Information for parents

Term 4 Swimming

Children can start bringing their togs and towels on

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

We may not go swimming - it depends on other things happening at school, how many children bring togs and how cold it is as the weather is still quite cool.

Year 2 and 3 Performance Assembly

Tuesday 13th December   1.30- 2.30

The Year 2 & 3 students invite you to share their Culture Club item at a special performance assembly.

All welcome to come along to celebrate.

If you have any further questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact us.

Year 2 and 3 Teachers.

IMPORTANT NOTE   

ONLY THE JUNIOR KAPA HAKA CHILDREN WILL PERFORM AT OUR CULTURAL FESTIVAL ON THURSDAY  1ST DECEMBER.  THESE CHILDREN HAVE TAKEN SEPARATE NOTICES HOME.

	Rangitoto Team   Term 4, 2016  (9 1/2 weeks) Joanne Northover (Team Leader)   - Room 15, Year 2         jnorthover@torbay.school.nz Jenny Southward - Room 16, Year 2                                      jsouthward@torbay.school.nz Sarah Kilkolly - Room 17, Year 2 & 3                                     skilkolly@torbay.school.nz Ingrid Cooper – Room 18, Year 2                                           icooper@torbay.school.nz
Optimising Learning Brain Food - Children enjoy and need to eat regular snacks. Reminder, brain food snacks include small bite size pieces of pre-cut fruit and vegetables, dried fruit, plain unsalted popcorn.  It should be able to popped into mouths straight away so children can continue working.  Brain food needs to be in named small sealed containers or re-sealable plastic bags in the classroom before the 8.55am bell each morning.   Water - Water is very important.  Please ensure your child has a named water bottle.     Uniform and personal belongings - Please check and rename everything clearly. Please ensure that your child has a Torbay School hat and sunblock in their bag this term.
We are learning to show C.A.R.E. Commitment Aroha Respect/Responsibility Excellence               Commit to learning – at school and at home Aroha – caring for ourselves, others and the environment. Respect – showing respect to myself, others and the environment. Responsibility – being responsible for myself, my actions, my belongings and my environment. Excellence – always aim for excellence in learning, achieving and behaviour. USE YOUR WITS Walk away Ignore them Tell someone Say how you feel		Welcome to Term 4, After such a wet and stormy couple of weeks we are back at school and ready for the warm sunny weather to begin.   Thank you for supporting our Art Exhibition.  We had a lot of positive feedback and the children thoroughly enjoyed the process of creating art to exhibit.   Special welcome to Allee Overmyer, a student teacher from the U.S.A. who is joining our team this term and will be based in Room 17. Remember that school begins at 8.55am.  Please ensure your child is there at least 5-10  minutes before this so they can prepare for the day and chat with their friends.   Homework on class blogs – Fortnightly Please check our class blogs for notices, information and what is happening in classrooms. We have loads of lovely photos.   Oral Language Reporting - Term timetable and topic on class blogs Room 15-  http://torbayroom152016.blogspot.co.nz/ Room 16 - http://2016torbay16.blogspot.co.nz/ Room 17 - http://2016torbay17sk.blogspot.co.nz/ Room 18 -  http://2016torbay18.blogspot.co.nz/ Learning in Rangitoto Team for Term 4 This term, the big idea behind all our learning is Reading Around the World.  What are the similarities or differences between books/stories from around the world?   Mathematics    -  Addition, Subtraction, multiplication, division (as                           Appropriate for child’s level)                           Proportions and ratio                           Measurement (mass and capacity)                           Reviewing fractions, length and Geometry.                                 Writing            -  Recounts and Instructional writing Reading          -   Reading skills, fluency, retelling and understanding Oral Language -  Presenting poems and News reporting (see class blog). Inquiry Topic     -  Reading Around the world.  Children will be exposed to Social Science  - Stories from a wide range of cultures and complete & Literacy            Activities based on these.         P.E.                     -  Gymnastics and athletics.  Fitness skipping and running. IMPORTANT DATES… October 10th            Term 4 begins October 17th            Reports for children with Term 4 birthdays October 24th            Public Holiday - Labour Day, School Closed November 2nd        Year 3 - zoo trip November 16th       Corban’s Art Centre - Theme - Pasifika       December 1st          Cultural Festival December 5th        Year 2 Pumphouse Theatre - The Santa Claus Show December 15th        Last day of school 2016

Supporting your child in a BIG way. If you want to give you child extra learning support for Term 4.  Here are our suggestions and the order that children learn.   Maths (Children need to know the following instantly) Basic addition facts up to ten. Basic addition facts up to twenty. Basic subtraction facts up to ten. Basic subtraction facts up to twenty. Learning about fractions and equal sharing - this is great fun when you are cooking or sharing between siblings. Learning to measure things.  First choose a type of measure ie. footsteps,  Estimate and then measure.     Talk about, shapes, sort them into groups and give reasons for your decisions.

