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Welcome to Term 3 2011 We are excited to be starting a new era at Emmanuel as we welcome Mr Murray as our new principal. This page is to keep you up to date with some of the happenings in Room 5. As a school we are focussing on the idea of COMPETITION this term. In the senior school we are planning to involve you as families in some of our activities. More about that later!! In Maths we will be continuing with addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, and then later in the term we will be doing some measurement work - which will culminate in a class party. In Literacy our main focus will be narrative (story) reading and writing. Of course the Bible contains the greatest story ever, so we'll be linking our learning to that! For Social Science we will be looking at cultures, being a good ambassador and a good host, as this relates well to the Rugby World Cup. We'll also look at heroes and what makes a real hero. Winter sports will continue for another 5 weeks, and then we have two weeks of swimming (which did not happen in term1) Dance and drama will be our arts focus for this term and the children will be performing several different poems.

I'll try to keep you updated as the term progresses.

//Updates:// //I've put some photos on our WIKI of the dance competition we had.// //There will be some photos of our Rugby World Cup Day soon.//

Welcome to Term 4 2011 Wow! Where has the year gone? What an eventful year, and now we're on the downhill run to the end. There are only seven weeks in this term, but with Labour Day, Show Day and Teacher's only day, the number of school days is even fewer.

The main focus for the first five weeks will be the end of year Production (Something's Up in Bethlehem). We want the whole school to be involved in this, not just actors and singers, so there will be rehearsals and prop-making going on for several sessions over the next few weeks.

End of year assessments will be taking place over the next three weeks. Some of these will be school-wide and others will be class-specific.

In literacy we will be studying poetry, reviews and biographies. We will also be doing some revision of the year's work. In maths, we will be improving multiplication and division, fractions and measurement. For art we plan to do some tie dyeing as part of a school project. Athletics will be our main focus for P.E.

Again, I'll try to keep you updated throughout the term.