Book Week

Hello Everyone

Book Week

What a great week we had at school last week with Book Week. The girls in 1FR love reading and listening to books being read to them. We had a special surprise guest visit the Year 1 girls to read to them and it was Nick, Miss Fava's brother! He read some very silly books that made us all laugh.

Then on Thursday we met the author of the silly books!  His name was Mark Sommerset and he has written the hilarious books Baa Baa Smart Sheep and the sequel I Love Lemonade.   Mark read us one of his newest stories called Two Little Bugs and he sung to us while he played the guitar!  He also let us in on a secret... He is writing a new book right now! To finish off our amazing week we dressed up as our favourite book characters and led the parade around the school.  The girls (and Hamish) all looked incredible and had a wonderful time! At 5 o'clock most of us raged at the disco! The Year 13 girls did a great job organising  a fun time for us. Here are just a few photos.

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Puppet Show

This week a group of girls from 1FA and 1FR came together to create a puppet show.  The girls read the story Sleeping Beauty and were each given a character to portray.
They made their own puppets and had a few practises them dove into filming with Mr Edwards.

Copy the link below and enjoy our Sleeping Beauty reproduction!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=seV1CuLDwpI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DseV1CuLDwpI%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

Week 4
On Tuesday afternoon we are having our PYP Open afternoon where you can come along and watch an Inquiry lesson in your daughter's class. This will be from 1.30 - 2.30pm.

Junior School Social

Don't forget that you can get your ticket to the Junior School Social next week too!!

The senior girls will be outside the Junior School Hall to sell tickets on:

Monday 27 May               8:00am

Tuesday 28 May               3:00pm

Thursday 30 May             8:00am

Our Social is on Friday 7th Jun from 5pm - 6pm 

Term 2 Week 2

Harvest Festival

On Thursday we had our annual Harvest Festival. Thank you so much for all the effort you went to providing food and decorating your boxes. The girls took their boxes up to the front of the hall during our our Chapel service creating an abundant display. Judy accepted the gifts on behalf of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children and was moved to tears by the generosity of the families at Diocesan. Thanks again.

Judy thanking the school community for the gifts of food

This week we launched into our new Inquiry.  We are exploring the central idea, what would a world without buildings look like...?

The girls were told a story about a boy coming to New Zealand over 150 years ago.  We discussed how his family would need to make a 'home' for themselves here and then asked the what the family should bring in their 1 trunk.  Needless to say when the girls were asked to then sketch out their make shift building, they realised that maybe makeup, shampoo and conditioner might have been unnecessary!

Keep an eye out for the village we will be creating!

Week 3
The Maths Evening is on Tuesday from 7pm till 8pm.  We hope to see you there.

Term 2

Hello Everyone

I hope you had a wonderful relaxing holiday! I would like to welcome our new families into 1FR.  Four lovely girls have joined us this term straight from the Foundation Class. They are Anika, Lutie, Karsimar and Sophie. It is exciting to have some new girls and we hope you enjoy being in our class.

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This term is looking to be jam packed with plenty going on in only a very short 9 weeks!

Here are a few dates you might want to keep in mind:

Week 2

Thurs 16th - Harvest Festival

We would appreciate the girls bringing in a decorated box (shoe box size is good) of non-perishable every day sort of food (rather than fancy). This could be baked beans, pasta, pasta sauce, weetbix etc These will be donated to the Anglican Trust for Woman and Children.  The girls need to bring these by  Thursday morning, they have to present them in our service so please don't make them too heavy for them to carry!

Week 3

Tues 21st - Numeracy Evening

Week 5

Book Week

We have an amazing week planned for us with visiting authors, book fairs and a fantastic character parade on Friday! (start thinking now about which book character your daughter might dress up as!