Postponement - HNI Open Evening

Due to the 'Havelock North water issues', the HNI Open Evening is postponed until 

Tuesday 23 August @ 6.30pm

Week 4

There were fantastic reviews of the Haumoana School choir at the Kid's Sing - a big congratulations to all those Room 6 children involved.  It takes a lot of practice to deliver such a polished performance.

This week there is coastal cluster soccer on Tuesday - good luck to the 4 teams.

Remember the school  and interschool cross country is coming up - time to do some training out of school time.

This week we are continuing our Olympic study and will begin to work on our formal speeches for the speech competition. The topic is as below and the children will have time at school to work on this but will need assistance at home to help with practice and delivery.

WALT: to prepare and present an age-appropriate speech on any aspect of the topic of ‘an Inspirational Olympic Athlete’ to an audience of peers.

The children have access to details and success criteria.

In maths we have a sports focus but we are also reviewing and enhancing multiplication strategies.

Taradale Terror Adventure Race 2016

An energetic bunch of Room 6 students took part in the Taradale Adventure Race on Friday evening - looked like lots of fun!  Click on link for photos.

Taradale Terror Photos

And see how many Haumoana children that you can spot oin the HB Today video.

HB Today video

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3

Olympics is the class focus for the next couple of weeks and language and maths tasks will incorporate this theme as well as Maths Week Challenges.  This means that in maths we will have rich problem-solving tasks that involve all operations.

The 10 session writing challenge should be completed and published by the end of the week so keep an eye on your child's blog to see the finished result.

Click on the link below
Mathsweek.org.nz

We have had Mathletics for a couple of months now and there has been a measurable difference in speed of recall and knowledge in those children who have made a concerted effort.  Well done!  Remember a little, focused learning regularly will improve learning.

Remember:
On Monday 8th August, the choir is going to Havelock North Intermediate School for a
rehearsal. All choir members need to meet in Room 9 at 9.45 am. The children will have a
singing warm-up until 10. 10am, then have a quick morning tea, before leaving for HNIS at
10.30 am. Children need to be wearing their tidy black shoes and uniform. They will not need
to take their school bags to HNI to the rehearsal.

On Wednesday the start is earlier - Room 9 @ 9.05am.

Good luck to the many talented singers in the choir for the Kid's Sing performances.

Coastal Cluster soccer takes place next Tuesday - notices will be out this week.

Term 3

Welcome back to school for Term 3.

This term we will have our integrated language, maths, social sciences  study  - "Small World" as we focus on the Rio Olympics.

Events this term include:

• Tough Guy and Gal challenge
• Kids Sing for the choir
• School cross country
• Interschool cross country
• Interschool soccer
• Speech competition

Week 10

Welcome to the final week of the term.

Reminders:

• The first of the Tech Tasters @ Havelock North Intermediate visit take place on Thursday.  We leave at 8.45am ( as soon as the second bus arrives at school).
• We have the Kahurangi Dance group at our final term assembly on Friday - remember to get the $5 payment in by Thursday.

The class now has access to Mathletics for the rest of the year.  The class expectation is to gain at least 1000 points per week.  This is should only take about 10 minutes per day and is instead of other maths homework.

In language this week, we are learning to write Quatrain poems.

In maths we continue with fractions.

Cycling Success

Congratulations to the school cycling team for their success in the Hawke's Bay Champs.

Grace, Will and Marcus won the  Year 7/8 Boys 17kmTeam Time Trial.

Garrett finished second in the Year 7/8 25km road race.

Very impressive for Year 6s!