Mathletics result!

Brigette has achieved a top 3 spot in the whole of the school in Mathletics. Kia pai Brigette. Our school results show an average 32% increase in scores, total live Maths correct answers 196,384!
Thank you to all whanau for encouraging our students to take part regularly at home.
If you have any questions abouti using Mathletics at home to support your child's learning then please see me.

The Olympics

We have been enjoying our Olympics Inquiry, sharing the amazing efforts of athletes from all over the world. Go hard team New Zealand. As part of our Inquiry students took their learning home and had to find out a few facts about the Ancient Olympics and be able to share it.
This is a key skill: being able to make sense of information and explain or summarise it. In a world where IT bring so much information to our fingertips, being able to understand what we have found out is vital.

Arohatia te reo - Te wiki o te reo Maori

    Tena Koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou, katoa

Room 13 have celebrated te wiki o te reo Maori with heaps of language activities, word games, and learning our Mihi.

Haere Ra Kalani, Chi, Marama and Whanau

Back from the holidays with everyone bright eyed and bushy tailed and raring to go. Kalani and whanau are heading off to Timaru and so we had to say Haere Ra. Kalani is a very cheerful and keen member of class and will be sadly missed by us all, her Mum, Marama has worked incredibly hard within the school teaching students Te Reo Maori and Kapa Haka. Thank you and best wishes to you all.

End of term Striving Awards

A fantastic turnout of parents came to share our end of term assembly. We were treated to a funny play by the middle school drama options, with a scene from Wind in the Willows. The Kapa Haka group were awesome and a real asset to our school, it showed the amount of hard work and dedication put in by our students and their coaches especially Marama. Then we had a lovely group strum and song from the guitar option group. It showed the wide variety of skills and competencies developed in our school which can't be easily measured!

After all the entertainment it was down to the serious business of recognizing the efforts of our students this term. It wasn't too hard picking out those who had earned a mention this time but I was very disappointed not to be able to pick a boy from Room 13.
Come on guys you need to step it up and show you can put just as much effort into your learning as the girls!!!

News: Basketball Hoops

We have four new basketball hoops in the playground. They are all different heights so everyone can shoot a hoop! Our fantastic Home and School group with amazing support from the community made this happen. Thank you so much for your efforts.
"They are good sizes to shoot to." thought Mason.
"They are really fun to play with!" exclaimed Blossom.
"They are really handy to practice our netball shooting." pondered Ava and Lynlee.

Holiday Mathletics

These students have gone above and beyond to earn certificates during the holidays. Maybe that freezing fog and hoar frost made it a little easier to be sat at the computer!