Week 9

Three students went to Tauranga to compete in the Aims Tournament. Stefan, Robyn and Georgia. Georgia has written " Basketball Aims was a fun and competitive event. Our final game against Te Koutu was so hard. We traveled back & forth to Tauranga every day and teams from all around New Zealand came. It was a great experience."

On Friday 10th September Hinerangi, Carla, Paige, Amber and Steffany competed in a fun quiz night against 6 other teams. Steffany wrote - "It was a really fun activity and we won best dressed as Vampires, our team was named 'Blood Sucking Vampires!' We all won spot prizes which was great. Our most difficult question was to name one of the Top Gear presenters."

Week 8

Apirana Ngata Whanau Evening


What a sad way to start the week knowing so many people in Christchurch were suffering. In Rotorua we can sympathise as to how scary a quake can feel but to go on for such a long time and have so much damage to be cleared, fixed, checked...must be intense.

Christchurch Earthquake



Our class had 7 students absent today (Thursday), I myself cannot get rid of a cough, students are learning to cough into their arm so that germs are not spread by hand so much. I am not sure how many actually go to wash their hands before eating though!



Aims week and A1 has 3 students at this sporting event - Stefan, Georgia and Robyn - well done you 3.



Spellathon took off slowly after the mad week of mathletics. Students are asked to obtain sponsors to raise funds to help beautify the school environment. A1 has used Spelling City to list their words, this is a great, fun site to play while also learning. Have your students show you the games to play with our list of words.



Apirana Ngata Whanau evening was held on the 12 August - a well represented event. Possibly the venue was too small, next year we will know better. The students stayed at their stalls explaining their learning to parents. Teachers dressed up to make us laugh, there were give-aways and real live animals on show. To top the evening off students performed for us.