Hi everyone,

at the moment Room 5 & 6 are plodding along with their films for the great film festival!

Our league tournament was yesterday at Mountford Park. The girls team came away undefeated and won all their games. The boys came 5th overall. Here are our stats. Shout out to our whanau for their support.

First game vs Wiri Central

Win: 32-4

Second game vs Rowandale

Win: 16-12

Third game vs Roscommon

Loss: 16-24

Semi finals to play for 5th and 6th

Game vs Randwick Park

Win: 24-20

Check out our highlights here and leave us a comment.

What an amazing week of learning about Samoa and celebrating this beautiful country and it’s culture. Throughout the week, we had challenges, sports (Lāpe), presentations: food, koko alaisa and even suafai made by our families to share with the school. We are so lucky and would like to thank everyone especially parents who helped make this week an amazing success. Check out our items from the week and please leave us a comment.

We have been hard at work today! We have been making keychains for the Matariki market in Week 10!

Today our Rugby boys team went to the MPSSA tournament. It was held at Bruce Pulman park in Takānini. Here are our results from the day.

1st game v Clendon Park: Draw 5 all

2nd game v Homai: Win 25-0

3rd game v Randwick: Win 10-5

QF game v Roscommon: Lost 20-10

Play off game v Finlayson: Win 35-0

5th/ 6th game v Hill Park: Win 10-0

So overall we placed 5th out of 14 teams. We’d just like to acknowledge our coach Marcel Faaofo for training the team and for being our referee on the field today. A big shout out to all our families that came out to watch, support and feed us too. We are so blessed. Please leave us a comment

Our Year 5 and 6 girls Rippa Rugby team went to the Counties Manukau Champ of Champs. We played 5 games as follows:

First game against Kauri Flats: Win 5-1

Second game against Puni: Win 5-1

Third game against Patumahoe: Win 7-1

Fourth game against Roscommon: Win 5-4

Fifth game against Papakura Normal: Win 6-2

Finals against Roscommon: Lost 5-4

We are extremely proud of our girls and their amazing efforts. As a team, we’d also like to acknowledge and thank our families who came out to support us. Please leave a comment if you can.

It has been a busy and “hands on” week in our classroom as we celebrated New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week!

Here is a little look at what we’ve been up to:

The Finger-Spelling Challenge

Our main mission was learning the NZSL alphabet so we could fingerspell our own names.  Some of our extra-brave learners even jumped in front of the camera to film a video of themselves signing their names.  Ka pai!

Signs and Songs

We love singing and signing the National Anthem of NZ and He Honore.  We’re becoming absolute pros and look forward to doing our best at our next school assembly!  If you’re free tomorrow afternoon, join us in the hall for our NZSL Week Closing Assembly at 1:30pm.

Ka kite āpopo!

Kia ora! This week is NZSL Week. Did you know that it was only made an official language in 2026? Some hearing people didn’t want deaf people to use NZ sign language because they thought it was too hard to understand. It’s great to see that times have changed here in NZ and we are more empathetic and inclusive of others. Check out our movie for our school challenge. Please leave us a comment.

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What an amazing morning we had yesterday! We were very lucky to have a visit from some firefighters. The children were thrilled to explore the fire trucks and even got to sit inside them. It was very high up, and climbing down was quite a challenge!

We also had the opportunity to try on some of the special gear that firefighters wear. It was surprisingly heavy, and the children found it tricky to move around in it. This gave us a real appreciation of how strong and brave firefighters are.

The fire truck was filled with lots of interesting equipment, and the children were fascinated learning about all the tools firefighters use to help keep people safe.

Kia ora e te whānau,
Te kaha o ngā tamariki ki te pānui pukapuka i tēnei wiki. Kei te pānui rātou he pukapuka hei whakanui te Rā o Māmā. Tirohia ki o rātou mahi…

He waiata whakamahana tēnei. Kei te ako ngā ākonga ki te tautohu i ngā pū o te arapū Māori:

E pānui ana ēnei tamariki i te pukapuka mō te wiki nei:

He mahi whakakapi ēnei. Kei te hanga rerenga kōrero ngā ākonga, ā, ka tāpiri rātou he whakaahua me he pikitia mō te rerenga kōrero:

Nā Niwa tēnei mahi. Ka pai kotiro!

Nā Mia tēnei mahi. Tau kē e hoa!

Today we had some very special guests from Auckland Council come and speak to us about Dog Safety. There has been a rise in dog bites and dog attacks all over our country, some even in our community. It is important for our learners to keep safe around stray dogs and dogs that are off lead wandering around the streets.

Some of the reminders are: always ask the owner before you pet a dog, have a closed fist and allow the dog to sniff your fist, pet a dog under it’s neck or chest, don’t approach dogs when they are eating and stand like a tree and try not to run if a dog chases you. It’s important to look for signs when NOT to approach a dog.

A big shout out and thank you to Lesha, Austin, Miguel, Justine and a crowd favourite Paprika (husky dog) that came to visit us. Here are some short snippets and pics from their visit with us today. Click here if you would like to know more.

On Monday we had our MPPSA Rippa Rugby tournament. We sent two teams to represent our school. A Year 5 and 6 boys team and a girls team too. Our boys did really well and played a total of 6 games. Our girls also played 6 games and won all except for one draw. The girls team played Roscommon school in the final and won 30-15. We are off to Auckland Champs sometime later in the year. Here’s a quick video of our day: