Week 4 News and Homework tasks

The Book Fair last week was very successful and will allow the library team to choose a lot of new books for our school. It was great to see so many students once again letting their creativity take flight and dressing up as a book character. Friday definitely had a carnival atmosphere as everyone paraded around in their costumes, vying for the prizes on offer.

Another buzz for me last week was coaching the Y7 miniball team and watching them pushing themselves to be all they could at the Friday night game. The result was an exciting game which ended in a draw. Good team spirit and fair play all the way.
We have allowed the intermediate students have their lunch in the classroom or on the deck as a special privilege. Some people think that the students are skipping their lunch so that they can get out to play earlier. Parents, we need your feedback. Please vote on the poll on our blog, leave a comment or email me to indicate whether your son or daughter is eating their lunch or whether they are bringing it home uneaten.
This week we are extending our skills and knowledge of: -
 addition; questioning to deepen our understanding of what we read; writing to persuade; writing a CV; Spanish greetings and winter sports. Special event this week is a soccer coaching session on Tuesday.
A big thank you to all the parents who have managed to get work placements for their child. For those who have not had any luck, I will be working on getting suitable work experience for those requiring it.
Have a great week
Regards
Teressa

Student Tasks

Persuasive Texts
Persuasion is all around you. You might be surprised how many people and businesses are trying to convince you to do things every day.
Find a persuasive piece in the newspaper or a magazine to bring to share at school. It can be an article, advert, letter to the editor, a movie or book review or another piece that is trying to persuade you in some way.
Be prepared to answer these questions: -
Who is trying to persuade you?
What are they trying to persuade you to do?
Is their argument convincing? Why or why not?

Maths Mate
Term 2 Sheet 4 or cycle 12
Due for marking and discussing on Thursday.

Spelling
Learn the words identified from your writing. Write out the family of words or words that rhyme with your words.
E.g. Word family for swap = swaps, swapped and swapping.
Rhyming words for skies = flies, pies, cries, spies