Welcome to Pt England, Patience

Today Room 15 welcomed Patience to our classroom.  She is new to Pt England School and was lucky enough to join us on a day when we had a variety of things happening - Maker Space, Assembly and Team Sports.

Mia and Senitila did a great job of helping her settle into the routines of Room 15 and we know she will enjoy being part of the wider Pt England School family.

Sports with Team 3

On Friday we had our first Team 3 Sport rotation.  Room 15 played a game of scatter ball, with the score very close.  The tactics of both teams improved as the game progressed and throwers and fielders discovered new ways to score runs.  Over the next few weeks we look forward to playing baseball, soccer, basketball and rounders.

Day 2 ... updating our blogs!

Today in Room 15 we've updated our blog photos to reflect that we're now Year 3 learners.  We talked about how we could take photos of each other so they looked great on our blogs.  Room 15 had to think about backgrounds, shade vs sun, and from which angle to take the photo.  Mrs Belt was really impressed with our photography skills!  You can check out photos of each of our blogs (links are on the right hand side of our class blog) and Mrs Belt has chosen a selection of photos to showcase here.

The First Day in Room 15

It was great to welcome back all the learners to Pt England this morning and hear about some wonderful holidays.

Mrs Belt really enjoyed welcoming learners to Room 15 today and we started to establish some of the classroom routines.  One of the first tasks was to meet in our table groups and decide on our group names.

This term our focus is again the Pt England Way, with a superhero twist.  Mrs Belt has already shared her Superman cape with some learners that worked really hard on Day 1.  This will continue to be one of the many rewards for trying hard in Room 15.

As our day came to a close Mrs Belt took a photo of the learners who were present today, so without further ado, the learners of Room 15:

Our first day back is nearly here ...

Just one more day before the 2016 school year starts at Pt England School.  I'm looking forward to meeting all the great learners who will continue their learning journey in Room 15 this year.  Don't forget our term will start with an assembly in the hall when the 8:50 bell rings.

Enjoy your last day of holidays and I look forward to welcoming learners and whanau on Tuesday morning!

Prizegiving

Room 19 did an amazing job with our item at Prizegiving last week!  Mrs Belt was proud of everyone and how much effort they put into practicing the singing and dancing over the weeks leading up to the performance.

Congratulations to Eva, Aye Myat and Jordan who received prizes in Room 19.

Room 19s blogging!

Yesterday Room 19 published their own letters to Santa on their blog!  We wrote our letters in our writing books first and then as a whole class learnt how to post to our blog!  Room 19 were really excited to see their blog post "go live."  Click on the learners' names on the right of our blog and have a look at some of our great Santa letters!