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.

Types of students

We all have different types of students in our class. We did a skit about some of the funny ones in our class. Do you have some of these students in your class?

Do's and Don'ts

For our item we looked at the right way and the wrong way to do things. We created a Do's and Don'ts skit. It was funny thinking about things we could act out. We had made a video but on the day it didn't work so we had 1 practice then we did it on stage.

Bullying Skit

On Friday Room 5 and 6 were on Assembly. Here is one of the items we did about bullying. It was trying to show everyone that bullying comes in lots of different ways and it is very hurtful to those who are being bullied. Remember to always show respect, responsibility and resilience. 

Introducing the Awesome Students of Rooms 5 and 6!

This year we are participating in the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu program to get us blogging and interacting with students from other schools. We are very lucky to be connected with the students in Toki Pounamu at Saint Patrick's Greymouth. We look forward to sharing our work with you all and seeing what you have been learning at your school. (We hope to have a cool name like yours in the near future, we are just trying to find one that fits us.). Bring on 2018! It is going to be a great year!

Our Certificate Recipiants for Week 3

This week our certificates went to Malia, Ryker, Otulea and Leilani. These 4 have stepped up and begun the year with an awesome attitude and great role modelling. Well done!!

SWIMMING HAS STARTED

Woohoo today we had our first swim of the year.