Week 5  term 4.... Ending friday 19th Nov.

What a wonderful week we have had at school, with all our wonderful Children who felt ok about returning to school after 3 months of having to stay home.

As some of our children have decided with their Parents that they would continue to stay home and participate in Disatnce learning programmes, I truely want to acknowledge how much we miss having all our children back at school.

We also certainly respect our parents chioce to keep children at home.

Our play grounds tho were not the same at all as we only had les than half the school returning through out the week.

There have been so many amazing changes happening around the school in 3 months.

We now have class room numbers for each class room that look really cool and groovy based on all our school values.😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😎😎😎😍😍😍😍😍

Look even closer and you will see that we now have a Pasifika Fale (House)covering the small stage area, outside rooms 12,13.

Sooooooo many children have played on, ran through, lay in, laughed in, dramatised in, talked in, slept in, and eaten in our Pasifika Fale  this week.

Malo, Faafetai lava! Ia manuia Mitaki Lahi...😃😃

It truely is a great asset to our play ground, and getting lots of use.

As you drive up the long drive way from Peter Buck road, you will se such awesome signs up again, displaying our school values.

There are a few more surprises that are added additions to our school environment, which I will leave for you to discover.

Take care out there everyone, remember to wear a mask, sanitise, and keep your distance are rules that we still need to be following.

Stay safe until next week!😆😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😃😃😎😎😎😎😎😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😀

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Hi HO Hi Ho ! 

Its off to work we go ....

W e are sooooooo looking forward to  changing from our bubble school classes to having as many Children back who want to come back!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏☝☝☝☝👪👫

Its been a long 3 months of distance learning from home, and some of you will be continuing with your learning from home next week👌😀😃

We have been super busy this week getting the school looking its best, and Teachers have been in to school over the last few weeks getting their classrooms looking the best they can be.

A big shout out to all of the New Windsor School staff especially our bubble school staff for all the hard work that has gone into keeping our Bubble classes going over the last many weeks.

We had so much fun in being together and getting all that we needed to do done.

The 20 children that were in the 2 bubble classes  of 10 each, were wonderful Children of whoom we aqre very grateful for how willing and well behaved they were 

We are so excited to be opening our gates to our Children come Wed 17th November

Please make sure that your child if they are coming to School has:

Hat

Mask for yrs 4-6 compulsory

Yr3s encouraged to wear masks through out the day.

sun screen (Optional)

play lunch/lunch

Water Bottle

school bag 

light clothes as the weather has changed, to summer weather.

And a veryvery very big smile😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋👋👀

Cant wait till Wednesday!

roll on returning to school....

 

NAMASTE NAMASTE NEW WINDSOR COMMUNITY:)

We have just finished a wonderful week of festive celebrations where the focus for the week was on the wonderful and colourful Hindu celebration of DIWALI.

THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.

There are five days as observed days for Diwali celebrations.

Dhanteras: Worship of wealth.

Naraka Chaturdasi: Choti (small) Diwali

Laxmi Pooja: Diwali

Govardhan Pooja: Bali Padyami

Bhai Dooj: Love between brothers and sisters.

Many of our students have posted to their blog pages what they have learnt or sharing facts about the 

Diwali festival of lights celebration.

In our bubble school we had a beautiful and yummy morning tea where our awesome learning assistant Mrs Falguni put on a scrumptious Diwali morning tea.

Everyone else bought a plate of food to share and we swapped small gifts which each other .

The tables were adorned with moving lights that Mrs Abercrombie especially brought into school to add to the festivities.

It was a wonderful morning tea where we also learnt about the actual importance of the celebration too.

How did you celebrate Diwli in your house if you celebrate diwali at this special time of the year?

Please take time to check out some of your childs class /student blogs on the festivities this week .

Happy Diwali everyone!

WEEKLY BLOG :Week ending, Week 2, term 4  Friday 29th October.😉😊💥😃😄✋✋👏👏👏

And here we are at the end of week 2 of term 4 already.

The weeks are just racing past!

We have had a good week at Bubble School with our children constantly showing and displaying to each other our New Windsor Values , especially being kind anhd respectful to each other .

We the bubble school staff really do apreciate our 2 bubble class students  attendees, and thank them for showing such good manners and resilence in times that matter.

