Kia ora whānau,

Well done to everyone who participated in the LDA Dance Champs last night! You all represented Borough so well, and we are very proud of you! 

Junior Assembly: In Kōwhai at 2.30pm, Tuesday 18 August. All welcome.

Term 3 Learning: This term our theme is Creativity. We have started by using our imaginations to create different things. We read The Dot and created pictures from a dot, made What is the Circle? artworks, and created our own puzzles. We are also starting to plan our part in the production later this term. In Art, we are making masks to be part of our costumes.

In Literacy, our focus is narrative writing and using our imaginations to create interesting stories. We have written our own endings to Journey and created stories about wizards and magic. This week, we are taking our writing to a desert island! Later this term, we will focus on persuasive writing - how do we convince other people of our point of view?

In Maths, we have been learning about fractions. This week, we are starting to learn about patterns.

News topics for the rest of the term.
Week 5 - Would you rather be in winter all year long, or be in summer all year long? Give two reasons why.
Week 6 - Something that is blue.
Week 7 - Would you rather live in a treehouse or on a boat? Give two reasons why.
Week 8 - If I had a million dollars I would…
Week 9 - Would you rather be the teacher for a day or the principal for a day?
Week 10 - Free choice.

If you have any questions or concerns, please make contact via email amy.wederell@ashborough.school.nz

Ngā mihi,
Amy

Upcoming dates:

18 August - Junior Assembly - Kōwhai - 2.30pm
24 August - Teacher Only Day
16/17 September - School Production evenings
21 September - Junior Assembly - Mapou - 2.30pm

Kia ora everyone,

Junior Assembly: This is next Tuesday at 2:30pm in Kōwhai class. You are welcome to join us.

Lucky Book Club & Pies: Lucky Book Club is due in by the 28 August, and Pie orders are due back by the 21st August.

Library: Please remember to bring library books back to school on Friday so students can return them and choose new books to take home.

Well done to those who performed at Dance Champs last night!

Have a great week, 

Eirinn

eirinn.maclean@ashborough.school.nz

Upcoming dates:
18th August- Junior Assembly
24th August- Teacher Only Day

Good evening,

Junior Assembly - This is being hosted by Kowhai, 2.30pm, Tuesday 18 August. All welcome.

Term 3 Learning: This term our theme is Creativity. We have begun this by using our imaginations to create different things: collaborative monster drawings, What is the Circle? artworks, and Who do the Eyes Belong to? drawings. We are beginning to plan our part of the production that is coming up later in the term. In art we are making masks that will be a part of our costumes.

For literacy our focus in writing is narratives and how we can be creative with our writing. We have begun this by putting our own twist on The Three Little Pigs. Our writing in the second half of the term will be persuasive - how do we convince people of our point of view?

Maths so far this term has been looking at 2D and 3D shapes and beginning work on fractions.

Rimu Reporters/News Days:

We have a specific topic or focus each week as below. Students are encouraged to be giving details about their choices.

Week 4 - What you like to do at home

Week 5 - Superhero - Draw a picture of you as a superhero. What would your name be? What would your super power be?

Week 6 - What job would you like to do when you are older?

Week 7 - An after-school activity that you do eg swimming, gymnastics, rugby or share about what you would like to do as an after-school activity 

Week 8 - Something that is red

Week 9 - Your favourite food

Week 10 - Mystery Eggs 

If you have any questions or concerns, please make contact via email rebekah.clement@ashborough.school.nz

Ngā mihi,
Rebekah

Upcoming dates:

18 August - Junior Assembly - Kowhai - 2.30pm

24 August - Teacher Only Day

16/17 September - School Production evenings

21 September - Junior Assembly - Mapou - 2.30pm

Whārangi – Term 3, Week 4
Kia ora whānau,

We are now into Week 4 and beginning the next part of our Term 3 learning. Good luck to all the students competing in Dance Champs tonight - you have put in many practises! Have fun

Reading
In Reading, students will be working with a range of texts including our class chapter study, year-level texts, digital texts and multimedia.

We will also be reading across the curriculum, helping students understand that reading skills are important everywhere – whether we are following instructions, solving a maths problem, researching information or learning through a video or diagram.

Maths – Number
For Weeks 4–6 our main Maths focus is Number.

Students will be developing their number knowledge and practising different strategies for solving problems. We will continue our regular work with basic facts, addition and subtraction, times tables and division.

There will be lots of opportunities to use equipment, games, partner activities and problem-solving tasks, as well as explaining how we worked out an answer.

Oral Language & Production
Production rehearsals are becoming an important part of our week as Whārangi works with Manuka (Mr Hagan's class) on our performance.

This also links closely with our Oral Language learning. Students will be practising speaking clearly, using expression and appropriate volume, listening and responding to others, sustaining conversations and becoming more confident presenting in front of others.

We will practise these skills through partner and group discussions, class sharing, presentations, drama and our production rehearsals.

P.E. – Striking & Fielding
Our P.E. focus is striking and fielding. Students will practise skills such as throwing, catching, striking, positioning and working as part of a team before applying these skills in small games and activities.

Technology – Design, Make & Innovate: Students will have opportunities to work through the design process – developing an idea, planning, making, testing and then thinking about how their creation could be improved.

This links well with our school-wide Creativity theme, where we are encouraging students to try different ideas, problem-solve, create and understand that our first idea doesn't always have to be our final one.

A Few Reminders
Toys: Toys should stay at home. I am allowing them to use 1 ooshie each in class on a pencil.

Subway: Subway lunches can be ordered for Fridays through the Subway Lunches website.

Pie Orders: Orders are due back by 21 August.

Lucky Book Club: Orders are due by 28 August. 

24th August- Teacher Only Day

Ngā mihi,

Anna Davies

Kia ora koutou. 

You will have seen the notice from the school office earlier today regarding camp. Currently we have only 10 students who have paid or are paying installments out of 52 students who are planning on attending. Paying $10 per week is a great way to contribute to those costs at a more manageable means. As stated in the previous message, if this is unattainable, please pop in and have a chat with Di or Brigid. No child should miss camp due to financial constraints. That said, we may have to reconsider camp if we do not get some more payments in. This would be a huge disappointment for staff and students. 

Thank you to those parents who offered to help out at camp, If you have not received an email today, we appreciate your offer but do not need you this year. 

Kind regards,

Year 7/8 team.