Road Patrol Training

Our Year 5s for 2023 had their road patrol training this week. Constable Dann came in to teach us how to be a Road Patroller. We had to dial up our leadership and make sure we were being sensible as other kids rely on Road Patrollers to get to school safely.

"My favourite part was when I got to try it, and it was super duper fun! I’m so happy I didn’t miss out on it! I enjoyed it so much! I had to dial up my Bravery because I was out on the road and I had to be very careful of the cars coming towards our signs and we had to stare at the car until it stopped so we could continue bossing traffic around." - Rezi

"I  really  enjoyed school patrol because  gotta stand on the road and I enjoyed listening to the Police Man" - Scarlett

"I enjoyed road patrol because I was the last one to go and I had the loudest voice. Constable Dann said that the other road patroller's down the road could hear me, plus I got to put signs away." - Amelia

New Zealand Garden Bird Survey

We joined together with Autahi this week to take part in the New Zealand Garden Bird Survey. We love being leaders and learning alongside each other. It's great to hear the wonderful ideas of our friends across the school

The New Zealand Garden Bird Survey takes place between 26 June and 4 July 2021. It’s a fantastic reason to spend time outdoors, and you’ll be doing your bit for science.

Healthy bird populations can indicate that the environment is healthy. We know lots about endangered native birds in the bush, but we don’t always know what’s happening in the populations of all the birds around us, particularly in urban and garden environments.

Find out more here

Worm Farm

 

We have cleaned out the old worm farm on top court! We cleaned it out and put in some new bedding making it all cosy and ready for some new residents in (thanks Christine for providing some of her wormy friends). 

The start or the project!

We found a family of snails on the bottom

All cleaned out

Preparing the bedding block

Christine's worms in their new home!

We found out lot's of fun facts while setting us our new 'cute' friends. For example, it's really important you don't touch worms because the chemicals in our skin can 'burn' them! We are eager to educate our peers about this to make sure we can all get along and manage food waste together. 

Thanks Billy for creating this DOs and DON'Ts, a copy of these are in each of the spaces.

Our friends will soon be settled in enough to start feeding them. This will be another thing we can show leadership in, while using the worm 'tea' and 'poo' in our beautiful gardens.

What makes a good leader?

 Year 5 & 6 got together today to start thinking about... CAMP! Exciting stuff. While we were there, we had a kōrero about leadership. 

Here's our hefty list of leadership attributes:

We then had to choose a leader of our own and think about what qualities they show, and how.

Unsurprisingly, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was a popular choice! Others chose family members, teachers, community leaders like Bobby from Re-usabowl and activist Malala Yousafzai. 

Reading our Poems at Assembly

These students read their poems at assembly... A little taster for our Poetry Piñata Evening starting at 6pm on Tuesday 4th December. Hope to see you there!

Whanau Day: Anna and Susie's Group

On Friday the whole school split into Whanau groups to explore some of the Character Strengths we talk about daily at school.

Susie and Anna's Whanau group explored the Character Strengths of:

-Leadership

-Teamwork

-Curiosity

-Prudence

-Self-Regulation

Throughout the day we worked in small groups to unpack each strength. Some of us read picture books about the strengths and did role plays. 

Some of us had challenges or scavenger hunts to help us find out more about the strengths. We all worked together to contribute ideas and help each other understand the Characters Strengths better.

Our aim for the day was to create a collaborative piece of artwork to represent the Character Strength we were focusing on. Each piece of Character Strength art will be put together to make a display for us to use in each space across the school.

Our Whanau group was lucky enough to have two very talented artists from our community share some advice on important things to think about when creating a piece of art.

Check out our amazing artwork. Thanks so much to all our wonderful parents who came to help run workshops.

Hooked into the story! After lunch shared reading

In some our base groups we have been doing some shared reading of chapter books after lunch.

We do this to relax and unwind after lunch, as well as being exposed to different types of stories and even more vocabulary. At the moment we are reading

- The Pied Piper by Russell Brand

- Red Dog by Louie de Bernieres

Some of us are even having a go at reading them to the class!

Making new friends across the school

Students in Matariki and Mahutonga have been reading with our New Entrant students. It has been a great way to meet new friends across the school. Our older students helped some of our younger students to add a reading response on Seesaw.

Making a Contribution - Student Council

 This week we got into our new Student Council groups, with the new leaders. The leaders all did a quick presentation about what they thought was important about the role and what they thought they could bring to it. Then we got to work, sorting out priorities for the term and rosters as to who would do what jobs, or brainstorming what the priorities for the group should be.

The groups are:
 - Library
 - ICT
 - PALs
 - Gardens
 - Compost
 - Trapping
 - Outdoor classroom
 - Choir
 - Social

If you have any skills or tools that you would like to share with the students to help with any of these groups, please let John, Gabrielle or Hamish know.

Character Day: Scott and Gabrielle’s base groups

Today was Character Day

Scott and Gabrielle’s base groups worked together today. We started the day with a bridge challenge. Groups were given materials to build a bridge suspended between two chairs.

It was great to see students forming new friendships, taking the lead, showing bravery, and there was loads of creativity in the air!

I really liked working together to build our bridge. - Greta

I enjoyed working with the seniors - Gina

I liked how we could work with people we don’t really know - Tommy

I really liked doing something with new people - Charlotte

The quiz about character strengths was good fun - Tommy

Assembly 31.7.15

Thank you to our fabulous presenters and people who shared their learning today at assembly

. Well done to all of those children who received Principal Awards for demonstrating Maanakitanga. 

Today's Assembly 26.6.15

Thank you to our fabulous presenters and people who shared their learning today at assembly

. We all loved the dancing! Well done to all of those children who received Principal Awards for persevering.

Amazing assembly from Matariki on Vimeo.

Assembly 12.6.15

Thank you to our amazing presenters, Jack, Milla and George. 

We all loved the assembly, you did us proud! Well done to everyone who received a principal award today for active learning and perseverance.