Friday, March 23, 2012

Who won the teddy at Junior Assembly???

Congratulations to Room 4!!


They were the best class at Junior Assembly today so they get to take the GIANT teddy back to their room for the next two weeks!!


Well done Room 4! :)



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Who will win the giant TEDDY???

Mrs Clotworthy is bringing a BIG new friend to Junior Assembly!


Its a GIANT teddy! Each fortnight at Junior Assembly the best, most well behaved class will get to take the teddy to their room for a whole fortnight!!!


I wonder who will win it this week? :-)

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Junior Laptop COW!

Wahoo!! The Junior area of the school has it's very own laptop trolley called a 'C.O.W' (Computers On Wheels).


All classes get to use the Laptop C.O.W for a whole day every fortnight.
The children at ROP's are computer pro's and they love using the coll laptops!


Check out Room 3 and Room 6 using the laptops for the first time in the photostory below:


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

ALL BLACKS MUFTI DAY!


Don't forget to wear you Black & White for this Friday's Mufti Day (18th November) And this time don't bring your gold coin! Please bring a bottle for our Food Festival Bottle Bank instead! Some ideas for what to bring are: sauces, jams, preserves, lotions, perfumes, shampoos, body wash, bubble bath, drinks etc. Make sure they are new and unopened ready for our Festival next year.
See you then!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Class Montages

Wow- Look at the video below to check out the amaaaaazing class montages!! They are available to view in each classroom and during the Art Festival. You can place a bid on them up until the last Wednesday of school.


Friday, August 26, 2011

Cornwall Park

See if you can go to Cornwall Park and see the newly born lambs. They are making lots of noise 'baa baa' to tell their Mum's where they are.

As well as lambs, there are calves too.

If you walk through Twin Oak Drive all the daffodils are in flower too.

I really enjoyed visiting the park today!

Mrs Hopkins, Room 7

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Verb Poems

This week in Year 2 we chose something we did in the holidays and wrote a 'Verb Poem' about it. It was quite tricky to keep to the pattern but here are some examples. Pop into the classes if you would like to see some more!

My Best Holiday My Holiday
Swimming, swimming. Scootering, scootering.
Diving in the pool. Scootering down the steep dry footpath.
Splashing at the people. Zooming to Waihi Beach.
Holding my breath. Scootering down the secret pathway.
Super swimming! Family fun!
By Priya- Room 10 By Charlotte- Room 9

My Holiday My Holiday
Eating, eating. Sleeping, sleeping.
Munching salty chips. Sleeping on the bouncy bed.
Chewing healthy weetbix. Lazing on the comfy bed.
Swallowing soft eggs. Dancing to groovy music.
Hungry holidays. Serena's stupendous sleepover.
By Troy- Room 8 By Holly- Room 8

My Holiday My Holiday
Sailing, sailing. Going, going.
Eating wonderful ice-blocks. Driving to Emily's house.
Sailing gentle seas. Playing on the shiny computer.
Skimming beautiful shells. Running around in the green garden.
Relaxing break. Fun days.
By Jack- Room 11 By Stephanie- Room 18

Monday, August 8, 2011

Sausage Sizzles are back for Term 3


Sausage Sizzles are back!

The first one for Term 3 will be:

Monday 15th August (Week 3) and they will then take place every second week.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Firewise!


Today the Year 1 & 2 children met Firefighter Matt. He came to talk to us about being Fire Safety and we all showed him how Firewise we are! We saw how quickly a fire can start and talked about what to do if a fire ever happened. We practiced 'Get down! Get low! Get out fast!', we called out 'Fire! Fire! Fire!' loudly and clearly and met at 'Our safe meeting place.'

Well done Year 1 and 2- you are a Firewise crew!!

Monday, August 1, 2011

TERM 3- 2011 (Year 2)



What is happening for this term in YEAR 2??

Our school wide concept is- 'Express Yourself'

We will be exploring how:

  • The Arts be used to express and communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas.

Big Question:

  • How can we express ourselves?
The Year 2 children will be participating in an 'Art Rotation' as part of this unit. They will have two sessions with each teacher on the following: Miss George: Upbeat Music Programme, Miss McClue: Dance, Miss Fisher: Flax Weaving, Mrs Hardie-Boys: Musical instruments, Mrs Paul: Drama and we are very lucky to also have the talent of Jeanette Franklyn who will be taking each class for two sessions about instruments and the orchestra and musical notation. Thank you so much Mrs Franklyn!!

