Syndicate assemblies

Syndicate Assembly Week 10

Sport 
*ASB Soccer Girls Tournament – Thursday.  Email has been sent home to teams about this.

*Y5/6 Rugby match v Boulcott School on Wednesday of Week 11 @ 12pm @ Boulcott School.  We will need parent support with transport!  There is a meeting for all rugby players in Room 10 at morning tea today. 

*The New Zealand Sport Stacking Championships were held in Palmerston North on Saturday.  The Muritai School Stackers had a great time.

The results:

3-3-3: 
Neve McKay – 1^st place Division 9

Mr. McKay – 1^st place Masters 2 Division

3-6-3:

Neve McKay – 1^st place Division 9

Ella McKay – 2^nd place Division 11

Mr. McKay – 1^st place Masters 2 Division

Cycle:

Neve McKay – 3rd place Division 9

Ella McKay – 3rd place Division 11

Mr. McKay – 1^st place Masters 2 Division

Doubles Cycle:

Neve McKay and Emma Beevers – 1^st place Division 10 and under

Ella McKay and Allanah Miller (St Mary’s) – 2^nd Division 11 and under

Neve McKay and Mr. McKay – 1^st place Parent/Child doubles

Timed 3-6-3 Relay:

Muritai One (Ella M, Neve M, Emma B, George MN) – 2nd place Division 11 and under

Inside

*There seem to be a lot of students inside classrooms (including the library) and the corridor during morning and lunchtimes.  THIS MUST STOP!  If you are thirsty – use the water fountain, if you are hungry – eat the food your parents have given you for each break time! If you need to go to the toilet – use toilet next to room 4.  There will be consequences for students who are caught inside without permission from a teacher.

Production – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

*This is it!  Production week!!

·      Go to bed early so that you can get a good sleep

·      Eat healthy food

·      Be patient

·      Be sensible

·      Be where you need to be

·      Be quiet/silent in the green room and back stage

·      Be AWESOME!

4C’s

*Last week our goal was to use our common sense, this week our goal it to show COURTESY.  Courtesy is where you show: ‘excellence of manners or social conduct and demonstrate polite behaviour’.  This will be so important this week as we have a big week of production performances.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!! THIS IS IT!!!

Syndicate Assembly Week 9

·      Sport: 

*The ASB Girls Soccer Tournament is to be held on Thursday in week 10.  Mr. McMillan will be finalizing the teams this week.

*Muritai School will have some stackers competing at ‘The New Zealand Sport Stacking Championships’ held in Palmerston North on Saturday 15^th September.

*Tennis

There is a tennis tournament next term for boys and girls.  Mr. McMillan would like to see anyone who is interested and has had tennis coaching or plays for a club.

*Touch

Touch notices need to go to the office.  They need to be by this Friday.  No form No play!

·      Maths

*The Y5/6 ‘Mathswell’ competition team had a great time last Thursday evening at Berhampore School in Wellington.  It was a really tough competition.  Well done Lauren, Mia TB, Max W, Monty D, Lucy C and Liam F for your efforts.

·      Artsplash Choir

*The Y4-6 Artsplash choir are going to Wellington, on Wednesday, for a rehearsal at the Michael Fowler Centre.  They will leave at approx.10.00am (rehearsal @ 11.30am) and return to school at approx. 2.00pm.  The concert is at 7.45pm on Wednesday night.

·      Production: 

This is the final week of preparation so make sure you:

-have all of your costume sorted and at school in a named bag

-continue to cooperate to ensure maximum concentration during practices.

-read the notice (email) that will come out this week about times and places

·      Behaviour expectations

It is so important to be ‘better than our best’ when there are relievers in the classroom.

·      Book work

We expect that bookwork be done to a high standard.  You need to have ‘PRIDE’ in all of the work you do.

·      Homework: 

*Room 11, 12 and 13 will begin the new homework this week.  It is a NEW and improved version of homework and it includes – Reading, Spelling, Mathletics, a relevant activity and ‘Extra for Experts’.  All of the required homework is due in by Friday.  

·      Welcome Felix!

*Felix has started today in Room 11.  Welcome to Muritai School Felix!!

·      REMINDER about Mathletics: 

* Free Parent Access!

You can register for free parent access so you can view your child’s progress and certificates.  Visit www.mathletics.co.nz/parent Fill in the required fields and submit Record your new username and password.  Each student’s Mathletics account holds information relating to individual results and progress.

Please ensure that your child is the only one to access and use their account.

·      4 C’s:

* Last week’s goal was ‘Co-operation’.  It was great to see most of the students co-operate with each other and teachers through production preparation.  This week’s goal is to use Common Sense  - things that are ‘normal around our school’ e.g. walking in the corridors, picking up rubbish (even if it’s not yours), letting others through the door ways, looking after your own property and respecting others’ property etc.

Speech Competition

And the winners is...

Y5/6 Speech competition Final

The final of the Y5/6 speech competition was AWESOME!  

All of the finalists did a great job. 

