Senior Syndicate Picnic : Rimutaka Picnic

We need your help! We do not have enough volunteers and will not be able to go!

The end of the year Senior Syndicate picnic will be held on 11 December with the cancellation date

13 December.  Because of the water aspect we would very much appreciate a large number of parents to accompany us to Rimutaka Forest Park on this day.  It is always a great day with games, swimming and a bush walk. If you are able to attend this event, please complete the form below and return it to your child’s teacher by Friday 7 December, so that we can be assured that our child to adult ratio can be met. If we don’t have enough parent helpers then we will not be able to go.

We would appreciate if those parents who are able to attend this event please fill out the form below and send it with your child to the class teacher by this Friday.  

Place and time-    Rimutaka Forest Park - 9.30am-3.00pm.

Date-     11 December      postponement    13 December  - Please circle which day/days you are available

I am able to attend the picnic with the Senior Syndicate staff and children.

Name……………………………………………………………………………………………

Phone……………………………………

We may have limited seats available for some parents on the buses. Please circle your preference.

                       Travel by car                                        Travel by bus

Stream Testing

We are currently short of parents for our day trip on the 18th of May.
Please contact Miss Slater if you are able to attend.

Class Trip

Don't forget to bring in your class trip form so we can all participate in our stream study.

Reminders

 

J   If you don’t have a computer, the class laptops will be available for you before school and during lunchtime. Alternatively Miss Slater could print off the activities for you – just ask! J

J   Camp: 28 February. Drop your child off at the hall with their baggage between 8-8:30.

J   Anxious? If you feel uncomfortable spending a night away from home make sure you organise a stay-over at a friend or relatives house before camp.

J   Camp Fees – please pay as soon as you can at the office

J   Formal Eating Day: Thursday 23 February. Please bring a knife, fork and spoon to school. We will be practising our manners and how to set a table.

J   Swimming: This week swimming is on Tuesday and Wednesday

J   Medicine: If your child takes any medication regularly, please make sure you bring it to school in a named snap-lock bag before Friday 24 February (with the dosage included). I will be bringing this up to camp and storing it with our camp nurse.

J   Homework: Please bring your orange reading book and homework book in on Monday

J   Library Day: Friday – make sure you bring your books into school

J   Emergency Food, tennis balls, tissues – please bring these in as soon as you can

Parents

Please bring Camp and Internet notices back to school as soon as you can.

Notice to Parents

Kia ora Parents/Caregivers

Welcome to a new year at Eastern Hutt School and more importantly G4! I am looking forward to the year ahead with enthusiasm and excitement. I hope your child is well rested and refreshed after the summer holiday break. I feel very privileged to be your child’s teacher this year and look forward to watching them develop into confident, creative learners.

This year you will be able to keep track of your child’s learning through our class blog. This is a place where the children will upload their work so that they can share their ideas, learning and progress with a wider audience. Over the course of the year your child will build digital literacy skills and will learn how to become a safe, responsible digital citizen. There are many activities and games on the blog that your child can interact with that will enhance the learning that is taking place in the classroom. Feel free to post positive comments on any posts and encourage others in your family to do the same.

The blog address is: http://roomg4ehs.blogspot.com/

These first few weeks will be spent establishing routines and classroom expectations. Our library day is Friday at 9:30am.  Please ensure that your child remembers to bring back the previous week’s book and that they take care of the books while they have them.

The office needs to be informed of any absences.  If your child arrives at school late you will need to sign in at the office.  If you wish to take your child home early, please notify me and sign out at the office.

Homework will start in Week 3, will come home on a Monday and be due back on the following Monday. Feel free to explore our class blog or studyladder before this time if you wish to become familiar with the format.

Our focus for homework will be practicing basic reading, maths and spelling skills. In order to complete their homework your child will need access to a computer and the Internet as most of their homework tasks will be online (if you don’t have a computer at home, the class laptops will be available to your child before school and during lunchtime. Alternatively, I could print off the activities for you – just ask!). Your child will bring home a homework instruction sheet each Monday where you will need to confirm, with your signature, that the activities have been completed.

As mentioned above, most of the set homework tasks require Internet access. Each child in the class has an account set up on the free website studyladder.co.nz. Their account is linked to my ‘teacher’ account, where I select and update the activities that they can access based on our current learning focus in class. This website is an excellent way to build confidence and motivate your child to complete their homework, as the activities that I select are engaging and follow up on class activities.

During school hours (9am-3pm, Monday-Friday) your child has unlimited access to studyladder activities. However, outside these hours your child is limited to three activities per day (however, your child will have unlimited access to the activities on our class blog).

Every week either on studyladder or on our class blog (depending on the task) your child will need to complete two mastering numeracy activities (basic facts) and one maths game of their choice and two spelling games and a spelling game of their choice. Your child will also bring home a spelling list with words made up by errors from their work, topic words, essential lists and lists based on spelling conventions and patterns. Lastly, your child will need to read for 10 minutes per night and write a reflective comment in their orange home reading book.

To access studyladder at home:

-   Go to www.studyladder.co.nz

-   Sign in with the class username and password given to your child.

-   Access activities from your child’s overview page.

-   Fun Extras: Your child can change their ‘avatars’ appearance. Your child will gain ‘virtual rewards’ when activities are completed which they can use to decorate their ‘avatars’ bedroom.

If for any reason you are unable to access using the class login, you can open a free home account for parents which allows the same home access to activities. If you need help logging in or gaining access please email support@studyladder.com or me nickieslater@easternhutt.school.nz.

I am well aware that many children at Eastern Hutt School have out of school activities, which can sometimes affect how much time they can spend each night on their homework. A note from home written in their homework book is all that is necessary if for some reason your child is unable to complete their work. The most important aspect of homework for this level is establishing good routines, and homework should never be a burden or a source of conflict at home.

Important Information:

-  Open Hours: School officially opens at 8:30am, school begins at 8:55.

-  Notices: Please return the next day or the week they are given out as they are often needed straight away to calculate numbers etc

-  Book Covering: This is not essential but will help the books life last longer.

-  Emergency Food: Please send this to school as soon as you are able.

-  Tissues/Tennis Balls: Please send a box of tissues to school and two tennis balls.

-  Drink bottles: Please ensure they are names and are filled with fresh water each day, students often leave drink bottles behind at school.

-  Plastics: As we are a Silver Enviro-School we are aiming for no plastic wrap or plastics in class, please keep the plastic at home and use Tupperware or snaplock bags wherever possible. If our class has the least plastic in our lunchboxes we will win a free pizza lunch!

-  Parent Help: If you would like to help out in G4 this year please let me know.

There will also be a syndicate newsletter coming home, which will outline in more detail the events of the busy term ahead. I feel very confident that there will be much achieved in G4 as I help your child to become a life long learner. I would love to meet you all and am aware that the beginning of a school year is a nervous time for children and their parents. Please feel free to pop in and introduce yourself or contact me with any concerns or questions you have at any time. I look forward to meeting you.

Nga mihi,

Nickie Slater

Teacher of G4