Our Writing Focus will be- Personal Recounts/ Paragraph Plans/ Cameo Writing/ Recrafting/ Publishing and a particular focus on Transactional Writing: Instructions

Our mathematics programme will be- Number: addition and subtraction, number knowledge, basic facts, place value, sequential patterning (Algebra), Money, Fractions, Measurement- length and area.

SPECIAL EVENTS:
  • For any special events please refer to the right hand column of our Blog under the heading 'Special Events'
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 classroom teacher :-)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Parent Helpers Needed!

The Rugby Cup Athon needs your help!

On Thursday 23rd June the school will be having a sports and quiz day and we need parent helpers to assist us, support us and enjoy the day with us.

Please contact your child's classroom teacher or return your parent helper form if you are able to help out.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Travelwise WALK and WHEEL to School Day



On Wednesday 22nd June we are having a walk and ride to school day. On Tuesday 21st children will bring home a token. If they come to school in a 'travelwise way' on Wednesday morning they can drop their token in a special box at Cutfields Corner before school. The tokens will be tallied and the best class will be awarded the Travelwise Trophy. The 'Auckland City Transport Mascot' will be present, giving out spot prizes so walk, scooter, cycle, car pool, bus, train or drop and walk your way to school on Wednesday the 22nd June!!

Monday, June 13, 2011

Royal Oak Primary School HUI


Next Wednesday evening (22nd June) we are holding a Hui as part of our consultation with Maori families. The evening begins at 5:45pm and concludes at 7:30pm. If you have not received an invitation and would like to attend or would like more information please let us know asap.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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.

Monday, May 30, 2011

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:


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:

Monday, May 9, 2011

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! :-)

Monday, May 2, 2011

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 :-)

    Monday, March 28, 2011

    Special Visitors to ROPS




    Today three very special visitors arrived at our School. They have come from the Education Review Office to see all the wonderful teaching and learning at Royal Oak Primary School. Our visitors are here with us for the week and we hope they have a wonderful time meeting and seeing all our clever children.


    This morning the school welcomed them with a Powhiri:

    Friday, March 18, 2011

    RIPPA RUGBY


    Rippa Rugby is the new game for primary schools. It is a very safe, non-contact, easy to play game for both boys and girls alike. Best of all it's fun and exciting for all involved.

    While the rules are simple and the game easy to learn, Rippa Rugby will promote excellent ball handling and running skills, and give all kids a chance to participate in our national game.

    The New Zealand Rugby Union is proud to recommend Rippa Rugby and we are sure it will give the kids in your school a fun safe and enjoyable sporting experience.

    The above was taken directly from the following website: http://www.nzrugby.co.nz/small_blacks/rippa_rugby

    All Year 1 and 2 classes have participated in two Rippa Rugby sessions this week. Ask them about it today!

    Thursday, March 17, 2011

    FLYING AROUND THE JUNIOR SCHOOL




    Today we participated in our 4th travel date for 'Flying around the Junior School'. Things can get quite busy with boarding the planes, air traffic control and passport checking! So today Mrs Tataurangi stopped by a few of the 'airports' and helped at immigration. She was certainly making sure the travellers had the correct details on their passports before allowing them through to that country! Here are photos of her stamping some passports. Next Thursday is our final planned day of travel, catch you then!

    Wednesday, March 16, 2011

    Year 6 Camp this week

    Today the Year 6 students left for camp- we walked out to the front of the school to wave them off they all looked very excited!! We hope you have a wonderful time away Year 6!!!

    Thursday, March 10, 2011

    Flying Around the Junior School

    Year 1 & 2 children are currently learning about NZ, what it means to be a NZer and all the different cultures that make up a 'Kiwi' today. To do this we wanted to explore some of these NZ Cultures that make up our country and our school community. So each of the Year 1 & 2 teachers selected a country/ ethnicity reflected in our community to share with the children. The children then created their own 'passports' and prepared to 'fly around the junior school'.
    Over four Thursday afternoons the children will visit 9 different destinations and receive a stamp in their passport for each one. As you can imagine this has been extremely exciting!! The children have already 'travelled' to 4 countries and participated in dance, song, art, learning greetings/counting etc and looking at native dress and artefact's.

