Newsletters
George Street Normal School publishes a newsletter every Thursday during the school term. Newsletters are sent home with the oldest child in the family. Excerpts from previous newsletters are available on this page.
| 3 May 2012 - Term 2, Week 2 |
Planning and Reporting Targets - Part 2 Each year the Ministry of Education requires every New Zealand school to set targets for student achievement. At the beginning of... |
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| 26 April 2012 - Term 2, Week 1 |
Planning and Reporting Targets - Part 1 Each year the Ministry of Education requires every New Zealand school to set targets for student achievement and I am pleased to... |
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| 5 April 2012 - Term 1, Week 10 |
Term one was fun! It seems hard to believe that the first school term for 2012 has finished. Over the past 10 weeks we’ve established the routines of daily literacy... |
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| 29 March 2012 - Term 1, Week 9 |
A visit from our Sister School Once again our School has had the privilege of hosting a group of children and adults from Gifu Shotoku Gakuen Elementary School in Japan.... |
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| 22 March 2012 - Term 1, Week 8 |
George Street Normal School International Day Thursday 29 March |
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| 15 March 2012 - Term 1, Week 7 |
Teaching Swimming We have just concluded our school instructional swimming programme for 2012. This involved all classes participating in formal lessons with staff from... |
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| 8 March 2012 - Term 1, Week 6 |
What are your child’s strengths? During the last few weeks we have been asking parents, teachers and children to consider learning goals for this year. Next week we... |
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| 1 March 2012 - Term 1, Week 5 |
Education Outside the Classroom This week I have been visiting our School’s 136 Year 5 and 6 children as they participate in a week long programme of educational... |
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| 23 February 2012 - Term 1, Week 4 |
Our ERO Report Last week we received the latest report from the Education Review Office (ERO) on George Street Normal School. The purpose of ERO’s reviews is to give... |
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| 16 February 2012 - Term 1, Week 3 |
Meet the Teacher Our ‘Meet the Teacher’ evening begins tonight with a gathering in the hall from 7.15pm onwards. This is an opportunity to meet your child... |
