Room 17 - Mr Joshua Louden (Co-teamleader)
Room 18 - Mr Ross Trafford
Room 19 - Miss Paula McMullen (Co-teamleader)
Room 20 - Mr Isacc Hunia
Room 21- Mrs Cynthia Lickfold
Release Teacher - Sarah Hoskin
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Term 2 Focuses:
ANZAC will be the focus across the curriculum in weeks one and two.
Mathematics: During the term, classes will cover two elements:
1. Element: Number / Sub element: Number structure and operations
2. Element: Measurement / Sub element:
Measuring Areas of measurement will be used during our science inquiry, which will help reinforce their learning.
Writing: Working on composition with an aim ‘To inform’ which includes sentence structure, spelling grammar and punctuation. As well as transcription - this involves handwriting and keyboarding skills.
Spelling: Students will continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of spelling through our school wide spelling programme. This includes spelling patterns, homonyms, prefixes and suffixes and root/base words.
Reading: This will also be linked to our Science Inquiry. We will be reading non-fiction text focusing on researching and using keywords to locate relevant information will be the initial focus. The skills of inference, questioning, monitoring comprehension, synthesising and summarizing will continue to be covered during the term. Vocabulary extension is ongoing in all curriculum areas.
Inquiry: Through the Science curriculum, we have two inquiry topics this term - ‘Physical Science’.
1. Forces and Motion
2. Energy
Physical science explores how forces and energy affect objects, and students investigate these ideas through experiments and real-world applications aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum.
Health and Physical Education: This term, the students are developing knowledge and skills in a range of winter sports. The main sports will be soccer, softball, touch rugby/rugby and a Traditional Maaori game called Kii o Rahi. The students going to Sports Camp will be developing the necessary skills for their competition during PE time.
Homework: This commences this term, and runs on a fortnightly basis. Maths homework will be sent home each week and will differ from class to class; in order to focus on the needs of the students. A separate sheet will be sent home every two weeks with other areas for students to focus on.
Tech Arts - Thursday
Year 8’s continue to attend Tech this term at 8.30am on a Thursday morning. Our year 7's will start classes at school at the normal time of 9am with their tech group and go off to tech at around 12pm. Classes change to new rotations over the course of the year. While back at school, children participate in a variety of subjects such as Dance, Music, Science, Spanish, Speechcraft and Digital Technology.
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