Maiyah from Pukeko class is always showing our school values in our community. As part of her giving she donated food to the homeless at one of the Rams basketball games. Maiyah donated the most food out of anyone and as a reward for her amazing efforts Pukeko class got a visit from Marques Whippy, Canterbury Rams Captain. We had a great afternoon learning some skills take a look at what we did! Thanks Maiyah for being such an amazing giver and thanks Marques for teaching us!

MJ has been loving watching the news lately. He keeps himself up to date with all the latest information and makes sure he watches the latest weather forecast too. He loves sharing everything he learns with us as our own personal News presenter. Take a look for yourself and see how awesome News Presenter MJ is!

Last week was Duffy book week! We had amazing author and illustrator Scott Tulloch join us for a pretty great time. He read us a story, showed us books he'd written and illustrated, and inspired us that it's never too late to follow your dreams. Then finally of course he drew an amazing portrait of Miss Waho, can't you tell! Everyone in the whole school got two books each, we are so lucky and we love our Duffy books sooooo much. Thanks Warehouse Logistics Team and Duffy! Scott's wonderful picture of Miss Waho Weka class and their books Pukeko class and their books Kiwi class and their books Kea class and their books

Kiwi Class read the story 'The Three Cattle Dogs Gruff' by Chris Gurney. It is a New Zealand version of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. Just like the cattle dogs in the story, we all thought about ways that we could trick the taniwha so that we could cross the bridge without being eaten. Here are some of our wonderful ideas. 

Each week we study a new letter and we try to base our writing experience around this. It can consist of cooking, reading a book, science experiments or a craft activity. This week our letter was Rr and we got to use our new kitchen space to create our goodies. What could we be making? Check out our photos and video at the end to find out.

We have been working on our large ball skills this term. We began with passing, bouncing and throwing with our hands, then we have moved into passing and kicking with our feet. Today we ended our lesson with a Big Kick Competition. Well done Connor A for an amazing kick for the win!  We also had lots of fun on Wednesday doing relays with balancing activities. We balanced ribbons on our heads and even did egg and spoon races. We have really been enjoying being able to be outside learning in this lovely weather. 

Today we had fun in the sun while some of our hub was away at the snow.  We split into four teams and had lots of different relays. The children loved participating in a range of different relays using different pieces of equipment. It was great to see them displaying our values especially Choosing the Right Attitude and Play! Bring on Summer!