To celebrate Maori Language Week, Room 5 have been learning to count from tahi all the way up to  rua tekau, and to help them do that they have been…

We had quite a bit of special news in Room 5 today. Annabelle shared some lovely video clips of her family settling into the Kiwi way of life since leaving…

The next few weeks are going to be pretty busy as everyone learns speaking lines or songs, dance moves and makes props for the upcoming production in Week 10. Here…

For special news today, Ellie, with the help of her Mum Jody, brought in her pet Axolotl Smokey housed in his portable aquarium much to the delight of Room 5….

This Friday, there were several children who had special news to share in Room 5. Baxter showed everyone the skull of a ram that had been found on a farm…

The Maths group in Room 5 spent some time this morning learning to play a great “Paper, Scissors, Rock” type game involving odd and even numbers. The children were divided…

During reading time in Room 5, the children have been given some additional literacy games to play and they are thoroughly enjoying them especially the scrabble which has become a…

It is always great when the students in Room 5 have photos to go with their Friday news as the class really enjoy looking at the photos while they listen…

This morning it was the turn of Room’s 5 & 6 to visit both Koraunui Marae and the Koruanui Stokes Valley Library. On arrival at the Marae, the children spent…

Yesterday Room 5 student Baxter shared a great experience with his class that he had undertaken on Thursday, the Tough guy/girl challenge which took place over in Wainui. He was…

Room 5 thoroughly enjoyed their first session this morning with Marvin & Didi from the Lower Hutt Football for schools programme. They all were given a ball to begin with…

Friday is the day that the students in Room 5 can share news with their classmates. They usually bring in their favourite cuddly toy, book or car, or something that…

Room’s 5, 6, and 7 have now started group maths across the 3 classrooms from Monday to Wednesday, using BUILD Maths. This involves small groups rotating around 5 crates packed…

Munro was so excited to share his special news with Room 5 on Friday. He had played his first game of football ever for his Stokes Valley Team the Saturday…

A great final Kapa Haka session to round off Term 1 for Room’s 5, 6, and 7 with Matua Whaitiri. They went over songs that they had learnt during the…

Marlie had a very special piece of news to share with Room 5 this morning. A new edition to her family in the shape of a 12 week old Rottweiller…

For today’s Kapa haka session with Room’s 5 & 6, Matua Whaitiri introduced the art of basic poi swinging. It is hard but with lots of help from Whaitiri and…