This term only three flags will be flying and two of them have already been flown!! Fiji and Taiwan both had their national days in the holidays (on 10 October), so the flag of Fiji was flown on Monday and the flag of Taiwan was flown today. The flag of Bosnia will be flown on 25 November.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Next Parent Meeting
Our first meeting for Term 4 will be held on Wednesday, 21 October from 9.00 - 9.45 am in the Library. Please note that Room 14 will no longer be used as a meeting place this term because it is now a classroom.
New families have joined our Oaklands community since our last meeting, so if your family is new to our school, please feel free to join us and meet other families whose children are English language learners. As always, preschool children are welcome. We will follow up from our last meeting and continue planning for our Multicultural Day in the first term next year. Please come along and share your ideas.
New families have joined our Oaklands community since our last meeting, so if your family is new to our school, please feel free to join us and meet other families whose children are English language learners. As always, preschool children are welcome. We will follow up from our last meeting and continue planning for our Multicultural Day in the first term next year. Please come along and share your ideas.
Friday 9 October 2015
Ye Young's Magnificent Effort
Many of you will have read of Ye Young's magnificent effort in the Year 3/4 Maori Language Week Competition. Below is the article written by Mrs Tash Baker (Ye Young's teacher) that congratulates Ye Young on her winning effort. All of us at Oaklands are very proud of Ye Young.
HUGE, HUGE, HUGE congratulations to Ye-Young from Room 13 who won 1st prize in the Year 3/4 category for the Maori Language Week Competition through Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Ye-Young's entry was one of 1699 across New Zealand so we are so proud of her for winning 1st place!
As a prize she has won a $100 gift voucher and goodie bag for herself along with a few copies of the book her winning entry is printed in! She also won for the school a $1000 book voucher!!! HUGE, HUGE, HUGE congratulations to Ye-Young from Room 13 who won 1st prize in the Year 3/4 category for the Maori Language Week Competition through Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Ye-Young's entry was one of 1699 across New Zealand so we are so proud of her for winning 1st place!
What a superstar!!!
Year 1 Cultural Breakout - Tuesday 22 September
On the afternoon of Tuesday 22 September, Year 1 held a cultural breakout for the first time. Four parents and Mr Sy (Room 19 teacher) represented some of the cultures that we have at Oaklands and they each worked with a group of Year 1 students and told them about their own culture, read stories, showed videos and shared language and activities. It was a great success and everyone is keen to repeat the breakout in the future. Special thanks go to Jeanine Topelen, Yukiyo Gorman, Flora Qu, Sabina Sabirova-Bristow and Mark Sy for all their preparation and willingness to share their culture. Click on the link to see photos of our Cultural Breakout.
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