phonics sounds to sound out any unknown words. We enjoy Area Representative for PINK Ribbon Appeal Otago, on Thursday reading our books to ourselves, with a buddy and to the whole last week. You three are amazing! class. Sawyers Bay School Newsletter Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working on writing Church Notice th No. 26 a class book as well as our own wonderful stories. We still have a Public Meeting – Tuesday 29 August at Iona Church Port Thursday 24th August 2017 few more pages to write and then we get to illustrate our book. Chalmers about the possible community uses of the Iona Church building and establishing an ‘Iona Management Trust’. We can't wait until it is finished so that our friends and family can read it. Person of the Week Miss O’Malley Sport News Room 5 Sports Results Since Harold talked to us about healthy food choices, it has made Hockey it easier for children to understand that packaged food usually Team Score P.O.D Dear Parents and Caregivers - Kia ora everyone, has lots of extra ingredients that are not very healthy for us. At SBS Thunder vs GB Fireballs 1 – 10 Everyone Brain Break each day, we try to choose fruit, veg, or dairy. SBS Jelly Beans vs St Clair Mini 0 – 7 Everyone This week we got to welcome Ashley and his family to the We have been starting our new theme - Our Bay. The children SBS Bouncing Beans vs Warrington 1 – 9 Everyone school. We are very pleased to have you with us Ashley! have been discovering what makes people choose to live in SBS Hawks vs Wakari Blue 9 – 1 Everyone Sawyers Bay. Miniball Senior We have had some news this week with the Minister of In Maths we are getting really good at multiplying, and even Team Score P.O.D Education approving a proposed North Dunedin Community dividing! SBS Hawks vs Grants Braes Warriors 6 – 10 Talia of Learning/Kahui Ako. You may have heard about And in PE we have been playing a really fun game that enables us to practise our hitting skills in Padder tennis. SBS Bouncers (A) vs St Joes Cath Lions 36 – 2 Everyone Communities of Learning in the media. They are a collective Report by Mrs Dyer SBS Shooters (B) vs St Brigids Silver 26 – 9 Everyone group of schools working together on shared learning goals and providing a chance for structured collaboration Room 4 A massive thank you to our This week we have started to write scripts with inspiration from a coaches/superstars for the season: between Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Schools. We are included in the North Dunedin Congratulations to Donnie, Tommy, Zak, Lyla, Lilly & Thomas who clip called ‘Dust Buddies’. Our scripts have two characters, a Dani Livett, Mark Bracewell, Kim ‘CoL’ as it stands at the moment. It is currently still in the were nominated for Person of the Week. setting, a problem, a solution and are written with dialogue using Makanesi, Erin Greer, Angela Button, Jo Westoby, Corinna Woodason, Kerry-lee development stage and there is a lot of work to be done The trophy for Term 3 Week 4 went home with Lilly! speech marks. As we get better at writing scripts and telling a story through speech we are going to make up and write our own Charlton, Tracey Glover, Amanda Jenks, behind the scenes before we see any impact at the school Important Dates plays and act these out to the class. To help us with our acting Simon Horan, Taufa Makanesi & Zak Corbett. level. We are however very excited to have the opportunity Fri 1st Sept Sawyers Bay Starters 1.20pm skills we have started a drama unit looking at different elements to collaborate with our neighbouring schools as we look to Tues 19th Sept Year 5/6 Camp, returning Fri 22nd Sept of drama such as, slow motion, stop and freeze and how to use Playball Hockey Classes improve learning outcomes for all children. We believe that our face and bodies to show expression. To follow up from our Enrol now for Playball Hockey Classes at the Edgar Centre the CoL will open up a huge amount of resources and visit from Harold last week we have been looking at the digestive Classroom Notes Thursday's 3.30 - 4.30 pm starting on the 24th August. expertise that we would otherwise not have access to. The system and how these body parts all work together to help us Room 1 Cost for the 6 weeks will be $50 per child. other schools involved in this planning stage so far are: digest our food. We have learnt that the liver is not only the A big welcome to Ashley who joined our Room 1 team on To find out more about the Playball programme visit largest solid organ in our body but also one of the most important Ravensbourne, St. Leonards, Port Chalmers, Opoho, North Monday. Yesterday everyone took home their Writing books to www.playball.co.nz as it helps us keep healthy by cleansing and detoxifying. At the East Valley, Pine Hill, Dunedin North Intermediate, George share with their families, every child is a writer and they are so Email [email protected] or phone 0275548859 end of the week the children will bring home their own Life Street and Logan Park High School. We will keep our proud of the stories they create each day. This week we have Education booklets where you can see lots of their learning and community informed as this all unfolds. been following up on Harold's visit from last week. We have been complete more at home tasks. painting and writing about Harold, and talking about the Food Report by Miss Laing Seen Around School Pyramid. Feel free to come in and check out all of our hard work! I was fortunate enough to join the Room 6 children at Back Some snaps from the Angel Louise book launch… Beach this week as they had their last session surveying the Activity books from Harold will come home tomorrow. Room 6 Rocky Shore with the University of Otago. This sees us Report by Miss King This week we visited Back Beach as part of the Sediments and Seashores study. Students identified different animals and drawing near to an end of a two-year project. Thank you to Room 2 the Marine Sciences coordinators and especially Adelle seaweeds that live in our bay. We discussed the importance of Our new Maths game this week has been Paper-Scissors-Rock- looking after our environment and the responsibility that comes O’Neill for all of their amazing input. Maths! I know many children from our class have shared this with it. We also had some students attend the O’Mathalon and game with their families and I’ve had some great feedback on the North Zone Cross Country and I was impressed with the results of Another thank you goes to the families who attended the game. This game helps the children learn their basic facts with these students. This week we have also created our own political Angel-Louise Book Launch on Monday evening. Angel understanding, a key to developing a positive maths attitude. If parties where we are creating a persuasive writing piece to Louise (a very fluffy Samoyed dog) was certainly the star. you don’t know this game, please ask your child to show you. It’s convince others to vote for our ideas. The topics we are debating You can read all about it in the Wednesday ODT if you great having Miss Share back with us for her last teaching include who should pay to help look after the environment and as missed it or check out the book in our library. practicum. Esther will begin her 3 weeks sustained teaching on well as healthy eating. Monday and I know the children will learn a lot with her. Report by Mr Simpson Report by Mrs Barr Ngā mihi nui, Anika, Macy & Josie with Victoria School and Community Notices Room 3 This week in Room 3 we have been learning some new maths Community Superstars games, with addition and subtraction. Make sure to ask us about Three of our senior students showed this term what it means to Gareth Swete our paper, scissors, rock, sum game. Can you win a game against be community minded. Anika, Josie and Macy spent approx. $5 Principal our mathematicians in Room 3? each of their pocket money, to purchase PINK personal care products to make a small hamper to raffle off. After school the Miss O'Malley is very proud of us in Room 3, we have been doing girl’s door knocked to ask for support, to buy $1 raffle tickets for extremely well in our reading and we are improving each day. We their cause. A lady in Mary Street Port Chalmers was drawn the have been focusing on being able to retell important parts of the books we read, predicting what might happen next and using our lucky winner. A total of $68 dollars was presented to Victoria, .