A day in the life of a Junior School student

Emily joined St Margaret’s College as a New Entrant. She loves learning to write in her Structured Literacy classes.

8:25am

School starts

In the morning, we learn maths, structured literacy, and about our Inquiry topic, We Belong, where we are finding out about our local community. I really enjoy Structured Literacy with Mrs Callaghan. We write lots in class. In maths, we are learning to order numbers from biggest to smallest.

10:35am

More classes

After morning tea we go back to class. This year I am learning Te Reo and French. Next year we will still learn Te Reo, but we’ll get to try Spanish, and last year we learnt Mandarin.

12:40pm

Lunchtime

At lunchtime I play with my friends Bea and Peyton, and the older girls might come to see us. We chat and play games like tag. Sometimes we have a teddy bears’ picnic or a jump jam with the older girls. We also have a buddy class, ours is Year 6 and my buddy Charlotte and I have just made a dragon together.

1:50pm

Back to class

In the afternoon we might go to a performing arts class, or to PE. We are making up a play with Ms Goldsworthy about a giraffe. We sing a song and I am excited to have a speaking part. In PE I love running and sometimes we play dodgeball.

3:30pm

Home

After school I spend time with my brother and my mum and dad. In the summer I have tennis lessons with my brother, and we often go swimming.