CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

 Iroha, Clara, Chris Ivan and Paul got Principal's Award for their hard work - a special soft toy they could take home and return it to school on Monday.

When we have learnt about Celebrations in New Zealand, we moved on to Celebrations around the world.

Noodle Day

We thought it would be neice to have a small afternoon tea and eat hot and very spicy Korean noodles. They were so yummy!

Breakfast With Santa

All our year one students had Breakfast with Santa at Milford Mall today. They had sooooo much fun! Andy and Ditni were inspired by that and created their own Christmas cards.

Talents at Milford School

Our ESOL students are not only clever for speaking at least two languages, they are great mathematicians and athletes, as well. Chanithi and Vega are the most recent prize/medal winners;
Chanithi as an outstanding Mathletics winner, and Vega - coming second in the year one sprints at our last week's Athletics day!

MARKET DAY

Sophia, Polly and Tiffany - expressing their creativity in making Christmas tree decorations.

Celebrations in NZ

Year 3 students have been learning about Celebrations and Festivals this term. Because we all came from different countries, our inquiry was related to celebrations in New Zealand - we wanted to find out more about most important holidays (celebrated in NZ) when we go to our ESOL class. We have learnt a lot of  new words. By learning new words, we can express ourselves better when we write and when we speak. By making posters about Celebrations, we have shown how creative we are. 

by Iroha, Chris, Clara, Paul and Ivan Room 14

BACK THE BLACKS DAY

To show our support as a NZ school, we are encouraging our students (and staff) to wear black clothes to school this Friday. It is a mufti day with a difference.

CHINESE LANGUAGE WEEK

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This week is a Chinese Language Week. In ESOL classes, we have been talking about different ways of celebrating it. Some of our Chinese year three and four students have been teaching their friends from other countries how to pronounce some basic words and simple phrases.

Book Week highlights

Our youngest English language learners making their own books and showing their favourite characters in Book Parade.

Book Week

Andreas, Parham, Ruby, Eden and Joel having an awesome day at school- all dressed up as their favourute characters.

Every year in term two, Milford School celebrates Literacy and our students are given opportunities to explore it in many different ways. We have visiting authors, literacy quiz, book fair etc. The highlight is always our Book Parade, when the students dress as their favourite book characters. Our ESOL students love dressing up and take part in this event.

Iroha, Clara, Ivan , Chris and Paul dressed as their favourite book characters.

We are learning about Human Body

DINOSAURUS

SEA WEEK

Last  week was a Sea Week. Room 12 ESOL students have been learning about ocean life and underwater animals. Very soon, they will share their learning via the newsletter and the blog.

Youngest Milford School gardeners

Mandarin Language Assistant at Milford School

From March 1, all Milford School students in year 4,5 and 6 classes will have the opportunity to learn Mandarin language. Our new Mandarin Language Assisstant, Liping Xu, has recently come from China and has visited Milford School twice already.On Monday last week Miss Xu has visited and observed all year 4,5 and 6 classes,  and on Wednesday, Miss Xu  spent a whole  day in ESOL Department and was a great helper.

Miss Xu, originally from Suzhou, near Shanghai, has got a degree in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages and has taught Chinese to University students, mostly from the USA.

We hope our students will enjoy learning another language and would like to give a great, big welcome to Miss Liping Xu.

ESOL FLOWER GARDEN

Towards the end of last year, three garden beds were donated to Milford School.  A group of ESOL students, Jason, Terry and Ethan, all in year six classes now, thought it would be great having one in front of  Room 22 and making our school look more beautiful.

So they took on a big job - creating ESOL garden from scratch. The photo below is the result of their hard work. We would like to take this opportunity and thank everyone who has been watering and looking our lovely Geraniums during the school holidays, and has continued to do so since the beginning of the year.