Today they were all out side socually distanced enjoying an arts and craft day , then the rain came to visit💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦😲😲😲

This  didnt dampen  our moods as we moved the activities into the hall space, again, socially distancing.

So we have now been given a tentative date for Primary Schools to be returning, with the emphsis on the word : Tentative. What ever that means.

We await more details from Minister Chris Hipkins as to what Staggered attendance looks like, and means.

AGAIN, THE BEST AND SAFEST PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO BE AT THE MOMENT, IS AT HOME.

Have you taken time to read some of our student blogs and class blogs?

There are some very creative and well composed stories written by students that will keep you as the audience captivated to read on..

Please check out and comment on  our class/student  blogs as our teachers and students put a lot of work into these.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😀😀

A final reminder that the Ministry of Education rules for Halloween are:

At alert level 3, tamariki will not be able to go trick or treating on Sunday.

While we cant celebrate Halloween in the usual way, there are are alternative options you can do at home in your bubble.

Try a Halloween themed scavenger hunt in your back yard.

Decorate your house in a spooky dtyle.

Have a virtual costume party via zoom with friends and whanau.

Watch a movie with popcorn and other treasts togther as a whanau.

Happy Halloween going out to everyone, for those that do like to celebrate the occassion.

Take care over the weekend, stay safe, and keep smiling😀😍😍😍😍😍

Naku noa,

Ms Siohane.

 

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FAAKALOFA ATU KIA MUTOLU OSTI , KO HE AHO KO VAGAHAU NIUE WEEK.

WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO NIUE LANGUAGE WEEK...

We have many activities planned this week for our Children to participate in  as pwe celebrate Niuean Language week, and as we begin term 4 in a way that we will never forget ,being Distance learning programmes from home.

We were all hoping and anticipating returning to School this week for the start of term 4 😟😟😞

We all need to be safe and stay safe, as we all do our part to fight the Delta covid pandemic.

Parents please ensure that your children connect with their class teacher on a daily basis .

If you need to know what the learning is for the week or need some support with distance learning programmes please email your childs teacher.👍👍👍👍👍😇😇

Next week is also where some families like to celebrate Halloween which will be at the end of next week.

Please take  note of the Ministry of Education advice regarding what happens during level 3 for Halloween as we are still in level 3 guidelines and rules:

At Alert Level 3 , tamariki(Children ) will not be able to go trick or treating.

While we cant celebrate  Halloween in the usual way, there are alternative options you can do at home in your bubble.

Try a Halloween themed movie night with your bubble.

Decorate your house in a spooky style.

Have a virtual costume party with friends and Whanau online.

At alert level 3, indoor gatherings are not allowed.

You can meet up with friends and family from only 1 other bubble as long  as the meeting takes place outside, with up to 10 people.

Please keep safe out there everyone, our teachers are doing  a great job in  planning distance learning programmes  for their classes and tamariki in these uncertain times.

We are all in this togther, and working on eliminating the Covid  Delta virus togther , and as a  Country of 5 million we will get there.

Kia Kaha!

Have a loverly Labour day long weekend everyone..😃😃😃😃💁😛😛😄😄😄😄😄😍😍😍

 Weekly Blog .Week 10 of term 3 Friday October 1st.

Who would of thought we would get to the end of term 3 and be spending more time in Pandemic lock down than actually at school being face to face , enjoying being with our friends and getting on with learning...📀📉📗📘📙🔍💡💡

There is a saying that goes:

A pinch and a punch for the first of the month, which is a saying to wish good tidings upon us all at the beginning of a new month.

We have been very busy with Bubble School class this week and getting on with the business of making learning fun. Our  Essential workers children have been a pleasure to have at bubble school, and are looking forward to fun times at home during the holidays.👍👍👍👍👨👩

As the holidays approach we wait in anticipation as we get to find out on Mondays Covid briefing how long we will be in level 3 for.

Next term being term 4,  will begin with the Celebration of Niuean and Cook Island language weeks which will feature many activities for students to engage in as a class and as individuals .

I would like to end this blog  with a very speacial Thank you message to all our Parents and students for keeping calm and carrying on in making what we all could out of a very topsy tervy unpredictable  term 3.

