Update
Middleton
Grange School
Primary Update
Dear Parents,
Welcome to another edition of Primary Update. This edition is full
of photos, children’s work and reports on a variety of things going on
around the primary school. The cross country was a great success (photos
P1, results P2) as was the junior syndicate 
visit
to the gardens last Thursday (children’s writing P2). Rooms A, B, C and
D have visits to Science Alive as part of their science unit on electricity.
Twelve children competed in the zone cross country (results in next Update)
and a group goes away later this week to the Christian Schools’ Cross Country.
Please note that I will be away Thursday and Friday 10/11 May at a
course, so I will be unavailable. This certainly is a busy time…
FLOWER AND BUG POWER!
FANTASTIC ROOM 8
(YEAR 4) ART
Have you seen these
displays? If you haven’t, you should take a look!! They are wonderful…
bunches of sunflowers and brightly coloured ladybirds... 
The sunflowers are beautifully arranged in the entrance to the school
hall and the ladybirds can be found wandering the walls of the student
services area.
A big thankyou to Mrs Dale Read for her work
with Room 8 art.
Primary Cross Country
The Primary School cross country was a great success, if a little damp!
Burnside Park is a great venue. Placegetters go on to the zone cross country.
Clockwise: 1. Mr Diggs doing stork impersonations… warm-up! 2. Through
the autumn leaves. 3. Parents, staff and pupils ready to run. 4. Relieved
to have finished!
Cross Country Results
Congratulations!
| 1. Ben Bellamy Room C
2. David Hoekendijk Room D 3. Theo Mortimer Room C 4. Thomas Tennent Room D 5. Tim Couprie Room D 6. Logan McLardy Room 8 7. Isaac McLardy Room D 8. James Posthuma Room D 9. Bradley Webster Room D 10. Leon Vannoort Room C |
Annelise Posthuma Room D
Katrina Pinnington Room A Lisa Smalley Room D Chloe Purdie Room A Kimberley Chenery Room 9 6= Demelza Stackhouse Rm A Saskia Van Der Meulen R B Abbe Watson Room B 9= Annelise Vannoort Room C Becky Mulhern Room C |
Food
for thought!
A poem I recently came across…
The builders
A builder built a temple
He wrought it with grace and skill
Pillars and columns and arches
All fashioned to work his will
Men said as they saw its beauty
It shall never, never decay
Great is thy skill, oh builder
Thy fame shall endure for aye.
A teacher built a temple
With loving and infinite care
Planning each arch with patience
Laying each stone with prayer.
None saw the increasing effort
None knew of the wondrous plan
For the temple the teacher built
Was unseen by the eyes of man.
Gone is the builder’s temple
Crumbled into the dust
Low lies each stately pillar
Food for consuming rust.
But the temple the teacher built
Will last while the ages roll
For the teacher the temple built
Was a child’s immortal soul.
These are powerful words giving a powerful message. We are all teachers, whether of our own or others’ children. One of the most powerful forms of teaching is our own role modelling. A simple question to ponder: What sort of temple are you building for the future?
NOTICES
This is brand new and belongs to Joel Greenwood. Orange mark on the label. If found please return to Room A.
Caught doing things right…
Wonderful to see Holly Manning being so kind and helpful to another
person in the playground recently… thankyou! Now, that’s living your faith!
You’re really
bugging me again! More ladybirds belonging to Benjamin and Rebekah from
Room 8.
JUNIOR SYNDICATE GARDENS
VISIT
IT’S
AUTUMN AGAIN!
See autumn in the gardens… leaves falling from the trees.
Cheeky seagulls stealing the bread.
Hear autumn in the gardens… Leaves crunching.
Ducks quacking.
Smell autmun in the gardens… smelling acorns.
Smell the wonderful autumn smell.
Richard Woodside, Room 7.
See autumn in the gardens… ducks in the garden.
Leaves falling off the trees.
Hear autumn in the gardens… ducks quacking.
The wind blowing the leaves.
Smell autumn in the gardens… An earthy smell.
The beautiful smell of the flowers.
Madeline Archbold, Room 7.
See autumn in the gardens… prickly cactus in the cactus
room.
See piles of leaves on the grass.
Hear autumn in the gardens… Leaves crunching under your
feet.
Mates playing in the playground.
Smell autumn in the gardens… Leafy smells on the ground.
Sticky gum trees.
Samuel Woodside, Room 7.
"In thy light shall we see light"
Psalm 36:9