Syndicate Assembly Week 6

·      Countdown cards

There have been some issues surrounding the ‘trading’ of these cards at school.  We ask that you keep the cards at home.

·      Central Zone Cross Country

The CZ cross-country event has been postponed till Thursday because of the weather conditions

·      Inside Play

-We will be having some wet weather throughout the rest of the term and it will be important that you choose ‘sensible and quiet activities’ while inside during playtime
and lunchtime

-There is to be NO swapping of classrooms during inside playtime and lunchtimes

·      Library Awards

Congratulations to Rachel Vass who has received the GOLD library award

·      Kapa Haka

The Kapa Haka performance group will be performing at Randwick School in a couple of weeks in preparation for the interschool Kapa Haka event at the end of the term.

·      ‘Crazy Looms’

There have been a lot of students bringing the ‘crazy loom’ bands to school, which is fine.   However they have been a bit of a distraction for a few students.  If the ‘crazy loom’ bands become too much of a distraction, then we will ask that they be kept at home.

·      40hour Famine

Any booklets and money is to be returned to the office ASAP

·      HOWIE Value Awards

Congratulations to the following students who received the CURIOSITY award today: Chelsea Summers, Saxon Forbes and Charlotte McFarlane

Sound overload

Speeches

This week has seen the students all use their own personal sound instruments, their voices, to present their speeches to the class. We heard speeches on whistling, zoo's, conspiracy theories, football, moreporks and Bali to name just a few. The standard this year was very high and it has been very difficult to choose the class finalists who will compete in the syndicate semi-finals. However the students who will represent Room 13 this year are:

Year 6
Evie Richardson - Phobia's
Sam Woolley - Whistling

Year 5
Zoe Inskeep - Zoo's
Amy Schoenborn - Rabbits

Strike
We were also lucky enough to have Strike come and perform at school. As always they put on an amazingly immersive percussion performance that had the whole school feeling the beat. They used a variety of traditional (drums etc.) and non traditional instruments (fire, fizzy cans) to put together their cacophony of beats. Some students were even lucky enough to be included in the show.

Syndicate Assembly Week 5

 ICAS Science

·      The ICAS Science test will be held on Wednesday in Room 16 at 11am

CZ Cross Country

·      Cross-country training continues (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Make sure you come to the trainings if you are in the Central Zone team

·      CZ Cross Country event is next Tuesday (pp. Thursday)

Peer Mediators

·      You are doing a great job!  There will be a training at lunchtime on Wednesday

Reports

·      The reports are being written and you will receive them at the end of this term.

Waterpolo

·      The Naenae pool is closed and this means that the season will officially start in Term 3

Kapa Haka

·      The Kapa Haka performance group will be performing in the evening of the last Wednesday of the term. A notice will go home this week.

CZ Football

·      There is still no date for the postponed Central Zone football tournament

·      Training for the Y5/6 Boys is on Wednesday and the Y5/6 Girls on Friday

Library

·      There is still some work being done in the library so look out for the ‘Library Open or Closed sign’ each day

Howie Value awards: Excellence award

·      Congratulations to the following students…YOU ARE EXECLLENT!:  Angus Flynn, Molly Mathewson, Sophie Van Rooyen, Halina Smith and Lucy Dungan

Speeches

On Tuesday the students of room 13 were provided with the marking criteria and were able to assess Mr Chadwick's speech about teaching.

• "I believe that you (Mr Chadwick) spoke from the heart and were very confident. Great speech. You had a clear voice. You did a good and very interesting speech. You could have made it shorter, used props, been more lively and dressed more on topic.

Yesterday students had the opportunity to further enhance their speeches and create a slideshow using the school laptops.

Today we drew names out of a hat to determine the order of presenting next week.
Speech Order:
Tuesday 3rd June

- Sam

- Lea

- George

- Tim

- Rory

- Saxon

- Millie

- Eliza

Wednesday 4th June

- Cohen

- Roan

- Zoe

- Evie

- Yasmin

- Tom

- Dan

- Henry

Thursday 5th June

- Amy

- Zane

- Francisca

- Ming

- Mia

- Nina

- Sophie

- Charlotte

- Luca

- Zali