Last week, 40 Year 8 students planted over 500 native trees on property owned by Gulf Harbour Country Club, behind Regency Lake. Despite an unusually long, hot, dry summer, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and an Auckland Council directive to turn off the shadehouse...
In Literacy this week, we have been looking at the importance of giving accurate instructions. We began by watching a short video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-lOOUqmyY , that the children found very funny, because instructions written by two children for their...
Maths We have been learning to identify lines of symmetry, and using mirrors to confirm our answers. We also used the mirrors to identify lines of symmetry in our face: there’s always a pesky freckle or two that spoil perfect symmetry though! Art Sometimes you...
In Year three we have been learning how to tell the time on an analogue clock. To complete our topic on time we did a treasure hunt. With a buddy we had to read the time on the clocks and write the answers on the answer sheet. We had so much fun.
It has been fantastic to come back to school! We have been having a lot of fun together and have particularly enjoyed learning about earning money, spending it, and giving change. We found out all about money and then practiced spending it and giving...
Sewing – what an absolutely wonderful skill for children to learn! A Kiwi class friend gave us all a challenge this week! Could we sew a button onto some material using a REAL needle? Well………we rose to the challenge………we used...
Our Moa Science Week winners were Claire, Dylan, Oscar, Amy and Harper. They had to answer tricky questions on a variety of Science topics and our young scientists were on excellent form. Well done!
Last week we had some wonderful Shared News which was contributed by one of our Kiwi class friends. We discussed the importance of safety equipment and we even had the opportunity to try it on!
On Tuesday we were the luckiest class in the land because our school was allowed to go to Kelly Tarlton’s AND we had the entire aquarium to OURSELVES! We certainly made the most of it! We saw sea horses, touched starfish and we even made our own colourful fish...
We were SO excited to visit the Kelly Tarlton Aquarium this week. It was lovely that we were able to have the whole place to ourselves. We enjoyed exploring all of the different areas. We went through the tunnel, where we saw sharks, fish and stingrays. We also...
Here are a few snapshots of us in action. In Science we observed flowers and dissected them to see the different parts. Here we are engrossed in our reading. We love to add new words that we come across into our word books, so that we can use them in our own...
In Term 1, we welcomed our lovely Grandparents along to visit the school and our classrooms. We had lots of fun! We sang for the Grandparents as a whole school, then went to our classrooms, where we played a variety of games, both old and new.