Certificate Winners for Week 9

Congratulations to Rico, Miria, Ana and Jahnazyah (left to right) for receiving certificates this week. Keep up the great work!

Metaphor Poem

This year we have joined up with School Kit to get NZ kids writing. The focus is on figurative language, in particular writing metaphors. We created a class poem example together and came up with some fabulous metaphors. Now, each student has to write their own metaphor poem using the same template...keep an eye out for them on their individual blogs! We hope you enjoy our poem.

Certificate Winners for Week 8

Congratulations to Payton, Taylor and Vaughan (starting far right). They have been recognised for their awesome work ethic and attitude. Well done girls and keep up the great work!

Swim Safe with Whaea Nikki

This term we have been having Swim Safe lessons with Whaea Nikki. She has been teaching us how to swim constantly for 6 lengths of our pool, how to use life jackets and the importance of staying together in a huddle if we were ever stranded at sea. We learnt how to swim in rough water by making waves and currents with kick boards and how to use different survival strokes when we get tired. All these lessons will be extremely valuable in case of an emergency in the water, which is always a possibility as we live so close to the the ocean and swim often in rivers.

Week 6 Certificates

Congratulations to Kailua, Hana, Noah and Mia who received today's certificates for their hard work this week.

Volvo Ocean Race Education Day

10 students were lucky enough to travel to Auckland to participate in the Volvo Ocean Race Education Day.  We had a great leader Paul who showed us around for the day. We learnt about the impact plastic is having on the ocean and that it is being found in the stomachs of baby Albatross. We all make a promise to try and limit the amount of plastic we use. Say no to plastic bags and straws. Next was our turn at learning to sail. We loved it. It was pretty windy so we went really fast. We met Blair Tuke and Peter Burling. It was an amazing day and we all enjoyed everything we learnt and did. Watch this video with some of the highlights of our trip.

Poi and Haka workshops

For Kapa Haka this year Horrace our tutor wants all the girls to have a set of poi.  In class we decided to start making these. For some of us it was the first time making poi. It took us a long time to get the wool ready and then we found it hard to do the 4 plait and get it nice. We are slowly getting there and we will share the finished product with you when we are done.

SPLAT

We were learning a new warm up today for maths called Splat. We had to quickly find out how many dots and then it gets covered by a splat and we have to figure out how many dots under the splat. It is helping us with our speed and basic facts.

Week 5 certificates

Congratulations to Raharuhi, Dakota, Luke and Jaqueline(who was absent) on receiving this week's class certificates. Keep up the great work.