Operation Christmas Child

Aka Samaritan’s Purse is coming around quickly.

What: You fill shoe boxes and send them to a drop off station nearby

Where: They will then be sent to one of the 130 selected countries somewhere in the world.

Why: So that millions of children also get to participate in Christmas, receive a special gift and feel very loved.

How: A team of selected people deliver them personally

When: The boxes need to be at the drop off points by October

This year NCA would love to be a part of this incredible course and filing some children’s hearts with love and joy to help ‘make their year’

Each classroom will have 2 boy and 2 girl boxes to fill. Please send your child to school with one or two items to donate along with a gold coin. (For postage)

This is not much considering what they don’t have and how blessed we are.

What to bring:

Teddy bears, marbles, doll, soft toys, books, diaries, pens, pencils, sharpener, rubber, chalk, colouring in pencils, t shirts, underwear, beanie, tennis ball, skipping rope, yo-yo, finger puppets, soap, toothbrush, hairbrush, hair clips, hair-ties, necklaces, stickers, bangles, craft items…

What not to bring:

Any fluids or thing that could leak or melt, e.g. toothpaste, food, drink, play-dough, batteries, shampoo etc

Breakables, e.g. glass, mirrors or any damaged items

Harmful items, e.g. knives, guns, war related toys, toy guns

Gambling related items, including play money, cards and dominoes

Anything of a religious, racial or political nature.

We ask that your item/s and donation is brought to school no later than the end of the term.

Kind Regards,

The Staff at NCA

Wet lunchtime fun!

Abbey, Hannah M, Chelsea and Jessica got a bit carried away counting plastic lids and decided to make something creative.

Our Love Languages

During the first week we took the test to see what our love language was. We then found out what are friends love languages were and how we could meet the needs of these. 

We are reading Gangsta Granny by David Walliams at the moment as our class novel and we LOVE it!!!

Miss Hollis and confident readers sit on the reading chair and read a chapter after lunch. 

Welcome back !
I hope that you had a great holiday. I enjoyed spending time with my two nephews Jack and Harlem and relaxing. I have an unusual addition to my family - her name is "Henrietta Hollis" and she has a crazy hair do! I adopted her during the school holidays. 

She is scaring my other 11 chickens! I am hoping that they will be friends soon.                         From Miss Hollis 

Miss Roche

We have a teacher in the making in Room 7. Georgia instigated this and even wrote on the board "Miss Roche". She is a natural teacher and loves helping others to learn. This is awesome to see. 

"Its really fun teaching someone my own age and one of my friends. Maddi is learning really fast" - Georgia. 

"Its really fun and Georgia is really helping me to learn how to do division and times tables" - Maddi.

Our latest Maths website that we LOVE!

TOP Marks Website

                            

 

Room 7 have just started a descriptive writing unit. They really enjoyed matching interesting adjectives and photos of people and animals today. 

ANZAC Decoupage

Abby learnt lots of things about her families involvement in the war and brought photos, letters and even recipes to school that were photo copied and used on her ANZAC decoupage. Both Abby and Caitlyn are very proud of their art work.

Maddi's decoupage

Jemimah's decoupage

William's artwork

Griffin's artwork

ANZAC DAY

 April 24th...

Today Miss Hollis is going to wear her Grandfather's war medals to the ANZAC service. This morning she talked to Room 7&8 about the medals. We found out that he fought in Africa and Italy - Room 7

"She talked about wearing medals. If you are wearing medals. She said you have to be respectful about how you wear them. If you fought in the war you wear them over your heart and if you didn't then you wear them on your right" - Jemimah

"Miss Hollis talked about her Great-grandad's arm being blown off in World War 1 and how painful it was when it was healing with the nerves growing through the bandages. There were some hard times but he persevered and it all came right and even got a street named after him!" - Bradley and Jye

"When she was 8 she went to a German ladies house and saw a photo of a Nazi on the wall and felt a bit sad that he died. We talked about the German soldiers following a bad leader but maybe not all the Germans were not bad people" - Israel and Hamish

"When people came back from the war the government let them buy land or farms a bit cheaper" - Brieanna

(Miss Hollis's Great grandfather Joseph Baigent)

A passage from his diary written during WW1

Mon. 3rd Dec 1917 

"Very cold. Jumped off trench at 12. Just got 20 yards when a shell blew arm off. Knocked me silly for a time. Got up and ran back to trench (3 miles or 4.8km!) where T. Smith stopped bleeding. Walked out to aid post. Carried from there in 2 relays to dressing station. Got car to main station, was dressed & sent to C. C. S. 10. Had operation same night".

Summer Tournament - March 27th

* The summer tournament is coming up for Room 7&8. The focus is on participation and team work. All students will choose 1 event and enter by next Wednesday the 11th of March. Please keep March the 27th free so that you can come along and support our students.

Touch Rugby

Softball

 Mountain Biking

 Volleyball

 Orienteering

 Golf

Tennis

Today we made sushi style 'Fairy Bread' with our buddies. It was so much fun!

We even took some to Mr George to try!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brieanna

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Asher aka Messi!