Our Assembly

Hello to you all,

We are hosting the School's Assembly this week.

Here are the details:

12.30pm Thursday, in the hall.

Hope to see you there

Te Ako Ritenga Song

Well it HOOKS me in ‘cos it seems like fun

It HOOKS me in - That is number 1

We start our learning journey and we use our brains

That’s what it’s all about.

Te... Ako Ritenga

That’s what it’s all about

Next I WONDER how to find it out

And I WONDER who will help me out?

We're on our learning journey and we use our brains

That’s what it’s all about.

Te... Ako Ritenga

That’s what it’s all about

Let’s EXPLORE - that is number 3

Let’s EXPLORE another possibility

We're on our learning journey and we use our brains

That’s what it’s all about.

Te... Ako Ritenga

That’s what it’s all about

Let’s REFLECT and see where we’re at

Let’s REFLECT.  Do we need to go back?

We're on our learning journey and we use our brains

That’s what it’s all about.

Te... Ako Ritenga

That’s what it’s all about

Now it’s time to ACT.  Gosh we’ve learned a lot!

Time to ACT and show them what we’ve got.

We’ve done our learning journey and we learned a heap

Now it’s time to celebrate!

Te... Ako Ritenga

That’s what it’s all about

Headphones

Kia Ora Whanau,

We were wondering if you could please have a set of headphones brought into school for our kids to use while they are using the computers.

This way they will be able to listen to stories online without the sound going through the classrooms.

Thanks heaps!!

Congratulations JACOB!!!!!

Jacob was the first child who earned 10 minutes free time as he had collected 10 tokens for showing positive behaviour.

YAY!!!!

R E S P E C T!!!

Today for explore we have been focusing on how we TREAT people.  We have been listening to songs, watching videos and playing games that were based around cooperation and working well with others.

Our first game was the Tarp Flip

What did we do:

• shared ideas
• listen to others
• gave everyone's ideas a go
• shouted
• used negative words

What could we have done better?:

• listening to the teacher better so we can follow ALL of the instructions
• not shouted at other members
• cooperate
• listen to every members ideas
• use kind words

Our second game was back to back balloon race

How did we show kindness and respect with our partner?:

• we remembered not to drag our partners - we did this be talking to them (communicating) and ask them if we were going to fast or not.
• used our manners "please, slow down"
• worked well together 
• we needed to listen to our partners

We then played over and under with our balloons...

the kids really enjoyed our session this morning.  It was great to hear and see our children showing respect by cooperating with each other and having a lot of fun!!!

Waitangi Day Link

For the children who have their own chromebooks and devices we have set up them up with this link to help them complete our Waitangi Bingo...

WAITANGI LINK

Our Mihi

We started this morning with our karakia and the children showed a lot of dedication when trying to pronounce the Maori words.

Here is our school's Mihi.

Pou Kaha Rawa – Manaakitia mai

Pou Haerenga – Haere ra

Pou Oranga – Mihi mai

Pou Manawhenua – Takoto mai

Pou Herenga waka – Toia mai

Classroom set up

Hello to you all,

We have been busy over the last two days setting up our classroom and establishing rules and routines...

We planned what for our 'cool' classroom...

Here is what we see as our 'jobs'...

We are looking forward to an amazing fun filled year!!