Gardens Trip

On February 15 our whole school went to Hamilton Gardens. We visited the Te Parapara Maori gardens, where we saw the kumara growing, and our Kapahaka group put on an impressive performance. 

Then we walked to the rose gardens to do some sketching.

After that, we relaxed in the playground before catching the bus back to school.

The New Totara Playground

Our new Totara playground opened this week. We've been enjoying playing on it, and we had a special exploration time just for Rooms 15 and 16. We're so lucky, just look at all the fun things we can do!

Cooling off in the pool

We are really enjoying being able to swim in the pool on these hot summer days! 

At the moment we are working on water confidence and assessing skill levels. From next week (week 3) until week 7 we will be having twice-weekly lessons with swimming instructors funded by Find Your Field of Dreams. This will be a wonderful opportunity to improve confidence and skills with qualified instructors.

Swimming is Term One’s main physical education focus, a part of the New Zealand curriculum and important to your child’s safety to develop water confidence and skills, so it's important to bring  togs every day!

Welcome to Room 15!

Kia ora and welcome to Room 15 in 2019! We are starting the term with getting to know each other and our classroom and routines.

Tēnā koutou katoa,
Ko Ben Nevis te maunga – My mountain is Ben Nevis (I was born in Scotland)
Ko Water of Leith te awa – My river is Water of Leith (Edinburgh)
Ko Air New Zealand te waka – I came to New Zealand when I was 2 years old
Nō Whakatu ahau – I grew up in Nelson
Ko Kirikiriroa te kainga inaienei - I live in Hamilton

Ko Blair taku tāne - My husband is Blair

Ko Hamish, ko Zoe, raua ko Calum aku tamariki - Hamish, Zoe and Calum are my children
Ko Jenny taku ingoa – My name is Jenny

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

Therefore, greetings to you, greetings to you, greetings to us all.

We are learning to introduce ourselves in Te Reo Maori

Tēnā koutou  (greetings)

Ko   Waikato te awa.

Ko   Hamutana Rāwhiti te Kura.

Ko   Pippa te Tumuaki.

Ko               taku Kaiako.

       (Your teacher’s name)

Ko _________________ taku Pāpā.

Ko _________________ taku Māmā. (whaea)

Ko ________________ ahau.  (name)

        (Your name)

Tēnā koutou   (greetings)

Tēnā koutou katoa (greetings to you all)

This week we have also spent time talking about how we can make our classroom and our learning work well, and we are designing a class treaty together. This is very relevant to this time of year with Waitangi Day approaching, and gives us an opportunity to link our discussion with learning about Te Tiriti O Waitangi.