It has been a long time since my last blog, so much happening and I haven't shared any of it!
Today I had a very adorable 3 year old visit me to remind me today is Red Nose Day for Cure Kids.

We LOVE pyjama day. It was great to see the middle and senior school getting involved this year too.

Mr Maindonald looked great as a bumblebee!

The Junior School Teachers 

Pairs of Pyjamas!

Doing Jump Jam in our PJ's!

Friday was anti-bullying day. I was so proud of the boys who organised this.

Also today we had Leapfrogs visit. They enjoyed seeing our new turtles, visiting Room 6, taking part in Jump Jam and playing on our playground. Now they know what school is all about! Thanks for coming Laepfrogs!

 

 

Today's visitors were Anisha who will be in Room 3 with Mrs Hogan, and Cameron and Mikhael who will be in Room 1 with Mrs Pram and her room of boys. Welcome to Western Heights!

 

 

Oscar is starting school in Room 1 soon. Here he is meeting Mr Maindonald with his little sister. Welcome to the Western Heights family Oscar!

Today I had Oliver (Oli) and Harshil visit. Their birthdays are both at the end of May and they will be in Room 1 with Mrs Pram. They enjoyed playing with the soft toy puppets in Mr Maindonald's office.

Wow! It's been a whole month since I posted. Two of those weeks were holidays and we all needed them to come back refreshed and eager to learn again in Term 2.
Welcome to Annette Pram and our Room One children.
We also welcome Nikki McKinney who is assisting as a teacher aide in Room 3.
End of week 1 already! 8 more exciting weeks of learning to come this term folks!

I had a lovely group of 6 boys visit today. Noah will be in Room 28 and Kevin, Vince, Rhys, Nicholas and Jethro will all be in Room 1 with Mrs Pram after the holidays. Welcome boys!

Visited the most adorable little school today. Kaipara Flats. 4 classes. Wonderful kids. Motivated teachers. Great use of digital technology in classes and the MOST focussed year 2 readers I've ever seen. And just a gorgeous spot. Full of great ideas now.....

 

 

 

I had such a lovely time with the 5 girls who visited this week that I forgot to take their photo!
Luckily I saw Mackenzie and Ella after school on Friday to snap their photos! Welcome to these 2 girls, Mackenzie will be in Room 6 with Miss Eyre and Ella will be in Room 2 with Miss Boyd. Just as their older siblings were! We also welcome Maia, who will be in Room 3, and Samantha and Maggie who will be in Room 5 with Mrs Taylor. They all got their WHS bracelets from mr Maindonald and are looking forward to starting at school soon.

LOVING the new "instant" sandpit. The juniors are having so much fun. As time goes on this will be edged and covered but in the meantime..... we can't keep them away!

Have you ever seen a caterpillar turning into a chrysalis? It happens very fast!! The Junior School teachers went to visit West Lynn Gardens the week before we took the classes and we were lucky enough to see it happen before our eyes!

Today Suchi and the team from Bear Park came to visit with 5 lovely girls. We can't wait to have Maggie at school with us! She will be in Room 5. They loved seeing the school pool, library and playground. They enjoyed calendar math with Room 5 and Jump Jam with the whole Junior School. Thanks for coming Bear Park!

 

 

Today I went to West Lynn Gardens with Rooms 2, 3, 4, 5 and 28. We had a lovely time learning about the monarch and exploring the gardens.
Look at the tiny egg on the leaf! You can hardly see the tiny caterpillar that hatches from it. But it eats and eats and eats....and becomes huge!
Do you know how to tell male and female butterflies apart? Here you can see a photo of both. The males have a black dot on each wing and the females have thicker black webbing between the orange colouring.
Jahvan was an expert at telling me whether they were male or female.
Noah found two leaves which looked liked hands with five fingers!

Krypton Factor... Go Western Heights!!

An awesome day at Krypton Factor at Flanshaw Road School. Western Heights pupils worked well together, and Regan enjoyed his ice-creams!!

On Tuesday 4th March I had 4 new visitors at school. Saqqara, Melody, Ayesha and A.J. are looking forward to turning 5 soon and starting school! Here they are in our school library.

Excited about week 4 and student led conferences this week. For those of you who spoke to me about not being able to comment on my blog last week..... I have worked out (with a little help) how to change the settings so you can now comment without a google account! So I look forward to all your wonderful comments!

Mr Maindonald and Mrs Nummy visit Sturges Road Kindergarten

Today I went to visit at Sturges Road Kindergarten with Mr Maindonald. He read a story to all the kids. I loved talking to all the children. It was especially nice to chat to Ella who is starting in April, and Marisa who is bringing her son Austin to Western Heights in March. See you at Jump Jam on Friday Kindy Kids!

Junior and Middle School Picnic at Cornwallis Beach

Had a wonderful day at Cornwallis today. It is so nice to take time out from the classroom and observe children interacting with their environment and enjoying each others company. The sunshine was fantastic, the water was refreshing, and the trees provided great shade and were great to climb! Thank you to all the lovely children and parents who took time out of their day to chat to me. We are so lucky to have such an awesome school family! Many thanks to Superloos in Manakau who gave us a great deal on our portaloos on a trailer. Free delivery across town, can't ask for better than that!!

School Assembly 14 February 2014

I loved seeing Room 4's Rainbow Fish at assembly this morning and hearing the lessons that the Rainbow Fish teaches us: be kind, share nicely and care for others, and then you will have lots of friends!


And then Room 3 did a fabulous pass the drum song. Well done Room 3!