Reminder...

       Goal Setting Interviews are to be held on Thursday 20 March, not this week.

Room 10 Newsletter Number 1 2014

Dear Parents / Caregivers

Welcome to the start of the 2014 school year. I trust you have had a great holiday with your children. Term 1 has now begun, and for the Year 6 children, their last year of primary schooling.

Term One events are as follows…

Week 1 •              Assembly (Friday)

Week 2 •              Meet the Teacher (Tuesday)

                              Aquatics (Thursday)

Week 3 •       Aquatics (Thursday)    

                              BOT BBQ 5.30-7.30pm (Friday)

Week 4 •              Year 3–6 Progress and Achievement Testing begins

                             Aquatics  (Thursday)

                             Swimming Sports (Friday)

Week 6 •            Interschool Swimming Sports (Tuesday 11 March)

Week 10 •         Principal’s Challenge (Friday)

Week 11 •         Tabloids (Thursday)

• Homework will start in Week 3.

• Rebekah Shepard will be working in Room 10 on Thursdays to cover my senior release days.

• Swimming will be on wet or fine unless the weather is really miserable.

• The Birchwood School generative topic for 2014 will be focused around the theme ‘RESPECT – The Birchwood Way’.

(Respect - Give it to Get it/Accept and Respect – we are all different)

I am looking forward to teaching your child this year, and to meeting you all at the ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening. If you are unable to make this meeting, I will be sending home a follow-up newsletter with this information on it.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries or concerns at any time.

Many thanks

Sue Baillie

                                                                        

   

NZ RED CROSS - PEOPLE SAVERS

Term Four, Week Two

We had such a great time learning how to be a People Savers.

It would be great if Room 10 could share with their family what DRSABC stands for.

The group are learning the order of response to a casualty who is choking.

Caleb and Mia are learning how to dislodge an obstruction in the airway.

Braden is making sure the airway is clear.

Jayden is seeing if the casualty is responding.

Brooklyn is checking to see if the casualty is still breathing

Jaymee-Niamh is putting Charlotte in the recovery position.

Bree and Sophy are practising putting a casualty in the recovery position.

Brayden is making sure his casualty is warm.

Holidays

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ROOM 10.  

I hope you have a great break.  Remember to take care and get some rest before Term 4.

Swimming lessons at ASB. GREAT FUN!

What is Niko up too?!

Brayden and Jet-Li, listening carefully to their instructor.  What wonderful swimmers you are.

Treading water for 5 mins - most of the year 5/6 students managed this easily!

The students favourite after lesson activity.  Great fun!

How many students can we fit on the inflatable toy?

Waiting for the students to get changed is fun too!

Energiser!!

Each day we do an energiser activity.  Energisers are interactive and co-operative activities that light up a group and bring people together.  They help get a group acquainted, spark a discussion, change the pace, or bring closure to a group activity.  Everyone can play, rules are simple, and the emphasis is on spontaneity, community-building, and most of all, FUN.

Here are some photos of today's energiser - a great activity for encouraging co-operation.

Jump Jam Marathon - WE HAD SO MUCH FUN! Please remember to bring your money in...

Speeches

Well done to the students who remembered that this week we are sharing our speeches.  We have listened to some very entertaining speeches so far.  We need to work on slowing down and using expression.

Homework - Term 3 Week 5

This week for homework you need to practise your speeches.

Look at your audience The audience should feel that you are talking to them.

Speak up! You must speak loudly enough for everyone in the audience to hear you but, at the same time, there must be enough variation in the pitch of your voice to avoid monotony. 

Speaking a little more slowly than you do in ordinary conversation also helps you to breathe more deeply and naturally. It will also make it easier for the audience to understand you.

Good posture will help you to look keen and alert, and give the audience the feeling that you are pleased to be speaking to them.

End on a strong note.

Spelling

Remember to learn your spelling words - we test in class on a Friday and then we collect new words for the week ahead.