When you ask your child “What did you do at school today?” Do they answer “I played with my friends or I ate my lunch”. Try asking another type of question… What did you learn in reading today? What important things did you learn from this? How did you learn this? What was your goal in …………...? What did you need help with? What really made you think? What did you find easy?  Why was it easy? Explain how you could improve this? What did you find difficult? Why did you choose these as your next learning goals? What other things would you like to learn about?

Spelling Spelling words will come home each week Say the word Sound the word Spell the word aloud Cover the word Write the word without looking Check the word ***repeat for next word If you get it wrong write it five times and try again.	Reading Read a wide range of texts from home, school, second hand shops, libraries. Read fiction and non-fiction. Read to your child so that they can listen and see you reading.   Share the reading of a book. IMPORTANT Ask your child to retell the text in their own words. Encourage your child to retell in sequence. Ask questions that need to be answered with information from the book. If unsure, encourage them to find the answer in the book. Ask questions that involve them giving personal opinions, e.g. Why do you think…..     How do you know ……. What would you do if this happened to you?
Ball skills - throwing and catching.	Keeping fit - Practise coordination by skipping.
TeReo -    Te huarere (The weather) http://hereoora.tki.org.nz/Unit-plans/Unit-4-Te-huarere	Climbing, balancing, hitting balls, jumping and landing.

         

IMPORTANT MESSAGES 5.9.16

1. Please check your child's hair for headlice - treat if required.

2. Please read notice below re school closes 1.00pm Friday 9.9.16

5th September 2016

 Dear Parents and Caregivers, 

NZEI & PPTA PAID UNION MEETINGS 2016 ­ Friday 9/9. SCHOOL CLOSES 1.00PM

The Government has announced a proposal to dramatically change the way schools are funded. Principals and Boards of Trustees would have to make trade­offs between teaching staff and other costs schools face.

Primary and Secondary Teachers are very worried that the global budget would lead to:
 ● fewer teachers and larger class sizes
 ● less job security for teachers
 ● lower quality teaching
 ● fewer hours by redistributing funding for teacher aides and support staff
 ● more complex financial work for Boards of Trustees

The Government's current funding review is a once­in­a­generation opportunity to better fund education. NZEI Te Riu Roa and PPTA are the unions that represent more than 60,000 teachers and support staff from birth to year 13. They have asked all members​ to attend meetings in September to hear more about the proposal and help determine the education sector’s response.

 We saw similar discussions five years ago which were quickly terminated after considerable concern by our community.

I encourage you to either collect your child at 12.30pm​ at the end of the morning learning block as the school will be closed.​  However if you are unable to do this, and your child remains at school after 12.30pm, then an alternative programme ​will be provided by joining up the classes for the afternoon.
Please email us​ on admin@torbay.school.nz if your child will remain at school.

It is important for union members in our school to attend these meetings to have a say about how we get better funding, not bulk funding.

 Thank you in advance for your support

Wendy Sandifer
 Principal

Please help us!

 Dear Parents

Our class is participating in the AIA Healthy Kids Challenge. It's a fun virtual adventure around the globe, led by rugby star Cory Jane and his special guests. We all create our own little avatars and each child will receive a free pedometer to count steps in the real world that will move our team around the online race track. As our steps move us to a new destination, we see a video of our class of avatars exploring with Cory and getting some healthy tips too.

We need your help too! We'd love you to get involved so you can support and encourage your child to get moving more often and help us get more entries into the draw to win one of 20 $1000 AIA sporting grants for our school and one of 50 Huawei tablets for our classrooms. Simply join the Parents Class Team and count your steps to help move your team around the same course as the kids. Race against other parents teams, get active with your child and have some fun along the way.

Click this link: https://register.healthykids.kiwi/SetupParent1.aspx?team_id=8688&checksum=D1137777230CA587B064B7A6D18377B6

You will get an email confirming your place and letting you know what to do next. To find out more go tohttps://www.healthykids.kiwi and read the Parents section of the website.

