Fly Our Wishes Workshop

Today we are lucky to have artists Bridgette and Jim (from Junk & Disordely at Rangiwahia Environmental Arts Center) here to work with Room 5 on some art projects that will be displayed at the Turner Center in Kerikeri for the Upsurge Festival. Watch this space for the finished pieces :)

Waiata on top of Ruapekapeka

Room 6 had a Noho marae where we stayed at school for the night in the school marae. We went for a visit to our maunga Ruapekapeka. We have been learning about the history and the war that happened here. Before we left we sung a song as the sun was setting.

Fall in Love

The talented Jayda and Tyissa showing their beautiful singing voices at assembly for Room 6. So much talent.  Well done girls.

Hit the beat

The talented girls in Room 6 showing us their dance moves at our assembly. Awesome work girls.

Pizza Making

Our Year 7 and 8 students had their first technology lesson this week. Our focus was Food Hygiene and Safety. We finished the lesson my making Pizzas to practice our food hygiene and safety. 

Room 5 Noho Marae

On Monday 6th of March Room 5 had our Noho Marae (a stay over at school). We went to Ruapekapeka Pa to learn about the battle that took place there and to understand the significance of it; for many of us it is our maunga. When we arrived back at school we got to swim... for ages! We loved it! Before bed Matua David taught us the correct protocol for staying in a marae; keeping our beds tidy, not bringing school bags inside as they have had food in there, not to wrestle or run around the beds and not to sit on our pillows. We learnt a lot and had a fun time... although we were all very tired the next day!

Figurative Language

This week we have been learning what figurative language is, specifically metaphors, as part of a School Kit activity to get kids writing. We are producing poems to write on postcards and creating a poster about our class to send to another class in Wellington. We are looking forward to receiving their work in the next few weeks. Here is our metaphor poem we made together.