Kia ora e te Whānau
It was great seeing the children of Hōpara return to school on Monday - it sounds like everyone had an adventurous holiday which was awesome to hear!
Core-learning has kicked off straight away this week with many new groups being formed. We imagine that some of your children may have come home and mentioned this. P4C has once again been a big component of the weekly timetable, this week we have explored questions like...What is art? How is something defined as art? It has been exciting to witness the development in oral language due to this way of discussing deep concepts and questioning.
We have also begun reading a new shared story, it is called Number the Starts. Below is a summary of the story to give you an idea of the topics that are covered.
Lowry's Number the Stars is a simple yet poignant novel about a young girl's contribution to the resistance movement in Denmark during World War 11. Annemarie Johansen, a 10-year old girl living in Copenhagen, is faced with the knowledge that the Nazis are beginning to "relocate" the Jews in her city.
CROSS COUNTRY -
You will have seen all of the information about this event come out this week. If not you can view HERE. We will be heading down to the Kaiapoi Pony Club for a walk through of this event, so all children are really clear on where to go. This walk through will take place next Tuesday at 11am, if you are available please come down to join us.
Children need to be wearing appropriate footwear over the coming weeks to ensure they can train.
WEEK 2 -
Monday - African Drummer (All teams)
Thursday - Mana ake DROP IN
FRIDAY - Subway Lunch (Order Via KINDO)
WEEK 3 -
ALL WEEK - NZ Bully Free Week
MONDAY / TUESDAY - Show Quest at the Town Hall (More information to come)
WEDNESDAY - School Cross Country (morning)
FRIDAY - Community Assembly 9:10am
FRIDAY - Year 8 Pizza Fundraiser (Hay and Halliday families are running this one)
WEEK 4 -
In week 4 Hōpara will be having our first swing at the Wonder project. The wonder project is a science/ technology investigation into the process of making bottle rockets. Not only will it be great fun, we are looking forward to seeing how the children tackle these new challenges.
Ngā mihi
Ashley, Mr B, Linda and Helen
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