Term 3 Begins!

Term 3 is shaping up to be a very busy term. We have the interschool Netball and Rugby sports competition starting this term with the the first match against Puketapu School on the 19th of August. We also have the BP Challenge, Outdoor Academy Ski Trip and the practices for the production.

Kapa Haka

This year we have had so many students who have shown an interest in Kapa Haka that we have made two groups! Both groups performed at Taatarakihi and did a wonderful job. It was a great day. Taine and Ruth are the leaders of the older group and they did a great job at Taatarakihi. We watched some of the competition groups to see what we are up against when we enter the competition at Puanga next term. We were very fortunate to have some amazing parents, teachers and students who have put in a lot of time and effort into designing and making enough uniforms for the students of both Kapa Haka groups.

LEADERS CONFERENCE

Last Friday a group of students went to the leaders conference in New Plymouth. There were heaps of amazing and inspiring speakers. Brett Mcgregor even showed up and showed us how to make a couple of his favourite dishes. There were fun games and there was dance off between some of the high school students. It was an awesome day and we learnt so much on how to be a great leader.

PrEP

Term 2

Term 1 Highlights

Fonterra Science Fair

The intermediate team attend the Fonterra Science fair at Waitara High school. They were given the opportunity to experiment with the way technology works. Below are some photos of time at this event.

Christchurch Fundraiser

Today down at the Bell Block shopping centre Bell Block school put on a cake stall, Raffle and sold Black and Red Ribbons to help raise money for the people of Canterbury. We also dressed in the Canterbury colours (Red and Black). Thank you to everyone who brought cakes and brought from the stall.

Design and Refine

Design and Refine is our new Inquiry topic. We will be having our tuning in day on Friday the 4th of March.  Room 10 will be doing PrEP as part of this inquiry.

Read about me!

Lani 

Kia Ora, my name is Lani. I am 12 years old. I was born in the Manly Base Hospital in Australia. I am part Maori, part Dutch and part Australian, but the Dutch shows out in me more.I have several shades of blonde in my hair, I have ocean blue eyes and my skin is a light brown.

I love sports! I play netball, basketball, touch rugby, rippa rugby and my favourite sport of all surfing! My dad introduced me to surfing when I was nine. I go surfing whenever I get the chance.

My goal in life is to become a professional surfer! And show that girls can surf as good as boys, maybe even better! I would also like to travel the world after university, if I don’t become a professional surfer before then of course.

Well now you know all about me!

I Can Do It, We Can Do It!

I Can Do It, We Can Do It is our inquiry for the first part of term 1.

Our Big Question is:
How can I make my classroom a great place to be?

The Deep Understandings are:

• We can all help to make our school a great place to learn
• We all have rights, roles and responsibilities at school
• We all have knowledge and skills to contribute – we are smart in different ways.

As part of this inquiry we have been creating personal shields, writing profiles about ourselves, a mihi and poems that give a description of ourselves. As part of our homework each student has been asked to put together an All about me booklet.