Here's something made by a Discoverer!

Swimming roster

Thank you to all the people who have offered to help with swimming. We have emailed the roster to those of you who have offered your help

Term 2 Garden to Table dates

We have 2 more Garden to table sessions this term - May 23 and June 13. Room 2 starts at 9am  - 11.30  and Room 1 11.40 - 2.50pm. Please let us know if you are able to help

Garden to Table - Green Garden salad

Green Garden Salad

Ingredients:
A combination of available garden greens, courgette, celery, broccoli, spring onion.

Vinaigrette:

4 Tbsp olive oil
3 Tbsp red wine vinegar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp dry mustard
1 clove garlic crushed


Whisk vinaigrette ingredients together in large salad bowl.
Wash, dry and tear garden greens into bite sized pieces and add to salad bowl. Chop other veggies.  Toss with salad tongs to combine.

Garden to Table - Roasted vegetable and Couscous salad

Roasted Vegetable and Couscous Salad

Ingredients:

A selection of fall veggies:  Beetroot, parsnip, pumpkin, kumara, potatoes, carrots, onions etc.

2 cups couscous

2 cups veggie stock

2 Tbsp fresh herbs chopped (parsley, mint)

4 Tbsp Lemon juice

4 Tbsp olive oil

Feta cheese crumbled

Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Chop veggies and place on baking sheet.  Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with Italian seasoning

Bake in 200 degree oven for 20-30 min.

Bring veggie stock to a boil and pour into large bowl.  Add couscous and let stand for 10 min. Fluff with fork.

Add remaining ingredients including your roasted vegetables.

Toasted sunflower seeds or pine nuts are also a nice addition.

Welcome Back!

Hi everyone.

Welcome back to Term 2!
A few notices:

1) We still require many parents to assist us with Garden to Table tomorrow. Room 2 are in the morning, and Room 1 the afternoon. Please let Jenny or Hayley know if you are able to assist.

2) The School Cross Country is on Thursday this week (4th May). It begins at 9.30am, and everyone will be participating. Please ensure children are sent to school with running shoes this week for practise and especially on Thursday!

All the best for a happy and positive term!
Hayley

St Martins Library access from home

Assess It - from the Library

This week we have been showing our Year 3  students (with some Year 4’s) how to use Access-it, our Library catalogue. Once they start to use it they can access many resources remotely and also manage their reservations, renewals and see which books they have on loan.  There are links from Access-it to encyclopaedias, inquiry websites, news items etc and via the Library website link they can find lots of author websites which might fill a rain-filled afternoon this holiday period!!

When they want to look up their own borrowing records, reserve or renew they will need their log on details and this is where they might need a prompt from yourselves! For a majority of the students this will be first 3 letters of their surname followed by the first 3 of their given name e.g. haybri for me.  Occasionally this format has been changed when generating the log on as those specific 6 letters have been allocated to another student - if this is the case for your child we will have to look up their log on details, they simply need to let us know.

Access-it is linked from the Library page of the School website and class blogs, alternatively we’d ask that you open this link and bookmark the page for future use.

http://accessit.stmartins.school.nz/#!dashboard

If we can clarify anything about Access-it or the Library please don’t hesitate to contact me

Kind regards,

Bridget Hayes
Librarian

Mufti Day Tomorrow

It is Mufti day tomorrow everyone!!!!!

The Student Council have arranged a mufti day to raise money / easter eggs for the Ronald McDonald House children, Glenelg Health Camp and The Open Home Foundation.

Bring a Gold Coin or an Easter Egg and get your mufti on!!!

Week 1 Term 2 Reminders!!!

1. Just a heads up to the amazing Discoverers that the school Cross Country is on the first week back of next term.  It will be on Thursday 4th May, and will start at 9:30am. Everyone will participate, so we will practise running as much as possible leading up to Term 2. Be sure to practise over the holidays too, to keep your stamina!

2. Also, we have Garden To Table on Tuesday in Term 2 week 1, and will require 5 parent helpers for the following sessions:

Room 2

• 9 - 9.45am - Garden
• 10am - 11.30am - Kitchen (in the hall)

Room 1

• 11.40am - 12.30pm - Garden
• 1.15pm - 2.55pm - Kitchen

Missing Diablo

Maddox's diablo went missing yesterday from Room 1/2 cloakbay. It's a red cyclone like this:

If anyone knows its whereabouts, please contact Maddox or Mrs Ngan. Thanks