At the end of Term 2 our Room 3 and 4 children enjoyed making Poi with the help of Mrs Mary Lo and Parent Helper, Mrs Vicki Rutter.  Once the Poi were made the children had great fun trying them out - check out our little videos below.

Mrs Masters and Room Two have been busy making Ti Rakau Sticks as part of their study into Maori Culture.  The children had lots of fun designing their sticks, making them and using them!

The process - Designing, Creating the Art, Making the stick, Putting it Altogether.

Last week our performing Kapa Haka Group, who have been practicing diligently over the past few weeks, performed at the Remuera Library.

We raised $573 for the Child Cancer Foundation this Wednesday - thank you to all those who participated (we saw some FANTASTIC wigs) and to those who donated to this very worthwhile cause.

Our Year 5 children had fun this week harvesting the pumpkins from our School Garden and preparing them to be turned into Pumpkin Soup.

Miss Rojos and Room 7 have produced some beautiful Stained Glass Window Art for their Classroom using black card, cellophane and tissue paper with the finished 'windows' encapsulated in laminate.  These stunning images of Our Lord were created as part of Room 7's RE study into the Ascension.  We are all very impressed with how effective your 'windows' have turned out and we thank you for brightening up our winter days with your creations.

Room three have been busy hard with Observational Drawing of the autumnal leaves in our school environment.  First, every child went into the grounds to find and choose 4 leaves to study.  The children initially sketched the leaves and wrote a short description of them.  Once the preliminary sketches were completed the children moved on to their final masterpieces!  An initial sketch was used as a guide for the children who used a sharpie over the top of the sketch to outline the details of the leaves.  Once the outlines were done the children used some gorgeous hues of red, yellow and orange dye to finish the leaves. Blue and green dyes were used as the background, signifying the sky and the grass.  Well done Room 3 - all the Teachers agree, your artwork is wonderful.

Our Year 4, 5 and 6 children visited Te Tahwai Marae this week as part of our 'People of the Land' topic.

Our Junior School children enjoyed a trip to the Auckland Museum last week and were treated to a cultural performance as well as an educational session and some fun 'moko' face decorating.