2016 – Room 1 Hockey Stars

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Room 1 have been working on improving their hockey skills. During their weekly P.E. lessons the students have learnt how to receive, dribble, push and pass the ball to each other. They then showed off their skills during a nail biting game.  It was great to see the students encouraging each other by cheering on their teammates. … [Read more...]

2016 Room 1 – Fun Science Experiments

This week we completed some experiments with dry ice. Before we started we talked about what we thought dry ice was and what might happen when we carry out the experiments. We are getting really good at discussing our hypothesis that we write. We also talked about how to be safe and what we need to do during the experiments.       The … [Read more...]

2016 – The Best Cross Country!

On Tuesday our whole school went to Waiotira to do cross country. First everyone in our school went on a bus. When we were on the bus we sat with our buddies. The road was bumpy and windy, it made us feel like we were jumping on a bouncy castle. Some people felt dizzy. When we got to Waiotira we put up our gazebo and started to get … [Read more...]

2016 – Fun Pattern Building

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Today during maths we looked at lots of different patterns and we also got to make our own.First we made repeating patterns by creating actions and sounds with our bodies. It was great fun to click, clap, jump and twirl during maths!Next we got to use lots of different equipment in the classroom to make a pattern by ourselves. Some of us … [Read more...]

2016 – Matariki Evening

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Last week our whole school came together to share a special Matariki presentation with our friends and family. Room 1 worked really hard to write one of the versions of the Matariki legend. This is what we wrote: Ranginui the sky father and Papatuanuku the earth mother were not pleased to be pulled apart from each other by their … [Read more...]

2016 – Samoan Tapa Art

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During Samoan Language Week we created our tapa cloth artworks. First we looked at a range of symbols that represent Samoan culture. We then used these ideas when we were designing our artworks. Next we drew our finial designs on our paper. We coloured them in using a black marker and applied different shades of brown dye. We then … [Read more...]

2016 – Room 1 Hockey Stars

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Room 1 have been working on improving their hockey skills. During our weekly P.E. lessons the students have learnt how to receive, dribble, push and pass the ball to each other. They then showed off their skills during a nail biting game. It was great to see the students encouraging each other by cheering on their teammates!   … [Read more...]