We are so proud of the amazing Jump Jam Junior team. At the weekend the wonderful tamariki above came third in their category, a major achievement considering it was their very first time entering the competition. We are so proud of the hard work they put in, how fantastically yhey represented our school, and of course how brave they were! 

We’ve had a great time at the Airforce Museum. We have had a lesson about Flight from Chris, a run around outside on the grass and an explore around the museum.

Thanks Chris and the Airforce Museum for having us.

We have been learning about our HEART values:

Hauora, Explore, Aspire, Respect and Taonga.

We drew in these hearts the people and things that fill our hearts.

Kia ora e te whānau and welcome to our Ruru class blog.
We have been learning how to write a recount.

A person from the future came to visit our classroom. He claimed he was 125 years old and from the year 3025.
He introduced himself to us. His name was Calebo Rossito. He was Mr Rossiter’s great great great great grandson.

We asked him some questions about the future. We asked him about the world, about world wars, robots, the sun, sports, video games and his personal information.
He told us there were no wars and there was peace on Earth. There are no cyborgs, but chairs follow you ready for you to sit on. He said the world looks better than now because there is no global warming. The sun has not exploded. We also found out that he likes yellow and blue. Yellow for the sun and blue for the sky. He loved eating steak, mashed potato, peas and a glass of milk.
A message came through saying he was late for dinner, so he panicked and left in his time machine.

After meeting Calebo Rossito, we feel confident about the future because the sun is still there and there is no more global warming.
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Hello everyone,

This week we have been learning about space. Earlier in the week we learnt about phases of the moon. On Thursday we conducted a science experiment. We made a rocket out of paper, and tape. We used scissors and a straw to launch it.

I enjoyed this lesson because making something is really fun! – Siyul (Year 4)

I really enjoyed this lesson because my brother liked using my rocket after school. (Ahyoung Year 4)

Welcome to the first cohort of Term 3, 2025. We hope that you have a fantastic learning journey here at Ara Tū Whakatā!

On the last day of Term 2 Te Rōpū Kura Pounamu, Te Rōpū Whakaute, and Te Rōpū Wawata got together to celebrate Matariki. We were able to do some Matariki dancing, some Matariki art with the book Flit the Fantail, and finally icing some yummy biscuits, don’t they look delicious!

Check out our video above to see some of the awesome space explorations we have been having in Te Rōpū Whakaute and Te Rōpū Wawata! We have learned so much this term and have had so much fun!

We had lots of fun on Thursday flying our kites to celebrate Matariki.  Thanks to all the whānau who came to celebrate with us or who made kites with your children.

To celebrate Matariki this week the children have been making starry art. In Kōwhai, we made pictures of  a starry sky using a method we learnt about called “mosaic”, where a picture is made using small geometric tiles.

This was a great way to exercise our geometry knowledge and acknowledge this awesome holiday all at once!

The children in Kōwhai have been learning about time. They have been learning about the months of the year, the days of the week, how to read the time on an analog clock and linking the things we do everyday – like reading and maths – to times of the day.

Te Rōpū Kura Pounamu are always hard at work. This week they’d like to share some of their awesome PE skills! They have been working hard to develop their throwing, catching, and rolling skills with large balls. It sure looks like lots of fun!

This week Te Ope Ruaraki have had the excitement of making our worm farms. Over the past week we have been learning about what worms need in order to survive and the steps we need to take to make our worm farm.

Feel free to come visit Te Ope Ruaraki to see how our worms are going!

Students in Team Toitoi have really been enjoying our maths learning supported by Numicon this term. The students have been busy exploring the hands on lessons provided by Numicon. Check out some of the great work these Year 0/1 tamariki have been doing this week!

Friday 23rd May was a Teacher Only Day for our Kura. Over one hundred teachers from local schools were presented with the new Mathematics curriculum which has been recently introduced, and is being implemented by Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School. It was a great opportunity for us, as a teaching staff, to mix and mingle, with other like minded teachers.  It was a fantastic opportunity for us to develop and build on our knowledge in this area.  We have exciting times ahead!

What a fabulous end to week 3. Throughout the week we had some special guests (teachers) come and read to us while we ate our morning tea. We ended the week by celebrating our school value, Mahi Tahi at assembly, followed by a whole-school parade on the courtyard showing off our fantastic costumes. It was a great day, and thank you to all the amazing children and parents who helped create costumes to celebrate the love for reading.

Please check out some of the photos and keep a lookout on our school’s Facebook page for more! https://www.facebook.com/southhornby/

Have a wonderful weekend, and we look forward to seeing you all for another week.

On Tuesday the 6th was Whaea Madions Birthday.

In Kōwhai we celebrated by making her cards. Practicing our handwriting and spelling along the way.

She was so happy to receive them!  She even took all of them home.

Happy Birthday Whaea Madison!

To celebrate our very special mum’s, we made “Mum Magazine’s”   where we wrote what we loved most about our mums, drew some pictures and even made some coupons!

Here are some photos of just a couple of examples of our work. We hope you loved your magazine as much as we loved making them.

Happy belated Mother’s day to all our wonderful Mums!

Last term in Science, we learned about the scientific method.

The last thing we did, was designed an experiment using Paper planes.

My group decided to test: The best paper plane for going far distances. 

This is how we did our experiment…………….

OUR RESULTS WERE:

Plane 1:  Trial 1 + Trial 2 + Trial 3 =  _______ / 3 = AVERAGE

Plane 2:

Plane 3:

CONCLUSION:

Based on my results, plane ___ was the best at GLIDING/DISTANCE/TRICKS. 

I know this because______

A reason for this could be ________.