Room 12 - Mr Mike McCurry

Once upon a time, in a land school far, far away just around the corner, there lived worked a handsome fair-to-middling prince teacher.  He would while away the days worked hard telling jokes and having fun making creative activities for his own entertainment class of students.  The students themselves were a rowdy bunch of mischief makers a wonder to behold.  They were noisy well-behaved, naughty polite and above all lazy hard-working.  Now it so happened that this handsome fair-to-middling prince teacher had planned for a stupendous party an exciting term of learning opportunities.  This party term would include vast amounts of jelly literacy, with lollies and candy in it with a focus on fairy tales in reading and writing.  The party term would have copious quantities of ice cream mathematics with a variety of flavours including gold rush, hokey pokey raspberry ripple and cookies and cream a good amount of Mathletics, reinforcing basic facts, learning number strategies and continuing to recognise time units.  There would also be a smaller amount of chippies PE/sport (Jump Jam and cross country), sausage rolls citizenship (perseverance and kindness), soda pop Art (building landscapes), chocolate Key Competencies, marshmallows  Computing Technology and biscuits Te Reo Maori.  This would be in addition to the usual merriment of the play-filled days whole school and syndicate activities taking place.  To entertain the children provide opportunities for extended learning the handsome fair-to-middling prince teacher had arranged for entertainers Gifted And Talented education programmes to take place, including jugglers technology, fire-eaters and acrobats dance and singing programmes.  The highlights of the party term would be the evening dance Syndicate (fairy tale themed) Disco where all the lords and ladies students would dress in their finest clothes fancy dress costumes and enjoy the music dancing together.

 And so will all these things in mind, the handsome fair-to-middling prince teacher sent out news to created a web page for the citizens of the town Te Rapa School community so that they all might prepare for the occasion be aware of what was going on this term.

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