Wrapping up 2022

 

We hope that you all have a great holiday. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It was great to see so many of you at the Wrap on Thursday. It was great to have fun as a community!

Thank you to our wonderful presenters at the Wrap! What fantastic leadership. 

 Māhutonga Matariki item at the Wrap

Autahi's item at the Wrap

Tautoru's item at the Wrap

The Year 6 students had a wonderful send off at our Poroaki. 

The whole school farewell

Year 6 Speeches

The Western themed Year 6 dinner

Year 6 had a final trip together to H20 Xtream 

What a wonderful year! We wish all of our leavers the best of luck on their next learning adventure. For the rest of you, we look forward to seeing you in 2023!

The Food Festival

Last Thursday we celebrated our “Food, Glorious Food” Inquiry with a Food Festival. 

Thank you to all of the whānau for your help and support. Our students have been learning about different foods and how to pickle, salt, smoke and cook. We’ve made everything from baking bread, sauerkraut, pickled vegetables to ginger and orange syrup. These were all available for students to have a taste. 

It was wonderful to see foods from different cultures and family recipes. It encouraged some great discussion! 

Christmas Zine

We have continued to pump up visual literacy. We know that our students enjoy to present their learning in different ways. Visual literacy has been a way to engage and motivate many of our students to communicate their ideas in creatively. This week, we made a Christmas Zine. It was wonderful to see the quality of the work produced. 

Ethan Q: On Wednesday the 7th of December we made a Christmas Zine in one day and it had 11 pages. First we all started on doing some doodles, word search and comics so it took us about to morning tea to get about half way done. It was very fun. After morning tea we kept on going until we finished and we all moved onto do different things. We made a word search for a song, an odd one out and many more things and stapled it together and there were awards for teamwork, creativity and encouragement and we got the award for teamwork. We managed to finish it at the end of the day. It was very fun and we named it 'Crazy Christmas.' Our group were Ethan.Q, Tui, Marcia, Samuel, Scarlett and Alice.

Art with Chloe and Dominique

 We are really grateful that Chloe (Arthur's mum) and Dominique (Arthur's grandma) came in to do this beautiful Art with us. 

We got a white canvas and covered it in white paint. We got 3 colours and squirted them in a line from one corner to another corner. We got a straw and blew the paint on the line. We left them to dry and they got varnished. This is our Art. By Tommy