Mother's Day

Enjoy Mother's Day on Sunday!
These cards were made with love and great care!

 

Pou Ceremony

Today the whole school met together with the Muritai whanau group, Kaumatua and Kokiri to celebrate and welcome back the two pou into the playground.

They have been mended and shifted from the sandpit area to the playground outside the main school.
The pou represent links to the earth, the sky and Tane Mahuta, and give strength to the school.
Mr Bird gave a speech in Maori and we sang the school song.

The Kaumatua gave a speech and told us that we can go and touch the pou and they will give us strength when we need it.
We are all very happy to have the pou back in the playground!

Junior Assembly Certificates

Several times a term the Year 1 & 2  classes have their own assembly in the school library, with each class taking a turn to be the presenters. Only parents of the class presenting are invited to attend, and our turn will be in week 8 next term.  C.A.R.E.  certificates are awarded to students from each room.
Congratulations to certificate winners from Room1.
C: Citizenship - being a positive member of our class
A: Achievement - producing quality work
R: Responsibility - listening carefully to the teacher's instructions
E: Effort - trying your best

Meeting our big Buddies!

Today we met our big buddies for the first time! Our buddy class is Room 8 and they are in Year 4. Their teacher Mrs Chao brought the class over and we made super shape pictures together at maths time. 
Next term we will come and visit you in Room 8! We love being your little buddies!

Matty's First Day

What a super week in Room1! Today we welcomed Matty to our classroom! 
Matty loves Letterland and is so clever at remembering all the letter names and their sounds. Well done Matty!

Matty really enjoyed building with the blocks and counting to 100 at maths time.

What a busy day you had Matty!

At the end of the day Matty shared his super writing about his dad with his big sister Emma.

Welcome to school Matty. We are so pleased you have joined us in Room 1!

Shape Hunt

Today Room 1 went on a shape hunt around the playground. Each time we found a shape we counted the number of sides and corners and named the shape. We checked our shape pictures to make sure we had got it right! We had lots of shapes to find and the pentagons, hexagons and octagons were the trickiest!