Kei Te Pēhea Koe?

 We've been learning about new ways to express our feelings in Te Reo Māori... Here are some of our ideas here.

Have a practise at home!

Q: Kei te pēhea koe? How are you?

A: Kei te ______ ahau. I am _____.

Q: Me koe? and you?

Weet-bix Kids Try- Go Team Worser Bay!

Worser Bay had 38 students representing our little school on the hill at the Weet-bix Kids Try on Sunday. This was a huge turn out for the event and it was fantastic to see our community enjoying an early morning start to the day.  

Willow - My favourite part was the cycle race."

Leo K - "I liked the biking because it was fun to ride on the road."

Most of the students competed as individuals, we had a couple teams and some of our younger students braved the Dash and Splash race. It was also fantastic seeing a group of students giving the race a go for the first time. 

Petra - "I was so proud of myself. I have not taken my medal off."

Finn - " It was so good to finish!"

Eddie - "It was great and exhausting but I was so relieved when I finished!"

Our Bravery, Perseverance, and a whole bunch of our character strengths were on display not only on the day but during the many practice sessions leading up to Sunday.

Lucca - "I was the fastest in the swimming pool."

Hanna - "I was really happy because lots of Worser Bay kids were there."

Archie - "I loved riding my bike."

Kura - "I found it interesting that there were so many rows of bikes!"

Thanks to everyone involved with motivating, training and cheering the students along on Sunday. Let's make 2022 another great turnout from Worser Bay School!

Finding balance

 This week while the Year 6s were away us Year 4s and 5s investigated balance. We looked at ways that we can measure weight, finding balance and we also made our own working scales! It was interesting to find out what objects weighed the same. We were also interested to see how we could use the weights on one side to figure out how much something weighed on the other. 

We thought about balance a different way too. We looked at finding balance for ourselves. It has been said that improving one's balance helps with cognitive function and focus. We found this tricky but just need to keep practising! 

Kura Taiao/Enviroschools Ōtari Trip 2021

Yesterday we went on an Ōtari Bush trip with Ōtari and Houghton Valley Schools. We did a bunch of cool activities and learnt heaps of new things, and, it was just the year sixes! Hooray!

- Mae S

Activities that we did and things that we learned:

Testing the water clearness 

Looking at what critters were in the water to see how healthy it was

 Checking the water temperature

What water types are there; Run, Pool, Riffle 

 Going for a walk in the bush

How old the oldest trees were; 850 years

 That the river came from Zealandia and then the landfill

  That Addison loves Cicadas and kept one on her face the whole time 

We were with two other schools.

Looking at bugs that we found in a pile of debris and naming them by looking at them through a microscope.

  Types of plants; Rimu, Rata, Kawakawa, Whauwhaupaku

 Learning about different types of seeds and how they disperse.

 There is this type of tree that there are only 11 of and we saw one.

- Rani S

Star 1: My First star was doing the kaiwharawhara stream testing, because I liked looking through the magnifying glasses and studying all the creatures closely. I also like looking for the riffles and the runs and pools, and thinking/testing if the stream was healthy (and it was quite healthy). Star 2: My second star was looking through the microscopes and looking at the details of the creatures and leaf litter. there was one scope which showed the details of which leaf or stick or animal was on top of each other. I also found a container in the lab's creature storage with dried up millipedes which were curled up and dead. The bees were kind of FREAKY!!!
  

WISH: My wish was that we had more time to look through the microscopes, because it was really interesting to study all the tiny springtails and bees and things up close, but on the bright side, the stream testing was a bit like it anyway.

- Will J

Another fun thing was looking at bugs in magnifying glasses and we got to look for our own bugs in sticks and leaves and dirt then looking under the microscope. I had lots of fun.

- Ethan F

Another star, a thing that I loved seeing was the 850 year old tree. It was so wide and big. I just wonder how much wood you would get if you chopped it down. And I wonder how much it weighs. Though the tree looks like it is 1000 years old.

- Yoichi S

I loved going on the walk and learning lots of different stories from Māori culture, they really inspired me to look on the bright side of things and we learnt about lots of different berries and their stories.

  My wish is to get out more into the bush and acknowledge all the beautiful things and how lucky we are to have a great country.

- Eddie B

It was also fun planting the kōwhai seeds and I learnt that if you sand the seed it will be easier to let the water in.

- Cleo S

Fresh air. 1 star. Admiring bugs and insects I learnt a lot. 2 star. It was very exciting and it was also fun. My wish is to go there again. To me it's precious.

- Archie M

Hello friends from France!

We would like to say "Bonjour" to our friends in Brindas School in France. 

See their last message to us: http://cm1.galligani.eu/auroa-school/friends-2020-2021/

Bonjour friends!

How are you doing? We have just arrived back from Camp Kaitoke. We had a fun bus ride and got to watch a movie!

We did lots of fun activities such as a big zipline called the Super Fox, kayaking, abseiling, and crate stacking! We got to sleep in cabins and have meals in a big dining hall together.

We are having a Whanau Festival on the 28th of March. Our Whanau Festival will have fun and games, also food, dancing and music, we have been making Kowhaiwhai patterns (Maori patterns) to go with it and designed some posters to advertise.

We are very excited!

How have you been at school? Have you done much cool writing, reading or maths?

It’s really cool that you are learning English, we want to thank you for that. It’s fun being able to talk to your school all the way from New Zealand! Maybe we should start learning some French!

Did you guys have a good Christmas holiday?

We have been spending some time at the beach and once got to host another school!

We had a sandcastle competition and we also got to swim in the water!

We also have started a maths investigation.

What we did was pair up with a buddy and research a cultural pattern, then, we copied one and made our own one, after that, we put them on display.

While the year fives and sixes were at camp, the year fours made some awesome artwork of their Turangawaewae, inspired by the artist Heather Brown.

From Cleo and Mae

Girls Futsal Festival

 

We had 3 very enthusiastic teams representing Worser Bay at the Girls Futsal Festival on Friday. All of our teams showed huge amounts of Teamwork, Leadership and Kindness in every game and also when off the court.

Thanks so much to the parents that helped out with transport and managing the teams on the day. You guys were fantastic and really made the day run smoothly.

All of our teams played hard but fair and we managed to win a majority of our games!