Our Trip To The Maritime Museum and Fish Market

Week 4 Term 1 2014

Hi Everyone,

As you know tomorrow we are off on our trip to the Maritime Museum and Auckland Fish Market.  The children are all very excited and we are looking forward to a great day of learning.  Our planned activities are a session at the museum investigating Floating and Sinking, a boat ride on the Ted Ashby, an opportunity to explore the exhibitions at the museum and finally a stroll through the fish market to have a look at the range of sea life on offer!  Please make sure your children come to school prepared tomorrow with comfortable clothing/shoes and enough food and water to sustain them through a busy day!! Thanks to those of you that have offered to come with us for the day giving us a ratio of 1:3.  Keep your eye on the blog as we will post photos soon.  If you have not already returned your cyber safety form, please do so as soon as possible so we know which children we can and cannot post photos of on here.

Many thanks for your ongoing support.

Rosie and Kerry

Week 3 Term 1 2014

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Learning Common 1’s blog for 2014!!  We will update this blog regularly so that you can see all the exciting things that are happening in our common.  The blog will be used alongside our Reflection Wall, Reflection Book, emails and newsletters, to keep you well informed and up to date.  It is also worth keeping an eye on Hobsonville Point School’s Facebook page as we may pop up on there from time to time too!

We hope you will agree that Term 1 has gotten off to a flying start!!  All the children have settled in very quickly and new routines have been established straight away so that the children become familiar with how we work in Learning Common One.

We started our reading programme last Monday.  Today you will find your child’s word ring and notebook in their reading folder. In the notebook there will be information on how our reading programme will run.  Please feel free to ask any questions.  Poetry folders also went home on Thursday.  Please ensure these are returned ready for a new poem the following Thursday.

Hopefully you saw our ‘Reflection’ wall, which has been set up outside the staffroom.  Keep an eye on the speech bubbles for reflections your child has made throughout the day.  The Reflection Book on the table will be updated every Friday and will give you a really good idea of the learning that has taken place throughout the week.

We would like to ask if you could bring in a framed photograph of your family for us to display.  These provide a great talking point for the children and help them to get to know each other.  Thank you to those families who brought in one last year.  If it is OK, we will keep them a little longer!

We will set up a ‘Recycled Materials’ area soon for you to bring in any materials from home.  From time to time we might ask for specific things to help us with our learning.

Please feel free to contact us at anytime via email:

rosie@hobsonvillepoint.school.nz

kerry@hobsonvillepoint.school.nz

or drop into the Common for a quick chat or to arrange a meeting.

If you can spare anytime to come in and help in Learning Common One, we would be most grateful.  This could be in the form of helping with admin type jobs, working with the children on their learning or sharing a particular skill or interest you have.

Thank you for your support.  We are looking forward to a year of fantastic learning.

Rosie and Kerry

Kneading the play dough.

Andre getting his hands messy!

Zachariah coming down the slide.....

......closely followed by Deacon.

Madison proudly sharing her work.

Getting creative with wood!

Week 5, Term 4

Hi Everyone,

We have had a super exciting week so far and it's only Wednesday!

Yesterday we had a visit from Rachel Hunter who came to pick up her Buddy made by Leianah and Mackenzie. Buddy Day is about raising awareness of child abuse in NZ. Celebrities, politicians, and business people spend the day with a Buddy made by children in schools around NZ to raise awareness and to get people talking about this important issue. 

We had the Prime News film crew here, our part starts at 8.39 on the link below:

Prime TV News - Hobsonville Point School - Buddy Day

Today was our trip to Kiwi Valley Farm. We had such a great time seeing and feeding all the animals, holding baby animals, going through the maze, having a tractor ride and even going on the bus! 

Here are some photos from our day.

Week 3, Term 4

Hi Everyone,

We have attached a copy of our Term 4 newsletter for you to read. The dates listed are all tentative dates, we will send home more information as needed for trips etc.  If you got this newsletter from class in week 1, you'll notice that a trip to Kiwi Valley is listed for next week - this is no longer the case. You will have information regarding this trip on Monday next week. 

Our two Touch Rugby teams have had a great start. Thank you for all the parent support. Their games are on Wednesday afternoons we welcome all families to come and support our teams. A notice regarding fees will come home next week. 

We have been learning about planting and growing in Learning Common 2. We made some tyre gardens for Learning Common 1 and have planted beautiful flowers in them. We've also planted the school gardens with veges, herbs and strawberries. Please check out how they're going. Feel free to pop in and water them if you're around on the weekend! (BYO watering can, water available from the drinking fountains)

Week 4, Term 3

Over the last two weeks we have had more new students start.   Welcome to all our new students and their families.
In our common you will notice that we have created a Recyclable table.  Items that go on this table will be used by our students to create art and construction.  We would love you to bring in items such as wool, buttons, milk bottle tops, cream tops, picture frames, egg cartons, magazines, old CD's.  

This week a group of boys got to go to Whenupai Airbase.  Corporal Robert Hunt organised a visit aboard two planes, the kids got to sit up in the cockpits and see another plane landing.

We then had lunch at the base, another highlight.  Finally the boys got to meet the security dogs.  We were able to see how they are trained and how they restrain a bad person.

Next time I hope other friends can go and do some great learning too.

Over the next two weeks we will be feeding back how your child's Personalised Learning Plan is going.

Week 10, Term 2

Hi Families,

Thanks for another fantastic term! We thought we would share some photos for our last post of term 2.

We will be creating a family area in our common next term and would love for your child to bring a framed family photo to school for our display. Preferably 6x4 sized photos. If you don't have one, we are happy to take photos for you at school. 

Here are some photos of our zoo trip and the planting day we had a few weeks ago.

Enjoy the break and we will look forward to seeing you in week one.

Week 9, Term 2

Hi Everyone

Just letting you know that we have planned a trip to the zoo for next Tuesday, 9th July. 
We will be sending home a permission slip tomorrow and need this back as soon as possible. The cost of the trip will be covered by your term 2 activity fee so if you haven't paid this yet, please talk to Karma at the office - she can give you information about how to pay online or here at school. 
We will be transporting children in cars for the trip and really need a parent to help transport children - if you are available to help out on the day and have a big car (could take more than 3 or 4 children) we would love to hear from you. 

We are looking forward to catching up with you all at our IEMs this week.

Keep an eye out for the permission slip tomorrow!