Packard Museum Trip

Today we went to the Packard Museum in Maungatapere to look at how transportation may have changed over time and what innovations have occurred. It was a fascinating place and we saw and learnt a lot about innovation, why it occurred and the effect it had on life of that time.

Packard Museum Trip - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie Maker

The ANZACS

We watched some short video clips of the ANZACS, researched information about the ANZAC campaign, read some stories based around war and wrote a poem about being at war. Here are a few examples.

Catholic Schools Day

On Monday it was Catholic Schools Day. We had a Mass in the morning we started our angel art after play. After lunch our whanau went out for tabloid sports which some of our Room 10 children organised. All the children received a yummy lemonade ice block at the end of the day.

Mothers Day

We made these cute little Mothers Day cards for our mums. We would like to wish all our mums a Happy Mothers Day this Sunday.

Hockey With Brad

We have started hockey lessons with Brad from Northland Hockey. We will have three lessons this term. Brad taught us skills of hitting, trapping and passing. We always enjoy these lessons and some of our children are showing how talented they are at hockey.

Innovation Immersion

Our concept this term is Innovation. For our immersion activity, Mr Werder organised a 1963  Morris Minor for the children to look at and a fully electric car from the Northern Regional Council. Mrs Holt was here to tell the children all about the technology of an electric car.

Innovation

Our Term 2 concept is Innovation. We are learning that….

Still Life Art work

We created still life art inspired by Paul Cēzanne. We looked at shape and form, light and dark, blending and layering the chalk pastels.

Still Life on PhotoPeach

Kia Aroha- To Love

Our school motto is "To Love To Learn To Serve" In Term 1 our focus is "To Love"
We talked about ways which we can show this in our school, and linked this to the Mary MacKillop values and the gospel values. We created artwork inspired by Jim Dine. He uses mixed media, crepe paper bled with water, paint and black chalk pastel.

ANZAC Liturgy

We held an ANZAC liturgy on the last day of Term 1. It was a very moving liturgy where we remembered and honoured those people who died for our country.

Life Education

We had Nadine from Life Education teaching us about the circulatory System. We learnt a lot about the brain and its functions. We then researched about other systems in our body. It was very interesting!!!

Keeping Ourselves Safe

As part of our Hauora Concept we have had lessons with Nadine from the Life Education Trust learning about our body systems and the functions of our major organs and how we keep healthy.
We are also having lessons with Constable Toni on how to Keep Ourselves Safe. We are learning about strategies we can use when we feel unsafe.

Easter Re-enactment

These are photos of our Karaka frieze frames for the Holy Week re-enactment. Our school
re-enactment is based on the Stations of the Cross. Our scenes are portraying when Jesus met some women on the street and when Jesus falls and is beaten by the soldiers.

Swimming Lessons

Learning how to swim is such an important life skill. Swimming is also great for your health and well being. Here are some photos of our class. The children made such great progress over the 8 lessons.

Swimming Lessons on PhotoPeach

Bikes in Schools

We are part of the Bikes in Schools programme. It is a government funded programme, research found that there has been a significant drop in the amount of children who actually ride bikes. It gives children an opportunity to experience this as well as learn how to keep safe on the roads. We had an awesome coordinator called Mr Bell.

Bikes in Schools on PhotoPeach

Waitangi Trip

These are photos of our Waitangi Trip. We have been learning about The Treaty of Waitangi and who we are as a nation. This gave our children the opportunity to learn more about our history and culture. It was a wonderful day and we highly recommend that whanau take the time to go to Waitangi and visit the new museum.

Hauora Immersion

As part of our Immersion Activities, we had a whanau luck where we were encouraged to bring a healthy lunch. We also participated in tabloid sports. This was to promote being active and also to build our tuakana teina relationships within Karaka Whanau

Whanau Leaders and Deputies

Our Whanau has selected our leaders and deputies for 2016.

Whaanu Leaders are Luke Crowley and Sophie Luxford

Our Deputy Leaders are Sam Gadolo and Ayianna Barnes

Our Committee are Ben Magnussen, Lucy Scott, Shanice Gadolo and Heidi Smith

Room 10 2016

Hauora

Our concept for Term 1 is Hauora

In Term 1 our concept is “Hauora.”

We are learning that…

Hauora comes from making informed choices,

Jesus guides us to live a restorative way of life.

We are very lucky that we have many outside agencies helping us deliver a deeper understanding of Hauora. We have Nadine from The Life Education Trust. We also have the keeping Ourselves Safe Programme with Constable Toni.

We are lucky that we have the Bikes in Schools Programme as well. As many of you are aware we have a bicycle track, each class will have 3 lessons on how to check and ride a bike, and also bike safety.