In Ruma Waru, we have recently welcomed some new class pets – SEA MONKEYS, aka brine shrimp. We have been learning about water and water safety recently and thought that…

Kiā ora e te whānau The Swimming has been going well and for the most part the various classes who have been going down have had reasonable weather, albeit a…

Raranga Ika  This week we have been learning about Raranga. Raranga was traditionally used to make practical items like rope, baskets, and fishing nets. However, we wanted to use raranga…

Today Room 8 spent some time making silhouettes of spindly winter trees. Firstly they dyed the background with 3 different colours. After Miss Perry added a blob of indian ink…

This term we have been doing lots of learning in te reo Māori. We have learnt part of our mihi, how to write the date and names of days of…

Last week we finished filling our marble jar. We get to put a marble in the jar when we are spotted showing our Tawhai Values. We all had to work…

Room 8 would like to wish all our Mothers, Step-Mums, and Grandmothers a very happy mother’s day! Thank you for always supporting us and being so amazing. Enjoy your day!

Kia ora and welcome back to Term 2!As we settle in to Term 2 we have definitely noticed that the weather is a bit colder which prompted our chat about…

As I’m sure many of our whānau have heard, we have had lots of butterflies emerge from their chrysalis in the last few days. It has been a very exciting…

Today we had our first bike session! We all spent half an hour using the bikes on the track and we had so much fun. Even Miss Perry joined in….

We were so excited to have our first library visit this year, so much so that Miss Perry had us all there half an hour too early. After a bit…

After a full and very busy week, the Students in Room’s 8, 11 and 12 enjoyed some down time outside during this glorious afternoon! Some chose to skip, shoot hoops,…