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Friday, January 20, 2012

We're back! Welcome 2012!

It's time to resurrect our primary blog! Not least because I'm now in primary. Hahaha.

I suppose I should start by introducing the presidency. Sister Mary Malungahu is our Primary President, I'm the first Counselor (Sister Jacinda Prattley), and Sister Anna Haenga is the 2nd Counselor. We are excited to serve Mountfort Ward in this way, and we have big plans for our primary. Here is our schedule for 2012:

Sacrament finishes at 10.10am and Primary starts at 10.20am. To give us time to set up the classroom and make it a welcoming environment for the children, we ask that parents remind their little ones to be reverent as they wait outside the primary (or nursery) doors. Note: for primary aged children, the corridor can be quite narrow when there are a lot of people transitioning classes, so the font room is a nice place out of the way where they may wait. Nursery children and parents are asked to wait outside the nursery doors.

Children attending nursery settle better when they are familiar with the routine. They cannot get used to a routine if they are constantly coming in half way through nursery time. It unsettles them, and unsettles the rest of the nursery. Parents please bring your children to nursery at 10.20am, and leave them with the teachers until 12.00pm. There is no need for you to stay in nursery beyond 10.30am. Your child will be fine. Go enjoy your own classes. Trust our nursery team to look after your precious babies and rest assured that they will come and get you if you are needed.

Our Primary Theme for 2012 is Choose the Right.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve; . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
Each month we have a mini-theme relating to Choosing the Right.


January's theme is "Agency is the gift to choose for ourselves". The children have been learning about choices and consequences, and how good choices make us and those around us happy. Bad choices bring undesirable consequences. They have learnt that even though they may not see the consequence of a choice straight away, there is always eventually, a consequence. We encourage families to talk with your children and help them recognise the consequences of their daily choices. Praise them when they make good choices. Teach them lovingly when they make not so good choices.

We will be implementing a Primary Spotlight in our February Sharing Times, where a child will be recognised for the good choices they made that week at home/school. This is where we need your help. One of the presidency will let you know if your child is the one being spotlighted the following Sunday. You then keep notes of the good choices your child did that week (without letting them know), and pass that info back to us. We will read out the notes in Sharing Time, and have the children see if they can guess who it is. We'll tell them if they can't guess, and congratulate the child for doing so well that week. The children love this kind of activity, and it makes them feel good to know that someone notices the things they do.

February's theme is "When we choose the right we are blessed". We have lots of teaching stories about the blessings that come from choosing the right - both from the scriptures and from modern day examples. If you wish to co-ordinate your family home evenings to any of the monthly themes, I'm sure the children would love the continuity and reinforcement of things they have learnt in primary.

If you wish to see our Sharing Time Manual, click HERE to see it at LDS.org. It also lists the monthly songs if you wish to listen to them or download them.

In March the theme will be "Living Prophets Teach Me to Choose the Right". We will speak a lot about the Prophet and the Apostles of the latter days, and also look back at the ones in the scriptures.

Feel free to leave comments or questions here on the blog, or contact the Primary Presidency if you have any concerns/feedback etc. We are here to serve and love your children, and we think 2012 is going to be a great one for Mountfort Ward Primary.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lil Harmonies 2010 & Welcome to our new Primary Presidency


It's that time again - Lil Harmonies. This years theme is Soul and Mountfort Ward are singing songs from Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Four tops and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Practices are now on and we look forward to another awesome night.

On another note, we would like to send our love and appreciation to our previous Primary Presidency; Sis Leisa Siteine, Sis Noeline Haenga, Sis Ngawai Rangi and Sis Aranui Paniora. They have served in Primary for over four years and have been priviledged to be a part of so many children's lives, many of whom are now in the youth program. We appreciate all the time, effort and hard work put in to help our Primary grow and progress in the gospel.

We now welcome our new Primary Presidency into our Mountfort Ward Primary and look forward to more great works instore for our children. Our new Primary President is Sis Te Kaari Yancey, first counsellor is Sis Ngawai Rangi, second counsellor is Sis Vakaukamea and the secretary is Sis Aranui Paniora. We know they will do a wonderful job and Mountfort Primary will definitely benefit.

Ka Kite Ano!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Primary Board Meeting


It's time for our next quarterly Mountfort Ward Primary Board Meeting which is on Friday 30th April at 6.30pm in the primary room. The invitation goes out to all our board members; teachers, nursery, faith in god leaders, music leader, bishopric and the presidency. We will be discussing our progress thus far in primary and what's coming up soon. If you have any queries, feel free to contact any member of the presidency. We look forward to seeing you all there and hearing how it's all going.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

What's been happen'n so far in 2010






As you can see from the photo's, our first Primary activity was heaps of fun. It was held at the Botanic Gardens in Manurewa, where we all spread out on the grass with our popcorn and drinks, to watch the Night at the Museam 2. It started out as a bright summers day and about 10 mins before the end of the movie, it started to rain - not that it could dampen the fun we had that night.

The stake primary conference, held at Papakura on Saturday 13 March, was an awesome day with the workshops and mystery dinner. Those who attended gave back great positive feedback.

As for Primary business, it has been a wonderful start to a new year and all have settled in nicely to their various callings. Our numbers in Primary have increased which is great. As always we would like to thank our Primary teachers for their hard work and love they put into their callings and for progressing with their classes. We would also like to thank the bishopric for their guidance, love and support.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Welcome to 2010


Hi everyone and welcome to the Mountfort Primary page, 2010. My sincerest apologies for allowing our page to get outdated last year but I will endeavour to do my best to keep this site current and up to date each month. As it is a new year, we have a new theme:

The Primary Theme for 2010 is I KNOW MY SAVIOR LIVES.

We are now in February already which will see most of our children beginning or returning back to school and we would like to encourage all our children to apply what you are learning in your classes in your daily lives; like saying personal prayers and choosing the right. The ward activity was very successful and congratulations to all those who participated in our Sand Castle competition - they were so good our judges had a hard time decinding who the winner was. We have our next Primary activity coming up soon on Saturday 13th February - MOVIES IN THE PARK. It is held at the Botanic Gardents, Hill Rd, Manurewa, starting at 5.30pm. Bring a cushion, pillow, chair or picnic blanket to sit on, as well as a friend or less active class member and Primary will provide the popcorn and drinks.

We would like to welcome all our new teachers to primary as well as the existing ones and recognise all your hard work in helping the children learn about our Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ. A big thank you to those who attended the board meeting and we hope the night was informative and enjoyable.
As a presidency we are excited about what this year has in store and working together as a board.

Check out our page where you will find what's happening this month, themes, scriptures, songs ... who has the sharing time assignment this month ... and much more!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Lil Harmonies Music Festival 2009

It has become an annual event that our Stake primary holds a 'Lil Harmonies music festival each year. In July '09, the theme was Rock and Roll. Each ward performed a Fun song, Sacred song, a group song and the option of having a solo performance as well. Mountfort ward sang a re-write of Peggy Sue, changing the lyrics to make our ward Rock! although Bishop Zinc can still think, we're little angels ... wink, wink, wink! We sang Beautiful Saviour for our sacred song and the senior girls blessed us with their beautiful voice singing our group song. Check out some photo's from the night and the certificate we were awarded for the big effort of our children, parents and teachers. Well done Mountfort ward!