Our Award Winners for Week Eight

Congratulations to our award winners this week.

The award for achievement went to Gyda for the progress she has made in reading and writing. This week Gyda read to the class from a challenging text. She enjoyed the opportunity to share her literacy skill with her peers and laugh at the humorous content.

Toby was awarded a certificate for his courteous approach to sharing during team assignment. Toby displays many of the values that St Albans School works towards; respect, community, showing initiative and creativity. What a great example he sets .

Jake achieved the Heart of Achievement this week. Jake has demonstrated such a positive attitude to his work and continues to strive for excellence in all that he does. We particularly like Jake's questions and the interest he shows in our Inquiry subjects.

Congratulations and well done to these students.

Expressing An Emotion Using Art

The theme that the Christchurch Art Gallery tutors used for the abstract art lesson was 'emotions.' The children screen printed the background of their work in gold paint and then used dye to paint in their foreground. The use of colours and brush strokes was to depict their chosen emotion. These photographs were

taken throughout the art-making process.

Dr Nutty is Caught on Video

This footage captures some of the moments caught of video by one of our parents. The full performance is available on CD.

Our Performance Day

It is so hard to believe that all our hard work paid off and our performance was staged. It seemed such a lot of time had passed since we had written the script and started to learn it. We went into role, with costume and makeup and it all came to life. It was great having the middle and senior school there as an audience. Best of all we had many of our parents in the audience to clap at the end of each scene. A video was made of the performance by Ibrahim's dad. If any families want a copy please contact our teacher.

Visit from the Public Library

On Tuesday a number of children from the middle syndicate enjoyed participating in storytelling. Props including hand held puppets were used to bring the characters in picture books to life. The performances were superb. Here are a few photographs sent across to us from Room 19. Thanks to Mrs de Vries.