Parent+notices

1 August 2011

Dear Parents

Welcome back to another fun filled, exciting term in Room One. I do hope you all thoroughly enjoyed the holiday break and the fabulous snow we had! Coming from Zimbabwe, I simply loved it when in snowed in //my// back yard! I was so excited that I was the first one out making snowmen and throwing snow balls, I felt like a five year old myself J As the snowfall was probably a holiday highlight for many of the children, please feel free to send in or e- mail me any snow photos you took and we’ll use them in making a fun snow collage.

This term is going to be one of great change for both us in Room One but also for the school as we welcome our new principal Mr. Iain Murray. We are all very excited about his appointment and the skills and knowledge he brings to our school.

As many of you will know, some of the children who were in our class last term have now moved through to Room 2, leaving us with just 10 children to start the term in Room One. This “move through” time is a very exciting one both for the children who have left and for those who are staying. With fewer numbers to start off with, I am looking forward to spending more time with each individual child and doing lots of fun ‘hands on’ activities with the whole class.

For the first few weeks of this term we will be finishing off our Science, ‘living world’, unit from last term. Just before the holiday break we got fish in the classroom and started discussing getting sea monkeys. As we did not get to finish off the unit due to all the disruptions last term and as the children were so excited about it, I thought it would be a shame to leave it uncompleted. We will therefore be doing some research on sea monkeys and especially focusing on the environment we need to create to keep them alive. I then hope to get the children to do a Voice Thread presentation about their learning which we will post on our class wiki site to share with you.

When our Science unit is complete we will be moving on to a school wide Social Science unit focusing on competition and the Rugby World Cup 2011. This promises to be a fantastic unit with lots of learning and fun, but I’ll update you more when we start it. For now, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to pop in and see me before or after school or send me an e-mail. Otherwise, we will be having student led interviews in about week 3, so I’ll catch up with you then.

Kind regards Diane Woodlock