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Our poor old tired and very run down senior playground is getting a make over! Here is the first new piece installed today - it's 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...
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‘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.
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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/
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/
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Matariki - Māori New Year
Our Kapa Haka group perform at Arataki for Matariki.
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Our Matariki Assembly was a real celebration, enjoying all the performances from our different cultural groups.
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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!!!
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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.
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Disco Mr Gall
The end of year assembly
Congratulations to our 2019 award winners!
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2018
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The Fabulous Cultural Festival 2018
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Choir Festival
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Camp Lakes Ranch 2018
Art Exhibition 2018
Gymnastics!
Scoots!
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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!
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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.
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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
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The Library Roadshow!
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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
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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.
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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!
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Our wonderful new water fountain has been installed and it's a huge hit - especially as we can fill our water bottles from it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Coding and Presenting; Scratch, Blu-Bots, and Powtoons
Upcycling. Building furniture using pallets.
Video's by Jay.
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Video by Jedaya
3D Art - working with pastels.
Card games - a different card game each week.
Indian Cooking
Video's by Mariana.
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Reading - with a twist!
Videos by Stella
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Sport - Padder Tennis & Cricket
Video's by Jay
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Video by Tanya
Gardening Club - growing seedlings for the greenhouse and maintaining the gardens in the kura.
Craft
Cooking Classes - making something simple each week.
Games & Puzzles
Craft - working with harekeke
ePro8 Challenge
Eight of our bright sparks participated in the ePro8 Challenge. For the first time our school entered the the competition, which is an engineering and problem solving race. This year over 7000 students from 700 schools from throughout the New Zealand are taking part. Teams compete to:
Teams will then be given a booklet containing a number of challenges. All the challenges are of an entertaining physical nature.
Teams will choose which challenges they wish to undertake. The harder the challenge, the more points it is worth. There is not enough time to finish all the challenges - so strategy is required to know which ones to go for.
When teams have completed a challenge they push the "Big Red Button". They will be judged and the points will be added to the live leaderboard.
Heats will be held throughout the North Island. The top four teams from each heat qualify for the regional semifinals and a regional grand final. The winning team will be crowned the region's EPro8 Challenge Champion.
- build large sized structures
- solve practical problems
- engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles
- invent machines that can complete simple tasks
- undertake unusual and fun experiments.
- construct basic electronic circuits.
- solve interesting problems using practical maths
Teams will then be given a booklet containing a number of challenges. All the challenges are of an entertaining physical nature.
Teams will choose which challenges they wish to undertake. The harder the challenge, the more points it is worth. There is not enough time to finish all the challenges - so strategy is required to know which ones to go for.
When teams have completed a challenge they push the "Big Red Button". They will be judged and the points will be added to the live leaderboard.
Heats will be held throughout the North Island. The top four teams from each heat qualify for the regional semifinals and a regional grand final. The winning team will be crowned the region's EPro8 Challenge Champion.
Rooms 3 & 4 visit a farm in Pukekohe - visiting the dairy farm was certainly an education, we got to touch an electric fence, we learnt all about the process of how the farmers collect milk and all the equipment they use. We learnt about the cows udder and did you know that all the teats are separate? You can milk just one and the others will still be full of milk!
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Aaand they're off! We have four teams playing rugby at Waitakere College today - wish them all luck!
We had some lovely Anti-Bully Ambassadors visit us from Henderson Intermediate today. They have been working hard raising awareness around keeping ourselves safe and they donated three wonderful books to us. Such an important message, thank you for sharing with us!
Mrs Kay and her speech therapy group are making Ambrosia. This activity was lead by a discussion with Marcus and how he LOVES eating yoghurt with marshmallows and strawberries. Sounds delicious!
Year 4 & 5 Bake Sale
This has to have been our best bake sale ever! Students were asked to donate ingredients and they all had a turn in the kitchen whipping up delicious treats - toffee apples, cookies, cakes and cupcakes with fancy icing. The students were so excited to be baking - some had never had the opportunity to help in the kitchen before and it was a bit nerve wracking! We are fundraising for a surprise trip at the end of the year!
Squash!!!
The 2017 Inter-School Speech Competition Winner this year is our very own, very talented Tesla! Congratulations Tesla!!!
Thank you to these dancers from Henderson Intermediate School - it was lovely seeing some past students come and visit us. All who were in the audience really enjoyed the performance.
We were so excited to welcome our visitors from The Warriors! Many thanks to Isaiah Papali'i and Ken Maumalo for coming to our school.
Rooms 9, 10, 11 & 12 travelled to the Sky Tower as part of our topic on "Window". Thank you to Jeremiah's Nana for our wonderful trip photos and videos.
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Netball
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KiwiSports
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Rugby
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Football
The Walking School Bus came to visit us this morning to help us celebrate Funky Feet!
Our students have been lucky enough to receive Lego sets, they have all thoroughly enjoyed putting them together.
Today we farewell Mr Piantelli and wish him well on his new journey as Principal at Swanson Primary.
Our Chief!
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