Week 10

Holy Week - Week 10

*Holy Week is the most important time in the Catholic Calendar.  It is a time for reflecting on the last days of Jesus life and the important happenings of the week.  

We will be re enacting the Washing of the Feet and the Last Supper so will need the children to leave their Jesus clothes at school.  I will send them home Thursday. Please talk to your children about these events and see what they have picked up at school in their lessons.

*Art Auction - thank you for your great response to our Art Auction.  If you have not yet bid on your child's work but would like to, you still have Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  We will check out the winners of the Auction and get your prize to you on Thursday.  Winners will be notified on the blog on Wednesday afternoon.  Can all money be in by Thursday please?
We have decided to have the trip in the second week of Term 2.  This week is particularly busy with Church events and because we are visiting Rainbow Springs, I wanted to do some preparation work with the kids prior to our visit.  We will have a Pizza lunch on Thursday to end our term and will have the trip to look forward to after the holidays.

*School finishes on Thursday at 3pm.  There will be no school on Good Friday.

*Interviews - you can go online and book an interview.  The code can be found in the latest newsletter.  Remember these are 3 way goal setting interviews and the idea is that the children are present for these.  We are working on goal setting at school so the children will have some ideas of their own to share with you.  If you cannot make the interview times, please let me know and I will make another time to see you.

*Reading - if you would like some readers for the holiday period, please let me know and  I will organise these for you.  Remember that reading to your child is also very important.   It allows them to hear what good reading sounds like.  Please keep this up during the break.

*Writing  -  I will be sending home the free writing books over the holidays.  It would be great if the children could write a holiday journal - something each day - in their journal.  They need to remember to start with the date, use a capital letter for each new idea and finish with a full stop.

*Maths - the maths sheets will come home with the knowledge your child needs to work on in order to move to the next stage.  All children are expected to be working at Stage 4 by the end of two years at school (not at the end of Year 2 but at their anniversary).  Please take some time to practice some of this maths during the school holidays.

*Thank you all for your input this term and for a great start to the year.  The Room 13 kids are well and truly on target for a great year of learning and I look forward to some great stuff in Term 2.  

Have a Holy week.
Annie