Kia ora and Welcome to Room 1!
My name is Kellie Mackey and I am the
teacher this year in Room 1. I have been teaching for 14 years now and
came up to the North Island from Dunedin around 15 years ago. I am
married to Troy and we have three children.
For the last two years, I have worked
as a Literacy Specialist and have decided it is time to return to the
classroom. I am loving it and the children in Room 1 are a truly awesome
bunch.
I have also trained in Reading
Recovery which is always helpful when it comes to teaching and have also
undertaken Writing Acceleration work during the last two years - I am very
passionate about lifting the levels of all children in the classroom and I look
forward to working with you as Parents/Whanau and Caregivers to achieve this
goal in all areas.
The children have settled in nicely
and have been working on Co-operative Learning activities so that together as a
class they can work together and support one another. We have completed
our Classroom Treaty and the children have been earning lots of
"Gotchas" for their amazing behaviour/choices. I have NO
"Gotchas" left to give out at the end of the week!
Our Library visits will begin in week
3 and the children will be told when our Library day is. Our visits to
the pool vary from week to week, this week - the children will be swimming on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Homework will be sent home in week 3, I
will send a notice home in their Homework book so the children know what to do
for Homework each night.
You are always welcome to come in and
chat about your child, their happiness and learning is very important so if you
need to make a time to see me, please send an email to kellie@awapuni.school.nz and
we can arrange a suitable time. The door is always open!
Thank you for your support and you
should be very proud of the start your children have made for the year.
Kellie Mackey
(Mrs Mackey)
