Senior School Athletics Day

Finally the weather was good enough for the Senior School to hold the annual Athletics Day. All the students participated in sprints, vortex, high jump, quoits, and a fun event. It was a successful day with everyone trying their best at the events. Here are some photos from the year 6 girls competing in the quoits. Hopefully there may be more photos from other teachers.

Best wishes for the athletes that made it into Interschool Athletics. This will be held next Wednesday - weather depending!

Wanita in action.

High Flyers from Room 9!

Look at Azaliah's style as she cleared the high jump bar.

Cyrus in action.

Box Fit with Latu

Vincent showing us how it is done. Way to go champ!

Kapa Haka 14/10

Finally I have some photos of whole school Kapa Haka. Here is the school at the first Kapa Haka session for Term 4. They blew us away with their passion and power. Great to see the leaders include Pohutukawa and Room 9 students. Ka mau te pai.

Coding Room 9

Room 9 has started coding. I haven't seen the students so focussed and engaged!!!

We will be doing coding every Friday but students can do this at home also if they wish.

Having fun learning a new maths game - 100 or Bust

Ask us, and we can show you how to play it.

Home Learning Success

Here are the students from room 9 with 4 or more excellence grades in their home learning term 3. Mahi pai 👍

Olympic Home Learning At Assembly

Caleb proudly presented some of the fantastic home learning projects that we did finding out about an Olympic athlete at assembly.

Celebrating Our School Libriarans

Congratulations to Rhiannon, Noah, and Paora from Room 9 achieving their first feather as part of training to be a librarian.

Room 9 Presents At Assembly

We presented some of our Olympic Artwork at assembly. Thanks to Riki-Lee for introducing our work.

Duffy returns to Rangikura.

Here are Isaac and Lennox receiving Room 9's box of books.

Happy reading over the holidays.

"Yay, our new books. Thanks."

"This is getting heavy!"

Pohutukawa Basketball Semi-Finals and Finals

Congratulations to all those whose participated during this lunchtime competition in Term 3. A special thanks to the Rangikura Basketball A Team for being coaches for the teams.

Pohutukawa at Artsplash 2016 waiting and pumped to perform their Dance item.

On stage - sorry for the picture quality :(

Project Energise Comes to Rangikura

Cook Island Dancing

Watch Kupa show how it is done.

Cook Island Language Week

Sharing of Cook Island dance culture. Way to step up Vincent, Kassy, and Rosary.

Cook Island Language Week

Room 9 girls learning Cook Island dancing.

Cook Island Language Week

Cook Island students from room 9 sharing their culture and teaching their class mates. Here is Caleb showing Isaac and William.

Duffy Theatre

Duffy managed to save Ruby's dad and she learnt to read. Here Ruby and Duffy are reading and discussing books they have read. It was awesome because they told the story through different characters and it was funny. We learnt that reading can take you to different places and you can meet lots of people.

Duffy Theatre

Duffy goes to the wrong time and place and meets a ninja. Duffy and the ninja learn some moves. Duffy was funny because he kept hiding from the ninja.

Duffy Theatre

The Duffy show came to school and presented Duffy's Time Travel Rescue. Duffy had to go back in time to save Ruby's dad who died in the war. Ruby didn't learn to read as she had to stay at home to help her mum. Here Duffy meets himself as a baby as he travels in the time machine.

Space Projects

Some more of our home learning space projects. Mahi Pai!

Space Presentations

Here is Rhiannon presenting her space slide show to the class. She wanted to find out more about "Stars". All the students will be presenting their space inquiry this week to the class and then uploading these to their own blogs. Watch out for these.

Space Home Learning Project

Room 9 has been very creative in their home learning. Our home learning project was to make a 3D model about anything to do with space because we have been learning about space. We have a lot of unique, imaginative minds in room 9 as you can see from their models. We worked hard and took our time on our projects to do quality work. We made space ships, the solar system, space station, planets and more. Thanks for the support from home we had in this. Hope you enjoy looking at our ideas.

Room 9 and 10 getting ready for Te wiki o te Maori next week.

Matariki Celebration

Another picture of our Te Manu Tukutuku display. There are 3 types of manu tukutuku on display.
Te manu taratahi - a triangle shape kite, with "tahi" meaning one, referring to the plume at the top of the triangle shape.
Te manu patiki - diamond shaped kite based on the shape of a flounder.
Te manu kahu - combination of a manu taratahi with rectangular wings attached, and a human face.
Room 9 made kites made from natural materials. Toetoe for the frame. Raupo for the horizontal lines, and harakeke to bind the raupo to the toetoe.
Room 10 combined natural resources with wool and creative decorative design.
Room 5 also had some adapted manu tukutuku on display that they made with the help of their buddy class (room 9!). These were the type of manu tukutuku that we made at the Matariki Celebration Evening.

Matariki Celebration

Some wonderful helpers - Rhiannon and Riki-Lee.

Matariki Celebration

Wow, what a great evening.  Manu Tukutuku from Rooms 9 and 10 on display for the Matariki Celebration.

Te Manu Tukutuku

Wait here's more. Tiare and William working together to create their manu taratahi.

Te Manu Tukutuku

Work in progress of our manu tukutuku. Watch this space for more.

Carter Observatory

Astronauts Cyrus, Jaedyn and Aiden pushing the rocket to experience the shaking that happens when it blasts off.

Carter Observatory

Jaedyn, Cyrus, Vincent and Aiden experiencing " blast off".

Carter Observatory

Exploring the informative activities at Carter Observatory. A great place to find out more about space.