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Kia ora whānau, As a finale to Room 11 and 12’s inquiry unit we enjoyed a very successful Commonwealth Games Day at School. Students were split into three teams (Kenya, Jamaica, and England) and competed in four events. They were encouraged to give the events their best efforts with an emphasis on demonstrating the Tawhai…

Kia ora e te whānau This term Ngā Manu have been doing an inquiry rotation programme where each class had a 2-hour session every Friday morning on a specific aspect of their unit ‘Te Moana”. They then moved on to the next rotation. Each rotation covered a different curriculum area: Visual Arts – Paua Sculptures…

Kia ora e te Whanau Despite the wet weather, the tamariki of Ruma Ruma , Ruma ono, and Ruma whitu thoroughly enjoyed the Hauora Fun Day this morning! Here are some passing fly on the wall captures by the resident kaiwhakahua while they were under the Whakaruruhau with Vanessa Chatfield from Kelly Sport who taught…

Kia ora e te whānau Ngā Manu have been learning so much about our wonderful sea creatures so Ruma Rua & Ruma tahi had a real treat today when Madison brought in her honu (turtles) for a special show and tell! She showed the rest of the ākonga how to handle the honu, with clean…

It was an exciting first week back for our Ngā Manu tamariki as it was the much-anticipated trip to the Island Bay Marine Education Centre. The children not only had the chance to go exploring in the Rock Pools and find cushion starfish, crabs, glass shrimps, small black fish, snails, limpets, and anemones but put…

Kia ora e te whānau Whilst our Year 6 spent the morning at Avalon Intermediate, the Year 5 tamariki had a great morning making imovies using the 4 Tawhai Kura values, respect, responsibility, integrity, and resilience! After an instructional video on how to create the movies, they got themselves into groups of 2 up to…

Kia ora e te whānau In previous years, the Year 4 Tamariki have been able to receive their dictionaries in person from the wonderful and generous Rotary Club of Hutt River, but unfortunately it was not to be this year! However, Ruma Tahi & Ruma Rua were super excited and extremely grateful for the dictionaries…

After a busy week with lots of mahi, Ruma tekau mā tahi and tekau mā rua were very happy to enjoy some well-earned wellbeing time together! Here are a few photos of them drawing, playing games, building or being creative with cardboard boxes!

Kia ora e te whānau It was a wonderful day for our Ngā Manu tamariki as they got to enjoy their first assembly for the year under the canopy this morning! Ella & Brydon did a fantastic job as co-presenters for this assembly. Mr Whiteman was very proud to present the Principal Awards and Ella…

Room 12 had a much welcome short break from this morning’s mahi and went outside to enjoy a bit of fresh air and the delights of the beautiful array of Autumn leaves that have fallen everywhere in the grounds! Even Miss Duffy had a go at being buried in them!

After morning tea, the fly-on-the-wall photographer happened to to capture a ‘sing off’ between Room’s 3 & 4 and 14 & 15 as they went through the repertoire of some of the waiata that they have been learning during their years at Tawhai Kura!

Room’s 1 & 2 spent some down time outside on wheels during part of the middle block! Some had brought along their scooters and were happily doing circuits around the forecourt. For those that wanted to cycle, they either had their own bikes or used the school ones! Early next week, a notice will go…

Room’s 9 & 9a were outside for a breath of fresh air and exercise this morning and decided to challenge each other with a great game of volcanoes & ice creams…….It was such fun!

It has been an absolute pleasure to get to know the 2022 Room 15!  We have had a magnificent and very busy start to the year. We have looked at the Tawhai School values and used these to make our Class treaty. (This year we have had to add in something about masks!) We have…