Last week our class had a lot of fun creating a race between a tortoise and a hare. This week we are making our own running race between three characters. Here are some pictures of us in action.                                                           And here are the students independent creations....  Which project is your favourite and why? Thanks for watching.

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to go and some of the boys in action at their rugby game on Saturday! Levi, Kaiden, David, Ryan and Jack all play in this team and they were all working so hard for their last game. They got a great result with a well deserved win for their last game! It was also great to see Jack cheering them on as he recovered from chicken pox. Check out the action below!

Our class had a lovely afternoon writing about themselves on their blogs using Explain Everything. We are all enjoying learning how to blog and hope you enjoy reading about us!

Last week we were lucky enough to have some great people and their awesome big trucks visit us at Ara Tū Whakatā - Gilberthorpe School. We got to go inside and I am sure that everybody could hear all of the students sounding the horns across the whole of Hei Hei and Hornby! Thank you so much to  Miranda for organising and all the awesome people involved for giving our students this amazing experience.

Yesterday at 1pm a group of students all sat down during their lunchtime to listen to a story. This was a really special storytime because many other people were reading the same story at the same time throughout the whole country! This was called National Simultaneous storytime and we joined over 1,062,000 other people that were reading Hickory Dickory Dash at the same time. Below is a video of someone else reading the story in case you want to check it out.

At the end of term 2 we celebrated the end of the redevelopment of our school and we shared our new hub, building and classroom names. At our celebration each class did a little presentation to share with the other classes, hub, and our Whānau how to pronounce them and what they mean. Take a look at the presentations below to learn more about our names and what they mean.

We are very excited to begin working with our new buddy school in Auckland. We are going to follow their blog (see the link on the left of this page) and comment on their learning this term.  Our blog buddies are Room 8 from Wesley Primary School. We look forward to getting to know them a little better by watching their learning that they share on their blog.  We took advantage of the Warehouse Stationery 'Get NZ Writing' postcards to send some greetings to our new buddy class. We did a 10 minute Quick Write to send them a little message. We hope the mail will give them a nice surprise and Make Their Day!