Excellent attendance

Well done to everyone who received an Excellent attendance award today. 4 or less days absent this term. Attendance = success. 

School Swimming Sports

On Friday we had our school swimming sports at the college. Here is a little video of our day. We had lots of fun and we all tried so hard in our races. Some of us are off to inter school swimming sports this Friday to compete against the other schools in our area. Enjoy our video.

Are We There Yet????

This term we have been very fortunate to have gone on the Women's suffrage journey with School Kit. Our students have learnt how important this movement was for our country and for women in general. They have written poems, found out about some of NZ's most influential women and interviewed a woman in their lives. I am beyond proud of the thought, creativity and effort that most put into their presentations and know they are very proud too. They learnt so much about their interviewee and were stoked to have had the experience. Thank you so much School Kit for opening our eyes to a part of our history we have not looked into yet.
#arewethereyet #schoolkit

Here is us sharing our learning in our assembly.

Week 8 Assembly

Today Rooms 5 and 6 hosted our second assembly for the term. This assembly had a slightly sombre approach as we dedicated some items to the victims of the Christchurch shootings. We managed to lighten the mood a little with our dance - a challenge by Whaea Sally and Nga Rau Puawai accepted. We also shared some mahi we did on Women's suffrage, thanks to School Kit, and presented the song 'Shallow' with our very talented Carney playing the guitar. We were fortunate to have Kelvin Davis attend our assembly as well and speak to the school. Whaea Dana and Whaea Jess are ridiculously proud of our kids, they blow us away with their talent, confidence and resilience to overcome their fears of speaking in front of an audience.

Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti

Last week we were very fortunate to be given the chance to learn about and board Sir Hector Busby's waka, Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti. It is an exceptional, double hulled waka built with traditional rope lashings and made out of kauri timber. It is a thing of beauty. We also learnt some waka drills and about how those who journey on this waka use star navigation or way finding on their voyages.

It was an amazing opportunity and we are so thankful to have had that experience.

Switch it up challenge

Another item from our assembly was ' The Switch it up Challenge'. Satyn, Ocean and Tunisia learnt the dance themselves off You tube and performed it. What a great effort girls. Who is going to take up the challenge next?

Treaty of Waitangi

These are the facts we shared at our assembly. We each had to find a fact that we thought was important for people to know about the Treaty of Waitangi.  We are also doing projects with more information we will share these when we are finished.

E Ngaki

Another one of our assembly items was one of our favourite songs we learnt last year ' E Ngaki'. We learnt actions for it last week and then performed to the school. Hopefully we will teach the school the actions this term.

Welcome back to 2019

Welcome back to 2019. We have been at school for 2 weeks and are starting to settle into our new classes.  We had the challenge of being on the first assembly this year. We used what we had been learning in class about our school values and  The Treaty of Waitangi for 2 of our items. Here is our video showing the wrongs and rights of our school values. We hope you enjoy it.

Can Ice Cream be Breakfast?

This week we have been very fortunate to trial out the School Kit: Can it Ice Cream? 
Our kids loved this unit, we took a scientific approach to it and the kids learnt a lot about heat transfer and how this contributes to changing liquid to solid. The kids were convinced that ice cream could not be a breakfast, but a few clever ones found some research that proved that having something cold like ice cream actually shocks the system into alertness and causes them to wake up and be more focused. Who would have thought!!

None of our kids were brave enough to try the baked beans, Marmite or miso... believing that salt has no place at breakfast haha. But they really did produce some delicious breakfast flavoured ice cream. We added banana, weetbix and peanut butter to the mix too and found that these ingredients (especially the peanut butter) created a cereal flavour. The kids were mostly very impressed with their flavours, and liked adding oats and muesli to their ice cream mix.

Thank you so much for this amazing experience and giving our big kids a bit of fun for the end of the term #dairynzschools and #schoolkit
Check out the kids individual blogs to see the ice cream they created and how it turned out.