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Home Learning...

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, schools have now been closed for almost four weeks. Our students have been tasked with at home learning. Here are a few snaps of what our home learners have been up to.

Playground equipment around the school is being upgraded. All the new pieces so far are well loved by all the students. The senior side is so close to having the next piece unveiled for the students to play on.

Celebrating Diwali this year - always a beautiful celebration with amazing colours and patterns!

Spring Fling 2019! We got super amazing weather today and by the time we were all finished everyone had red little cheeks! Everyone danced beautifully, thank you to all the parents that were able to come down and join in too! Was wonderful to see you and you made some little people super happy!

Check out our budding Black Sticks!!! A massive thank you to Ben and Megan from Waitakere Hockey who came and ran coaching classes with our students! They have loved your time, attention and patience!

More folk dancing practise - they are starting to get it... aren't they so cute!

The school has purchased a Magic Box - it's full of wonderful bits and pieces that the students can play with creatively - it's amazing to see their imaginations coming to life - they've made a canon and a flying fox! Check out our future innovators!!!

Our poor old tired and very run down senior playground is getting a make over! Here is the first new piece installed today - it proves to be a huge hit with the students!!!

We are learning lots of new folk dances and practising - some of the dances are tricky! But we are getting there...

Kelly Tarlton comes to visit!!!

‘How Kiwi lost its wings’ by our very own AUT akonga, accompanied by their peers on placement at Hobsonville.

Variety has supplied a whole big group of students with bikes! Such amazing work they do - check out all these smiles! Thank you Variety!!!

Some of our students in different cultural groups performed for the residents of BUPA Rest Care. Hopefully brightening the day and bringing some smiles to some of the residents.

Winter Field Days 2019

Football!!! Olē, olē, olē!

The best way to spend a gloomy grey drizzly wet Friday afternoon - playing rugby! The second best way to spend a gloomy grey drizzly wet Friday afternoon? Watching these boys carve up the field with the biggest grins on their faces! Get it boys!

AEROSPACE EDUCATION came to visit us and what an A-MAZ-ING visit!

Today we had the pleasure to welcome Gerry and Emily who kindly came in to show the junior school how to make balloon powered cars and balloon powered rockets. This is related to us learning about air an was a great opportunity for us all.The children had such an amazing time and to finish it off we had the whole school out to watch a rocket being launched . This was an incredible experience and the children had a wonderful time. http://www.aerospaceeducation.co.nz/

Matariki - Māori New Year

Our Kapa Haka group perform at Arataki for Matariki.

Our Matariki Assembly was a real celebration, enjoying all the performances from our different cultural groups.

We put down a hangi and sold the packs to raise money for our Kapa Haka group. It was a lot of work and we had some amazing support from our whanau. The food was DEL-I-CIOUS!!! It was a great success with the packs selling out. There are so many thank you's to say - all the wonderful donations we received from whanau, and the donation from Tegel Foods Ltd. Thank you to each and everyone of you! This wouldn't have been possible without you!!!

Students reward for successfully completing their swimming tuition in the schools pool - a fun session at WestWave.

Swim for Life - swimming lessons for all students in our school.

Disco Mr Gall

The end of year assembly

Congratulations to our 2019 award winners!

2018

The Fabulous Cultural Festival 2018

Choir Festival

Camp Lakes Ranch 2018

Art Exhibition 2018

Gymnastics!

Scoots!

We celebrated Diwali with a special assembly and some of our staff and students dressed traditionally or in lovely bright colours - today was very festive!

Fathers Day breakfast - thank you so much to all the dads and families that made it to breakfast - was a really beautiful thing and something the tamariki cherish.

Winter Field Day

Congratulations to the tamariki who participated in the ‘Winter Cluster’ sports day yesterday. The netball girls and the Kiwi sport team won their competitions. He whetū koutou! The soccer team came 3rd (didn’t lose a game). The rugby league boys and the hockey teams played with passion, skill and mahi tahi/teamwork. Shout out to all the kaimahi for their support preparing the kids. Pauline, you did a heap of organisational stuff like permission slips, uniforms, practises, and heaps more. Kia ora.

The Royal Jelly Show - was A-MAZE-ING! We had so much fun watching Bee and Honey. We learnt how important Bees are and how to look after them. "If there are no Bees, there is no chocolate!" -Bee

The Library Roadshow!

Henderson Intermediate visited us - they showed us books they had created and we read them together.

Thank you to Paper for Trees we planted our new plants today outside the senior courts so staff, visitors and students can enjoy them.

Year 1's Cultural Celebration

We are growing our own Warriors here!

Our Garden

Mr Stokes has been working so hard to get our garden up and running. We now have raised bed, worm farms, bird houses and you all remember donating the plastic bottles for our green house! We recycled wood, bathtubs and all manner of things to reduce what is going into the tip. We have started planting so watch this space for updates.

We had an exciting and amazing science show at school. Our wonderful Mr B is a very clever scientist!

Senior Runathon

Thank goodness the weather held out so we could hold our senior runathon - Keen is our champ this year, running a massive 66 laps! I think he even beat Mr Cartwright this year! Congratulations to Keen and well done everyone who ran this year.

Thank you to everyone who baked and brought in delicious goodies to sell today for the bake sale. It was all delicious! Tailah brought in a beautiful jar filled with candy and cake pops - we thought it was so pretty that we would raffle it instead - see the video below to see who was the lucky winner!

Our wonderful new water fountain has been installed and it's a huge hit - especially as we can fill our water bottles from it.

We are great learners...

BikeWest are back!

Students are learning about road safety whilst riding a bicycle. We are learning about starting position, space and hand signals when turning or stopping.

Our awesome students receiving their well earned Certificates.

Our Be Friendly Recipients at assembly.

Our Week 7 Certificate Recipients - Be Responsible

Krypton Factor 2018

This year we hosted the Krypton Factor with 13 schools attending - there were 30 teams altogether! We had a brilliant day, our students were amazing - such great effort and sportsmanship! Thank you to all our parents who came and supported - we couldn't have done this without you. Thank you to the Henderson Lions for such a well organised event - a very successful day.

OMG! We won a piano!!! Actually some very clever students from Room 3 wrote an amazing poem so technically they won the school a piano.

Mr Piantelli popped in for a quick visit - think the kids were pretty happy to see him!

Electives

The last four Fridays we have been running a range of Electives for students from Room 1 - 7. We had 14 electives that students could pick from - one of the electives was Photography. The Photography group were responsible for documenting the other electives with the goal that their work would be published here on the website.