Welcome to the 2009 School Year at Upper Moutere.

Published on February 16th, 2009 (2 years, 11 months ago.)

The weather has been awesome I hope you got to enjoy it to the max!

Thanks to Fiona Bryan and her team for the time and energy they have put into the pool over the summer so it has been available to our community. I noted a steady stream of families using the pool each time I came into school during January.

We welcome Tania Parekura to our Team. As you know Tania will be teaching in our Year 4/5 class in Room 4. She is really enjoying being ‘back home’ after living and teaching in London for the past 7 years.

We also Welcome Aidyn CHECK SPELLING and Leela Ryan to Room 6 and Kelly-Anne CHECK SPELLING Urquhart to Room 1.

We start the year with a roll of

We had two Teacher Only Days last week preparing for 2009. Thursday was spent reviewing timetables, responsibilities and curriculum development. On Friday Fran Nichol introduced teachers to a spelling programme we are going to trial in 2009 and this was followed by Jean Edwards sharing an Inquiry planning model and Habits of the Mind that we are also going to consider this year.

2009…Our Whole School Theme for this Year is Aotearoa/ New Zealand.

All classes over the next 4 weeks will be using the Koru as the symbol for their “New Beginnings” focus.

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