This term for Inquiry we have been learning about the New Zealand native trees planted in our Papa whakaari. After learning about the different plants we picked one to focus on and learnt more about what makes it special and how to be a kaitiaki of it. All of us were put into a group. We chose between making a poster or a card game in these groups. Here are our amazing results. Thank you to all the whānau who came and checked these out during our Day of Action on Friday.
Last week we took a moment to acknowledge the huge amount of work Amy has done over the last two years in completing her full teaching registration! Koha in Ata Hapara also completed her full registration. The school put on cake and we all celebrated with Amy throughout the day. Thank you Amy for all the hard work you have put into teaching Papatūānuku this year! We appreciate you!
After completing a unit on Geometry – Space and Orientation focusing on directions and mapping, Whaea Emma’s maths class got to have a Beebot day. After learning to program Beebots through the online portal, we created our own code to move our Beebots through a maze. You will see us testing our code in the video. We found that when there were problems with our code we had to change some of the directions. We also completed some challenges that Whaea Emma set for us around the studio.
It is the end of the term and time for the holidays! We hope you have an amazing two weeks of holidays. We are looking forward to starting back in Term 4 on Monday 9th October.
Papatūānuku were coached by the legends from Touch Canterbury on some beginning skills. Have a look at what we learned. Thanks to Courtney and Marcella for organising such a fun morning. This is Papatūānuku – Touch Magic
Today the whole school dressed up as their favourite dress-up character from classic novels, modern bestsellers, and everything in between. From Harry Potter’s Hogwarts robes to Super Mario, the creativity from everyone was great! Have a look and see if you can tell what book characters these students have dressed up as:
Each Friday in Papatūānuku we read a poem together. As our poetry day fell on the first day of spring we celebrated by reading a poem called ‘Spring Party’. We read the poem together and brainstormed all the amazing things that show us spring is here. What do you love about spring?
As part of the Cool Rise Team’s programme this term, Jude has been making bird masks with each kaiawhina group. It was Māwhero’s turn this week! Here are their birds in the forest masks. Thanks Jude!!!
Today the whole school celebrated their success of filling up the token box. Students get given tokens at school when they show the RISE school values or do amazing things such as picking up rubbish at break time. The students voted for a bouncy castle day.
Mitre 10 supported Rāwhiti by providing the bouncy castle. Here are some photos and videos of Papatūānuku enjoying their token box reward.
This term Whaea Emma’s Maths group have been working on Multiplication and Division. We have been looking at equal groupings and different ways of explaining our thinking. We were given the task to create an Explain Everything summarizing our learning this term. Here are the results!