School Athletics Awards 2020: Sione, Anthony and Jonathan

 Sione: winner in the boys 50 metre sprints (7 years).   

            second in the boys 100 metre sprints (7 years).

Anthony: third in the boys 50 metre sprints (7 years). 

Jonathan: third in the boys 100 metre sprints (7 years). 

School Athletics Awards 2020: Letaya and Hineiturama

 

Letaya: second in the girls 50 metre sprints (7 years).

              second in the girls 100 metre sprints (7years). 

Hineiturama: third in the girls 50 metre sprints (7 years).

                        third in the girls 100 metre sprints (7 years). 

School Athletics Awards 2020: Luke

 

Winner of the boys 50 metre sprints (6 years).

Winner of the boys 100 metre sprints (6 years).

Athletics Awards 2020: Lillyan

 Winner of the girls 100 metre sprints (6 years).

Winner of the girls 50 metres spring (6 years).

Celebrating Our Tamariki's Success: Losaline and Mele

Last week's recipients of the Principal's Award were Losaline for showing her concern and care while looking after the Room 5 monarch caterpillars, and Melelatu for showing kindness to her classmates and letting them join in her games.

Congratulations and ano te pai tamariki!

My Body and Senses

Rooms 3 and 5 studied Body Parts and Senses during Term 3. We created a movie about the importance of our body parts (arms, legs, hands, feet and so on) and senses (hear, smell, taste, touch, see) to connect with each other, to understand ourselves and our world around us and to identify all sorts of wonderfully weird and different things in our environment.

We had fun making our movie and we became really good at talking to the camera. 

JJ, Cairo, Patience and Room 5 Receive Awards

 

JJ and Cairo received a Principal's Award this morning in the school assembly for their success in learning, while Patience received a Duffy Award for moving up one reading level. 

Anthony accepted the Tidy Kiwi Award on behalf of Room 5 who was this week's recipient because the students keep their space clean and tidy inside and outside their classroom and in the surrounding area outside their classroom. 

Congratulations and ano to pai to all our tamariki!

Amazing Presenters

 Our presenters spoke clearly, memorised their lines, waited patiently for the audience to settle down and pay attention, and knew when it was their turn to present. The students did an awesome job in mcing the school assembly this morning. Clockwise from left to right: Luke, Pele, Anthony, Jonathan, Oshin and Lillyan. 

Ano te pai, you can be proud of yourselves. 

My Culture by Lebron

My name is Lebron and I am Maori. The country I belong to is New Zealand. My mum is Maori but my dad is half Maori and half Cook Island.

My Culture by Lillyan

My name is Lillayn. I was born in Auckland city. Both my parents are Niuean. Mum taught me how to speak Niuean. Then I had to teach my dad how to speak Niuean. When I am at home with my parents they teach me about my culture. The culture I identify with is Niuean.

My Culture by Jonathan

My name is Jonathan. I was born in a city called Auckland, New Zealand. Both my parents are Tongans. I speak Tongan to my Mum and Dad. When I speak Tongan to my parents they speak Tongan back to me.

Pele Received a Duffy Award

Pele received a Duffy Award at the school assembly because she has superb decoding skills. Tino pai, Pele!

Anthony Receives a Principal's Award

                                             

Anthony has a very good memory. He received a principal's award for his retelling a story in sequence.  Tino pai, Anthony!

Lorenzo Receives a Principal's Award

Lorenzo enjoys Feed and Read sessions.  He loves listening to Paul Jennings' Rascal books.  Last Friday at the school assembly Lorenzo received a Principal's Award because every day he always makes sure that his teacher reads a book to the class while the students have their morning tea. 

Tino pai, Lorenzo!

Auckland Zoo Trip

 

Room 5 went to the Auckland Zoo with Room 3 to learn about animal body parts and how animals use them to live, thrive and adapt to their environment.

One of our favourite animals was the lion. There were two male lions and one of them came to look at us through its window enclosure. The bigger lion gave a quiet roar but it was still loud enough for the other animals in the zoo to hear the lion say, "We're here and we are the kings of the zoo jungle. Hear us R-O-A-R!

Second Place Speech Finals: Jonathan

Jonathan came second in the Junior Speech Finals today. His topic was Restaurants and he gave some good advice on how to behave when you are dining out. Jonathan wrote the speech all by himself and I am sure that you are proud of your efforts and achievements. Tino Pai!

Speech Finals: Lillyan

This morning Lillyan participated in the school Speech Finals with her topic, Biking. She wrote the speech all by herself and performed well in front of students and teachers. Ka pai!

Speech Finals: Eva

Eva was a participant in the school's Speech Finals. Her topic was Flowers. Eva is not used to talking in front of a large audience but she memorised her speech and performed well. Ka Pai!

Celebrating Our Tongan Culture

 

Room 5 tamariki wore their Tongan clothes to celebrate Tongan Language Week. Our Tongan students look absolutely beautiful and proud of their culture. 

Skipping Display

Room 5 tamariki showed off their long rope skipping skills this morning. It was an enjoyable end to our first week back at school after our second lockdown.  

Well done!

Hineiturama Is a Shining Star

Hineiturama received a principal's award for using her expression while reciting her poem. Here's her poetry recital in the school assembly this morning. 

  

Tino pai, Hineiturama!

 

Jonathan's Is A Star

Jonathan received a principal's award for choosing the best words for his writing. 

Tino pai, Jonathan!

Oshin Receives A Duffy Award Book

Oshin attended her online classes everyday during the lockdown. This has helped her enormously with her reading. 

Ano te pai, Oshin!

