16 May 2025

Kia ora e te whānau.

This is our very first Rūma Rua weekly update…don’t worry, it’ll be back to normalcy next week and back to being part of the wider Whānau Kokoru update. Seems the internet Gremlins struck yesterday and stopped our update from reaching Maddy!

Rūma Rua have been strengthening our manawaroa (resilience) in writing. We have been publishing our stories based on the holidays, while learning that our writing is a process — that we brainstorm, draft, proof & polish — before even thinking of publishing. 

In reading, we finished reading Olly’s Cicadas and created cicada displays based on the text. Ask your child what they designed today as there were some excellent dioramas, models, drawings and we even had a ‘Lego’ cicada!  

We also explored different texts on Pink Shirt Day, after which we designed our own Pink Shirt and message. We’ve been thinking about how we act and talk to others and looking at the difference between what’s ‘rude, mean, or bullying’. 

We ended this week’s spelling by celebrating our successes and beginning the next level of The Code. 

In maths the year 5 maths have been learning subtraction with renaming (using the column method) as well as practising expanding values in the thousands using different place values while keeping the same 'amount'. 

I hope everyone has a refreshing weekend. Hopefully, I'll get to see everyone during the three-way conferences, which are less than two weeks away!

Ngā mihi 

Brad

 

16 May 2025

Kia ora e te whānau

 

For those of you who were unable to attend the sessions we offered this week, the information slides regarding the new English and Mathematics curricula are now available on the Bayswater School website .  You can access them in the "Our Learning" tab under "Teaching and Learning at Bayswater School".

16 May 2025

Kia ora e te whānau,

We have had another wonderful week in Whānau Puna (Rooms 9, 10, 7/8). 

Children are enjoying their learning in literacy. The Room 9 and 10 literacy this week was focused around the book The Kauri Family by Suzy Cato and Arthur Baysting. We have been learning about prefixes. In Room 7 and 8 we have added ‘When?’ to our sentences to make them more complex- choosing our own sentences and drawings for our books.

In maths this week we have been working on:

Room 7/8 - Shape, space and measurement.

Room 9 - 2 Times Table, 5 Times Table 

Room 10 - count to 20 from 10 instead of counting all; recognise, read and write numbers up to 20 in words and numerals; use 'more' or 'fewer' to compare numbers within 20.

Fun Ferns netball team (Years 1-3) starts tomorrow, good luck to the children playing. For many children this will be their first netball game ever.

Just a reminder to please keep all toys and precious items at home, we are starting to see some coming into classrooms and the playground.

Whānau Puna team

Tracy, Sasha, Gerry, Wendy, Bev and ClaireS