Welcome to the Room 12 Blog! We are a class of year 3 and 4 children at Parkview School in Christchurch, New Zealand. Our teacher is Mrs Haythornthwaite.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Pajama day

The tamariki had so much fun on pajama day! I was very proud of how well our children behaved at swimming.

Best tackler!

Well done Van for winning the parklands under 8 best tackler!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Testing out life jackets

School values

This morning Mr T came and introduced our new school values. They are Manaakitanga - we belong, Whanaungatanga - our relationships, Mahi Tahi - we learn together and Ako - we collaborate.


You can view our new values poster here

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Olympics chalk art


Can you tell which sport our athletes are competing in?





Welcome Miss Sheehan and Miss Gosden

Livvy Sheehan and Nikki Gosden will be with Room Twelveen until the end of term. The are currently studying with the New Zealand Graduate School of Education. We look forward to seeing what exciting things you do with the children!

Miss Gosden leading our whanau hui

Miss Sheehan leading poetry


Sunday, August 7, 2016

Holiday reading

Well done to these awesome children who met my holiday reading challenge!

A few notices...


Kia Ora Whanau,


Just a few wee notices as we head in to week three. 


We will be having Livvy Sheehan, an intern from the New Zealand Graduate School of Education with us until the end of term. As the term continues she will be working with the children and teaching. Livvy will send home a note this week so that you can get a feel for what she will be doing in Room 12. Room 13 will also be hosting an intern, Nikki Gosden. 


This week I begin teaching the Accelerated Learning in Mathematics programme. In order to do this I am released from the classroom for an hour per day. During this time Stephanie Johnston, our ESOL teacher, will be teaching Room 12. 



Swimming is coming up in week 4 and 5. Please make sure that you bring your permission slip back, and make your payment to the office. The office is happy to discuss making payment plans if you need to. 



Lastly, as our spaces have joined and we have begun sharing almost all of our learning experiences, we have changed the names of room 12 and 13. Room 12 and now called the 'explorers' and room 13 are called 'adventurers' as a team the children have named us Room twelveen. 



Hope you have all kept nice and toasty over the weekend! 
I am sure there are some very disappointed children with the lack of snow. 
Mrs H