Week 5

Kia ora koutou

Welcome to week 5, where did those weeks go!

So what's happening this week:

• Wednesday Senior Swimming Sports - there are a few year 4's that will be competing, so if this is your child they would have brought home a notice last week with times etc for the today. They will be competing in the Non-champion events.
• Assembly this Friday - Matawara are sharing.
• MINT and Student Council speeches: Mint will be on Thursday afternoon in front of Juliana, Linda and the MINT team. Student Council will be in our team on Friday afternoon. 

Notices:

• We will be having a Swimming Carnival on Tuesday 6 March in the afternoon to show what we have been doing at swimming. This will also be with Whakarewa so please keep an eye out for email about this later this week.
• Gala: This is only a few weeks away and the PTA are needing your support so please can you read the notice below from Krissie. We would like to remind you how much our fantastic PTA do for our school that everyone benefits from, so any help that you can support then with is very much appreciated.

Clarkville School Twilight Gala - 23 March 2018

We rely on a lot of community support to run the gala. Last week an email was sent home with how you can help, to see this information go to https://clarkvillepta.weebly.com/twilight-gala.htmlThere are plenty of ways your family can be involved. Please get in touch with Krissie to let her know how you can help.

If you are not receiving our team emails please let us know as this means that you are not in our group contact list.

Wordlab: 

On Tuesday your child will bring home a Wordlab resource kit for you to use at home. In class we will be working on the year 3 and 4 words, but will refer back to the year 1 and 2 words when we feel these are not yet learnt, for example when we see the same words spelt wrong when writing. In this resource there are also some fun ways to help your child learn these words at home. We will work on three words a week in our team and we will put these on the blog each week, so you know where we are up too. We do know that some of the words from the year 1-2 lists your child will not know, but we feel to support their learning gong further we need to work on their year level as this means from year to year they can progress through this programme throughout the school. This is why your support with using this kit at home is vital to your child's success. Please get in touch if you need anymore information.

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Molly and Hayley

Photos from our Science session with Maree O'Boyle from University of Canterbury.

Week 4

Kia ora koutou,

We hope you all had a lovely weekend in the sunshine.

Last weeks recap: 

Launch day- Everyone had a great time and developed a curiosity for this years Inquiry. 

Food forest- We would like to give a huge thank you to you all for helping out at the Kaiapoi Food Forest. This place is developing into special hub for our community. 

Things on this week:

Monday: Science lesson with the University of Canterbury.

Notices:

'Reading Eggs'- Please let us know if you found this programme beneficial as a reading tool to use at home. 

Spelling- Spelling lists will be confirmed after a staff training on Wednesday, to ensure your child has the correct words for their level.

Togs- As always, please remember togs everyday this week. 

Please come and see us if you have any questions.

Ngā mihi nui,

Molly & Paula

Week 3

Welcome to week three and finally a whole five days of teaching lie ahead of us.

What's happening this week:

• Enviro trip to the 'Kaiapoi Food Forest' for our team only.
• Please return your permission forms by Monday afternoon at the latest.
• Assembly this Friday.
• Check out our new daily timetable labels.
• We also have a notice board outside the team with information you need to know.
• Launch Day is this Wednesday - we will be launching of our years Inquiry Journey.

Spelling:

This week we will be starting our new Wordlab Spelling programme. There will only be three words a week that we will be learning in the team. We will be sending home the full years list that your child will be learning with lots of ideas, on great and fun ways to learn these. 

A message from the local Kaiapoi Tennis Club:

HotShots - Beginner tennis programme

Tuesdays afterschool, 13 February to 20 March. Ages 7 - 12yrs. Held at Kaiapoi Tennis club (next to Aquatic Centre) Cost $30 per child. for enquiries and to enrol email kaiapoijuniortenn

We have really enjoyed these first two weeks of getting to know your child and are feeling really excited about the journey we are on together.

Here are some photos from our first couple of weeks:

Ngā mihi nui

Paula, Molly and Hayley

Week 2

Monday Teacher Only Day:

We had a great first week and everyone seemed really settled and happy to be in Tūhura.

Just a reminder that today is TOD and tomorrow is Waitangi day. Hope you are all having a nice long weekend.

What's happening this week:

• Aspire and Hōpara are on Camp
• We are developing our Team Treaty - check out the display so far with students ideas about what they want to see in our team this year.
• Please remember togs, sunblock and drink bottles each day.

On Wednesday we are going to be starting some writing around 'What is in a name and how we got our name', so on Wednesday night your child will come home with some questions around this for you.

Please remember we are only an email away if you want to know anything or if you want to arrange a time to chat.

p.gray@clarkville.school.nz

m.hindman@clarkville.school.nz

Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.

Nga mihi nui
Paula, Molly and Hayley

What is Miniball?

Miniball is a game, based on basketball, for girls and boys under 13 years of age. It is played by millions of children throughout 96 different countries. A Mini-ball game is played by two teams of five players with up to five substitutes. The aim of the game is to shoot the ball into their opponent’s basket, and prevent the opposition from getting the ball or scoring within the rules of the game.

A Mini-ball game is normally played in four quarters each of 10 minutes. Each member of the team must play at least one quarter and no member of the team may play all of the first three quarters. The game is played with rings that are only 2.6 in high and with a size 5 basketball. However as players get older, it is quite possible to play the game with the rules of ordinary basketball and using full height rings. The full ball should only be used with the older players.

Mini-ball is a game of skill not strength, a mixed activity at primary and middle school level, in which boys and girls can play alongside each other, it is a simple game - a team passing game with an elevated horizontal target, in which they score, and played to the two basic rules of no contact between opponents, and no running while holding the ball. To move with the ball a player must keep the ball bouncing - a dribble.
There is no restriction on the area of play for players as in netball, both teams can move to any spot on the playing area not occupied by another player. The playing area for Mini-ball is 26m x 14m, but any reasonable sized playing area that gives space for the children to move several paces in any direction can be utilized - hall or a marked area on the playground.

At a very simple level a game of Mini-ball could be a “two versus two” passing game aiming to score at a target above head height, with the two rules of no contact and no running or carrying the ball, informally applied.

Mini-ball is the ideal way to introduce the game of basketball to youngsters. In general, as children reach about secondary school age, they can start to adapt to international basketball rules. It may be appropriate to raise the height of the ring or the size of the ball for early developers.