Weekly Blog Week ending Friday Sept 10th.

Malo E lelei everyone.

Fefe hake?😛😄😄

This week we celebrate Tongan Language week.

This years theme for Tongan langugae week is Fakakoloa O Aotearoa aki a e Ako Lelei.

This means to enrich Aotearoa with holistic education.This involves diverse forms of learning and how Aotearoa can benifit from it.

Useful everyday words in Tongan are:

Malo e Lelei :Greetings/Hello

Alu a :Goodbye -to those who are  leaving 

Nofo a: Goodbye to those who are staying.

Fakamolemole : Please

Malo aupito: Thank you.

We have many activities planned by classroom teachers this week to celebrate Tongan language week.

Please check out your childs distance learning programmes or connect with  their teacher on class Zooms this week to see what  this weeks  Tongan Langugae week challenge is.

Lea Faka-Tonga.

Tongan Language Week.😇😄

Ke tau lotu

Ko emau Tamai oku i hevani

Oku mau kole ke ke tapuaki i  ae uike ni

Mo kimautolu hono kotoa

Ko emau lotu ia, ia Sisu

Kalaisi ko homau Eiki, Emeni

Nofo a 😃😍

Ms Siohane.

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Weekly Blog .  (Week ending Friday 3rd September)

New Windsor staff and learning Assistants have all been busy this week having all  their meetings as Zoom meetings. Many classes are  able to have  more than 1 zoom meeting in a day , and becoming very skilled at knowing how to connect online.

Who would of guessed that this is where we would all be and having to do, at this time of the year.

One  advantage of being in lock down is that we are all at home with  our families, and not having  to get up early  go to work or to School.

The  DELTA VARIENT is a very dangerous one, and we all need to be keeping ourselves safe in our bubbles.The biggest message that we all need to follow is the one that we are hearing over and over again:

STAY HOME, STAY HOME TO STOP THE SPREAD OF DELTA IN THE COMMUNITY.

As a country we are very fortunate that our Government is quick to act on getting us all   to help in stopping the airborne virus spreading.

We are definitly a team of 5 million!👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋💁

A huge thank you to our New Windsor Community our children, and adults for doing your part in keeping us all safe, especially your bubbles.

All around the world there are still  many countries in lock down.

Children in India have not been able to go back to school and are still learning from home after  a year plus   of  having to learn from home .

England have only just opened up their Schools this week  after many months in lock down.

Are we all able to connect with our class zooms ?

If you have any  questions  about your learning from home connect with your teacher .

All staff emails are on the New Windsor School Website.

Have a restful weekend everyone.😋😊😊😊

Do  make  sure that you get to spend some time outside as well.Go for a walk with your family ,

Spend time playing outside.👌👧👦

The sun gives us our dose of vitamin D💥💢 The sun is one of the  ways in which we can get our daily  vitamin D, when playing outside, or just being out doors on a sunny day.

Happy weekend, 

Hei Konei ra😃😘

 WEEK 5 Of Term 3.       (Week ending  Friday 27th August.)

Talofa Lava Eveyone:)

We are now entering our first full week of the whole country being in  Lock down level 4.

Level 4 takes us all a bit of getting used to as we all adjust ourselves to being in our family bubbles, and establishing  routines  around the house.

This also is the first full week of Distance learning programmes.

All our teachers have spent many hours preparing for their class  distance learning programmes.

There are a few Zoom rules that will help class zooms run smoothly.

Some of these tips are:

*Turn your microphones off until you are ready to speak.

*Use the hand button when wanting to speak, to show your hand is up waiting for your turn. 

*Turn your camera on, so that everyone can see each other on the zoom meeting.

*Be ready and prepared  by setting up your device 10 minutes before the time that your teacher has set the class zoom meeting for. Have an adult close by in caase you need help in connecting.

* A friendly smile 😇😇😇😇 goes a long way on a Zoom.

Happy class zoom meetings eveyone.👪👫👦👧💦👬👭👀

 WEEK 4 OF TERM 3 Ending Friday 20th August.

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Who would of ever guessed the whole Country would be back in level 4 lock down come Wednesday ?😟

Our teachers have spent time on Thursday preparing class sites, class blogging pages for distance learning programmes from home to begin thursday of this week.

Our Team of 5 million as our Prime Minister states kicked into action in preparing families and loved ones for level 4.

