TEAM QUEST

CLEARVIEW PRIMARY

Welcome Back
Welcome back everyone. We them on board with all their
hope you all had a fabulous

fresh and fabulous ideas.

holiday after another

Welcome to Clearview, we

action packed term. We

cant wait to get to know

certainly did hit the ground you both! Please help us

running in term 2, and it

make our amazing new

didnt stop. We were so

teachers feel welcome, pop

impressed with the

in and say hi!

homelearning
presentations and science
inquiries. There were
certainly some fabulous
hands-on activities children
created to spark their
peers thinking. We hope all
the children were very
proud of their efforts.
We would like to welcome
two new teachers to Team
Quest. Miss Pilgrim will be
teaching in the Green Zone
as the Homebase 22
teacher. Miss Thomas will
be in the Red Zone as the
Homebase 19 teacher. We

A reminder to check our

fabulous weebly. Here you
will find blogs of student
work and lots of photos
from school events. Notices
are also put on the weebly,
as well as home learning.
Both zones are on twitter,
we update this daily with
notices, student
achievements, questions we
are pondering and
information about what has
been happening. Check out
the links and address
below.

Whats On
in Term 3
3 Way Learning
Conferences
These will occur in Week 2,
Wednesday and Thursday
evenings with classes finishing at
2:00pm on these days. The
booking form has been sent out.
This is a great opportunity for the
children to share their learning
with you and their learning goals.
These are student lead
conferences.

Uniform
Please ensure your child is
dressed in full school uniform. It is
important that we keep
expectations high. If your child is
unable to wear uniform, please
send a note to their homebase
teacher. This term school uniform
consists of plain black shoes with
black socks or tights And of
course, the Clearview beanie for
those bitter winter days. Please
see the link to the left for uniform
guidelines.

are really excited to have

Twitter accounts:
Red Zone: @rzclearview
Green Zone: @gzclearview
Weebly: http://clearviewquest.weebly.com/
Uniform Link: www.clearview.school.nz/
enrollment/uniforms/

Maui and the Sun

The Court Theatre are coming to
Clearview on Thursday the 27th of
August for a special cultural
performance. The cost of this will
be $4.50 and is due to the office
by the 24th of August please.
Thanks.

Homelearning

Curriculum Overview Term 3

Students were presented with

their homelearning tasks at the
end of Term 2. A calendar of

or big question. Children will also

have the opportunity to write
through personal choice. Genres
will focus on the structure,
language features, purpose and
proposed audience.

Start small, dream big!

INQUIRY - TECHNOLOGY TIME!

At the end of last term, the children
presented their Inquiries through
our Tell the World sharing session
to their peers. This term, they will
be further developing skills learnt
around the topic of Technology,
where they will endeavour to design
an invention to improve their
everyday lives. Through Inquiry
Learning, we support the children
with their research by teaching
them research strategies, not
necessarily content; that is, note
taking, summarising, putting
information into our own words,
skimming and scanning, using
search engines appropriately and
drawing on our prior knowledge to
name a few. We cant wait to see
the fabulous ideas the children
come up with!

ART
Art this term will incorporate print
making and Te Reo Maori, looking
at the culture, colours and symbols.
We are very excited about exploring
this topic and sharing it with the
children.

LITERACY
We will be integrating writing into
our Inquiry, beginning with
explanations where children will be
writing a piece based on their topic

MATHEMATICS
Formal Numeracy and strand
instruction will begin week 1.
Groups will be fluid. This means
children may change groups
throughout the term within the
zones, depending on their needs.
This term we are focusing on
fractions, proportions and ratios,
and for strand our focus will be
volume and capacity.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
This term we are continuing to look
at winter sports, before moving into
athletics to prepare for Clearviews
Term 4 athletics day. We will
continue our fitness programmes
throughout the term also.

TE REO
For Te Reo Mori this term, children
will be exposed to a range of
difference vocabulary and topics
through our rotations across the
team. We are looking forward to
incorporating this into our daily
programme also.

presentation dates has been

developed and put on the weebly,
as well as the new challenge! We
cant wait to see what the children
decide to do for this.
Mathletics and Spellodrome are
also part of our home learning,
with children striving to achieve a
minimum of 500 points per week
for each programme. Ideally 3-4
times a week for 15 minutes
would be amazing. Additionally,
we encourage the children to read
every night, just like sports
practice, the more we practise,
the better we get!
Key Competency
Our key competency this term is
Participating and Contributing.
This is a great opportunity for the
children to work on trying new
things, getting involved in wider
Clearview life and sharing their
ideas confidently with others.
Winter Sports
Winter Sports will continue until
Week 3 this term. Please ensure

THANKS AGAIN
If you have any quest
ions,
please pop in and see
your
homebase teacher.
Kind Regards,
Team Quest

children are wearing dark

coloured mufti to preserve the
integrity of the Clearview Primary
uniform. There will be no winter
sport in week 2 due to 3 Way
Learning Conferences. Fingers
crossed for some great weather!