Summertime is a joy for kids and whanau across the country, however, warmer weather encourages us to seek outdoor activities and enjoy the best New Zealand has to offer. With this in mind the Pīwakawaka children have been very busy learning how to stay safe in the sun and around water this Summer. Here are […]
In contrast to the scares and spooks of Halloween, our school embraced the good, the true and the beautiful in their celebration of All Saints Day. Kakariki Class learned about some inspiring Catholic saints leading up to our dress up day in order to grow their knowledge of the multitude of saintly friends happy to help […]
Kākāpō spent 6 weeks learning all about the narrative genre of writing. We spent a long time planning and developing the plot and characters of our stories. Working in pairs or on our own, once we had drafted our story, we edited them and published them onto Google Classroom. After this we illustrated the story. […]
In Religious Education, we have been talking about how people experience forgiveness and healing when they have hurt or been hurt. We have discussed situations which cause hurt to people and how we can avoid this and why it is important to forgive and be forgiven. We have discussed how when we show forgiveness and […]
Celebrating Father’s Day – past, present, absent and future Dad’s. Takahēs Taniwha inspired images that the children created – with their own personalized message to honour and celebrate their special Dad! Why My Dad is Awesome by Henry Roberts Why My Dad is Awesome by Luna Sierra Vanegas Why My Dad is Awesome by […]
On August 15th, the feast of Mary’s Assumption was celebrated. As part of Tūī’s learning, they created collage pictures to show that Mary, both body and soul, was assumed into heaven. They ensured that they selected blue fabric for Mary’s cloak to represent the divinity she carried; a sacred and valuable colour. The glitter represents […]
This term Kiwi Hub has been working on persuading others as a part of our speeches. We have learnt about hooking our audience in and gaining their attention through using persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, emotive language, rule of three and repetition, show don’t tell. We have some examples of our sizzling starts for […]
“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee.” Sacred Heart, also called Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is celebrated on the Friday of the third week after Pentecost, devotion includes acts of consecration and honour given to the image of the Sacred Heart. The Sacred Heart of Jesus shows us God’s love and […]
Let’s fly a kite. The Pukeko children listened to the story The Seven Kites of Matariki. Following this beautiful story, we made Matariki kites out of natural materials. Kite making and flying them teaches children about science and weather patterns while developing hand and eye coordination, kinesthetic awareness and gross motor skills. Above all flying […]
Piwakawaka’s Kadinsky inspired Matariki fireworks pictures. The Piwakawaka children have been very busy this term learning about colours, in both English and te reo Maori. For our art project we decided to weave this into our science topic and explore how primary colours are mixed to form secondary and tertiary colours. The children really enjoyed […]
