2017 Prize Giving

Congratulations to this year's prize winners:

Diligence Awards to: Rhian and Savanna

Academic Excellence to: Pavlos and Madde

Madde and Nia won awards for Cross Country and Athletics respectively. Ka pai.

Term 3 Speech Finalists

Over the last few weeks we have been working on our speeches. Everyone did a fantastic job of writing their speech and organising props as support. When it came to presenting their speeches everyone put their best foot forward and presented their speech confidently. Lots of interesting information was shared and we learnt many new things on a range of topics. 

Ka pai to all Room 6 students for the effort you put into writing and presenting your speeches - you deserve a big pat on the back.

Congratulations to Portia, Jameson, Rad, Pavlos and James who have made the
Year 6 Speech Finals, which will be held at the beginning of Term 4.

Happy Birthday

Pavlos turned 11 today.
We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished him all the best as an 11 year old.

Sporting Success

Congratulations to:

Pavlos who received a trophy and certificate at his soccer club's prize giving.

Leon (soccer) and Emily S (netball) who were named 'Player of the Day' for their respective teams' last game of the season.

Cultural Performance

Today all our hard work at kappa haka came together as we performed in the Cultural Festival at the Horncastle Arena. Everyone looked awesome on stage and had a great time.

Ready to go!

Juriella and Rhian

Materoa, Hannah, Emily M, Emily S and Maia F

Rad, EJ, Pavlos, Leon, John, James, Jameson and Matthew

Games

The Fantail Reading Group read a story about a game involving kites and eggs. They then created their own games with the same theme. Today they shared their games. Everyone had lots of fun playing these games.

Emily S and Hannah

Ryan and Pavlos

Taylor and Ysabella

Savanna and Madde

Term 3 Week 2 Certificates

Congratulations to Alexis and Pavlos who received certificates at today's School Assembly.

Ka wani ke! keep up the great work.

Congratulations to Rad who received a certificate for his hard work on STEPs. Ka pai, keep up the great work.

Player of the Day

On Saturday Pavlos scored 4 goals in his soccer game and was awarded 'Player of the Day'. Ka pai, Pavlos, keep up the great work.

Writing Snippets

Our current writing focus is narrative writing. We have been talking about how we can gain and maintain audience interest. Some of the things we need to use are: a hook that will get the audience's attention, interesting vocab, sequencing our ideas and making links between paragraphs. 

Here's a couple of snippets:

Once upon a time there were two families, the Pugs and the Rabbits. They hated each other. 

(the characters are then described). 

This is the story of why they hated each other. 

Toby

"Wow! What an idea. I wonder how though?" said the tall, strong boy as he quickly passed the security to get on the plane. 

(the setting is then described)

As soon as Theo climbed down the tree to get to the beach his stomach rumbled as loud as a giant's yawn, so he looked for some food. Not long after he spotted a banana tree but the problem was he was worried he might fall off. After awhile Theo's stomach managed to make him climb the tree.

Pavlos

There will be more snippets as we continue writing our narratives.

Happy Birthday and other Congratulations

Nia turned 10. We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished her all the best as a 10 year old.





Congratulations to two people who were named 'Player of the Day' for their respective sports.

Hannah for Touch Rugby

Pavlos for Soccer

Term 1 Week 3

Yesterday Pavlos played in a soccer tournament. His team won their games and each player received a t-shirt. Ka pai, Pavlos, keep up the great playing.




Looking ahead to the week:
Tuesday and Wednesday: students are to bring their PE gear, including sports shoes. Please wear full school uniform, including the black school shoes to school. We will change at lunchtime.
Thursday: Library day - please bring back school library books.
Friday: we will attend Mass at 9am. Please be at school before 8:45am so we can complete the roll before going to mass.

Term 1 Week 2 Things to Celebrate

This week has been a great week as we are all well versed in the routines of Room 6. We've learnt some new things about the Treaty of Waitangi, established our Maths Basic Facts routine and enjoyed the mapping activities and published some work - our 'This is Me' posters and booklets and writing snippets. Come in to the classroom and check out our work.

Today we had our first School Assembly of the year.
Congratulations to Nina and Toby who received certificates. Both are super role models and have made a fantastic start to the school year. Ka wani kei, Nina and Toby, keep up the great effort.

During the week the class leaders have allocated points to those students who are doing the right thing. This week we congratulate Savanna and Pavlos, the two students with the most points.

Looking ahead to next week, Week 3:
Please return all notices asap - Swimming notices to the classroom and change of details and money to the office. 
Monday: Values Assembly - please be at school before 8:50am
Tuesday: Bring PE gear to change into at lunchtime
Wednesday: Bring PE gear to change into at lunch time - we begin our Room 6/7 Year 5/6 sports sessions
Thursday: Homework is due in
Friday: Mass - the bell will ring at 8:45am so we can take the roll before we head over to mass. Parents are welcome to come to mass to.

Looking ahead to Week 4: On Monday 20 February Room 6 will be leading the Values Assembly. This starts at 9am in the Creative Space. You are welcome to join us.

Have a great weekend - see you all on Monday.

Writing Snippets

Last week we wrote about one thing we did on holiday. Toady we published our favourite sentence from our story. These are now on the classroom wall - come in to read them.

Here's a few:

I watched my sister’s sand castle crumble like crumbs on a cookie.

Ysabella

We had KFC, fish and chips and pizza. I was stuffed like a teddy bear after that.

William

My dad and I made lunch the night before. It was chicken, lamb and salad. Nana made traffic light jelly. Mum and Hugo packed bananas, peaches and nectarines. We bought bread rolls and butter. Uncle Dan just sat on the chilly bin.
Madde

(Opening sentence) Oh no! Not again! Christmas shopping troubles.

….

(conclusion) The next day I wrapped all the presents and while I was doing that I felt proud for dealing with the problem.

Pavlos

When I got ready I put tight clothes on by accident. I could feel the layers squeezing my body like I was in a small room.

Maia P

Grandma said, “Who wants to open presents?”

Sam, Jess and I said, “Me.” all together because we were so excited. Then Jackson said, “Me,” which was really cute.

Taylor

My head was crumbling like sand since I didn't get any fish.

Matthew

I lay down and the waves smashed over me.

Jameson