Kind regards,

Joanne Northover

Olympic Day Teams

For Friday 19 August 2016

	New Zealand	Australia	Great Britain	United States of America	China	South Africa
Room 15	Harlan	Jack	Jayden	Kimiora-Dior	Fleur	Koji
	Jacob	Cruz	Finlay	Tayla	Skyla	Owen
	Anya	Renee	Caitlin	Rosalie	Eva	Abigail
	Sophia	Malika	Nathan	Alfie	Chloe	Abby G
	Abby N	Blaine	Ella-Mae	Koby	Henry

	Rangitoto Team        Term 3, 2016  (9 weeks) Joanne Northover (Team Leader)   - Room 15, Year 2         jnorthover@torbay.school.nz Jenny Southward - Room 16, Year 2                                      jsouthward@torbay.school.nz Sarah Kilkolly - Room 17, Year 2 & 3                                     skilkolly@torbay.school.nz Ingrid Cooper – Room 18, Year 2                                           icooper@torbay.school.nz
Optimising Learning Brain Food - Children enjoy and need to eat regular snacks.  Reminder, brain food snacks include small bite size pieces of pre-cut fruit and vegetables, nuts, dried fruit, plain unsalted popcorn.  It should be able to popped into mouths straight away so children can continue working.  Brain food needs to be in named small sealed containers or re-sealable plastic bags in the classroom before the 8.55am bell each morning.   Water - Water is very important.  Please ensure your child has a named water bottle.     Homework – Fortnightly To support learning in the classroom, Torbay School has a homework grid. As of week 3 this term, homework sheets will no longer be glued into homework books.  Homework will be available on the class blog.  This will save time in the classroom.  If you require one to be printed please contact the classroom teacher.  Homework sheets have notices and information from the teacher and classroom.  We hope you will also take this opportunity to sit with your child and look at class blogs.
We are learning to show C.A.R.E. Commitment Aroha Respect/Responsibility Excellence               Commit to learning – at school and at home Aroha – caring for ourselves, others and the environment. Respect – showing respect to myself, others and the environment. Responsibility – being responsible for myself, my actions, my belongings and my environment. Excellence – always aim for excellence in learning, achieving and behaviour. USE YOUR WITS Walk away Ignore them Tell someone Say how you feel		Welcome to Term 3, Multiple Learning Conversations have been a great success.  Children did a great job!  Many have said that it made them feel proud to spend time at school with their mum and dad, sharing their learning and games. Children have settled quickly. Notices for our Rangitoto Team trip to MOTAT on 10th August have been  sent home and parent help have been notified.  Please sign permission slips and return to school as soon as possible.   Learning in Rangitoto Team for Term 3 This term, the big idea behind all our learning is “How Do Simple Machines Help Us” and “How could we make Pirate’s lives easier onboard”.  All areas of learning are planned to children at their individual ability.  To do this more efficiently, children who are at similar levels, are grouped together.  This method allows teachers to spend time with individuals and small groups, providing more focused teaching on children’s needs.   Mathematics    -    Addition, Subtraction, multiplication, division (as                              Appropriate for child’s level) fractions,  Measurement                              (orientation and mapping) and Geometry (symmetry)      Writing              -    Narrative - imaginative stories Reading            -   Reading skills, fluency, retelling and understanding Oral Language  -   Reporting news to the class see class blogs  for term topics. Inquiry Topic      -  Science and Technology  - Simple Machines           The Arts               -   Visual Art -Mixed Media Construction and sketching                            -   Torbay School Art Exhibition. P.E.                      -   Invasion Games, Turbo touch   IMPORTANT DATES… August 10th             - M.O.T.A.T. visit August 15th-21st     - Maths Week September 14th       - 60th School Jubilee, Writing Festival and Art Exhibition September 23rd       - Last day Term 3 October 10th            - Term 4 begins December 15th        - Last day of school 2016

Assembly this week Thursday

19th of May

all children from Year 2 will be singing on stage.

    

