We have had two days of school so far and almost everyone seems to be settling in very well so far. I am amazed at the talent I can already see in the class and am sure we will have a wonderful year ahead.
This class blog will play a major role in your child’s education this year. It is important that everyone has access to a computer and the Internet at home, please see mrrees.com/parents for parent information on Internet Safety. It is also a good idea to know the guidelines students need to follow when publishing on the Internet. This is a learning curve for most students and they are likely to make mistakes, therefore everything is moderated and will need to be approved by me before it will be visible to everyone.
All homework is provided via the homework page and there is no paper copy sent home, please contact me if this is a issue. Next weeks homework is already up, though Mentals and Mathletics will not be ready until books and accounts have been organised.
If you need to contact me you can use the form on the contact page and it will send directly to my email. All notes (sick/family holiday/appointments) can be completed this way, you are welcome to write a paper one if you wish.
As parents you can comment on students work/ask questions, though last names still can’t be used. With any comment parents will need to refer to themselves by first name followed by child’s name and then the relationship to the child. In plain English – Joy, John’s Mum.
I am looking forward to a great year with what seems to be a fantastic class.
Regards
Mr. Rees

my avatar diddn’t go through here, it just went black
It looks like you did everything right, but for some reason something went wrong with the image. It could have been corrupted when uploading?!
Check and make sure your avatar is not blank by finding where you saved it on your computer and then double clicking on it so it opens. If it is okay then just try to upload it again. If it is not okay then you will need to create the avatar again.
Let me know how it goes.
how do you get your picture of your wii person on your account?
Once you have saved your avatar to your computer all you need to do is upload to your profile.
Steps
1. Go to mrrees.com and log in using your user name and password.
2. Once you have logged in you will see a button called [Profile]. Click on it and then click on the new [Profile] button on the left of the page.
3. You should now see a button called [Avatar]. Click it and then click the browse button and look for where you saved your avatar. Click on it and then click open.
4. The last step is to scroll to the bottom of your profile page and click [update]. Then wait for it to finish uploading.
still not working
We’ll try it at school tomorrow, remind me please.
still isn’t opening the profile.
i’ll se if i can work it out but don’t think it will do any good?
i tryed it again and it worked!!
Thanks for the instructions!!:)
Your welcome Tara.
The same thing happened to me it went black when I went through the steps.
Try the Simpson’s one instead.
I went through a lot of trouble to get my avatar! But i tried your instructions and it worked! Thanks a lot.
I’m glad you persevered, it can be tricky doing something for the first time.
Is there any way of making my avatar bigger? It looks really small on the website.
You need to crop it with another program, I will show you in class.
I took your advise and i think my avatar worked
Let’s try at school tomorrow. Email me your avatar and I will see if it is something I can fix.
hi
How do you get that cool picture Janani???
Lauz