Ma te wa- see you later!!!

Today was the last day of Term 4, a very emotional time for students and adults alike. We celebrated our last day with our Prize Giving assembly, with just some of our the AWESOME students receiving awards.

I would like to take this opportunity to say KIA ORA to my students, for showing such great Manaakitanga, Manawanuitanga and Kaitiakitanga all year. I am so proud of you all and my experiences with you have made me a better teacher.

To the whanau/parents/caregivers, thank you for always being there for us. Our learning journey would not have been the same without your support and guidance.

To my Year 6's, continue to be the BRAVE and RESILIENT learners that I know you to be.
To my Year 5's, take on leadership opportunities offered to you. It will give you the chance to show everyone just how fantastic you are.

To my colleagues, I have truly appreciated all of your support and words of wisdom throughout our exciting year.

To everyone that I have had the pleasure to have met this year, THANK YOU for everything!!!!

I wish you all a very safe and happy holidays!!!

Beach Education-EOTC

Our day at Pt Chev Beach  was amazing!!! Education Outside of The Classroom is a great opportunity to engage in practical learning activities, with peers and whanau.

A huge THANK YOU to Maria Mudgway and the Kelly Sports team for organising these 3 fantastic days for our students. To our wonderful whanau, THANK YOU for coming along and being part of our day. 

Tug of War- First battle Room 7 was victorious. Room 25 struck back and took out Battle number 2.

We had to have a decider- one last Tug of war..............

Congratulations to the winners-Room 25!!! 

Beach Education for Room 25 tomorrow

2019 BEACH ED REMINDER NOTICE 

FOR MONDAY 2 DECEMBER

Please check your child has:

* Togs * Towel	* Sun hat & Sunscreen
* Shoes that are easy to get on / off	* Warm sweatshirt
* Water bottle with water ( 2 would be great!)	* Healthy snacks and lunch

                                        

It is important that you get your child to school before 8.55am. 

We recommend that you put sunscreen on your child prior to the trip.
Teachers will have sunscreen with them as well.

A decision will be made as to whether the children will enter the water
depending on the water quality at Pt Chev Beach each day. All
“beach activities” will be based on the sand.

All adult helpers travelling by bus meet in the classroom at 8.55am.
If travelling by car, please confirm with the teacher prior to the trip.
You may be able to carpool with other parents.

Please check the school app for cancellations due to weather.

2019 Athletics - Puriri and Kauri Teams

On Tuesday the 5th of November,  both the Puriri and Kauri team students competed in our school athletics competition. It was a very hot but wonderful day. Here are some of the Room 25 students who received a certificate for their performance.

Keisomani came first in the Year 5 boys Shot put and Discus.

  

Mele came second in the Year 5 girls High Jump and second in the Year 5 girls 100 meter race.

Solomone came first in the Year 6 Boys Shot put

Melnina came in third place in the Year 5 girls 100 meter race and third in the Year 5 girls long jump.

Honey came first in the Year 6 girls 100 meter race.

Matthew came second in the  Year 6 boys 400 meter race and Eliza placed first in the Year 6 girls 200 meters.

As their teacher, I was incredibly proud of all of my students! A great day and a chance for us to proudly demonstrate our three school values; Manaakitanga, Manawanuitanga and Kaitiakitanga.

Music to our ears!!! Kia ora Clarence High School Band.

Owairaka students were very lucky today to have the Clarence High School Band visit us. The travelled all the way from Tasmania, Australia.

A truly fantastic orchestra made up of such amazing young people, who entertained both the students and teachers.

The real story of Cinderella... Well sort of.

Chinese Language Week 2019

Here is a slide about how we are celebrating Chinese Language Week.

Ako Hiko Film Festival- Our entry Chain reaction

Congratulations to all of the Ruma rua tekau ma rima students who made a film. Check out our blogs to see more amazing films.

Celebrating Te wiki o te Reo Maori language week!

Kia ora Whaea Trudy for teaching us how to make fried bread. 

He tino reka!

Wonderful Wednesday!

Today was a wonderful day. Yes I know that all of our days are wonderful, but today we begun our Music lessons with Mr Lakatani. Room 25 is full of musical talent and we are excited about learning and sharing our musical talents.

Check out a couple of videos. There will be more to come!!!

We were then very lucky to have some amazing fânau ako (students) from Room 20 perform to beautiful Tongan dances for us. Malo 'aupito to you all!!!

                           

And finally.............. we ended our day by acknowledging hard working 

students in our team during a Team Assembly.

Super proud of all of  the Room 25 students who received certificates.

                              

                       Well done Keisomani! Fantastic
                           focus and participation in music.

Congratulations to Matthew for being
acknowledged for his participation in Netball.

Where's Wally competition

We won the Where's Wally competition!!!! Guess who had the chance to pick our prizes for us?

None other than Wally himself.

Book Week Character Parade!!!

What a special week!!! Room 5 and Room 25 hosted the Book Week Assembly and were the first two classes to go on stage for our Book Character parade.

Check out all of the beautiful people. How many different book characters can you see?

Kia ora Room 5 for being our Buddies.

GOTTA KEEP READING!!!

Reading is my Super Power!!!

Congratulations to Mahina and Eliza for completing their Reading Logs. Being acknowledged as a Super Reader is a GREAT way to celebrate Book Week.

Chapter 28- Rebus word puzzle

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library- Extreme Challenge

Puzzle ponder for Week 5

You know the drill, record your answer in a comment.

Maths Week 2019

Congratulations to Mele for earning herself the Manawanuitanga certificate this week. During our Maths week activities, she shared lot's of wonderful answers and demonstrated a great love of learning.

