School Trip to Miranda Hot Pools

It was amazing playing on the pillow and sitting in the nice and warm pool. - Hendrix
I jumped in the water once, but sitting in it was too much the heat was stifling. - Kingston



When I was on the pillow it was hard to get up to the top, the corners were muddy and making the Yesterday was fun as we all got wet and played with our friends. - Dayjarhn
The best part of the day was the pillow, you can see me running and jumping in the picture below (black shorts). It was hard work getting to the top of the pillow. - Justyce



I enjoyed the hot dog and chips from Kaiaua. I ate two hot dogs the swimming had made me hungry. We were lucky to even have tomato sauce. - Breeze
The day started with an ice block so they wouldn't melt. It was a brand new Kaipati flavour of kiwifruit and strawberry. They were very refreshing on such a hot day. - Mrs Mundy



I enjoyed being in the pools, it was lovely and warm but if you got to close to the spring it was way hot. - Tai



I enjoyed the day so much I fell asleep on the way home. - Susana
Thanks for a great day. I was absolutely exhausted and fell asleep on the way home. Krystal

Look at Me Now - Leadership Programme Graduation

The Leadership Programme runs for 15 weeks,  we covered Leadership, Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, Our Community, Recycling and Graffiti.

The LAMN programme is about leadership, loyalty, integrity and so much more! It's about being kind to everyone and earning people's trust, so when I grow up I would like to be a leader.

The part I enjoyed the most has to be spending time with my fellow classmates but also my friends. - Amelia

I enjoyed being at camp Adair doing fun activities such as the mudslide. - Mariah

My favourite trip was Totara park because we got to play games and eat lollies. - Shawn

When I grow up I want to be a responsible leader. My favourite trip was the pools because I liked the part when we fell backwards off the boat. - Dante

I enjoyed Totara park and Camp Adair. I would like to go there again with my mum and dad. - Krystal Leigh

Hockey Skills

Thank you Counties Manukau Hockey for sending Mark out to us to teach us hockey skills it was a great couple of days. We learnt how to hit the ball and how to pass to a team member. Our teacher even got involved and nearly forgot to take photos.


Thank you for coming, I liked learning about hockey because I got better at it. Breeze
Playing hockey was fun because we got to run around and whack the ball into the goal. Hendrix

I like playing hockey rounders, I didn't get hurt. I like hockey as a team sport. Amelia
I like learning about hockey because it was different. Mariah

It was fun because I like sports and I was good at hitting the ball. Kingston
I like learning new skills at hockey. I learnt how to hit the ball and to hold the stick with two hands. Les
 

A Whole School Fun day of Tabloids

In the middle of PATs we decided to have a break for the classes (all day long) how cool is that?

Rangatahi Coming Together

Art Alley Update for End of October

Originally the fence was green on one side and grey on the other and many of our students come through the alley to get to school. Once our new school build has been completed this alley will be close to the visitors car park and so we though we would brighten it up.

Blair - I like how we were able to make the fence more colourful.
Anjekoia - I enjoyed creating the designs for my panel of favourites.

Khan - Painting the fence has been fun because we didn't have to do mathematics and reading.
Xavier - I like being able to paint my own design all about me.

Dante - I like how everyone was able to use their own unique designs.
Steven - I like how it takes up lots of our learning time.



Dayjarhn - I like how we can see that some people like the same things and different ones as well.

Austin - I like how the fence now looks like it is decorated, like a Christmas tree.
Mariah - I like how we designed different pictures about ourselves.




Amelia - I enjoyed creating the Pasifika flower and having the chance to paint it.
Nathan - It was tricky trying to make such the four colours for the house colours were even and making sure the black was straight.

Chad - I like painting the Maori patterns and trying to stay in the lines.
Ja seng - I liked coming up with a design for the maori panel and seeing how it turned out larger and slightly differently.

Shawn - I enjoyed painting the school logo at the beginning of the fence, it show it is our school and people are welcome.
Valiant - I love how everyone put so much effort into making the fence look awesome.

Braedyn - I enjoyed painting the leaves and working with other children like Dayjarhn.
Zayden - I enjoyed painting the green on the school logo and trying to make it look like the real one.

Reciprocal Teaching in Reading

We are revisiting how to be an effective group leader or teacher and helping others and ourselves to learn in reading. Predicting can happen at the beginning before we read or before reading the next part. We are reading about Celebrations and have picked once we can investigate in a small group.

Herd are the two charts we are using to help us, one reminds us of the steps and what they mean. The other reminds us how we can do each step.