People Who Help Us

We had a visit from a policeman who told us about some of the things a policeman has to do, and about how they train police dogs. Police men can help us when there is an emergency and they can keep us safe after dangerous things like storms, floods and crashes and help to protect us from bad people . We got to look in his car and he put the flashing lights on. When he put the siren on I got a terrible fright!

Choice and Challenge

Today was Daffodil Day and we had a Mufti Day. We dressed up in yellow or flower colours instead of our school uniforms. We did Choice and Challenge and our group chose to learn to play the ukelele. We were so good we put on a concert. Next time we will try to record our playing so you can hear us too.

Looking at Patterns Everywhere

Looking at Patterns Everywhere on PhotoPeach

Fire Wise

Today five fire fighters came to visit us at school. They told us about the danger of fires and how fire fighters can help us. We learnt that when the room gets filled with smoke it gets very dark. The smoke is bad for us because we can't breath. You have to "get down, get low and get out". If the door feels hot you have to get out a window and go to the safe meeting place outside, where your family will be waiting. The fire fighters will come with their special clothes and breathing gear and put out the fire. 

They said it was important to have smoke alarms in your house and you should check them regularly to make sure the battery is not flat. The one they brought with them today had a flat battery!

We went out on the grass to practice crawling under the smoke with our noses to the grass. They said we had to get green noses!

Working with our Buddies.

   Every New Entrant that comes to our school is buddied up with a senior pupil, and time is set aside each week for them to work together reading, playing games, doing similar interests and offering support in the playground. Part of the senior school requirements is a Pathways document which explains the leadership role that the students have taken during the year in caring for the needs of younger learners. This has advantages for both age groups, and works amazingly well. 

Thank you Buddies! And thank you Simon for organising it all.

Book Week

Friday was the final day of Book Week. We could come to school dressed as our favourite book character. We had Bottomly Potts from Lynley Dodd's book Hairy Macleary. We had princesses and the beautiful butterfly from The Very Hungry Catterpillar. We had Spiderman and Batman, cats and dogs and we even had a pre-entry visitor who came dressed up in her new school uniform. Paddington Bear was our teacher for the day.

Ambulance Visit.

When the St John's ambulance came into our school playground we thought someone was very sick. We thought someone had broken their arm. But they hadn't. The St John medics came to teach us about people who help us. They have a very big first aid bag and we got to look in it and try some things out. We got to look in the ambulance too.

Reading in the New Entrant Class

Reading in our room begins the day children start school. They learn to point to each word, and to match the words with the picture. In the early stages they read the book with the teacher, but very soon they begin to remember some commonly used words and the alphabet sounds help them to work out new words more independently. The children are all very happy reading to their friends and parents at home.

       

  

Welcome to School 2014.

This is our class. We are pleased to be at school this year. We are in Room 7. It is a lovely big room with a verandah on the front. We will have a lot of children joining us soon. We have two teachers, Mrs Rose and Miss Welch.

We are not Pathfinders any more. We are Rockets, so you will have to look at the Rocket Blog to see what we are up to this term. This Pathfinders Blog will be used again later in the year when a new room becomes available and when we have more children for a new class.

Monarch Caterpillars

We have a swan plant at school and today we noticed all the caterpillars on it. There are at least 100! They have eaten lots of the leaves and some caterpillars are starting to make cocoons. Garth took this photo today on an iPad.