Wacky Hair Day

Today is the last day of term 3. We had a wacky hair day and mufti day to raise money for the Jump Jam Team who have made it to the national finals in Taupo. What great hair styles the children had. Have a wonderful holiday break with your children and I'll see you all on Monday 11 October.

Wild Self

Student of the Week - Phoenix

Phoenix...is a great leader and...

is a good writer

helps other people

is kind to people

plays with people in the playground

is a good reader

is at building with blocks

is good at maths, she can image in her head

is good at running

she is always helping others.

St Albans Commonwealth Games

Yahoo! Our team Northern Ireland got second place in the St Albans School Commonwealth Games - what a great effort by everybody!

Elgregoe the magician

On Monday 20 September Elgregoe visited our team. Elgregoe and Sue did a wonderful magic show for us. There were birds and a very naughty puppet called Monty.

The Canterbury Earthquake

Wombat

Here are the photos of the cute kuni kuni pig that visited our class yesterday. Wombat belongs to a pig farmer in Burnham. She will leave buckets at school and we will put our fruit break scraps in the bucket. The farmer will collect the buckets during the week and Wombat and his family will eat the scraps.

Welcome back

Welcome back to school everybody. It was great to see you all at school yesterday and today. We have had some earthquake drills and we have had to stop, drop and hold today. The children were wonderful and knew exactly what to do. If your circumstances have changed since the earthquake can you please let me know as it is important that we have up to date emergency contact numbers. We had a very interesting visitor to our class today - I'll put some photos of 'Wombat' on the blog tomorrow. Our Big Day Out trip to QE2 next week has been cancelled. I will keep you updated on any other happenings we plan as a result of the cancellation. Kind regards, Nicky Simmons

Hi there

Today we had a staff meeting at school and we are all looking forward to seeing you on Monday morning. I have taken Sophie the frog home for the weekend to feed her up on flies. Maybe you could catch her some and bring them to school on Monday morning. Isabel and Maddie helped me catch 2 flies outside in the garden in the sun this afternoon. On Monday morning we will have an earthquake practise so we all know what to do at school if there are any aftershocks. I am looking forward to seeing you in our new classroom. Can you remember who you will be sitting beside? What games would you like to play on Monday? Let's sing our favourite songs! Have a good weekend. Love from Mrs Simmons

Monday 13 September - school re opens

School will re open on Monday 13 September. I have been to school again today and there were two toys that had fallen on the floor from the after shocks - I have put them back on top of the whiteboard. I will be at school on Friday morning at 9am to help with the clean up. If any parents are able to come and help it would be appreciated - please bring a shovel, broom or other cleaning equipment that you have. Enjoy the rest of your week with your lovely children. Kind regards, Nicky Simmons