Paki Thursday

Good afternoon,

And a lovely afternoon it is too.

A great afternoon for some P.E.

Oh, and this just in...

Hello everyone,

Just a reminder about tomorrow's dress up day. Children can come as something beginning with one of their given letters. But if they are not wanting to dress up could they please come in their school uniform.
Rutherford team - letters S & P
Sheppard team - letters A and C
Batten team - letters H & D
Hillary team - letters B & M

Also please make sure to bring a Gold Coin Donation.

Sometime before lunch the Student Council will come around each class and judge everyone and also collect the gold coin donations.

At assembly prizes will be awarded to the most creative people.

Also if you wish to wear face paint for this event you may but please make sure it's relevant.

Thank you,

Your 2016 Student Council

Tuesday's Post Wednesday

Good evening,

It would seem that I have been a little remis with my regular updates.

Yesterday the Batten Team had a jolly good time with our final Hockey session - a wee tournament between 10 teams.

There were only some injuries...

We also started looking at the titles of the Holy Spirit.

As for today, we started off with some Meditation...

...continued with some reading...

...and finished up with some thinking.

Tomorrow the Batten Team Teachers will be out of our rooms as we plan for Term 2.

Fairly Normal Wednesday

Good afternoon,

Not a great deal to report really. We Math'd, Ran, Wrote (briefly...someone got a little carried away with teaching how to embed their writing into a blog post...), Read, and R.E.'d.


Please join us for our Easter Liturgy tomorrow afternoon in the hall. Starting @ 2:15.

No Photos Monday

Good evening,

And a lovely evening it is too.

No photos this fine day, however we still some evidence of work...

...and we started looking at scripture to identify the events of Holy Week.


...which we will continue tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, we're hoping to have one more hockey session...although there is a touch of confusion over that, so...your children may or may not come home in their sports gear.

Clean 'Em Up Friday

Good afternoon,

Not much to report this fine Friday as I've been out of the room, however I did manage to catch this...

...as the whole school stopped to pick up rubbish. Not of their own volition, I might add!

Have a great weekend, rest up...and pack your bags for camp on Monday!

Mr Grant

Competitively Cooperative Tuesday

Good evening,

As further preparation for camp, the Batten Team broke up into our camp activity groups to continue to work cooperatively.

We also continued to work competitively with a little bit of hockey.

And a good time was had by all!

Seeing as we have had our P.E. lesson for the week, we will be running a Tuesday afternoon programme of Thursday, so...please bring your uniform on Thursday.

By for now,

Mr Grant (with special thanks Mrs Marston for her Group 1 and 3 activity photos.)

Funday Friday

Good afternoon,

Another fun day was had here in the Batten Team. For example, I introduced a new app from my phone - Story Cubes.


So, I rolled the dice (on my phone), screen shotted the result...

...bluetooth'd the file to my computer and then sent it straight to the children's Literacy folder, so that the children could get into groups of three or four and make up a story between them. Orally.

To further that, 500 points is offered to each child who uses this image, pastes it into a Google Doc and writes a small story using these cubes.

:-)

(Postscript - Here's Gabrielle's story from...three days hence?)

During lunch, the choir practiced ...


...for a performance thereof at next week's assembly. Please join us.

Have a good weekend,

Mr Grant

Fun Day Thursday

Good evening,

And a lovely evening it is, what with the community out and about enjoying the fun night.

This morning the Batten Team continued their usual learning activities, such as reading...

(Oh, and if the children want to watch these videos below - and I would recommend that they do - they'll need to use another computer/internet browser that isn't logged in as them. Their/my Chrome browser is really locked down inside the school infrastructure. I can only watch them through Internet Explorer. These YouTube clips will not be able to be viewed on their Chromebooks. Yet. Sorry.)



...and P.E.

And a good time was had by all.

Thanks to those who were able to join our 3:15 meet the teacher meeting, and also those who are just about to arrive at our 6 o'clock meeting.

Mr Grant

Wednesday's Wednesday

Good afternoon,

We started out first opt in numeracy workshops this morning...

...which seemed to run fairly well.

After reading...

...just read what's there children...we continued with the new testament for R.E. this afternoon.

Which the children did a good job of finding answers thereof independently.

Oh, and this...


A follow up reading activity. Which, it would appear, you cannot watch on your Chromebook due to restriction settings :-(

I'll try to get that sorted. In the meantime...try to watch it in Internet Explorer? I'll show it in class tomorrow anyway.

Please remember the Meet the Teacher meetings tomorrow at both 3 and 6. Not that you have to attend both, you understand...

Mr Grant

Build Up For Lent...and the Rest of the Year

Good evening,

Another busy day was had here in the Batten team, what, with a bit of Maths...

...some Reading...

(setting out your reading book never was so complicated...or interactive!)

...and some R.E., all about Lent.

Speaking of R.E...


:-)

Please remember our Ash Wednesday Mass in the morning. Choir, please be early.

Mr Grant