Triathlon

Yesterday we had our school triathlon.

Students swam, biked and ran either individually or in groups.

Parents and teachers joined in too!

House honour was also at stake, as this is the last chance to earn house points before the trophy is awarded at Prizegiving!

Year 10 Leavers' Dinner

On Friday, we had a special dinner for our Year 10 Leavers.  Four of these students have been part of the ESOL programme this year.  After our main course, teachers spoke about each of the students in turn.  Then parents were invited to join us for dessert and a time of prayer to farewell these very special young people.  Everyone dressed up too.  Don't they look great!

Puppet plays in Explore Time

Last week we made puppets and today we put on some short plays.  It was fun making up stories!

Samuel's work

I am writing about picture in English. I write a plan. Then I write a sentence.  I talk about the picture with Mrs Anthony.

International Parents' Celebratory Afternoon Tea

It was a great privilege for me to host our International Parents at my home for a celebratory afternoon tea today.   Our numbers have doubled this year and we are continuing to welcome new families to the group.  Today, there were fourteen adults and six preschoolers.

We have much to be proud of as a group. This year we have contributed to the wider life of the school through a significant contribution to International Week and our International Cafe at the school fair.  As well, we have met to discuss supporting our children's language, culture and learning in general.  We have had lots of fun and formed valuable friendships.

A huge thank you from me to all of you have contributed and supported the International and ESOL programmes this year.  I appreciate each and every one of you! :)

Junior Athletics

Today our Junior Team held their annual Sports Day.  Students participated in fun race events such as an obstacle course and gumboot throw. 

 

Lots of fun was had by everyone, and we enjoyed the support of many family members and friends.

All the fun of the fair!

Once again our amazing group of International Parents came together to run a very successful International Cafe at our school fair.  Special thanks to Sharon for coordinating our efforts.

Let's go gardening

Garden club includes children from Year 4 and 5 and meets every Friday lunchtime.  Here are some of our students getting involved in weeding and planting. 

We are all looking forward to harvest time - yum!

Band perform at the Light Party

Our amazing band performed in front of a large audience at the Light Party, which is a community event organised by a local church.

Don't they look great?

Making a cup

Sean has made a paper cup.  It even holds one drink of water!

Here is his writing.

Explore time in the Junior team

Sean loves Explore Time on Friday mornings!

Here he is with his friends using the gears.

Writing a narrative

Hugo and Isaiah have been learning how to write a narrative. 

A narrative has an orientation, a complication and a resolution.

 They are so proud of their work.

Learning about "in" and "on"

Alana is sorting these pictures into "in" and "on".

Some of these pictures are quite tricky!

Parents' craft group

A group of dedicated mothers have set up a craft group which meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 2 o'clock in our beautiful new staffroom.  This is a time to try something new and get to know each other better.  We have lots of fun and are numbers are growing each meeting.

At our last meeting we learned how to make fabric flowers.  Next time we are going to learn how to crochet!

Learning classroom words

Here are Sean and Mrs Anthony playing a game to learn classroom words.

It's really fun!

Arts Night

ACS had an amazing Arts Night and all upper primary and middle school students were involved.
Here is Samuel performing - he was fantastic and very entertaining!

Congratulations Samuel!

Congratulations to Samuel who won the Mrs Lawn award for Week 7!  You have made an excellent start at Aidanfield Christian School.  Well done!

Performing plays

Recently Year 2 and 3 students have been performing plays.  This is a great way to practise phrasing and reading with expression.  It's also lots of fun!

Parents' lunch

Telling stories

We are learning to put pictures of a story in order.

Then Mrs Anthony records us telling the stories on her computer.  It is fun!

Pizza making

Today we made pizza with Mrs Hunt and Mrs Anthony.  We had read about pizza making in a book.

It was yummy and we shared some with Mrs Lawn and Mrs Vickie too!

We had to use our English to ask them if they would like to try our pizza!

Practising using classroom nouns

Fiona and Sophia have been practising using classroom nouns in sentences.  Watch their short movie, which they made on an Ipad to help them remember these important words.

We like to paint

Fiona and Sophia are enjoying painting paper mache bowls.  Lots of fun!

Our new class

Can you spot our two new International Students with their new class?

Welcome to Room K Fiona and Sophia!

Welcome to Fiona and Sophia

We are delighted to welcome Fiona and Sophia to our school.  They are visiting from Taiwan and will be with us for the next few weeks.

Don't they look lovely in their new uniforms!

Big buddy, little buddy

Today Year 10 students worked with students from Room A to produce a book about International week or our recent World Vision Day.  We had lots of fun using the computers and enjoyed being able to take our books home to share with our families.