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15 Nov 2025

Last chance for ice block money is Monday. Don't forget....

 

14 Nov 2025

Kia ora e te whānau,

A great week in Whānau Puna (Rooms 7, 8, 9 and 10).

In literacy Room 9 have started reading their shared text - Iggy Peck Architect, by Andrea Beaty. This book is from the same series as our book last week. We love finding characters who appear in both books. We have enjoyed writing about our own experiences this week. Room 10 has been reading the shared text - Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. This week we have been focusing on how the Bayswater values are reflected in the text - Manawaroa, Resilience - and we wrote to Rosie on how and why we were proud of her. We became engineers and designed a helio - ? - copter with labels. In Room 7 and 8 we continued with our rich text: Lost and Found- by Oliver Jeffers (The story of animated film 2009). We have looked at morphology: adding -ing onto words to change them (eg:row/rowing) and written sentences with similes- using like and as: ‘The little boy was as scared as a mouse.’

In maths this week we have been working on:

Room 7/8 - Capacity- full, half full- how many cups? Which has more/less

Room 9 - Telling the time to five minutes, telling and writing time

Room 10 - divide using equal grouping or counting

We had a fantastic trip to the Sculpture on Shore. We saw some brilliant artworks. It was an amazing trip, even though we had a little bit of rain. The children showed wonderful resilience on the walk back to school. Thank you to our whānau who came with us for the trip, we appreciate your support.

Hats are compulsory this term, please make sure your child has their hat with them everyday.

Next Wednesday 19 November we have our Whānau Puna athletics in the afternoon starting at 1:45pm. Children will be participating in three events - sprints, long jump and throw. You are welcome to come along and support the children. Children can run in either sports shoes or bare feet for the events. 

 

Whānau Puna team

Tracy, Sasha, Gerry, Wendy, Bev and ClaireS

 

14 Nov 2025

 

Bayswater Superstars take the stage!

 

Come and Support The Pocket Rockets in "Don't stop Believing!"

 

Based on The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe story -  the show features many local students; dancing, singing and acting! Bayswater Student Maria Grieg will be playing a Lead role as Mr Tumnus! Aylin will be playing the strict House-keeper Miss Macready and Ex- Bayswater legends Mira Ataseven is Jadis’ partner in crime - Wolfy and Mia Gao is playing Peter!

 

Sunday 23 November

Birkenhead College theatre

12pm and 5pm

 

Get your tickets here and support local:

https://events.humanitix.com/don-t-stop-believing-cast-two

 

Also featuring performers from: Vauxhall School, Bayswater School, Hauraki School, Belmont Intermediate, Takapuna Grammar, Devonport Primary, Belmont Primary, Stanley Bay and More...

 

Jane Carter

021 140 3786

www.pocketrockets.co.nz