    Attached to this post is an example of children visiting one destination- China. Here they looked at dress, lanterns, books, posters, watched a traditional Chinese dance, learnt about the flag, capital city and greeting and attempted to use chopsticks!

    Te Reo with Whaea Hardie Boys





    Over the the next couple of terms all children at Royal Oak Primary School will be participating in a Te Reo programme with Mrs Hardie Boys and Miss Sowerby. This takes place in the 'Whare Kura' or School house. currently situated in Room 2.
    The Year 1 & 2 classes have a session every second Wednesday with Whaea Hardie Boys and during this time they learn greetings and phrases, dances and songs, names of things and other classroom activities. We are so lucky to have these teachers- what a valuable resource!
    Kia Ora!

    Friday, March 4, 2011

    Red and Black Day!

    Today the whole school came dressed in Red and Black and brought along a gold coin donation. This was all to support the people (and schools) effected by the devastating earthquake in Christchurch on the 22nd of February. It was amazing to see everyone showing their love and support for Christchurch by wearing their red and black. Altogether we raised over $2,000 and our wonderful board matched our contribution taking us up to $4,584.60!!!!
    Well done Royal Oak Primary- I am sure Christchurch will really appreciate your efforts!

    Tuesday, February 22, 2011

    Cool to be Kind Show


    Today we all got to watch a show called "Its cool to be kind" by Marty Rochfort. It was an anti-bullying show which encouraged us to take more responsibility for our actions, show more tolerance, exercise more self control and show more care and concern for others.

    Tuesday, February 15, 2011

    The New P.E Shed











    Work began today on our new P.E shed- the diggers came in to break up the concrete and the shed will arrive soon. It will be great to have one place to neatly keep all our equipment!
    It was exciting to watch the work start...but very noisy!

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011

    Meet the Teacher Evening


    A reminder about Meet the Teacher Evening happening Tuesday 15th February. Hope to see you there!

    Wednesday, February 2, 2011

    TERM 1- 2011

    What is happening for this Term???

    • Our school wide concept is- 'Pride in Our Place'- New Zealand Rocks!

    • We will be: -looking closely at what it means to be a Kiwi/ New Zealander in 2011. -exploring the many cultures that now make up New Zealand and our school community. -taking time to look at the countries represented by our families and their important traditions, history and festivals. -looking back through NZ history and important happenings that have shaped our country eg- treaty of Waitangi

    • Our Writing Focus will be- Personal Recounts/ Picture Plans/ Cameo Writing/ Recrafting/ Publishing and a particular focus on Transactional Writing: Explanation- The Life Cycle of Butterfly.

    • Our mathematics programme will be- Statistics-Investigation (2 weeks)--> Assessment (3 weeks) Number knowledge- assessment, routines, grouping addition basic facts (5 weeks)
    SPECIAL EVENTS:

    • -Day ONE- Tuesday 1st February

    • -Meet the Teacher Evening- Tuesday 15th February (week 3)

    • -Grasshopper Tennis- Year 1 (Weeks 4- 7)

    • -Ripper Rugby- Year 1- Tuesday 8th & Thursday 10th March (Week 6)

    • -Ripper Rugby- Year 2- Tuesday 15th & Thursday 17th March (Week 7)

    • -Travelwise Week- Monday 21st- Friday 25th March (Week 8)

    • -Food Festival- Saturday 2nd April 11:30am- 2:30pm

    • -Art Gallery Trip- Year 2 classes Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th April (Week 10)

    • -Last Day of Term- Friday 15th April (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 dont hesitate to ask your child's teacher :-)

    Tuesday, February 1, 2011

    WELCOME TO 2011!


    Happy New Year everyone and Welcome to 2011 with the Royal Oak Primary Junior School. We look forward to another exciting year together- make sure you stop by to check out any updates, photos, news and just to see what has been happening! :-)

    Monday, October 11, 2010

    TERM 4- 2010

    What is happening for this Term???

    Our school wide concept is- CONTRIBUTION & CELEBRATIONS

    Our Big Picture will be- 'A Chance to Enhance'
    with the Big Question- 'How can we improve and enhance the World we live in?'

