Cooking Cinnamon Cookies
Room 5 are becoming pretty good cooks now. They followed the recipe well and they worked well in their groups. The results apparently tasted good so they must have done everything right.
Our Butterfly Garden
We have some keen gardeners in Room 5. They have been continuing our path with the bricks that were donated by the Downs family. (Thanks Eva) We seem to have got on top of the [...]
Book Character Parade
Today we had some extra characters at school, straight from our books. Congratulations all the students who played a different part today. You all looked great.
Room 4 and Room 5 Camp
Room 4 and 5 have returned from their overnight camp. Unfortunately the weather wasn't cooperative and our challenge activities at Long Bay were cancelled. Fortunately we were able to visit the Science Playroom instead and [...]
Cross Country
We had a great day at the Cross country at Pakiri School. The weather was pleasant and we had lots of parents and grandparents to cheer us on. It was impressive to see all our [...]
Tomarata Show Day
What a fantastic day it was. Lovely healthy looking animals, amazing sculptures and gardens and great weather. The student's stalls were interesting and popular. The indoor exhibits were as impressive as ever. Well done Tomarata. [...]
Surfing at Te Arai
Thanks to Surf Aotearoa, our Year 4, 5 and 6 students were lucky to have the opportunity to learn to surf at Te Arai this week. We have some more experienced surfers already, but we [...]
Hiwi the Kiwi
We were lucky to be entertained by the Minstral and Mrs Minstral this week. They not only shared some cool songs, they shared some important messages about looking after our environment and our fish. Some [...]
Our Japanese Visitors
We were fortunate to have some Japanese visitors at school recently. They can use three different languages to write in and it looks very challenging. They showed us how to write our names. Thanks Chris [...]
Aero props
We have been learning about flight using the aero props. By spinning the stick between our hands we could get the propellor to lift in the air. We learnt that the wing divides the air [...]