Welcome to Term 4, 2013!

Term 4 is here already! We have a very busy and exciting term ahead. We are really looking forward to performing our whole school production, 'The Amazing Race' in Week 1. Room's 3 & 6 have a wonderful Irish scene, Room's 1 and 4 have produced a colourful Jamaican scene and Room 2 are sharing their fantastic Samoan scene with some of the older students in Room 5. Make sure to get your tickets from the school office if you haven't purchased them already! 

From Week 2 onwards, our inquiry topic looks at how communication has developed over time, to help people communicate in different ways. 

Stay posted for more on this one!

Welcome to Term 3!

We hope you are all enjoying the school holidays. Term 3 is nearly here and it should be a very exciting 9 weeks, with our school production near the end of term! We are going to spend some time at the start of the term looking at different cultures around the world, including own and those of our classmates. It is going to be lots of fun.
This term, our Junior Syndicate is expanding from 4 to 5 classes! Mrs Cole and Mrs Vulu will be teaching a Year 1 class in Room 3. We would also warmly like to welcome all our New Entrants starting in the coming term.

Term 2 Welcome

Welcome to Term 2

A warm welcome back to everyone in the Junior Syndicate for Term 2! We hope you have all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to an exciting new term. We would like to welcome Mrs Wallach, who will be teaching in Room 4, for the first few weeks of term, until Mrs Causer returns from her adventure overseas!

Have a look at the math's page of our blog - we have listed a whole lot of links to websites where you can play maths games to practise your addition and subtraction!

This term our topic is a science one -  Light, Colour & Sound!

Stay posted, for an update on what we have been learning...

WELCOME BACK TO ST BRENDAN'S SCHOOL!

A big welcome to Mrs Causer, who is with us in Room 4, all our wonderful New Entrants in Room 6 and Emily in Room 1.

We have been busy getting to know one another in our new classrooms and have also been doing lots of swimming at H20 Xtreme! A big THANK YOU to all our parent/grandparent helpers who have been coming with us.

This week, we had our Opening Mass at the chapel at St. Pat's. Some of us even came earlier, for a lovely picnic on the lawn with our families! It was great to see so many people coming along and sharing their beautiful singing with everyone at Mass.

Our Navigator Programme has gone home - have a look for the navigator booklet in your homework book, as there are lots of exciting challenges to do! As part of our junior homework programme, we will be also completing our maths, spelling and daily reading.

Our Art Show

We finished off Term 3 with an amazing Art show! Look at some of the pictures below to see our creations!
One of our pieces was lovingly put together by all the classes in our junior syndicate. This was our Wharetapu. Have a look at the pictures to find our Wharetapu and see if you can look for...
- The Pacifika Flowers, Shamrocks, small Stained Glass Windows, Grass & Daffodils by Room 2?
- The Mosaic Cross & Red slate Roof by Room 1?
- The Large Round Stained Glass Windows by Rooms 3 & 6?
- The Salt Dough Parishioners & Paper People by R4?

The photos below are of our:
1.Eggshell Mosaic Crosses (Room 1)
2.Our WHARETAPU (Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6)
3.Kandinsky Circles & Quilt (Rooms 4, 3 & 6)
4.Aboriginal Dot Painting (Room 1)
5.Pacifika flowers (Room 2)

Welcome to Term 3!

Welcome back to Term Three!

This term, as part of our topic, we are going to be creating awesome art and learning lots of new art techniques! We will be learning about art from countries all over the world.

Later in the term, we will be creating an amazing piece of syndicate artwork for the school art show on the 13th September. Come along to view our wonderful creation.

This week we looked at some pictures by artists around the world – have a look and see if you can guess where the artists are from? What did they use to make their art? Look at all the shapes and colours that they use!

Welcome to Term 3

Welcome back to Term Three!  

This term, as part of our topic, we are going to be creating awesome art and learning lots of new art techniques! We will be learning about art from countries all over the world.

Later in the term, we will be creating an amazing piece of syndicate artwork for the school art show on the 13^th September. Come along to view our wonderful creation.