Miss Helsham

TERM 3 2019 in the TUMANAKO- RAINBOW OF HOPE SYNDICATE

25 July 2019 · by Miss Helsham

Greetings to you all and welcome back to Term 3,

Hope you managed to have a good holiday with your children and are ready for the term ahead.

First of all I’d like to take time to offer our condolences to KADIAN POLAMALU-TOALIMA & RODEL WONGTUNG-KOMITI and their families on the loss of their beautiful mothers. We can’t fathom what you are both going through right now but please be assured of our love and continual support for you both. We will keep you and your family in our prayers. We also pray for the soul of Peter who was always there to help us in the afternoon with our rubbish. Eternal rest grant to them oh Lord and may perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of these three beautiful people:

DELILAH KOMITI, ANAMARIA POLAMALU-TOALIMA & PETER WILLCOCKS, Rest in peace and love.

Our units this term:

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:

PRAYER/ SACRAMENTS STRAND/ CHURCH STRAND

INQUIRY UNITS:

Health: COPING WITH CHANGE- Experiencing loss in our lives.

Science: CHEMICAL CHANGES TO FOOD; Milk and Milk Products.

Social Science: COMMUNITY PROJECTS… in our local Papatoetoe Community.

LITERACY:

Writing: Information Reports/ Recounts/ Procedural writing.

Reading: Children read at their ability levels and are encouraged to use comprehension skills.

Spelling: YOU CAN SPELL books. Children work at their ability level.

Handwriting: We follow the Holy Cross Education plan for Years 3 and 4.

MATHS:

Multiplication/ Division/ Fractions/ Measurement.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

Swimming every Monday starting in Week 2.

Cross Country

ART:

Exploration of an artist/ WHO STOLE THE RAINBOW?

MUSIC:

With Mrs Anitelea every Monday.

SPECIAL EVENTS DURING TERM 3

Week 1 Full School Beginning of Term Mass New school and house leaders chosen

Week 2 Monday: Swimming starts: Monday 29th July. Your child will come to school in their school uniform and change into their School fitness t-shirt and black shorts. Children can change into their swimming togs at Morning teatime. They will need to bring a towel, spare underwear and goggles (optional), all items to be in a carry bag please so that your child does’t drop or lose anything. No child will be allowed to go to swimming in their school uniform. Boys need to have shorts to swim in and a different pair to wear back to school when they take their wet ones off.

Thursday: WORLD OF MATHS EXPO. Cost $2.00

Week 3 MATHS WEEK Vodafone Events Centre- WHETU & NICK play- 10 am, (no charge) all classes from year 3-8 will attend this

Week 4 Confirmation- Tuesday 13 August- 6pm in church, for all Year 4 children who have made their First Holy Communion.

AMBURY TRIP- Friday 16 August 9.15- 2pm Cost of trip $8 (for lesson and bus). We will need 3-4 Parent Helpers please?

Week 5 Class and Team Photos

Week 6 School Production

Week 7 BOOK WEEK (Exploration of an artist) Tongan Language Week Office Foyer display- Room 14 Tumanako Syndicate Mass (Friday)

Week 8 HOLY CROSS WEEK, Scripture Cup

Week 9 PAPATOETOE COMMUNITY SERVICE. We need 2- 3 Parent Helpers to walk with us.

Week 10 Gymnastics competition

St Anne’s Shield.

As you can see in the special events column, we have upcoming trips to;

Vodafone Events centre for Whetu and Nick at no cost to you.
Ambury Farm. Yes we will need Parent Helpers, 3- 4 per class, if you are available for the day, Friday 16^th August please let your child’s teacher know. Cost $8.00
We are also walking down to the Papatoetoe Community centres to do some community work and we need 2 Parent Helpers to walk down there with us. Cost $2.00

Tuesday 17^th September- GYM CITY 11.30am- Room 16

Wednesday 18^th September- PAPATOETOE COMMUNITY GARDENS 10am- Room 15

Thursday 19^th September- PAPATOETOE WAR MEMORIAL LIBRARY 10.30am- Room 14

The cost of our 3 trips this term is $12. A permission slip for these two events will be sent out next week.

Wow what a busy term…

Stay blessed and have a great day

May God bless us all

From the terrific Tumanako team

MAUREEN GASS/ GEORGE LATU/ PAT HELSHAM

Papatoetoe Museum Trip

2 May 2019 · by Miss Helsham

Today at 9:30am we had a walk down to the Papatoetoe Museum. First we stopped to look and read the crosses by the library.They are outside a building called the R.S.A.

We walked past the new New World and after that we were at Gym City which is beside the Papatoetoe Museum.

When we got inside they let us make paper medals. The people there gave us all a map with pictures on it and we had to find everything on the paper.

After that we placed a poppy on the floor next to a white cross that had a wreath around it.

We then sat down for a 30 second of silence to remember the soldiers who have died.

We said goodbye and walked back past the new New World, past the library and the R.S.A. and back in the school grounds.

We had our lunch and did our writing inside the classroom.

KAYCE OSBORNE

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE ‘TUMANAKO- HOPE’ SYNDICATE IN TERM 1 2019

12 February 2019 · by Miss Helsham

Greetings Parents and Caregivers.

Welcome to a brand new year and term. We look forward to working with you this year and having your support for our upcoming events.

A special welcome to Mr. George Latu our new teacher in Room 16. We pray that you will enjoy and value your time here at Holy Cross. We are looking forward to working with you and supporting you in your teaching.

