Healthy Snacks

Pt England school is able to provide healthy snacks of milk and fruit to the children thanks to Fonterra and the Fruit in Schools scheme.

Maggie and Pene Mu enjoying their apples and milk.

Chevelle munching into her apple

Remembering the korero

At assembly on Fridays Mr Burt asks us to remember the previous weeks korero.  This week Maggie and Fateh were both able to remember a korero and they were not shy about answering in front of all the school.  They each got a principal's award sticker.  Good remembering  Maggie and Fateh.

Gardening with Mr Vogt

At Makerspace we are learning about respect for our environment.  The garden in front of our class is looking very dry and sad so Mr Vogt suggested we dig the soil over, replenish it with some potting mix and add some "worm food" to see if we can grow some plants.  The children were very enthusiastic diggers and manage to make a good patch to plant some strawberry plants in and make it look more like a garden again.

Happy diggers

Chevelle and Logan

Maria hard at work

Mariposa's Rainbow Story

With the hot but often stormy weather that Auckland has been experiencing of late, there are often periods of short heavy rain then out comes the sun producing a rainbow.  Mariposa saw the beautiful rainbow and wrote about it this morning and drew a lovely picture to go with his story.

"I saw a colourful rainbow up in the sky."

Learning to Use Hyperstudio

Not only are the children learning to use their iPads but they are also learning to work in Hyperstudio on the computers.  Mrs Fester comes in once a week to help the children use a different digital media requiring the children to learn to use  a "mouse".  They were all able to produce some colourful drawings.

Nate and Logan working on their drawings

Swimming Lessons

Learning to swim is an important part of our physical education programme.  The children have daily lessons for two weeks and already their confidence in the water has grown.

More Team Work at Kiwi Sport

Working as a team means that everyone needs to co operate in an effort to get the job done and this is what Room 16 had to do to pass a hoop around a circle with everyone holding hands.  There was lots of laughing but everyone helped with encouragement and ideas on how you needed to pass the hoop along the circle.  We also had to keep a ball between a pair of children while trying to sit down and stand up.  Alexandra and Alazye were the first to work out how to do this.