Poppies, poppies, poppies!

As part of our ANZAC inquiry the driving question was: Why Poppies?

This question was asked by one of the children in Room 8. Interesting question and it isn't normally answered. 

We did some research, looked at photos and poems! We came to the conclusion that poppies are used for a couple of reasons. 

1. Represents blood (red) mourning (black)

2. Poppies grew in the battle fields

Here is some art work we did around Poppies.

Mother's Day

We have been getting ready for Mother's day in Room 8 with some excellent art work. 

I hope all of you mothers had a magical day!

Newsletter

This week is meant to be starting to get colder. Please ensure that your child comes to school equipped for the cold weather wearing shoes and a jersey. 

Enjoy the week.

Learning conferences

As you may be aware learning conferences are fast approaching. The children are responsible for these and they get to share with their parents what they have been up to along with examples of their work. The children, during reading time, have a Power Point to complete so they are ready to share with you all on the day. 

Mufti day

As part of our inquiry topic the children have been learning all about Communities. Throughout this topic they decided that they wanted to give back to Communities of their choice. 

So, off set a group of 4 girls to Mr Bremer's office and they asked for a mufti day. Another group emailed the SPCA and asked if they could volunteer. Unfortunately, you have to be over 16 years old to do this so instead the girls thought they would have a pet food collection. 

On Friday 1st May, these events took place. Wow! What a great day it was too. 

The children in Room 8 have raised $510.00 from mufti day and have 2 boxes full of pet food for the SPCA. 

The children want this money to be spent on a school in Vanuatu so we have a catalog and are going to work out what we can buy for a school. We are looking at things like rubbers, books and pencils. Office Max have also got on board and are donating to us dictionaries and atlas.

A parent from a year 5 child has offered to transport any school supplies we purchase to Vanuatu in 2 weeks for us and take photos. This will be fantastic as the children will see where exactly their contribution ends up.. 

Central Hawkes Bay Trip

On Thursday 30th April, Room 8 went to the CHB Settlers Museum. 

The children had a ball! They enjoyed looking at all the olden day exhibitions and thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition on "They answered the call." In this exhibition the children learnt all about families from CHB that went to war and their stories. 

Here is some photos from our trip. 

Schools ANZAC Service

On Friday 24th April, all of the schools in Havelock North got together in the Domain for a combined schools ANZAC service. We had front row seats and enjoyed all of the different performances from the 8 schools. 

Newsletter

Hi all 

Here is this weeks newsletter.

Reminder: we are going on our trip to the CHB Settlers museum on Thursday. We still need permission slips and money back. Also parents to help transport. I look forward to getting these on Tuesday ahead of a great trip on Thursday.

Thanks,

Miss Newton

Reading at Duart

For our inquiry topic we have been learning all about Communities. We have learnt about what communities are, why we have communities and the different communities we are a part of. The children then thought it would be a good idea to give back to our community! One way they wished to do this was to read at Duart House. Hunter kindly wrote a email to Duart House and asked if we could go up there and read. The response was immediate! They loved the idea. Our first day reading at Duart was on Wednesday 22nd April. The children started in the lounge and then wove through the rest home reading to anyone they could find. They read to a lady who was 92 years old and doesn't leave her room. They also went up stairs and read to people up there "in big soft reclining chairs!" What an experience! When the children got back to school they were bouncing off the walls with excitement. They loved it and really enjoyed meeting the people there.

Here are some photos of us reading at Duart House..

We also learned all about a nurse at the hospital's family history in the war at Gallipoli. 

This was such a great day for everyone involved that we have already scheduled our next visit for Wednesday 20th May.