Christmas Market Day!

Christmas Market Day!

Rooms 22 & 23 have had a busy week planning, preparing and organising our market stalls ready for the big day today!  

With great excitement, we visited both rooms and enjoyed the market stalls.  There was such a great variety of games, activities, homemade items and baking!  What a clever bunch of entrepreneurs we have!

Mrs Bellehewe and I also had a great time trying out everything!  We were so impressed with everyone for being so well prepared for the event and making it such a great success!  

It was wonderful to see everyone working hard, then enjoying themselves spending their Christmas money to buy their favourite things.  

A big thank you also goes to all of the wonderful parents who supported us to make this day amazing!

YAHOO!  
Here we are celebrating our surprise win in the AIA Healthy kids challenge!  Yesterday we learned that we had won a Huawei Tablet for our classroom!

FUNDRAISING EVENT - Friday 2nd December

We have had lots of fun today at school!  The Year 6's organised lots of fun activities to do and everyone helped by bringing food to sell.  The money raised will help to pay for the Year 6 graduation and also go to schools effected by the earthquake in Kaikoura.

Thanks for your support!

CULTURAL EVENING AND PICNIC AT SCHOOL.  Thursday 1st December.

Last night we enjoyed watching all of our school's cultural groups perform.  I felt so proud of all of you!  Thanks for some wonderful performances!

Welcome to the world of Harry Potter & Hogwarts!

Our class has had an amazing few weeks reading about the world of Harry Potter, his friends and foes and getting to know all about his magical school, Hogwarts!  We enjoyed reading the story so much we created a Learning Centre.  We have been working incredibly hard (while having lots of fun) to create many types of writing (persuasive speeches, postcards, letters, stamps, dust covers, sociograms and book reviews.  We have also created maps and cross-sections of parts of Hogwarts and have been making board games to play related to the story.  Parents and families are welcome to come in and enjoy our 'Harry Potter' work with us!

Corban Estate Arts Centre Trip

Corban Estate Arts Centre Trip  

Wednesday 23rd November 2016.

On Wednesday our class was very excited about visiting the Arts Centre and meeting the Pacific Mamas!  We had a great time learning greetings from some of the Pacific Islands, including Niue, Hawaii, Fiji, Samoa and Rarotonga.  We learnt that the way we greet others shows our respect and care for them (hopefully we were already pretty good at this)!

Once we had greeted each other warmly, Room 22 and Room 23 went into different rooms to learn how to drum, dance and create our own beautiful lei necklaces.  

We had an amazing time exploring the Pacific culture, celebrations, and also learned more about the way that drums were used to communicate across the island villages.  It was fun trying out the dances and drum rhythms and great to see the parents and children getting involved!  

Thank you to everyone who came along with us. We really appreciate your support. 


Here are The Mamas!  ALOOOOOOOOHHAAA!


Great effort boys!


Go girls!  Looking great!


It took a little while, but we got the hang of it!



Learning how to make lei from the experts.


Chief Cairo!


What a gorgeous group
!

Athletics Day!

It was great to see everyone 'giving it a go' today during the Year 4 - 6 running races.  Well done to all our place winners and to those who went off to compete against other classes in the discus, shot put, high jump and long jump competitions.  Some of our students will be going to the Inter School Competition.  Congratulations to them!  We are very proud of you!