Our school family community.

Knowing that our families are doing ok during this lockdown time, it was wonderful seeing Joelle and her mum, Sione and his dad taking a walk at our local beach. Also Kalylah and her family.

Joelle and her Mum.

Sione and his Dad.

Kalylah and her family.

Our Cook Island Doughnuts.

Joelle and her little sister Dothan learnt how to make Cook Island doughnuts at home and mum showing the way. To learn how to make them, check out Joelle's blog. As she kindly shared the recipe and instructions. Thank you Joelle.

Keeping active at home.

Timothy has been keeping active at home by doing fitness training with his dad. Also going for run at the Dunkirk Reserve with his brothers. Check out his great movie.

Google meet with Team 2

We started with a small number on our first Google Meet. But now we have more friends joining in, which is so cool. Thank you Ashleigh and Tevita for introducing us to your adorable cute pets. How really nice to meet them. They weren't even camera shy at all!!

Our lockdown learning at home.

Joelle and Dothan have been very productive with their learning at home. They both have been making slime, dream catchers, making cardboard hearts using nappkins and flower petals, also experimenting with skittles to make dye. Check out Joelle's blog for more and be more amazed with how super creative these wonderful girls are.

Our fantastic and colourful dream catchers.

Squishy, squashy pink ball of slime.

Showing love with our beautiful hearts.

Fascinated by the striking colours when skittles are dissolved in water.

Welcome back Harold.

It has been a long time since Harold visited our school. We were so excited to see him again and his friend Mrs Parke. Life Education works in schools to educate and inspire children and young peole to make positive choices. Today we got to learn one of the things that makes us unique, our personality. We also learnt the colour zone and making good choices or poor choices from reading different statements.

Harold has woken up from his long sleep. We really admire his eye mask, it's so cool. It has tiger stripes.

We got to answer questions from Mrs Parke. McKenna and JJ are both making the good choices, by raising their hand.

Introducing the colour zones. They tell us if we're good to go or running slow, need to take caution or stop. When we're feeling like any of these zones, we have the tools to help make us feel better.

In pairs we were given cards to work out whether it was a good choice or poor choice.

Aleyria and Joelle have read the statements and thinking carefully where to place the cards on the board.

Ratai knows where to place her card, making a good choice.

Sione and Jahnaeyah have finally decided where to place their cards.

Joelle and Sione making a start on their work books.

Joelle's visit to the library.

Joelle has been visiting the local library in the school holidays. Going to the holiday programme where they did lots of arts and crafts and other fun activities. She has also been doing lots of learning at home with her sister Dothan. Check out her blog for more.

Joelle and Dothan having fun, doing arts and crafts at the Glen Innes Library.

Joelle and Dothan working on their maths

Joelle working hard at joining words to make the correct sentences.

New front gate.

You might have noticed in the front of our Team 2 block, is a brand new front gate. Now it makes it more easier for whanau and friends to use this entrance for drop offs and pick ups. Thank you to Mr Shaw, Mr Andrews, Mr Jacobsen and the contractors involved for clearing the hedges, installing the new gate and locks. Greatly appreciate all your hard work and time to carry out and undertake this extensive job. We also have two new seating benches, outside Room 26 and Room 25.

Matariki Day with Team 2

In June/July, Matariki re-appears in the dawn sky – signalling the start of the Māori New Year - Te Matahi o te Tau. It is a time to celebrate new life, to remember those who’ve passed, plan for the future and to spend time with whānau and friends to enjoy kai (food), waiata (song), tākaro (games)and haka. On the final day of Term 2, we had a whole school celebration for Matariki. In Team Two we got to experience making glitter playdough, paper kites, baking star cookies and using clay to create our own wakas. It was an fun-filled day. Special thank you to Mrs Wilson for joining us and taking part with our celebration.

Joelle and McKenna kneading the shortbread dough before it was rolled out flat and cut into star shapes.

It's Akanesi and Teulia's turn to knead the dough, as Tone in the background waits for his turn.

Isla-May and McKenna icing the shortbread cookies. Later sprinkled with chocolate.

Before and after photos of the shortbread star cookies. It tasted so nice and very delicious.

Olivia and Kyra-Lee happily working on their glitter playdough and making shapes.

Zumaidah enjoys making a star with the star cutter. Teuila happily sharing ideas with Zumaidah what could she use next.

Adnan, Khaing-May and Peyton working together to make the pieces of the jigsaw fit together. Elena and Akanesi love to colour in their Matariki stars.

Ratai, Ezekiel and Attah proudly showing their finished wakas. They look amazing!! Timothy excited to showcase his paper kite. Great colours and details Timothy, well-done.

Farewell Mrs Savi.

Today we sadly had to say farewell to the lovely Mrs Savi, who has been with our class this Term. Mrs Savi has been an awesome and very kind support worker who helped us to become confident with our reading and writing. Encouraging us to do our best and not to give up. Many thanks for all your support, words of encouragement, consistent praise and laughter. We will miss you a lot. From myself and the wonderful children of Room 25, we wish you all the best for the future.

Stardome Observatory & Planetarium.

Our inquiry for Term 2 is "Watch this Space". Team 2 went on an awesome school trip to the Stardome Observatory and Planetarium. John our friendly tour guide/tutor gave a very informative presentation on day and night, moon phases, tides and seasons. Khaing-May, Savannah and Taniela got to role play as the moon, earth and sun. They all played their parts really well. Next we got to explore the Space Gallery and exhibits. Our last stop was at the Plantarium, where we all got to sit back and got ready for blast off for an amazing ride into space with Tycho the space travelling dog, to learn about night and day, space travel and so much more. Here are some great highlights of our amazing day out.

Kick start into Winter Sports.

Several of us from our class are actively taking part in our school winter sports. Rippa rugby and netball. Good luck to everyone participating, enjoy this season and have fun. Awesome start Angels. Great teamwork and participation.

Working on our Team 2 Garden with Mr Vogt.

Today we went to work on our Team 2 garden with Mr Vogt. We watered the plants, removed the weeds and collected leafy green plants to take home. Watch this space, as we are going to be working on an exciting new project.

Garden helpers: Joelle, SJ, Timothy, Ratai and Olivia.

Farewell Peyton.

We wish our friend Peyton, good luck as she's leaving to attend a new school for next Term. Some of us were in the same class with Peyton last year, it's sad see her go.

Learning to swim with Room 25.

We are sad that swimming for us has come to an end. However we have learnt valuable water skills such as floating on our backs like star fish, giliding off with support and dolphin dives. What is a dolphin dive? A dolphin dive is where your arms are extended like a rocket ship. Next you push yourself off the pool, over the water surface. Gilding off by kicking to the other side. We would like to say a big thank you to our wonderful swimming coaches for their time, encourage and support. Here's our PENN movie that captures our moments in the water. Enjoy!!

Awesome and amazing learning from home.

Into the first week of the second lockdown, and Room 25 have done some awesome and amazing learning from home. I'm very proud of all the students here, who have all fully participated with their online learning and giving everything a try. Especially a big, huge thank you to the wonderful parents and family for their support.