Year Five Ready Steady Go for WOW Week

 Today Year Five celebrated WOW Week by focusing on how active travel is good for our bodies and the environment.  We discussed active travel and completed a quiz in our new online handbooks.  Then it as time to work together as a team to make a giant jigsaw puzzle.  Just for fun we timed how quickly each class completed it:

Room 2 : 8min9sec

Room 3: 9min 1sec (half of the children at Kapa Haka) 

Room 1: 8min30sec

We flagged the puzzle with green environmental facts and yellow health facts.

Thanks to everyone who walked, biked and scootered to school today.  It's good for our bodies and the environment.  And at the moment it's also very good for our household budgets! 

Will you walk to school next week?

Year Three Kai Inquiry

 Today Year Three began their inquiry into kai by talking about what we had for breakfast in a sharing cricle.  There was lots of fruits, breads, porridge, cereals, eggs, and milk.

Next we used kai cards in groups to talk about our experiences with different kai and how we can group food. Some groups used colour to categorise while others used sizes, how they are eaten and one group even put them in alphabetical order. We shared our experiences of different foods like taro, tofu and dahl.

Afterwards it was time to go on a kai hunt to see all the food we grow at school with our very own compost.  We spotted kumara, slilverbeet, feijoas, strawberres, quince and apples.  We picked the apples and feijoas to try later.

Back in the classroom we designed a cut and paste menu,  We were careful to select at least five fruits and vegetables and a variety of different colours and types of food.

The apples and feijoas were DELICIOUS.  Next time we are looking forward to finding out about the journey our kai can take.

Kia rite, Kia mau

 Today we reviewed what we had learnt last year about the Maori Atua and the realms they are in chagge of.  We looked at the natural disasters each realm is responsible for and how we can react and prepare for them.  

After we had very carefully read and discussed the Kia rite, kia mau book from Auckland Emergency Management, we had a fun Kahoot to test our knowledge.   Lucky us, we get to each take the books home!

Are your whanau ready for when the worst happens.  It pays to have a plan.

2026 Eye on Nature

 

Ever year the Eye On Nature day lights up our Eco Group's imaginations and deepens their aroha for the environment. 

They're introduced to experts that can help them lead actions for their community and who open their eyes to a whole world of new opportunities.

 Thank you so much to the Manukau Beautfication Trust, the volunteers, sponsors and all their partners. 

This year we met with MOTAT Sustainable Energy, Pestfree, Watercare & Sustainable Schools.

Check out all the photos here

Bailey.ward@toitu.co.nz - visits to talk about sustainable energy

Year One & Two 2026 Showcase

 

Check out the Year One & Two 2026 Showcase

Year Four Taking Action with the Youth Project

 

Today Year Four are working with the Youth Project to learn about the importance of being kind to the environment and our community.

Being kind has three elements - friendliness, generosity and consideration.  Being kind doesn't need to cost any money and it is contagious.  What could you do to be kind today?

Each Year Four child made a small key ring gift to be delivered to our neighbours. Hopefully it will brighten their day and they will pass on the kindness. 

Lastly we took action for our local environment by going on a litter hunt.  We discovered a lot of the litter we found came from lunch boxes.  We acknowledged the children making the extra effort to pack a litterfree lunch with a random prize draw. Congratulations prize winners.

Year Six Being Kind to our Community Heroes

 Today Year Six were lucky enough to work with the Youth Project.   We were learning about what it means to be kind and the importance of kindess in our community.

Our next school wide inquiry is 'Community Heroes'. We wanted to do something to be acknowledge the wonderful people in our community who do amazing work like fire fighters, police, conservation volunteers and aged care workers.

Each child worked carefully to create a origami manawa (heart) then they decorated it and wrote messages thanking the community volunteers for their service.

Claire will distribute the hearts in the community.  Last year the response from the people who recieved our gifts was overwhelming.  One of the gifts made it all the way to a volunteer fire fighter in Antartica! We wonder where our kind words and thoughts will reach this year.

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