	Rangitoto Team              Term 2, 2016 Joanne Northover (Team Leader)   - Room 15, Year 2         jnorthover@torbay.school.nz Jenny Southward - Room 16, Year 2                                  jsouthward@torbay.school.nz Sarah Kilkolly - Room 16, Year 2 & 3                                 skilkolly@torbay.school.nz Ingrid Cooper – Room 18, Year 2                                       icooper@torbay.school.nz
Welcome back to term2, We hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable April holiday. Rangitoto Team have planned another interesting range of topics this term. Classrooms are very busy places, if you are able to help in any way, please contact your child’s teacher.  Jobs may include putting away books, listening to reading, supporting writing, helping with other learning or sharpening pencils or cleaning the tables.  Perhaps you would prefer to do jobs at home.  Any help is appreciated!  If you are going to support learners and teachers in class, please send an email to the teacher so you can complete our Health and Safety training session. ☺
We are learning to show C.A.R.E. Commitment Aroha Respect/Responsibility Excellence               Commitment to learning – at school and at home Aroha – caring for ourselves, others and the environment. Respect – showing respect to myself, others and the environment. Responsibility – being responsible for myself, my actions, my belongings and my environment. Excellence – always aim for excellence in learning, achieving and behaviour. USE YOUR WITS Walk away Ignore them Tell someone Say how you feel		Optimising Learning Brain Food - Keep bringing brain food, as most children need to eat regular snacks.  Reminder, brain food snacks must be small bite size pieces of pre-cut fruit and vegetables, nuts, dried fruit, plain unsalted popcorn.  Brain food needs to be in named small sealed containers or re-sealable plastic bags in the classroom before the 8.55am bell each morning.  If your child is bringing whole fruit and other food they will be asked to put it away until morning tea time.    Water - Water is very important.  Please ensure your child has a named water bottle.  If your child has a named water bottle in their bag and one in the classroom, that is fantastic but not essential.  It does help stop children entering classes during break times.       Homework – Thank you to those who support and share learning at home through our homework grid.  Many ask if we are short of time, what is most important.  The answer is reading, spelling and Maths basic facts.  Please ensure readers come back to school everyday as we need them for follow up tasks.  Please support your child to learn spelling words for tests on Friday and words from essential word lists in homework books.    Learning in Rangitoto Team for Term 2 This term, the big idea behind all our learning is  Journey through Science All areas of learning are planned to challenge children at their individual ability.  To do this more efficiently, children who are at similar levels, are grouped together.  This method allows teachers to spend time with individuals and small groups, providing more focused teaching on children’s needs.   Mathematics    -   Addition, subtraction, early multiplication, fractions    Writing              -   Recount and reports   Reading             -   Reading skills, fluency, retelling and understanding Oral Language  -   Speaking and listening to others P.E.                     -   Cross country training and ball & movement skills through                                invasion skills.     Science &               Physical world based on sound Technology &       Sound - making, listening  and creating sound.   Visual Art              Te Reo                -  Matariki Music & Dance -   Listening to and creating music.  Move to music (dance) Culture Club      - Opportunities to explore other cultures through dance, song and music.
Important Dates….. 11th May - Rhythm Interactive Show within school hours for children. 16th May - Road Safety Week 17th May - Science in a Van show within school hours for children. 19th May - Rangitoto Team presents our school assembly - all children will participate. 2oth May - Teacher Only Day - school closed for children 27th May - Road Safety- Buckle up Programme for Rangitoto Team                    Torbay School Disco			Class sites Check out class sites and blogs by clicking on www.torbay.school.nz  class sites and selecting your childs class.
Maths Matters - How can you help at home? Think of ways to make Maths fun - you want your child to learn how pleasurable maths can be. Children are learning that Maths is everywhere within their environments.  They come across it in their everyday lives and often don’t make the connection to Maths. It's also important to show how we use Maths skills in our everyday lives and to involve your child in this.     Puzzles, games, and solving problems are a great way to start.  Identifying problems and solving them can also help your child develop maths skills. If you see him or her puzzling over something, talk about the problem and try to work out the solution together. Don't shy away from maths if you didn’t like it at school. Try to find new ways to enjoy the subject with your child.     Here are some ideas to help support your child’s learning at home and during car journeys. Point out the different shapes to be found around your home.  Encourage children to find and describe them.  Play I spy.  I spy a shape with four corners. Take your child shopping and talk about the quantities of anything you buy. Count objects (cutlery, books, toys, pegs, other objects around home). Let your child handle money and work out how much things cost. Look together for numbers on street signs and car registration plates. Add the numbers together from number plates. Pose problems and challenge your child to solve them. Count forwards and backwards.  First to 10, then 20 and next 100. Skip counting – support forwards and backwards counting in, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to and from 100. This will support times tables. Skip count using the letter boxes on a walk – ask what the next number will be Board games – counting on from a number and landing on a new square.  Ask your child to predict what number they will land on before counting. Math quiz or scavenger hunt (find 12 round rocks and 4 white shells – How many things did you find altogether.)
Supporting your child with their reading Read to your child. Before you begin a new book, look at the front cover and predict what the story might be about.   Look at the pictures and talk about them and talk about the story.   Ask questions about the text. Ask children to retell the text in their own words, encourage them to begin at the beginning, then retell the middle and end.   Read with your children – sharing the reading, taking turns especially if the text is tricky. Read a serial chapter book - build excitement about reading by reading a chapter each day. Listen to your child read to you, a sibling, pets or cuddly toys. Visit the library – read a wide variety of  books and texts, including fiction and nonfiction. Read and follow instructions. We Love Reading!

