I am married to Liz and we have a family of four. Sharon has a teaching position at Dulwich Hamlet Junior School. She has been living in London for about 12 years but manages to get back to New Zealand at reasonably regular intervals. Gerard is an eBusiness Analyst at Lion. Gerard and his wife , Nicole, are proud parents of our first two grandchildren - Joshua, born in July 2007 and Ari, born in July 2009.

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Monday, 17 August 2015.

Room One At Linwood North School. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Rahnui is 6 Today! Rahnui is beginning to feel better and we look forward to her return to school so we can pass on our birthday wishes. Her Mum and Nannie are doing a wonderful job of looking after her with the doctors and nurses.

Room Two At Linwood North School. Saturday, 15 August 2015. PB4L Winners for Week 4! This week, the children who recieved all 25 points will receive extra play time on Monday. The teacher will join these students for their extra 15 mins play! Friday, 14 August 2015. Every Friday we have discovery time. This is a great time for the children to direct their own learning and choose what they would like to do. Monday, 10 August 2015.

Room Four At Linwood North School. Thursday, 30 July 2015. In maths we have been learning about shapes. We have been doing lots of fun activities using play dough, foam shapes, tangram puzzles and feely bags. We have been talking about 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes and finding them in our classroom. Take a look at our photos! Friday, 24 July 2015. Monday, 20 July 2015. Thursday, 2 July 2015. Sunday, 28 June 2015.

Room Five at Linwood North School. Monday, 10 August 2015. We went on a bear hunt in week one. We are learning how to collage this term. We have started by making Elmer the Elephant. We have been enjoying playing balloon tennis particularly on the wet cold inside days. Our kiwisport focus this term is ball skills. The class really enjoy the sessions with the kiwisport instructor.

Room Six At Linwood North School. Sunday, 7 June 2015. Kiwi Sport Friday Fun and Fitness. We really look forward to getting out and enjoying our Kiwi Sport Lessons with Ata every second Friday. Fortunately, last Friday the sun appeared which meant we were able to leave the classroom and meet Ata on the netball court. We learnt two new games which were designed to up our fitness levels and add serious fun factor to our day. Let the Forces be with you. Tuesday, 26 May 2015.

Room 7 At Linwood North School. Monday, 17 August 2015. Today we learnt how to say Hello and my name is . Thursday, 13 August 2015. Every Wednesday Room 7 have Ukelele lessons. At the moment we are learning to play YMCA. During Strand Maths we have been learning about Geometry. How many 2D shapes can you identify? Thursday, 2 July 2015. School wide Forces in action. Remember, when doing experiments, it is OK to fail! Room 7 Linwood North. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Thursday, 28 May 2015.

Room Nine At Linwood North School. Saturday, 15 August 2015. Term 3 has well and truly started and we have been very busy since the first day. The weather has been very cold so the colds and sicknesses that were around during Term 2 have continued into Term 3. There have been a lot of children away from school because of sickness. Thank Goodness we all seem to be on the mend now - that includes me. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Thursday, 18 June 2015. We know how to help someone who is choking.