When Mrs Scott arrived at school on a cold morning she saw that a small parcel had been left on the doorstep by the entrance to our class. She picked it up and noticed there was a beautiful pink egg wrapped in a paper towel with a pink shiny ribbon tied around the middle and a letter. The letter read…..

She took the egg inside and placed it in the warm classroom. Mrs Scott was very eggcited to read it to her lovely students who all began thinking what on earth was inside that pink egg. Here is a photo of our class with the egg. Can you spot it?

We then followed the instructions.

Firstly we wrote what we thought was inside the egg. Take a read of our predictions.

Next we placed the egg carefully in the water and waited patiently to see what was going to hatch. Here is the egg in the water when it hatched.

We were still a little confused about what was inside the egg….Can you work it out?

Take a look at what hatched out. It’s an orange……PENGUIN! Welcome to Weka Iti little penguin.

Each morning when we do the daily calendar we have been tracking the weather. We filled out a graph for the Weather in Term 2. At the end of the term we looked at our graph and made some statements on what our graph showed. We found……
* there were 20 sunny days during the term.
* 10 days began in the morning with sun and cloud.
* 11 days were cloudy.
* we had 8 days of rain.
* there was only 1 windy morning.
* we had more sunny days than any other weather,
* we filled out the weather graph for 50 days.
* that the weather changes during the day so this is not an accurate picture of the weather for the whole day. Sometimes the day started off sunny but was raining by the end of the day.

Take a look at our graph.

Next term we are going to complete another weather graph. We are wondering if the weather will be similar, the same or look different. What do you think?

Ruma Weka Iti is excited to share one of their morning warm-ups! We use repetition and movement to energise our bodies and prepare our minds for a great day of learning.

Here is the process we used to create our wonderful self portraits.

• First we drew and oval in the oval on the paper.
• Next we drew lines on the oval where the eyes , nose and mouth goes.
• Then we made the little pupils in the eyes.
• Then we used lots of little lines for the eyebrows and eyelashes.
• And then we drew the ears,
• After that we rubbed the lines out so we could colour it in.
• Lastly, we used the same colour as our hair.

Kia Ora e te Whānau

We have been super busy with some out-of-school events the last couple of weeks.

Rippa Rugby was held at Cass Square last Friday. The sun was shining, the kids were excited, and they all had a great day.

Chess was held yesterday at Grey Main School, and some dedicated Chess masters worked hard throughout the day. Both teams came out second overall!

Ka Pai team, you are all superstars!

Kia ora, everyone,

We had a fantastic start to Term 2. Officer James came to visit us and taught our students how to ride their bikes safely on the road. He made a very important point, saying that the most dangerous place in New Zealand is actually the road. This highlighted how crucial it is to stay safe when taking our bikes out for a ride.

He explained what a bicycle needs to be road legal — brakes, lights, a helmet, and reflectors — and encouraged the children to check the basic mechanics of their bikes to make sure they run smoothly.

The practical part was really fun! Students biked around the course practising how to indicate left and right, and how to come to a full stop. We also had a go in the skills area and took part in a slow race — the slowest cyclist won! What an important learning experience for our ākonga. Thank you, Officer James, for such an awesome day!

Ngā mihi,
Miss Cabral – Karina

Rūma Whio has been diving deep into the fascinating world of the NZ longfin eel. Our journey began with an engaging short clip, where the children practiced their observation skills by recording everything they noticed about these unique creatures. To better understand our local species, we compared the longfin eel to other eel varieties from around the world, noting the distinct differences in size and markings. The students then channeled their inner scientists by sketching detailed diagrams and labeling key anatomical features. We wrapped up our learning adventure with a hands-on creative project, building our very own life-like NZ longfin eels using paper-mâché.

Kia Ora e te Whānau

It is the first week back, and everyone has been buzzing with energy. We have spent the week getting back into our routine and reminding ourselves of what we need to do during Kura.

This Friday, we were very lucky to have Constable James come to Kura and teach us about safe cycling. We spent the morning learning in class, then jumped on our bikes and put what we had learned into practice. The tamariki had a great day, and gave everything ago!

Check out the photos below of our day.

Here is a quick video with some of the things that we have done during Term 1 2026.  It’s been busy, but we have achieved a lot.

Our monarch butterflies have officially completed their full lifecycle, from tiny egg to beautiful butterfly! We have been amazed by every stage of their transformation. They were wonderful visitors to have in Weka Iti, and it was a special moment when we finally set them free to explore the big, wide world. Check out our slides below to see the highlights of their incredible journey with us!

Kia ora koutou,

The first term of the year is always so busy that we haven’t had much time to post here! One of the our favourite projects this term was writing fantasy stories. We created fairies, elves, Godzilla, Frogzilla, pretty much all the Zillas – it was so much fun!

However we had a lot of mahi to do as well, including checking their spelling, adding different types of punctuation for affect, publishing their writing and generating images on AI based on characters descriptions. It was a long project where ākonga had to persevere and find solutions to problems that they came across.

As a brief example, I created Fairy Bral and asked the students to add punctuation to my story.

I hope we all have a wonderful school holiday

Karina – Miss Cabral.

This term for writing we were writing about ourselves.  We had to write about things we like and our favourite things.  Then we had to dye our paper how every we liked.

Here are our final pictures.

Please leave us a comment about our work.

One of our big books for a week was called ‘T Shirts’ written by Estelle Corney. We really enjoyed this book and the different words each of the family members had on their coloured t-shirts.

So, as a class we decided to create our own T-Shirts book which was written by and illustrated by Weka Iti. We enjoyed beginning the book by painting our own t shirt in a colour of our choice. Check out our version of our own T-Shirts book.

And here we are reading our story to you……

On Thursday 26th March we had ‘Purple Day’ which is an international epilepsy awareness day. We were able to wear mufti and dress in purple if we had that colour and bring along a gold coin donation for a fundraiser. Our school’s, gold coin contributions goes toward supporting New Zealander’s living with epilepsy and their whānau. We looked great.

We are learning to retell a story in the correct order. We read the story Mrs Wish Washy. We all really enjoyed this story.

We talked about the characters in the story and what happened at the beginning of the story, what happened next and what happened at the end of the story. We then made stick puppets of the characters and the other things that were in the story, like the mud, the soap and the tub.

In groups we retold the story using our stick puppets.

We did a great job at retelling the story in the correct order and trying hard to use expression when the characters in the story were talking. Tino pai Weka Iti, what a super effort for your 1st time at doing this.

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We have been finding out what makes good compost for our school garden. We learnt that ‘compost’ is like magic dirt. It turns “yucky” waste into “yummy” food for our school garden! A compost bin is like a “tummy” that needs the right food to stay healthy. To make the best compost we mix a layer of green things and then a layer of brown things and repeat this.

We decided to turn our compost knowledge into a compost monster as a sign for the compost bin in our classroom. This will help us to know what to put in our compost bin in our learning space so that we can then transfer this to our school compost. We are going to invite Trevor, our school caretaker into our class to see if he can help us with helping to give our school compost a tummy that is getting the right food.

We also learnt that there are some foods that are not good for our compost. We have to be careful not to attract “unwanted guests” like mice, rats or possums. These foods are not OK for our compost…. meat or dairy. No leftover ham sandwiches or cheese. No plastic. No glad wrap, chip packets, or fruit stickers and no bread as this can attract pests.

Check out our Compost Monster