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

    Our mathematics programme will be- Measurement (1 week)--> Number (6 weeks)--> Statistics- Probability (2 weeks)--> Geometry- Transformation & Symmetry (1 week)

    SPECIAL EVENTS:
    -Safe Walking for Year 1 & 2 over weeks 1-4
    -ART EXHIBITION (Week 2)
    -Grandparent Day- Thursday 21st October (Week 2)
    -Soccer Day- classes rotate (Week 2 & 3)
    -LABOUR DAY (school closed) Monday 25th October (Week 3)
    -Year 3-6 Athletics Day- Wednesday 17th November (Week 6)
    -Year 0-2 Athletics Day- Tuesday 7th December (Week 10)
    -LAST DAY OFF SCHOOL- Thursday 16th December (School closes at 12pm)

    If you have any questions or there is anything else you would like to know about the class programme don't hestitate to pop in and see your classroom teacher or ask at the office :-)

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    Year 2 Netballers at the ROPS Netball Gathering


    On Tuesday 21st of September the Royal Oak Primary School Netball players met in the hall for an annual prizegiving.


    This year an enthusiastic group of nearly 4o Year 2 children were involved! Over this term and last they all participated in ball skills and drills every Thursday lunchtime and even built up to learning the court formation and playing games. The students really enjoyed taking part in this programme and we would really like to thank Nicola Mills who ran the programme and her assistants: Nicky Russell, Belinda Lee, Megan Parke, Kelly Flux, Sara McIntosh, Kerry Warn- without their wonderful help and support this wouldnt have been possible.


    We recognised both parents and children who were involved in this programme and each child got a certificate and a ball to encourage them to continue to practise and play the sport.


    I can't wait to see them on the court next year!!


    (Olivia Room 10 is pictured with the Year 2- end of season prize.)

    Monday, September 20, 2010

    Happy HOLIDAYS!


    Hi Everyone,

    A friendly reminder that we are coming up to the end of Term which is Friday 24th September.

    We will all be on holiday for 2 weeks and everyone will return to school on Monday 11th October.

    We wish you all a happy and safe holiday- see you back on Monday the 11th!

    Friday, September 3, 2010

    GAMESATHON!


    Today was a great day at Royal Oak Primary School!

    The whole school participated in a fundraising 'Gamesathon'.

    The rain (mostly) held off for us all to get out alongside our buddy classes and participate in all sorts of fun games and activities.

    We were all assigned a country from the Commonwealth and we represented our countries by wearing their colours and making banners and flags as well as other fun things such as wigs, hats, face paint, lavalavas and even feather boas!

    A great time was had by all and a huge thanks goes out to Mrs Jamieson and her team of wonderful teachers who organised the huge event for us. And another big thanks goes out to all our family and friends who sponsored us!

    Check out the website for more photos from the day but attached is Mrs Jamieson (head organiser) and Mrs Hopkins (our MC for the day!)

    Wednesday, August 25, 2010

    Year 2 Folk Dance Festival


    Yesterday, Tuesday the 24th of August, all the Year 2 students and teachers travelled to the La Bouree Folk Dance Festival at the ASB Stadium. The students were there to perform 14 dances that they have learned and practiced several times a week over the last couple of months. The Royal Oak Year 2's performed alongside many other schools and they were just fantastic!! They represented Royal Oak in such a positive manner and a great day was had by all who attended!

    Friday, August 6, 2010

    BOOK PARADE


    A snapshot from our annual Book Parade- I think the teachers had just as much fun dressing up as the students! For more photos visit the school website www.royaloak.school.nz and select 'photo galleries' and 'Book Parade 2010'

    Monday, August 2, 2010

    BOOK WEEK:


    Welcome to Book Week at Royal Oak Primary School!

    We have got lots of great things happening this week to celebrate our annual 'Book Week'. This morning we have all enjoyed a great visit from author Tim Tipene who talked to us all about 'taming our taniwha' (photo attached). We will also have teachers reading to a range of different classes over book week. Then of course we have our great Book Parade on Friday!! Don't forget to dress up as your favourite book character!!
    Hope to see you all there!

    Monday, July 26, 2010

    Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori


    This week is Maori Language Week.
    Staff and students will be encouraged to use Maori words and phrases and greetings as much as possible over the week. We will also be enjoying Maori dance, song and activities as well as a concert from our Culture Club on Friday. Join in with us!
    Kia Ora!

    Monday, July 19, 2010

    TERM THREE- 2010

    What is happening for this Term???

    Our school wide concept is- EMPOWERMENT

    Our Big Picture will be- 'Green is Mean''
    with the Big Question- 'How can we share and care for our Planet?'

