10th September

We have finished talking about the Olympics, but now the Paralympics have been on and we talked about that.  Susie Bates - Captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team, and Sheldon - from North East Valley cricket club, came to give us some cricket coaching.  We all got a "goodies"bag.
There is going to be a Black and White disco this Friday 14th September because the All Blacks are playing in Dunedin at our Stadium.  We want money for our new Pasifika Group's T-shirts.  Mums and Dads and children can buy T-shirts for $25 until the end of the term.  You can order them at the Office.  Y3 have written their "Moment in Time" pieces and we had the class competition.  It was very hard to choose the two to represent R17 at the semi-finals.  It was Paige and Alex.  Y2's chose a favourite or fantastic poem to practise and share with the class.  Poor Mrs Phillips, Mr Abraham and Claire or Mel will have to choose three to share at the Junior Poem Day.  We have done the Art for our Calendars so Mum and Dad will be able to order these soon.  In Reading we did something different.  We had to choose a book, read it twice then fill out a "point of view" book review.  We put them into two clearfiles on the Topic Table to share.  Mrs Phillips thought we did an amazing job, most of the time.