We also welcome the new children to our school and to the Tumanako Syndicate. These children are all in Room 14;

LOCHLAN TE’O, ROMANUEL ESELOMA, KSHAUNISH BHANDARI & SEBASTIAN GAGO; We pray that you and your families will enjoy being part of the Holy Cross whanau.

Our school value for this term is Human Dignity.

Our syndicate focus is Managing Self which is one of our key competencies.

In Room 15 we have Mrs Maureen Gass and in Room 14 Ms Pat. Helsham.

In Year 3 and 4, the children have google.docs accounts which you can access. This is a good tool for homework. Don’t forget to go on our school website and look at the Tumanako folder to see who our Class captains are and also view some of the children’s work. We will have this all up and running by next week. By now you would have all received an email or notice about signing up to Seesaw. Please do so as soon as possible so that you will have access to your child’s work on Seesaw. IXL will be up and running soon so watch this space…

Term 1 units:

RELIGION: CHARISM OF HOLY CROSS/ PRAYER/ GOD/ LENT/ JESUS/ HOLY WEEK/ EASTER

LITERACY: WRITING: WRITING E ASTTLE TEST RECOUNTS/ LETTERS/ EMAILS /POETRY WRITING/ GOOGLE DOCS, DESCRIPTIVE/ REPORT WRITING USING THE SEVEN DESCRIPTORS

ORAL LANGUAGE: Daily Prayers/ shared news/ class & group discussions/ role plays/ buzz groups/ donut talking circle/ think pair share/ oral presentations.

READING: Instructional, Independent, Shared books. Children continue to read at their ability level and are encouraged to aim high. We use the Daily Five programme for reading.

SPELLING: Children will be doing the Schonell spelling test to see what their spelling age is at the beginning of the year. Throughout the year we use the You Can Spell programme and children will have spelling words each week to learn.

HANDWRITING: Handwriting samples. Teachers follow the HCSP format of handwriting for Year 3 and 4 children.

MATHS: ADDITION/ SUBTRACTION/ MULTIPLICATION/ DIVISION/ STRAND- STATISTICS:

TOPIC STUDY: SCIENCE: THE LIVING WORLD– LIFE CYCLE OF THE BUTTERFLY. We have a trip to Butterfly Creek on Thursday 14th March. We will study the butterfly and learn about their habitats and environment. SOCIAL SCIENCE: HOLY CROSS CHARISM– Belonging/ setting up class rules and treaty. Sharing what we know about our school. PEPEHA – PROUD TO BE THE PERSON I AM- (Key Competency- managing self) HEALTH: SAFE ENVIRONMENTS: Building a Safe and Positive Class Community: looking at friendships / classroom treaty/ rules / and accepting differences.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Fitness– Fitness run around the new covered area of the tennis courts/Jump Jam. Skills– LARGE BALL SKILLS / SKIPPING

ARTS: VISUAL ART: Self portraits- sketching and using a variety of mediums.

MAORI: The children have the opportunity to participate in Te Reo Maori lessons in our classroom with Whaea Bronwyn. This is every Tuesday for 1/2 hour.

MUSIC: The children have 1 hour a week with our music specialist. For our syndicate this is every Monday.

SPECIAL EVENTS Monday 4th February– school begins Friday 15th February – Full School Mass Monday 11th February – Office Foyer Room 15 Tuesday 12th February– Sacramental Programme meeting for Year 4 Parents. Monday 18th February – Assembly Room 15 Tuesday 26th February – Dedication Mass for all school staff Wednesday 6th March – Ash Wednesday Thursday 14^th March– BUTTERFLY CREEK TRIP Sunday 17th March – St Patrick’s day First Reconciliation for Year 4 children: Tuesday 19th March Monday 25th March: Annunciation of the Lord Week 10: End of Term 1 Mass– Tumanako Syndicate preparing this. Friday 12th April– school closes for the end of term.

Again thank you for your support. May God bless us all as we begin this school year together.

From the team;

MAUREEN GASS– R15 / GEORGE LATU /-R16 / PAT HELSHAM– R14 (TEAM LEADER)

YEARS’ THREE & FOUR SCRIPTURE FINALS 2018

22 September 2018 · by Miss Helsham

Well done to our 12 Scripture Cup Finalists who all read very well. You should all be proud of yourselves. Thank you to Mrs Siluuga for being our judge. You had a very hard task selecting the winner. Congratulations to our three top finalists. First place MAYNARD SAGAOINIT. Second place, KAIARAHI KINGI and in third place JENSENLANZ GALLARDO.

TUMANAKO SYNDICATE MASS 7th September 2018

7 September 2018 · by Miss Helsham

What a lovely Mass this morning shared with the Holy Cross parish community. Thank you to the Year 7 girls who played the guitars for us and also did the Altar serving. Thanks to all the children who read, sang and participated in the Offertory procession. Thank you Fr Iosefa for your inspiring words of wisdom for the children. I’m sure they won’t forget the message of today’s Gospel. To our parents and families, thank you for always supporting us in all we do. We ask God to continue to bless us all as we prepare for our upcoming feast day. God is good, all the time.

Room 14’s Popsicle Monsters

8 August 2018 · by Miss Helsham

WE made our monsters out of popsicle sticks and cardboard. Everyone had their own ideas of how their monster would look. We were so impressed with our final products.