    MAJOR FOCUS: Science MINOR FOCUS: Social Sciences
    Contexts: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Oceans and Rain forests, Water Cycle

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

    We will also continue participating in the 'Kids Rich in Character' Programme.

    Our mathematics programme will be- Numeracy (Weeks 1-5) ---> Money (Weeks 6) ---> Fractions (Weeks 7&8) ---> Measurement- volume, capacity and weight (Weeks 9&10) **approx.**


    SPECIAL EVENTS:
    -Maori Language Week (Week 2)
    -Book Week (Week 3)
    -Year 2 Folk Dance Festival- Tuesday 24th August (Week 6)
    -Daffodil Day- Friday 27th August (Week 6)
    -Kricathon- Friday 3rd September (Week 7)
    -3 way Conferences Tuesday 7th September 3:00-8:00pm (Week 8)
    -3 way Conferences Thursday 9th September 1:00pm- 6:30pm (Week 8)
    -LAST DAY OF TERM Friday 24th September (Week 10)

    Any questions don't hesitate to contact your classroom teacher or call the office on 09 624 2800

    Tuesday, June 1, 2010

    Singing in the rain

    Hurrah!

    The heavy rain was such fun this afternoon. The playground had turned into a lake and the water was threatening to come into Room 4. It was so exciting that we had to stop learning about fractions and hide under the verandah trying not to dip our toes into the lake outside.

    Luckily two of our well prepared boys had gumboots and they waded out to the deepest part just checking there were no whales to be found. Then we made an origami boat and watched it float off on the waves gently fanned by the wind.

    We couldn't stop giggling and making lots of noise! School is so much fun!

    Thursday, May 27, 2010

    It was wonderful to see everyone 'heart jamming' this afternoon. We certainly looked very bright and happy.

    I wonder how much money we will raise for the Heart Foundation?

    Thanks to everyone that made such an effort to dress up in red!

    Heart Jam!!


    We are very excited as we have arrived this morning to see a sea of red!!

    WHY? Because it's HEART JAM time! Come and join us at 2:15 in the playground and see us jump around to raise money for the Heart Foundation.

    Friday, May 21, 2010

    Stardome Trip- Year 2


    Reminder that the Year 2 classes are visiting the Stardome and your child should have brought a permission slip today, outlining the fee and dates etc.


    Rooms 10 and 11 - Wednesday 26th May

    Rooms 8 and 9 - Monday 31st May

    Cost - $7.00 per child


    Preschoolers are not able to come along on this trip but parents are invited to, also at a cost of $7.00


    Any further questions, dont hesitate to speak to a Year 2 teacher :-)

    Monday, April 26, 2010

    TERM TWO- 2010

    What is happening for this Term???

    Our school wide concept is- CREATIVITY

    Our Big Picture will be- 'Cycle of Life'
    with the Big Question- 'How can we interpret our ever-changing world?'

    MAJOR FOCUS: The Arts MINOR FOCUS: Science
    Contexts: Seasons, Day and Night, the Earths Cycles.

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

    We will also be participating in the 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' Programme.

    Our mathematics programme will be- Numeracy (Weeks 1-5) ---> Assessment (Weeks 6&7) ---> Fractions (Weeks 7&8) ---> Geometry (Weeks 9&10) **approx.**


    SPECIAL EVENTS:
    -Parent Teacher Conferences- Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th May (Week 4)
    -Student Teacher's start Monday 17th May in Rooms 8 and 10 (Week 5)
    -Trip to Stardome Rooms 10 & 11 (YEAR 2) - Wednesday 26th May 12:00- 1:30pm (Week 6)
    -Heart Jam - Friday 28th May (Week 6)
    -Queens B'Day (School Closed) Monday 7th June (Week 8)

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    MEET THE TEAM!


    Introducing the Junior Team:
    Back Row (Left to Right) Geraldine Conway, Helen Fisher,Lorelle Headland, Sarah Brinkley, Kirsty Hardie-Boys, Glenys Sellar, Kimberley Nieborak.
    Front Row (Left to Right) Rebecca Harrison, Kathryn Bisphan, Jenny Mahar, Beulah Paul, Christine Hopkins, Aylene FitzGerald, Carolyn Haines, Carol Scott.

    Junior School Blog


    Welcome to the Junior School Blog at ROPS. We hope to use this Blog to share what we are doing in our team over the year. Stop by and visit when you can!:)