Welcome to Term 4!!!!

Great to have the kids back today! Lots of smiles and sparkly eyes! It'll be a very busy term 4, starting off with Athletics for the next two weeks. Year 4 camp is November 14th/15th based in Cromwell. If as a parent you would like to come, let me know! We will be working hard on our Words Alive and Numeracy Mult/Div topics for the next 6 weeks, and last but not least SCHOOL PRODUCTION the last few weeks! Phew! I'm tired just thinking about it!

Welcome to our 'Before and After' Exhibition!

Well it's finally finished, after weeks of effort Room One has finished their 'Before and After' art! Your children have worked really hard to show you an area of the Cromwell gorge before and after the Clyde Dam was built. We learned a lot about what people thought of the Dam being built and then decided to paint a before and after scene to show how the Cromwell gorge isn't as beautiful as it used to be. We worked really hard at mixing colours to recreate the scenes we saw on photographs of the gorge. Here is a slideshow of the art. You can also visit photos of the actual paintings here

We will share the children's thoughts on their efforts next week. I hope you enjoy the efforts of your kids!

The Great Uruuruwhenua Board game!

Over the last 5 Wednesdays Mrs Tamati has been helping us create board games to help us learn the Maori names for the towns of Central Otago and what the names mean. It's been lots of fun and you can only win the games by knowing the names and meanings of the towns around us!
The kids did a great job and are now reaping the rewards by having lots of fun playing the games!!

Also included below are a few updates on our Secret art project. Can you guess what it is??

Shhhhhhh........a sneak preview

Just a wee glimpse of an amazing art project Room One are doing! You are going to LOVE the finished product! Ask your child about it, and feel free to leave a comment!

Blast from the Past Sharing Day!

We were all pretty excited to see SOOO many parents on Friday - thank  you all for coming. It was a great afternoon and definitely something we will do again. 

The kids were thrilled with the comments and enthusiasm their parents showed for their efforts, and the comments were well deserved! 

Welcome back to Term Three

Welcome back to Term three!
COME AND VISIT US THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR A SHARED LUNCH!
WE WILL BE SHARING THE LEARNING WE HAVE BEEN DOING ABOUT CLYDE SCHOOL'S HISTORY. I WILL SEND OUT A NOTICE ABOUT THIS ON MONDAY.

Goals for Term 3
Well the first week is in the books and it's been great to work with all the kids again. We have assessed our goals from term two. It's been great to see so many of the children reach their goals from last term, especially related to their times tables!
We have written up our new ones for term three. The children seem very motivated to improve their weaker areas and they finished writing them up 5 times quicker than last term!!! Great job kids! We keep their goals on the inside of their desk lids - you can see them when you visit us on Friday.

Homework
It has been awesome to see kids who needed a gee up with their homework habits come back to school so motivated to improve. Often they need support with a time and place to do their homework, and help of course from you if they get stuck, especially with their reading.
Thank you for your help with this. The children building up their times tables and reading skills at home is vitally important. Pupils need to fill out their reading log EACH NIGHT. Currently some kids often fill them out at the end of the week when they can't remember dates, details of what they've read, and what happened. Their reading needs to be meaningful! They should be filling out their log each night after they've read.

Spirit of Clyde
Lots of kids a re doing a great job with their Spirit of Clyde activities - we're halfway through the year so hopefully you're well on track to completeing your tasks! Keep up the great work!

Kia ora!
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