Week 5 Term 2 2022

Tālofa lava!

This week is Samoan language week. The theme for Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week is Fa’aāuāu le Folauga i le Va’a o Tautai - Continue the Voyage with Competent Wayfinders of the Ocean. It's all about the journey of sustaining and maintaining the language and culture and recognises the importance of having the right people and tools to do this. The Ministry for Pacific People has links to all sorts of resources. HERE is a link to some everyday words and phrases that you and your aiga might like to try this week.

Cross Country

The weather for our cross country isn't looking great so a few extra prayers to Saint Joseph wouldn't go astray. We'll keep you up-to-date - as soon as we know anything, you'll know it, too. 

Young Vinnies Talent Quest

The Young Vinnies are organising a Talent Show.  Auditions for Years 3-4 will be held on Monday this week. Singing, dancing, weird skills, musical instruments... All kids are invited to show off their weird and wonderful skills and talents.

Pentecost Mass

On Friday, we will celebrate Pentecost Mass. Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. It's when the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles and they began the Church's mission to spread the good news. Please make sure your children are in correct uniform - this also means no jewellery (except Taonga) or nail polish. Thank you.

This week:

Monday:

Young Vinnies Talent Auditions

LIBRARY

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Ko Hata Maria, te Matua Wahine o te Atua icon.

Chess Regional (for selected students)

Thursday:

Cross Country (Please, Saint Joseph?)

Friday:

Pentecost Mass

Our Learning

Literacy: Narratives. What are they? How are they organised? What sort of language will we see?

Maths: Multiplication. We are learning how skip counting, repeated addition and using known facts can help us solve multiplication problems.

RE: We are learning that Jesus calls us to holiness and wholeness in the teaching of the Salt and Light.

(Mt 5:13-16). We will also be learning about/celebrating Pentecost.

Structured Literacy: Mrs D's groups are working on 'silent e' and 'r controlled syllables'. Mrs T's groups are working on 'Y can sound like the long e' at the end of multi-syllable words. Sounds fancy, eh? These spelling rules will also be linked to learning when reading and writing.