We are a primary school in Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. We are a multicultural school with a huge variety of nationalities and cultures in all classrooms.
We have 23 classrooms ranging from year 1's (5 year olds) to year 6's (10-11 year olds).
Our class is currently looking at Communities and Cultures from around the world. We are looking at things that are the same and things that are different. Perhaps you could help us by telling us a bit about your school and what you do at school. I wonder what things would be the same and what things would be different?
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Mrs Chambers & Room 19.
Hello Mrs Chambers and Room 19
ReplyDeleteWe are Mrs Batham's 2C Class from Australia. Our blog is called "A Year in Year 2".
We are really excited to read your blog and to get to know you better and especially to be doing this quadblogging project with you.
In our class, most of us were born in Australia but some of us (or our parents) were born overseas in other countries like England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, Japan, The Philippines, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and the United States of America.
We are the same as you because we go to a primary school and we have both boys and girls at our school like you.
We are a bit different because we have 27 classes and these classes go from Prep (five years old) to Year 7 (twelve years old).
We are a Catholic school. Are you a Catholic school?
We have special teachers at our school for PE (sports), Music and Japanese. Do you have special teachers at your school? If so, what subjects do they teach?
Our classroom is upstairs in a building with four classrooms. Is your classroom upstairs or downstairs? Our classroom has a verandah outside where we keep our schoolbags.
We go to school on Mondays to Fridays and we start at 8.30 and we go until 3 o'clock.
What time do you go to school? Do you have a weekend too?
Our school is in a suburb in a city. Is your school in the country or the city?
We are really looking forward to hearing from you and finding out about your school.
Hi Mrs Batham & Room 2C
DeleteIt is really neat to hear from you. We have been waiting for someone to reply to us!
A lot of us were born in New Zealand but we do have others (or our mums or dads) who were born in South Africa, Korea, England, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ukraine, Iran, Russia and China. Aren't we lucky to have such a variety of nationalities in our classrooms.
We have 21 children in our classroom. How many children are in your classroom? We have about 470 children at our school and by the end of the year we will have about 530.
Our school is a relatively new, public school. It is only 14 years old. How old is your school? Pinehill is not a Catholic School.
We are very lucky to have a clever, talented music teacher. Her name is Mrs Hohaia (Hor-high-ar). We love going to music because we get to play on the musical instruments like the xylophone. We also get to use buckets for drums. They sound really cool!
Our classroom is sort of downstairs! We are in temporary classrooms on the field because our old classroom block has been demolished. Our new block, which will be upstairs and downstairs, is being built now. We can't wait until June when we can move in. We keep our school bags in the cloak bay.
We are lucky because our school day begins at 8.50am not 8.30! We also finish at 3pm. We have 20 minutes for morning tea, which starts at 10.30, and 1 hour for lunch 12.30-1.30. We also go to school Monday to Friday.
Our school is in a suburb in Auckland. It is on the border between Browns Bay and Albany. We have a 5 minute drive to the beach or a 2 minute drive to the shopping mall!
We have a team assembly on a Friday afternoon for 45 minutes. In this assembly we share any work we have done over the fortnight with the rest of the team. We have a year 1, 2, 3, 4 and a year 5 class in our team. Three people from each class also get given a green certificate at Team Assembly. One of these 3 people, in each class throughout the school, have a chance to be awarded the Class Excellence Shield at our Whole School Assembly, which is on a Tuesday afternoon. Some of us are excited when our names are read out but some of us are really nervous. We get to go up the front, get our shield awarded by Mr LeSueur, our teacher then says why we were awarded the shield and then get to go up on the stage. Everybody else claps when we are all up on the stage. When you have 5 green certificates you then get a really special gold certificate. This is presented to us at Whole School Assembly.
We have house groups at school. We work hard all week to get house points for our house. The winning house is announced at our whole school assembly and the house captains get to go up to receive the flag. The winning house flag is then flown on the flagpole for the week below the NZ flag.
Do you do fitness everyday? We do fitness every morning at 10.30 in our house groups. We do different activities each day - aerobics, power walking, running or skipping. Our house names are: Rakino - red; Motuihe - blue; Waiheke - yellow and Kawau - green. The houses are named after islands in the Hauraki Gulf.
At lunchtime we can get sports equipment out of the PE shed to play with. When the hand bell goes we have to return it. We have hockey sticks, soccer and rugby balls, hoops, tennis balls and padder tennis bats, t-ball sets and cricket sets.
We have so much more to share with you but we have to go home now! So we will share some more 'facts about Pinehill' with you next time.
Have a great afternoon.
Mrs Chambers & Room 19
Hello,
ReplyDeletethis is Miss Vaughan the teacher of 4V.
We are really excited to be blogging with people from all around the world.
Here at Clarendon most of the pupils are Muslim and their families come from all around the world. Most of the children however, have lived in England all their lives.
Children can come to the school when they are 3 years old and attend the Nursery. They leave when they are 11 year old in Year6. The school day starts at 9.00 and finishes at 3.15. Sometimes there are clubs after school but not may because most of the children go to mosque.
The school year is broken into 3 terms with a long holiday of 6 weeks around July time and two weeks holidays at Christmas and Easter. We also have a week off in the middle of all those terms, (making 6 half terms).
Each half term we have a new topic. In Year 4 our topics are:
Vicious Vikings, Imaginary Worlds, Rotten Romans, Lighting it up, Bon Voyage, Natural Worlds.
On our blog page you can see some examples of the work we have done for those topics so far.
http://year4v.clarendonblogs.net/
Looking forward to hearing from you
Wow, that's cool we learned about culture too in our Unit of Inquiry. Hello my name is Seraj and I am from Saudi Arabia and in my culture we have a celebration called Ramadan. In Ramadan we do not eat all day until the evening prayer. After Ramadan is finished another celebration comes and it is cold EID and at EID we play, we rest, we get some money from our families and we do not sleep for one day or more.
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