It is SOOOOOOO IMPORTANT that we all follow the guidelines of level 4, the most important one being :

STAY HOME KEEP SAFE .STAY HOME EVERYONE. STAY HOME. KEEP SAFE.

New Windsor students,Make sure that you connect with your classroom teacher so that you can be engaged in your class Distance Learning programme that your teacher has put togther for you.

I have joined in on some classroom Zooms/Google meet sessions this week .

It has been so loverly to see so many of our students on Zoomz/Google Meets online and the AMAZING  creativity that they have been coming up with around their daily learning activities.

We really should keep a gallery of some of the learning  creativity that we are seeing.

Our students are so proud of what they can do as well, as are we the teachers and learning Assistants.

A huuuge Thank you also to our Parents and adults who are supporting our children with their Distance learning Programmes.

Its a team effort in the home environment as well, and for this we say ; THANK YOU,KIA ORA!

Please stay safe and warm everyone.Watch the TV  news for any  COVID 19 briefings  so that you and your family are kept up to date with what is happening around Aotearoa in such trying and hard times.

Please make time Adults and children , family too, 😊😊 to go into each Classrooms blog page and make a comment.

The Junior class blog pages are full of AMAZING 👏👏👏👏👏👏 stories and  HAPPENINGS.

check out the many pictures and photos of learning as well.

I am going to sign off now and hop onto some classroom blog pages to see what classes have been up to while engaging in distance Learning. and post comments.

Take care everyone, and remember,

WE GOT THIS NEW WINDSOR FAMILY!👍✊✊✊✊👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌😊😍

 WEEK 3 OF TERM 3. ending Friday 13th August.

TESTING TESTING TESTING...👀👥😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌👤👤👤👐👐👐👐👐👐👐👐

This week all our teachers have been focussing on testing  their students to see what their reading levels are at, and what progress has been made since returning from the holidays.

Why do we Test?

In teacher language we call this Assessment of learning.

Assessment /Testing in curriculum areas is carried out so that we can see where teachers need to contribute to the improvement of the learning in each classroom.

By Assessing  what is learnt on a regular basis we are able to :

Improve on our teaching and learning.

Summarise achievements.

Monitor individual levels of achievement.

These achievements are very important when it comes to report writing as well.

I have  had the pleasure of being in many different classrooms this week, working with the class while the teacher has focussed on assessing childen in writing,  and reading '

I have been very impressed with the ways in which our Junior classes have been focussing on their learning, and embedding our school values into the ways in which they work togther with each other and in support of each others learning.

Definitly my bag of fale tokens had to be filled up again very quickly as so many tokens were given out  to those who were focussing on learning activities, which was very much EVERYONE in the class.

Well done junior classes! I was VERY PROUD OF YOU ALL👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👻

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WEEK TWO TERM 3 :

Last week being week 1 of term 3 just flew by!🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Are you all getting ready for the olympic games 2020 to begin?

Our Teachers have been very engaged this week with lots  of learning for themselves  with our Maths Proffessional development programme called Dmic.

DMIC stands for : Developing Mathematical  Inquiry Communities.

This is an exciting way to teach Maths and our teachers  have ongoing observations by special DMIC mentors in how they are putting into practice all that they are learning from the Proffessional development sessions.

This week we were fortunate to be able to have our learning Assistants attend a PD session with our DMIC facilitators.They all found this very informative and great new learning for when they are in classrooms during maths Teaching times.

DMIC is a great maths teaching programme/pedagogy from which our Students are becoming more engaging in Maths discussions.

I hope the week has been kind to everyone and that the weather stays sunny and fine as well for the weekend.🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌟

Naku Noa,

Ms Siohane.

 

Welcome to week 1 of term 3 everyone.

We began our week with an assembly gathering , welcoming our new New windsor children.

Everyone seems refereshed and pleased to be back.

The classrooms are looking vibrant and teachers are rearing to go as far as the Teaching and learning goes.

The Parent Teacher Co Op met on Tuesday and have a few  School events lined up  with the first one being a movie night in week 5, on Friday the 27th August.

This will be a fun evening for children and parents complete with POPCORN and MILO 

There will be flyers sent out advertising this event soon.

Hope the first week back is a good one for all of us.

Naku Noa,

Ms Siohane.