This week Room 1 students learned about ANZAC Day, a special day when we remember the soldiers from World War I. We talked about how people wear poppy flowers to show respect and remembrance for those who served and lost their lives.

The students loved painting poppy flowers using watercolours and showed creativity in their work.

This week, we focused on learning and practicing the letter b. The students explored this new letter by listening to the /b/ sound and thinking of simple words like ball, bat, and banana. The learners then practiced writing the letter b in their handwriting books. They worked carefully on forming the letter, starting at the top, moving down, and then around.

We are very proud of Pelenatita who has had her story titled “My Taonga” published in the latest issue of the Aho Korero series.  Well done, Pele! You have inspired the rest of us to keep working at our writing and submitting our work to be published. So watch this space!!

Today we had our weekly visit from Mr Hughes – he teaches us all about our iPads and how we can use them to create awesome things!

Because Monday is ANZAC Day we thought it would be a cool idea to draw poppies; we also used our photo taking, and lassoing skills to create these awesome pictures of ourselves wearing poppies in support of our ANZAC soldiers.

Check out our work!

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We have had a wonderful start to the term! Room 6 have kicked off with learning soccer skills at Kelly Sports, remembering and celebrating ANZAC, and buddy reading with the lovely Room 7. Thank you to all our whanau for getting your children to school this week. This is our best week of attendance so far, congratulations Room 6! We are excited to dive into our Science and Visual Art discovery topics this term.

On Saturday we pay tribute to our fallen soldiers who fought for our country. Here is a picture of Room 6 commemorating our soldiers in 1 minute of silence. Ka Pai Room 6.

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It’s that time of year again where we tape up the tables and measure some angles…not angels!

Welcome back to school!

We had a really fun Cybersmart lesson with Mr Hughes today.

We got to practice the skills we spent Term 1 learning, and put them together to create some awesome pieces of art.

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Art by: Briano, Jireh, Esther, Pauline & Maxwell

We are so excited to be back at school!

Today we did Cybersmart with Mr Hughes – in Term 1 he taught us to do lots of cool things on our iPads; we took cool pictures, drew awesome pictures, and even created our very own Zoo!

This term we are going to keep creating awesome things – today we practiced those skills we have been learning.

Check out how much fun we had creating today!

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Clockwise from top right: Stella, Anakava, River, Rylee E, Fono, and Skye

This week at school we have been working on our reading. Today we enjoyed reading our favourite books, while pratcing on reading fluently.

We had a lot of fun creating melodies with the Boomwhakers.

We enjoyed playing in the sandpit at lunchtime. It is so much fun building sand castles and sand towers with our friends.

Today’s special assembly is to celebrate our most successful Summer Learning Journey learners, who continued their learning throughout the entire summer holiday.

Keeping our learning going in creative ways is one of the most wonderful things in our PBS. Let’s celebrate their efforts and achievements!

In today’s Cybersmart lesson with Mr Hughes we put into practice heaps of the different skills we have been working on.

We used the pens, clipart, and the shapes to plan and design our ULTIMATE playgrounds. Check out the work these students did below.

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Today in our Cybersmart Lesson Mr Hughes showed us how we can use Shapes in ExplainEverything (EE)

In EE we can create lots of amazing art; we have learned how to take pictures, how to crop, how to add ClipArt (this can help us with our spelling, and our maths), and now we have learned about the different shapes. We can name heaps of them, and we used them to design our ULTIMATE playground.

Here is some of the work we did this week? Isn’t it awesome!

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Last Friday we had our Duffy Hero Assembly. Our special guest was Sala Baker who is a well known New Zealand actor and stuntman. Some of the movies he has acted in are The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.  We were thrilled when he came into our classroom to give us his autograph.

Room 1 learners have been practising writing simple stories. They showed good focus as they followed the words.

Room 1 learners had a creative time exploring the letter P! Working in pairs, students used coloured paper to create beautiful collages on their letter P templates.

Watch the steps we used to create our Shark Art



Room 1 learners have been exploring what it means to be a good friend. They drew pictures of themselves showing kind and caring actions, such as sharing, helping others and playing together.