Room 16 2021

  Welcome to Week 10 Term 3                 September 26, 2021 Kia ora parents and whānau, congratulations on making it to the last week of term!  It has been a whirlwind of a term with lockdown and everyone has done a tremendous job getting to the end happily and safely. Thank you again for giving our students supportive and loving homes, the adjustment made to school was made a lot easier thanks to that.  Things on this week:  Monday - Principals Morning Tea. Congratulations to those students who were chosen! Tuesday - STEAM EXTRAVAGANZA and Library.  Wednesday - Catholic School's Day  Thursday - Girls 7's Tournament at St Marys and St Vincent De Paul Liturgy  Friday - Golden Time.  Important messages from Mr Macmillan and Mrs Cato: Last week all Year 0-5 students should have brought home a letter inviting parents to provide some information for consideration re the 2022 class placement of their child. A c...

  Week 9 Notices-                     September 19, 2021     Tena Koutou everyone and welcome to our second to last week of school. Our first full week at school was spent with activities celebrating Maori Language week and learning through play. It is so good to see the kids giving it a try and taking part in the different activities and being creative.  As we are still at Level 2 we are still encouraging that our kids sanitize before they come into class. Please ensure they bring in a drink bottle as water fountains are still out of bounds. Thank you very much for your support in this. Last Friday, some kids came with some fabulous wigs to wear for the day. The school managed to fundraise $580 to go towards the Cancer Society. What a fabulous effort. What's happening this week: Thursday: Library Friday: Golden Time It is so lovely to see the sun out today. Let's cross our fingers that this weather continues for the ...

 The children returned from 3 weeks of covid-19 lockdown quite happy and settled and ready for school life and learning again. On the first couple of days, they chose a wide variety of activities in which to participate. Here are a couple of videos.  

  Week 8 - Term 3 - 2021   WEEK 8 TERM 3 2021 12/09/2021 Tena Koutou, We’ve been back at school for two days and things have seemed to go quite smoothly. Thank you all for helping us make the transition back to school. Children seemed to be very excited with their return to school and back to some normality for them. Just a quick reminder that children are to take all rubbish home in their lunches and that Chromebooks need to be charged. The children have been good with hand sanitizing and the washing down of surfaces. This week is Maori Language Week: " Kia kaha te Reo Māori " - Make the Māori language strong. We will be doing some fun activities around the Maori language.  The Virtual Assembly for this week if you didn't see it is  here .  Remember all large gatherings at school or in the church are no longer taking place due to covid-19 alert level 2 protocols. We ask parents not to come into classrooms and if you need to enter the school for administration p...

  Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 7      September 05, 2021   Good morning to everyone on another lovely sunny day. Happy Fathers Day to all our dads, we hope you have a special day in your bubble. It's hard to believe that almost three weeks ago we went into lockdown.  A big thank you to all of our families for the support you are giving your children with their Home Learning Programmes during this time.  It has been a big learning curve for many of us and certainly a time of building resilience.  I feel so blessed to work in such a supportive and caring community. The Prime Minister announces late Monday afternoon what the next plan is.  Fingers crossed we move to Level 2 soon. This week we will continue with the Home Learning online. We have our daily meetings on Google Meet at 10am. The children and us teachers have been enjoying connecting and doing some fun activities. For Room 16's meeting tomorrow I have a general knowledge kids Kahoo...

  Bonjour to all Parents and Caregivers, Firstly we would like to thank all parents and caregivers for the wonderful work they have been doing with homeschooling their children during the level 4 covid-19 lockdown. We hope you have had no problems accessing the learning on the Middle School Kahikatea site. Remember that all the information regarding home learning can be found on the class blog from either this week or last week. If you have any concerns or questions do not hesitate to contact me. We realise that many parents will be working from home and that time to help children with their learning may be limited. The learning posted on the site is intended to be independent work for the children as much as possible. Please encourage your child to do as much work as is feasible given the lockdown realities in your household bubble. You will be well aware now that we will be moving from Alert Level 4 to 3 and this takes effect from midnight on Tuesday 31st August. The school is pr...

  Welcome to Week 5 Term 3 - Online Learning August 22, 2021   Kia ora whānau and tamariki, Firstly, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this blog post carefully. We have tried to simplify our online learning this time around. If you have any questions after reading this blog, please feel free to send an email to me at  davidb@stmarysrotorua.school.nz Secondly, it is really important that you all received the email from me earlier today. Thank you to those who have already responded. I did have some parent email addresses bounce back, so if you did not receive the email, please contact me at the email address above and I will send it to you. This information is also below. As most of you will already know, we are having our first class Google Meet tomorrow morning from 10-10:30am and will continue this at the same time for all of the days we are in lockdown. Your children have all been sent the invitation for this via Gmail (information is also outlined ...