Luke's Father's Day Story

Luke received a Thank you! award for his piece of writing on his Dad. Lucky Luke gets to play rugby with his hard-working dad. 

Ano te pai, Luke!

A Thank You Certificate for JJ

 

During the last lockdown JJ wrote a story about his dad for the Father's Day book award. JJ, you are lucky to have a dad like yours.

Oshin Gets a Father's Day Thank You!

Oshin wrote a lovely story about her dad for the Duffy Father's Day book award. Your Dad will be proud of you.  

Is Eva a Tidy Kiwi?

Yes, you certainly are a tidy Kiwi. I like the way you used a different sentence starter for every sentence. You have understood and achieved your learning goal. You're a very good girl for completing your online learning task.

Ano te pai, Eva. 

Eva's Perfect Maths Score

 

Eva again achieved her maths learning goal. Today, Room 5 students had to count back from any number to solve their subtraction problems up to 100. 

Another perfect score by Eva, our budding mathematician.

Ano te pai, Eva!

Eva, A Budding Mathematician

 
Eva achieved her maths learning goal which was to count back from any given number up to 100. You scored a perfect mark. I like the way your Mum set your maths up for you. 

Pai rawa, Eva AND Mum!

Conservation Week: Eva's Story on Recycling

Conservation is an important part of our environmental learning. Eva and her family know bottles, cans, paper and plastic are things that need to be recycled. There's Eva in the picture sorting out her recycling items.

Ano te pai, Eva!

Conservation Week: Oshin's Recycling Story

 

It's good to know that Oshin and her family recycle their rubbish.  

She knows why recycling is important because we want the place we live in to be clean so that fish, birds and animals can enjoy living in their environment. 

Ano te pai, Oshin!

JJ, Jonathan, Luke and Oshin At Their Maths Lesson

Today's maths lesson was to count backwards to solve subtractions problems up to 50. 

It was a little tricky counting backwards when the number is bigger than 20. Room 5 students had to think very hard about the number before. 

Look, there's Lorenzo in the queue waiting for his lesson.

Conservation Week: JJ's Recycling

This week is the start of Conservation Week. Today the task was to watch a video, listen to the storyteller narrating the story, Why I Should Recycle? and then write a story about what they learnt from Mr Jones, a character in the story. 

Here's JJ's writing about recycling.

Ano te pai for doing your online learning, JJ!

Cairo Gets A Digital Principal's Award 👏

 

Last Friday, Cairo received a digital principal's award at the virtual assembly hosted by Room 7. The award recognises his ability to remember his basic facts up to 10.

Ano te pai, Cairo!

A Digital Principal's Award for Oshin 👏

 

At last Friday's virtual assembly Oshin received a principal's award which recognised her achievement in her online learning. In writing, she had to think about using a different sentence starter for every sentence.

Ano te pai, Oshin! 

Virtual Assembly for Term 3 Week 5

 

Here is our virtual assembly hosted by Room 7 for Friday, 21 August 2020. Listen to our principal, Mrs Hamilton, watch the amazing things the senior school has been up to and keep an eye out for our two principal's award recipients, Oshin and Cairo.

Lesson with Mrs Teklich

This afternoon's maths lesson with Mrs Teklich was geometry. We learnt to describe the positions of object around us. We used words such as on, behind, under, right hand, left hand, forwards, backwards and many more.

It's good to see our students participating in their online learning.

Ka Pai!

Eva's Maths Task

 

Eva is a clever girl because she knows how to follow instructions during her online maths lesson, and this helped her achieve her learning goal. 

Tino pai, Eva!

Luke's Perfect Score in Maths

 

Luke achieved his learning goal which was to count on from the bigger number even when the smaller number is given first up to 100. I can see your confidence is growing. Once you knew what to do you didn't have to circle your bigger number. 

The Cooking Pot by JJ

JJ had to write about a favourite character from a Sunshine Classics story. You're right JJ, Mrs Spot certainly can bake anything.

Ka Pai for completing your writing task, JJ!

 

Oshin Continues Her Home Learning

 

Oshin wasn't able to attend yesterday's maths lesson on hangout meet but that didn't stop her from doing her home learning. She achieved her maths walt (we are learning to), which was to count on from the largest number up to 100. 

Ka pai Oshin for being responsible for your own learning. 

The Cooking Pot by Eva

This is Eva's story for Monday's online writing task. I like how you mentioned all the delicious food Mrs Spot can cook. Yum!

JJ's Birthday

 

Last week JJ celebrated his birthday with his classmates. Happy Birthday, JJ. 🎂

Eva's Character

What a lovely story Eva. I like how you started each sentence with a different word. You achieved your learning goal. I agree with you that Mrs Mack is  pretty.  

Ka pai Eva!

Room 5's Second Day Of Online Learning

Mrs Golder is really proud of all the students who turned up for their second day of online learning. I enjoyed this morning's reading with you. 

A big THANK YOU to all the parents who are supporting their children in their learning. 

Online Learning: Cairo's Character

                                    

Cairo had to write about his favourite character this morning. Ka pai!  

Oshin's Story Writing for this Week

This week Room 5 had to describe their favourite character in their Sunshine Classics story book. Read Oshins' story about Mrs Mack. 

Oshin achieved her learning goal which was to use a different sentence starter.

Ka Pai, Oshin!

Sione's Story Writing

I drew a big tree with a trunk. On my branches there are green leaves and brown leaves. My flowers are yellow and green. 

Brown Trunk by Jonathan

 

I drew a picture on my ipad and I drew a big trunk. There is a butterfly on the picture and I drew some wings for my monarch butterfly. 

My tree has some thick branches for the leaves to sit on when they grow. The trunk of my tree is long and the colour is brown.