Puzzle ponder #3

You know the drill- record your answer in a comment. Waimarie pai (good luck)

Should I stay or should I go?- Ponder number 3

Kia Orana- Cook Island language Week

Ruma tekau ma rima were very fortunate to have 3 special visitors today. They came to help us celebrate Cook Island Language and teach us more about the beautiful culture.
Meitaki to Philominna Akaruru and Elizabeth Akaruru for sharing songs and their stories with us. Meitaki to Caroline for bringing them over to to visit us.

Here is some of the learning we are doing in our pupu (class) this week;

If you have some wonderful information to share about the beautiful Cook Islands, then please do in a comment. 

Wiki toru Puzzle ponder

Last minute essay- Ponder 2

Green Week- New Zealand Birds

This terms Green Week focus is on birds. New Zealand is very lucky to have birds that are endemic (found only here) to our country. Owairaka tamariki had a visit from Mrs Best, a special guest speaker sharing her knowledge of our native birds, their habitats and their predators. Here are some photos of the taxidermy birds and predators that we had the chance to look at and even touch.

Ruru- Morepork

Possum- predator.

Puzzle ponder for Wiki rua.

Nau mai, hoki mai! Welcome back!

I hope that you have had an enjoyable break and are ready for our Term 3. It's going to be an action packed term, with heaps of mahi to do. Here are your weekly ponders. That's right, most weeks there will be 2 ponders for you to ponder. As always, record your answers in a comment below this post.

New shared novel for the Term is.....................................................................

Space ponder- Week 10

Remember to record your thoughts in a comment below.

Choose Tuesday- Te mutunga mai o te pai!

Choose Tuesday was such a great success, everyone involved really enjoyed themselves. It is now time to make new choices. Here's a slide to show what is being offered in Term 3.

Hauora hou tau hou- Happy Maori New Year

To celebrate Matariki Ruma Rima and Ruma rua tekau ma rima got together as buddy class to have breakfast. We opened our celebration with a discussion around what we knew about Matariki. Next Nicholas blessed our kai with a karakia mō te kai. We ate toast and had a delicious cup of Milo. Then as Tuakana, we (Room 25 students) shared our mahi about space with our teina (Room 5 students). 

A big KIA ORA to Ms Mitchell and Mr Green for sharing this special moment with us. 

 

            

Week 9- Space ponder

Matariki inspired art and Marvelous maths!

Luke was the recipient of one of our Caught Being Good Awards today because of his focus on his artwork. Luke chose to do a piece of artwork that required him to use  pastel and a Chromebook to complete it. Check out his finished product on his blog.

 
Mele received our second certificate for BRILLIANT problem solving!!!!


Te mutunga mai o te pai! - Ultimately awesome!

Week 8 Space Ponder

Kauri Team Assembly- Certificates galore!!!

On Monday we had our our Kauri Team Cross Country. It was a great to see all of our students giving it a go. For our competitive runners, the morning fitness sessions proved to be great training opportunities.

We had two students receiving certificates. Nuradiin came 1st place in the Year 6 boys division and Riley came in 5th place in the Year 6 girls division. Miharo!!!

We had 3 students receive a Duffy Caught Being Good certificate as well. We are very lucky to have a new addition to our Ruma, Ayman is a Year 5 student. A big KIA ORA goes to Amani and Zera, for showing Manaakitanga to our new student. Ayman has settled in so well in to her new whanau and we look forward to getting to know her better.

Week 7 Space Ponder

Remember to give at least 3 reasons why it is your favourite planet.

Green Week- Kaitiakitanga Award

Congratulations to Fedor from our Ruma for earning himself a Kaitiakitanga certificate. Fedor always goes above and beyond when caring for our classroom environment. Ruma rua tekau ma rima is full of kaitiaki's so I am going to have a tough choice next time.

Week 6 Space Ponder

Remember to record your reasons/ideas in a comment below.

Alexis Pritchard- Olympic Athlete and winner of a Bronze medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Kauri team was very privileged today to have Alexis Pritchard speak to us. She spoke to us about being COURAGEOUS and how boxing has encouraged her to be confident.

 Solomone had to be extremely COURAGEOUS today as he spoke on behalf of our whole team. He spoke in front of 160 people today.                  Fa'afetai lava Solomone, for representing us so proudly!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 
Alexis encouraged us to 'Step out of our comfort zone' and try something new.

Space Ponder Week 5

National Story Time- Guess the book!

Read these three clues and guess the awesome book.

Clue 1:  The main character wore glasses.

                 

Clue 2: He has a white feathered friend.

                 

Clue 3: This is the first book of 7 in the series.

Week 4 Space Ponder

Remember to record your ideas in a comment.

Whanau voice- please have your say!!!

We want to hear your thoughts!

Please complete this quick questionnaire about learning with digital technologies.

Click on this link Parent and Caregiver Questionnaire

Background: Owairaka has been on a journey of incorporating digital resources into a range of teaching approaches.  We aim for a blended environment where staff and students have the option to choose the best resources for the learning at the time, whether it is digital or otherwise.  

Ako Hiko: Is a cluster of eight schools who work together to create equity, raise achievement and offer opportunities to all our learners. The basis of the learning is the Learn, Create and Share learning model.

Research: The Woolf Fisher Trust, a research arm of the University of Auckland, send out these annual questionnaires to give feedback to the cluster about how the digital environment helps to learn.  Woolf Fisher collects data from Year 4-6 parents as some of the other cluster schools have digital devices for all ages. The feedback we get from this survey will be specific to Owairaka as well as from the whole cluster.

We would appreciate if you could do this quick survey by Friday 24th May.