   Term 2 News Reporters

Oral Language……………. News Groups

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Caitlin Finlay Abby N Alfie Abigail R	Ella-Mae Harlan Abby G Henry Cruz Renee	Sophia Koby Anya Chloe Fleur Blaine	Koji Nathan Kimiora-Dior Tayla Skyla Owen	Jack Jacob Malika Rosalie Jayden

Weeks  1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Topic Super School Holidays	Topic Share your favourite game that you like playing.	Topic - Maths Trace around shapes and create a picture.  Count the shapes with tally sticks and share it with the class.	Topic Bring a book to school and share the beginning,middle and end. Practise reading a page to read to the class.	Topic Bring your favourite picture in the share with the class. It can be one you have drawn, or a picture in a book or magazine.
Walt use what, where, when and who to share our holiday news.	I am learning to explain why I think this is interesting information..	I am learning to have eye contact with the audience.	Walt share information in sequence.	I am learning to explain why I think this is interesting.
Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
Topic - Maths Write a word problem which includes numbers for the children to solve.  eg.  If there were 36 seagulls on the roof and 7 flew away.  How many are left on the roof?	Topic - Science Share anything about science.  An experiment, website, object or book.	Topic - Literacy write a short story and bring it school to read to the class.	Topic Find a funny joke.  Practise reading it and then practise presenting it to the class. Come to school and make us laugh!	Topic Share what you are looking forward to in the holidays
I am learning to listen to other people’s ideas.	I am learning to speak at a steady pace.	I am learning to project my voice to an audience.		I am learning to have eye contact with the audience

9.3.16

This week I have given children Sumdog usernames and passwords. This is an on line site that I have used for Maths for several years. Year 2 children have a personal subscription. Yes there are games which are fun, but it is educational - it improves Maths knowledge, reading and basic fact speed. This is a great opportunity for your child. Please use it at home. If you are using an iphone or ipad please up load the sumdog app as it allows your child to access all the Maths games.

https://www.sumdog.com/

Have fun - but please only allow the Year 2 child to use this otherwise the questions will become too hard. We use it in the classroom too. Sumdog sends me daily reports on progress and areas of difficulty. Thanks :)

9.3.16

This is our last swimming week. We will have a fun swim this week so please bring your togs on Thursday.

6.3.16

PLEASE check swimming timetable and news timetable below, Thanks :)

Oral Language……………. News Groups

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Caitlin Finlay Abby N Alfie Abigail R	Ella-Mae Harlan Abby G Henry Cruz Renee	Sophia Koby Anya Chloe Fleur Blaine	Koji Nathan Kimiora-Dior Tayla Skyla Owen	Jack Jacob Malika Rosalie Jayden

Weeks  1-3	Week 4 beginning 22 Feb	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
Topic - News	Topic - Tell us three things you like to do. What interesting things do you like to do?	Topic - Where does my family come from?- share on a world map	Topic - Things that I learn, train or practice after school- keas/ dancing/ sport/ swimming and tell us about it.	Topic - Share views and opinions about the New Zealand flags
Walt share what, when, who and where.	WALT share What, when,who and where	I am learning to have eye contact with the audience.	I am learning to project my voice to an audience.	I am learning to  explain my opinion,
Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11
Topic - Easter 2 weeks - bring something in that is special to them	Topic - Easter 2 weeks - bring something in that is special to them	Topic - Tell us about your favourite place in New Zealand	Topic -My favourite Book/poem/song Bring in your favourite book to share.  Tell us why it is your favourite and read part of it to us.	School Holidays Last day of term 15th April 2016
.I am learning to project my voice to an audience.	.I am learning to project my voice to an audience.	I am learning to explain why I think this is interesting information..	I am learning to listen to other people’s ideas.

Room 15 Swimming Term 1 week 6 beginning 7 March
No swimming Monday due to pool chemicals
As the weather is getting cooler, we are assessing swimming please ensure you bring togs.

Students have been placed into groups. Please see below for their swimming day.

Fish	Dolphins	Jellyfish	Sharks
Thursday	Wednesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Fleur 15 Skyla 15 Abigail R 15 Renee 15 Blaine 15 Owen15 Abby N 15	Abby G 15 Anya 15 Kimora-Dior 15 Malika 15 Alfie 15 Henry 15 Chloe 15 Tayla 15 Rosalie 15 Jayden 15 Cruz15	Caitlin 15 Ella-Mae 15	Sophia 15 Koji 15 Jack 15 Finlay 15 Harlan 15 Koby 15 Nathan 15 Jacob 15

Please name togs, towel and bag and place their swimming bag into their school bag.

Thanks heaps - Joanne :-)