Activity Week 2015 - Highlights of Day One...

Lots of smiles Tori and Maya!

 First stop the skating rink...

Hold on tight Sam!

Great balancing Ashlee!

Great smiles Room 8 & 10

Swim time!

Watch out boys here come the waves!

 Second stop the Aquatic Centre...

Hold on tight Kylie!

Shared Reading - Freak The Mighty

Great reading Tyla!

Kylie & Sam reading to and listening to each other.

Nice morning to read!

Immersed in reading! Neat to see Cameron, Tulip and Kairyn!

Ashlee listening attentively!

Enjoying the outdoors while reading!

3 Legged Race Practice

Big smiles from Maya & Eva as they work as a team!

Concentrating hard!

Getting the hang of it!

Great effort boys!

Aquatics education!

Rooms 7, 13 & 8 ventured down to our local swimming pool to kick off our first day of aquatics for term 4.  All students will be achieving their personal best to improve a range of aquatics skills .

Listening to instructions before the learning and fun begins!

Boys bravely taking the plunge!

Treading water in the diving pool.

Determination to complete the rotation of skills.

Plenty of enthusiasm shown by all the students.

Career Expo day at Manukorihi

This was such a successful day enjoyed by all our students!  Definitely gave our students an insight of all the opportunities of different career paths they can pursue.  A huge thank you to Miss Niwa for putting a lot of time to organise this amazing experience!  And to all our community organisations who made this possible!!!

The WITT displays were very hands on and our students loved it!!!

Loads of enthusiastic students intrigued by the human anatomy

Cameron enticed by engineering

This definitely attracted all the girls - a huge thank you Shirlene!

Lawn Bowls

On Thursday 5th November, it was a brilliant day to stroll through the Waitara community to attend lawn bowls at the Clifton Bowling Club...

Fellow class mates getting ready to test their skills

Students learned different terms for lawn bowls - such as the 'bias,' 'dead bowl,' 'forehand draw,' 'the jack,' and 'the head.'

Cameron has a steady aim to reach the target

Great bowl Ngapuhi!

Beautiful technique Ashlee!

Everyone trying their hardest to hit the target

Shared Reading - Term 4

When you don't fit in, and you're a kid, what do you do? Max just suffers alone, compressing his emotions inside his massive body. Kevin fights back by letting his intelligence and his imagination soar beyond his deformed body. Even if he can't save himself, Kevin can save Max.

  He teaches Max how to use his imagination to create exciting adventures: Houses become castles, swimming pools become moats, and a hardboiled motorcycle mama becomes a damsel in distress. And he teaches readers compassion and that everyone is valuable and has something to contribute.

Our "Freak the mighty' shared reading wall shwoing examples of students' ideas and images from activities during our lessons.  Watch this space as there's more to come!

Whole School Ultimate Frisbee

Boys working as a TEAM!

This term the whole school has been practicing skills and techniques to play the game 'ultimate frisbee.'

On Friday 30th October the students were put into boys & girls teams to test these... 

What stood out to all staff was the fantastic TEAM effort by all students!

Girls having fun showing off their skills!

Who can catch the frisbee and score a point for their team?

Nothing but air!!!

Our beautiful classroom space - Term 4

Term 4 and already this term's published work achieved by successful learners are filling our classroom walls very quickly!  One wall is not visible as the panorama photo application couldn't capture the entirety of our class.