In our community and in our HB alone, we have an increasing amount of whānau who identify with one or more cultures from all around the world.
This year as we cannot connect to our world as we usually would, the tamariki will learn about, appreciate and celebrate the uniqueness of the many cultures within our community. It's important to understand our diverse world, and how to understand other people's cultures and world views. It will also help tamariki feel their culture is being valued and appreciated in our community.

The Stage 6/7+ Phonics group students will be starting their own independent spelling programme instead of a phonics group starting in Week 5 Term 1.

They will be using Studyladder to complete Set Spelling tasks each day.
They will start by working through learning common prefix origins such as 'fin', 'under'. They will then move to suffixes and then some common spelling rules e.g. when to use soft or hard 'g'.
Each lesson has a tutorial that explains the root and meaning, plus two follow up activities.

In HB Moana we are going to do a whole lot of mini investigations/inquiries.

Week 3: How are they going to get all the water into the huge swimming pool in town?
Week 4-6: The Seasons - what are they? How do they happen? Where does the wind come from?

In term 4 we will continue to work with Numicon. We will work in small groups for four LA guided numeracy sessions each week. We will supplement Numicon activities with elements from the Stage 2 Numeracy Project material to support our learning.

Alongside our small group lessons, we will use Seesaw online activities, games, worksheets and book work for additional activities that support and enhance our learning.

Workshops needed to support specific skills see below.
In small workshops twice a week work through these skill sets in modelled and independent sentences.

Handwriting group term 2 x weekly
Zia?
Orlando
Leo
Lily
Kash
Ben

Capital letters workshop
Amber Ava Ben Evie Jia Johnny Juno Kash Leo Lilly Mary Orland
Zia?

Fullstops
Ben Evie Honor Kash Leo Lilly Mary Orlando Zia?

Sentence structure inclu run ons
Ava Ayla Jia Honor Bella Ben Evie Lilly Mary
Kash Orlando
Tautu. Laura? Zia?

We will use the natural environment of Bottle Lake forest to create a safe space for tamariki to stretch themselves, explore, grow, develop skills including problem-solving and personal interaction ones, learn, and build positive co-operative relationships.
these days will encourage the development of tamariki's communication and social skills, self-awareness, and help develop social-emotional learning (SEL) skills.

SLO
Engage in play-based learning to develop personal and group skills.

Creating art that expresses our feelings about belonging and building whanaungatanga in the HB.

This will include
1)self-portraits in pastel using poems
2)koro created from watercolour paint pictures and black vivids to represent core values
3)hexagons expressing individuality and collective experiences in felt.

Further art work ideas to be added.

Creating art to express ideas about ourselves and our community, using new techniques in art production

Working with the School Kit to understand the cause of pollution and our role in this.
Develop and implement a beach clean up day to reflect this new learning.
Share this learning with New Zealand schools as part of the school kit.

this unit will include creating reports that will build developing strengths in
1)Using a scaffold to pre-plan writing, Suze storytelling, Melva hamburger plan from Sheena Cameron Literacy.
2) sentence creation, (incorporating experiences and new learning)
3) compound and complex sentences
4) paragraphing/linking.