The winner of the Y5 category is...Andrew Sutcliffe

The winner of the Y6 category is...Milly Griffiths

The 2012 overall Y5/6 speech champion is...Milly Griffiths!!!  Well done Milly!!!

Syndicate assemblies

Syndicate Assembly Week 8

·      Sport: 

*The ASB Girls Soccer Tournament is to be held in week 10 of term 3

*Congratulations to the Y5/6 Girls and Boys hockey teams as they won the Central Zone trophy by coming 1^st and 2^nd respectively.

*Y5/6 Boys Hockey feedback:

“They took direction very well, and outplayed teams with players with much more experience by working well as a group, backing each other up and showing superior fitness (and bravery). They exhibited good sportsmanship on and off the field, supported the girls when possible and were a real credit to the Muritai School. Most importantly they all seemed to enjoy themselves and are all very keen to play again”.

*Water Polo – The finals are this week.  Make sure that you check your emails for times etc.

*North Island Primary Schools Ski Championships – The following Y5/6 students took part in the championships last week:  Tobias Knight, Max Hahn, and Mathew Jones.

·      ‘Mean Green House’ competition

*Grace Allan, Ella Tait, Eva Oliver and Lauren Redpath (of Room 13) have been working on a project over that last few weeks, which they have entered into the ‘Mean Green House’ competition.  They have put a lot of hardwork and effort into this project.  You can see the video they made, as part of the project, on Room 13’s class blog.

·      BP Technology Challenge

*Last week Muritai School sent 2 teams to the BP technology challenge.  Pablo, Eden, Ella T, Charlotte W and Grace Ogilvie made up the Year 5/6 team.  The team had great success, placing 3^rd in the ‘known challenge’ section of the event. 

·      Enviro School

*The Enviro Team (Eden and Rosa) will be setting up a new compost bin for the students to start putting food scraps in to.

·      Maths

*The Y5/6 ‘Mathswell’ competition is this Thursday evening at Berhampore School in Wellington.  We wish our team all the best!

Problem solving: Lauren, Mia, Max

Activity: Monty, Lucy, Liam

·      Production: 

*You need to bring in all of the things you need for your costume by Monday of week 9. An email has been sent home explaining what is required.

·      Y5/6 Speech finals are today.  Good luck to all of the finalists!!!

·      Homework: 

*Room 11, 12 and 13 are coming to the end of the inquiry homework.  All of the required homework is due in by Friday.  Room 14 has an extra week as they started the inquiry homework a week later.  There will be a NEW and improved version of homework starting in Week 9 and will include – Reading, Spelling, Mathletics, inquiry and an ‘Extra for Experts’.

·      ‘Tell the teacher’: 

*It is always important to ‘tell the teacher’ about any incidents that happen in or outside of the class.  The teacher needs to be informed of things that are contrary to the class OR syndicate expectations.

·      Mathletics: 

* Free Parent Access!

You can register for free parent access so you can view your child’s progress and certificates.  Visit www.mathletics.co.nz/parent Fill in the required fields and submit Record your new username and password.  Each student’s Mathletics account holds information relating to individual results and progress.

Please ensure that your child is the only one to access and use their account.

·      4 C’s:

*Consideration (moving silently through the corridor during learning time) was last week’s goal.  This week’s goal is Co-operation, we need to ensure that we co-operate with students and teachers through all of the production preparation.

Syndicate Assembly Week 7

·      Macey Caughley (Bad Habits) and Harrison Summers (6 weeks in a wheel chair) presented their speeches

·      Sports – Zone Hockey Tournament on Tuesday 28^th August

·      BP Challenge – Thursday 30th August

·      Production – Help needed for the painting of the backdrops.  Please contact Ms. Berry ASAP if your parents are able to assist.

·      Speeches  - Top 8 finalist to be confirmed by Tuesday and the FINAL will be held on Friday.  An email with names, times and venue will be forwarded as soon as we make the final decisions.

·      Our team GOAL for the week: moving through the corridors silently during learning time (Consideration)

 

 

Syndicate Assembly Week 6

Today we met as a syndicate and talked about what is coming up this week, what we have been achieving over the last few weeks and also what we aim to achieve.

• Hockey team is organised and slips need to be returned

• Girls football team still has opportunities available to participate

• Arts Club is up and running as an option for the Year 6 students.

• Speech Semi Final this Friday. Each class will be informed of their finalists by Wednesday.

• All classes inquiry homework underway...Keep referring to the marking schedule. And ASK A TEACHER if you have any concerns.

• Production practice starts today! You will need to be incredibly patient at times during this process.

• Some students had the opportunity to participate in the Hutt City Green Gold waste tour...With so many passionate students, it will be easy to continue our green gold path.

• Well done Year 6's earning 10 mins extra play for our syndicate!!! Keep up the good assembly behaviour.

• Focussing on being respectful and kind to all members of our school regardless of friendship circles. Remember: If a problem seems to big to sort out or continues...see a teacher.