being with all the other children too.

LINES FOR LOUIS!

Louis is a Year 3 at our school and he has Type 1 Diabetes.

He has to monitor his insulin levels often and throughout the day and be medicated as needed. Louis now has the opportunity to have a pump that would do all of this for him and make life much easier. Unfortunately the cost for the pump alone is $10,000 and then an ongoing cost of $300 per month and there is no government subsidy....

Royal Oak Primary wants to support the fundraising project for Louis to enable him

to have the freedom of other children at our school.

Mrs Bruce has therefore organised a mufti day for Friday 3rd June called 'Lines for Louis'. Please come to school wearing lines, checks or stripes and bring a donation to help the fundraising.

NZ MUSIC MONTH

This month has been NZ Music Month!

We have been celebrating at Royal Oak Primary School by:

Listening to and singing lots of songs by kiwi artists, making music together with musical instruments, creating our own instruments like shakers and last of all learning the song called 'Things to Remember'.

This song is so special and important because it won the 'Write a Song for NZ Music Month' Competition! It was written by some Year 5 & 6 children at Newton central School-Awesome!

We love singing the song, its very catchy and here is the link to hear and sing along to it:

http://nzmusic.org.nz/resources/education/want-to-write-the-song-of-music-month/

Here is also a photo of some children in Room 5 with their awesome NZ Music Month Shakers!

Grasshopper Tennis

The Year 2 classes are all participating in Grasshopper Tennis every Monday for four weeks.

So far we have been learning to balance the ball in different places of our racket, bounce the ball between the ground and our racket and on top of our racket. We have been doing lots of rolling, hitting and passing the ball in pairs and we have also been trying to master 'sticky ball'!

This video shows Room 10 having some tennis fun:

Sausage Sizzle

Yay! Welcome back to the ROPS Sausage Sizzles!

Thanks to some wonderful parent helpers and the senior classes- the sausage sizzles at our school have returned!

These 'sizzles' will take place every 2nd Monday, starting on Monday 16th May.

The prices are:

Chicken and Beef Sausages - $1.50

Vegetarian Sauasages - $2.00

Fruit or milk drinks - $1.50

Biscuits - $1.00

(No onions available)

3 Way Conferences

Hi Everyone,

Remember its 3 way conferences next week so chat to mum, dad or whoever looks after you and work out a good time to come along so we can tell them all about your learning so far.

The interviews are on

Tuesday 17th May 3:30- 8:00pm

AND

Thursday 19th May 3:30-8:00pm

When you have a time ready go on to http://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/ and select your conference time.

Looking forward to seeing you all there! :-)

TERM 2- 2011

What is happening for this Term???

YEAR 1:

Our school wide concept is- 'Past, Present, Future'

We will be exploring:

• Plants and what people have planted and grown over the years.
• We will also step into the role of scientists and discover what Plants need to live and grow.
• How we can adapt our environment to enhance our school (specifically Room 7)

Big Questions:

• What do plants need to grow?
• Why do we need plants in environment?

YEAR 2:

Our school wide concept is- 'Past, Present, Future'

We will be exploring why:

• Toys/games are important to a range of people of different ages and cultures.
• Some toys/games have changed over time, whilst some are still the same.

Big Questions:

• How have toys/games changed over time?
• Which toys/games are the same/different? Why?

Our Writing Focus will be- Personal Recounts/ Picture Plans/ Cameo Writing/ Recrafting/ Publishing and a particular focus on Transactional Writing: Exposition/ Report.

Our mathematics programme will be- Number: addition and subtraction, number knowledge, basic facts, assessmentt ( Weeks 1-8) Geometry/ Algebra (Weeks 9- 11)

SPECIAL EVENTS:

• -Day ONE- Monday 2nd May


• -Class Photos- Wednesday 11th May (Week 2)


• -Grasshopper Tennis- Year 2 (Weeks 1- 4)


• -3 Way Conferences- Tuesday 17th and Thursday 19th May (Week 3)


• -Jungle Cafe!- Friday 27th May (Week 4)

• Year 1 trip to Botanical Gardens- Tuesday 31st May & Wednesday 1st May (Week 5)


• -'Lines for Louis' Mufti Day- Friday 3rd May (Week 5)


• -Queens Birthday (School Closed) -Monday 6th June (Week 6)


• -Year 2 classes trip to Howick Historical Village- Thursday 9th June (Week 6)


• -Athon Quizz- Friday 24th June (Week 8)

• -Athon Money to be in by Friday 8th July (Week 10)


• -Life Education Caravan- (Weeks 10-11)

• -Athon Money to be in by Friday 8th July (Week 10)

• Last Day of Term- Friday 15th July (Week 11)

If you have any questions or there is anything else you would like to know about the class programme for this term please don't hesitate to ask your child's teacher :-)