We have all shown and put into  practice  our school vales of resilence, co operation, being respectful ans collaborating as a few examples over lock down distance learning programmes times of term 3.

This was clearly evident on the daily  class zooms meetings as far as our students connecting and coping with learning of a new type that could be our norm for the way that future learning will/may  happen.

Thank you one and all for your support , and maanakitanga towards our teachers and distance learning programmes requirements.

It is now time for us all to disconnect with our learning devices and create some fun times with our families and loved ones.

See you all in term 4, heres hoping we will have more weeks at school and not carrying on with many more weeks of having to be in level 3 ✌👌

Take care everyone, rest up, and be kind to each other.

Lets all go find some shine shine..

No Reira, me mitaki lahi ,

Ms Siohane.

Summer is coming, and so will be the radient sun shine weather of Summer....😄😄😃😃👍

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WEEKLY BLOG ENDING FRIDAY 24th September 

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WEEKLY BLOG .WEEK ENDING FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER.

last week of term 3.

Kia ora atu everyone..

We should all be celebrating moving to level 3!  this week.What great news for Aucklanders👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

We still have a long way to go yet, before we have contained the Delta Virus  tail but at least we have a little more freedom to move around, and to bring back some normality to our daily happenings.

This week saw the delivery of Ministry of Education learning packs to School.

A few staff were at School on Monday and Tuesday preparing the learning packs for Parents to collect from school over the rest of the week, and getting ready to open the bubble school classes for essential workers children starting Wednesday.

This whole process involves a full and deep clean of the classrooms , toilets, and any other room that is to be used over the next 8 teaching days of bubble school , taking us to the end of term 3, last day  of term being Friday 1st October. All door handles  and classroom surfaces must be  fully sanitised as well.

Our school cleaners also start their deep clean of all these rooms from 3.30 every day in order to keep all our areas super clean and sanitised ready for the next day.

It was loverly to see so many of our yr 1-4 Parents collecting a learning pack from school this week, they even came out in the pouring rain on Thursday !

Thank you Thank you👌👌👌👌 to you all for  BRAVING the rainy  stormy weather on Thursday.

We were not delivered any Yr 5-6 packs this time.😅😓😓😓😒

In saying that , we are very  very greatful to the Ministry of Education for delivering the learning packs.

A huge THANK YOU going their way.👏👏👏👏💁👫👫👫👏👏👏👏😋😋💥💥💢💢💢💢

The learning packs are full of many learning activities (Enough to last 4 -6 weeks of learning and lots of special readers)and a few treats and goodies that our children will enjoy recieving.

If you would like a learning pack and have yet to pick one up, please go to school next week and you will be given one for child.This applies only to Yr 1-4  levels.

Next week we celebrate Chinese language Week  which takes us to the last day of term 3 on Friday 1st October.

Our bubble school  this week started on Wednesday and consisted of 2 classes  with less than 10 students in each. The  number of students allowed per bubble class is 10, so we were just under.

These children of all ages had so much fun , learning and connecting with each other over the first 3 days of bubble school .

There are so many important rules that need to be in place for bubble school attendance such as no touching/connecting with anyone.Keep 2 metres distance.

Masks are optional for students to wear, compolsory for all adults to wear.

Sanitising and the washing of  hands must take place at every appropriate time, with no play equipment and learning tools  allowed to be shared with anyone.

Each student has their own bag full of what they need for the day.

Our bubble school students  have adapted really well  to all the health and safety rules really quickly, and play their part in  helping to keep ourselves all safe too.

It is awesome to see them all working togther to help keep our health and saftey rules and processes in place and still smiling  when they go home at 2.45pm daily.

We now await the Government announcement on Monday Oct 4th, 4pm,

( to begin Tuesday 5th October ) as to whether we  change from level 3 to level 2 or not.

Heres hoping we do change levels, so that we can resume some normality to our daily lives , and all be able to venture out and about, as we enter into the first week of the Term 3 holidays.

5 learning days to go, lets make the most of the 5 days,

Keep safe , and keep smiling everyone, we are doing ok...WE GOT THIS✊✊✊✊😍😍😍👏👏👏

Nofo A,

Ms Siohane.