Week 4 (14-18 August)

Welcome to Week 4 :)

Chess Club
Chess club is back up and running for those who are keen to join. Monday lunchtimes 12.45-1.15pm in Room 21. All levels and ages welcome.

Classroom Release
Room 19 have PE with Mr Lukes on Thursday afternoon from 1.30-3pm.

Reading Book returns
We would love some keen helpers to help re-shelve our class reading books as we have quite a few needing to be put away. If you can help, please let us know or add your name to the roster outside Kohara. Many Thanks.

Whanau Hui
This is being held on Wednesday 23 August at 7pm in the library for those with an interest in Maori achievement and engagement. This hui will be looking at Maori Language Week and the upcoming Tuhono Festival for our Kapa Haka seniors which is being held on Thursday 21 September. If you are interested in attending, please let us know.

French Club Monday lunchtimes 12.30pm with your lunch in He Tangata.
For those attending, we encourage them to stay for the whole time as a few of our younger children have been leaving in the middle of the session which makes it difficult for the other children attending. French club finishes about 1pm so the children can have a chance for a run outside before the end of the lunch break.

Craft Club Tuesday lunchtimes 12.45pm in Room 21.

Lost Property
We are continuing to see a growing pile of lost property in Kohara - most of this was handed out to children on Friday but we then located a big pile left outside on the bag hooks after school. We have taken this inside for the weekend but please encourage children to check their hooks for all jackets, jerseys etc as we do not want these going missing from the walkway overnight.

Reading Folders and Poetry Folders
A reminder that children should be returning their reading folder to their tote tray in the morning before school and their poetry folders to the green containers. This makes it quicker for the children when they come for their reading group time and means others are not having to wait for them. We'd love your help in reminding the children with this :)

Toys
A big thank you to you all for reminding your children to keep their toys at home. This has made things much easier in the classroom.

Bey blades can be brought to school (at your own risk) for use at break times and we ask that these are kept in school bags and not used in the classroom. This includes before and after school.

Our Arts Inquiry
We are inquiring into the things that the children see as special to our school as part of our Arts learning this term. You might like to chat with your child about the things they enjoy at school - it could be places, activities, learning, events, etc.

Spelling
Thank you to those children remembering to bring their notebooks on Thursdays for testing. New words will be sent home on Monday this week due to us being away on a course last week. If you missed having your book at school for testing and getting new words last week, then please practise the previous weeks words and remember to hand it in this Thursday.

PTA
Our friendly PTA meet this week on Tuesday 15th August at 7pm in the school library. New faces always welcome - if you're interested in coming along to see what we do, we'd love to see you there.

Drift Trike Day
We have a new date scheduled for the drift trike day due to it being postponed with the bad weather last time. It is now Tuesday 22 August. Children must have a helmet.

Have a great week :)