This year I have been put in charge of the school choir. We have been working hard since Term 1 to learn all of our songs and even some actions so that we are ready to perform in the upcoming Mid Canterbury Schools Music Festival. I had to do all the organising including choosing songs for our school to sing, teaching the children our songs and the other mass choir songs, sending notices home and organising transport to and from the practices and even the concert. I also had to conduct on the night of the performance. Below are some of the notices and things I organised. I thoroughly enjoyed leading the choir this year, we had fun, learnt heaps and enjoyed reaping the rewards of getting to stand up and perform and share all our hard work with the community.

On the 28.5.18 Anna (Mayfield), Rebecca (Chertsey) and I went around a few schools in our Kahui Ako to observe what maths looks like. Notes from observation trip and discussions. DATE: 28.5.18    Present: Anna, Lagan, Rebecca   Mayfield Primary School  -   We observed 3 classrooms at Mayfield Primary School. First we observed the new entrant class. The teacher was doing a lot of number knowledge practice with the children by getting them to count, add and subtract their notebooks and there was a lot of oral language and discussion – teacher was asking children "well how do you know" and children were able to reply that it looked like the dice pattern etc. Children seemed quite advanced for their age when it came to this math's – some were using counting on strategies for addition! Next was Anna's class which I think was year 2/3? They had a focus on number patterns and were looking at dots and trying to work out how many ther...