Kia ora Whanau,

It has certainly been a week of flexibility this week. Again, I would like to apologise for the confusion around swimming. We feel terrible for getting the kids excited only to have to postpone it a week. I can confirm that we are all on for swimming from this coming Monday onwards. It will run for two weeks, 9 sessions. Please refer to our original notice for times and additional info as it is all correct except the minor detail of the dates!

Yesterday you should have received a notification about a new school jersey design. Check your SchoolAppsNz app for info if you missed this. We have some very cool jerseys available for purchase through Adventure Outfitters that this time around are heavily subsidised by our amazing PTA. You can find the order form link here:

https://forms.gle/VJ2tjHG6pmgeMFn28

I would like to reiterate that if $40 is a stretch at the moment but you would like to get a jersey for your child, please do get in touch in full confidence and we can work something out.

Ka mihi nui,

Gareth Swete

It was great to have so many children participate and we look forward to checking in with everyone at the end of the week to share out the spot prizes.

Report by Kyla

Report by Mrs Campbell

Hello from Hine-Rau-Wharangi. This week we have been super busy working on and learning new Math games for our rotations. We have especially enjoyed playing Snakes and Ladders to enhance our forward and backwards counting skills and are beginning to do some work on building up our fractions knowledge. We had a great session at Kelly Sports and it has been awesome playing alongside our peers at different sports activities this week, it is certainly showing us the importance of cooperation and communication skills.

The highlight for us this week was the walk and wheels day on Wednesday, we loved all of the amazing dressups. We are really looking forward to our swimming sessions next week.

Report by Mrs Brewer

This week I have loved seeing how many children have been able to get activated on their way to and from school. Our walking bus on Wednesday morning was a huge success with so many bright colours and creative outfits - what a way to start the day! Our class has been collecting data each morning about our modes of transport to school and we are using this data to create our own bar graphs. This is helping us to understand how tally charts work and how we can interpret data from our graphs. We have also been graphing other data such as our favourite colours and pets as a whole class. Over the coming weeks, this will lead on to the children coming up with their own investigations where they will collect data, display it on their own graphs and then use these graphs to report their findings back to the class. We have been learning some simple Māori waiata this week. We are learning the sign language actions to go along with them and have also been playing the ukulele (not both at once of course!). Our next step is to get to know the lyrics really well so we can sing them as round robin songs. We continue to work on our visual pepeha - hopefully we will have these finished soon so we can share them with you! We had another fantastic Kelly Sports session on Tuesday. We were working on our throwing and catching skills. Terryn had us throwing bean bags in a race to fill the other teams' hoops before they filled our own. We also played a throwing and catching game with the soft balls where we were allowed to bring a new team mate over every time a ball was caught by them-the aim to get our whole team over first. This really made us think about our throwing and catching skills as well as ensuring the catcher was ready and watching before we threw it to them.

Report by Mrs Swete

This week in Ranginui we have been learning about dinosaurs. We learnt the speed they travelled can be worked out by their footprints. We watched videos to learn about their teeth. There are different types of dinosaurs - carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

We have been brainstorming in our writing books. We drew a cloud and put our name and date on it, then we brainstormed the words brain, arms, legs and neck.

Report by Francesca and Oliver

To add more detail and impact to our writing we have begun exploring Figurative Language, focusing on similes and metaphors this week. Both similes and metaphors compare two things but a simile uses the words like or as, whereas a metaphor does not. We have found we are pros at using similes, but metaphors can be a little more tricky to make sure we are still comparing two things! Check out some of our AMAZING similes and metaphors below. Can you work out which is which?

The monster’s teeth were like sharp daggers, ripping into anything that crossed his path.

His teeth are sharp kitchen knives, tearing into anything that dare stands in his way! By Eligh

Her eyes were fireflies glowing in the dark. By Isabella G

Bob levitates objects like a superhero. By Christian

His orange pelt is fire blazing through the city. By Isaac

Bucky’s white and blue eyes are like the sky. By Monty

Fred is a crazy child, jumping around the house. By Emma

His wings are shining stars, glowing in the sky. By Isabella R

He has a twisting tongue, as pink as a flamingo. By Lewana

Report by Miss Laing

This Week's results:

Futsal

SBS Villa defaulted to

SBS Spurs 3-1 W POD Stevie

SBS Gunners 8-3 W POD Harrison