Welcome to Room 7! 

 I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong in spirit. He will give you that strength through his Spirit.  I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.  And I pray that you and all God’s holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ’s love. I pray that you can understand how wide and how long and how high and how deep that love is.  

Ephesians 3:16-19 ICB

 Term 2 2026

Bible

This term, our main focus will be Developing Endurance within all the curriculum areas. In addition to this focus, we are ustilising the Connect Curriculum to learn more about connect with God and navigating the Bible. 

Maths

We use the Prime Maths Programme as our main resource in mathematics. This includes learning about number bonds, place value, and simple mathematical operations. This term, will we be learning about multiplication tables, more complex multiplication and division, time, position and movement, and fractions.

Reading

Our reading program follows the Better Start Literacy Approach. This approach focuses on letter sounds and parts of words. We continue to develop our fluency while reading and strengthen our comprehension of what we read. We will continue to learn about new prefixes and suffixes, and will begin our learning about roots of words. 

Writing

We are will continue reviewing our known sentence styles using the Writers toolbox programme. This term, we will be focussing on creating writing to inform our audience.

Topic

Our topic focuses include the Ancient Greeks, the Romans, states of matter in the atmosphere, and Matariki. 

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

This term, we will be reading On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson. This Christian Fantasy follows the story of a family living in Glipwood, a town overrulled by an evil the Igiby children will soon have to face. If you are interested to know more, here are a few links with more information! 

• PluggedIn by Focus on the Family book review

• Goodreads Page

• BookHero- one of the many places you can purchase the book, if you would like to! 

 Homework

Homework expectations are as follows:

• Students read at home each day. This can be a picture book, a reader from school, their school library books, chapter books, etc. 

• Students practice and continue to learn memory verses at their own pace. We are starting a new Scripture Memorisation this term. Each child will be given their own booklet to work through. This booklet will be available below as well. 

• Students complete some basic facts practice at home. If you are seeking additional work please see the links below. 

• Students practice their Te Reo kupu at home. This can be done daily or weekly. 

• There may occasionally be extra work your child is given. This can include finishing work they did not complete in class, or additional content that follows our work in class.

The Ministy of Education offers a few supports to parents in understanding your child's progress at school. Please feel free to access these supports if it suits you.

• Parent Portal

• Year 4- Curriculum insights and ideas for support

• Maths Practice tool- aligned with the refreshed curriculum