Week 9 School Merit Certificate Winners!
Check out this week’s Kauri superstars who have earned school merit certificates. These students continue to be great role models for their peers, and Ōwairaka thanks them for their awesome efforts. Keep up the fantastic work!
Maritime Museum
Kauri Team were lucky enough to go to the Maritime Museum to learn about the journey of our ancestors to New Zealand and importance of looking after our ocean.
Thank you to all our parent helpers that made the trip possible.
It was a fantastic day!
Kauri Certificate Winners Week 8 Term1
Congratulations to Week 8’s Kauri Merit Certificate Winners! A great example of displaying the school values of manaakitanga, manawanuitanga and kaitiakitanga. Keep up the awesome work!
Cultural Unity Day in the Hive
Tuesday was one of our favourite days of the school year. We got to wear our own (or another’s) cultural dress and listen to many of the home languages that are spoken in our school. We also got to try delicious foods from different countries.
It is a great way to learn more about each other, and how we are different in some ways but the same in others!
Thank you to all the families that support us to hold this amazing day.
The Pod in Action!
The weeks are rushing by furiously and our students have been very busy! There have been the staples of Maths, Reading, And Writing, of course, but we have also experienced Social Studies (NZ History), Garden to Table, Spelling, Handwriting, Swimming with coaches, Kapa Haka, and Te Reo Māori.
Writing workshops aim to focus on one skill. In the following short pieces of writing, the focus is to use many adjectives and adverbs to create descriptive writing. This was the picture prompt for the quick write:
A little girl named Marry Nguyen was lost in the dark room. It had a dark television. She turned it on nervously and then it had a lot of mixed colour in it. She thought it was just a background and one second later the colour it starting to melt slowly and it had a smell sweetly, She tasted a little bit and it was not candy it was paint, and she feels dizzy now. [Sony, R17]
Tina opened her tired eyes and was shocked as she saw a humongous TV that was glitching. Tina was scared but shook off that feeling in her and tiptoed to the television. The TV glitched and glitched until all of a sudden this rainbow goo splashed onto the floor dripping from the inside of the TV. Tina watched as the goo dripped onto the floor of this dark room, Tina decided to be brave and touch this mysterious substance. Tina touched it softly and it gave her body a little tingle. After a while she was covered in this rainbow goo. [Bethany, R17]
He woke up lazily from his sleep. He went to the lounge five minutes later and went to the lounge to see the tv was colourful and the colours were dripping quickly. He went to get a ginormous bucket to clean up the super big mess. [Trinity, R16]
48 year old Sophia came from the giant rainbow TV and saw the most beautiful world in the universe that her eyes lit up with the colour of a rainbow. The rainbow dripped lazily in a daze but the TV leaked on Sophia’s clothes and Sophia said “I don’t want to be here” and the TV put her back in the real world. [Dylan R16]
Here are some photos of The Pod in Action:
