Saturday 30 September 2017

Silhouette Artwork



Check out Room Six's amazing silhouette artwork! We practiced mixing colours to create our unique backgrounds, to represent the sky, land, and sea. We added silhouette cutouts of our chosen animals.


Happy Disco Day - from Room Six


Monday 25 September 2017

Caught Being Good: Zoe C



Caught Being Good - Zoe C has been on the lookout for ways she can encourage others around the school this term (adults and children alike).

Nice one Zoe, you have been super supportive and a great leader for your peers.


Friday 22 September 2017

TIF @ Room Six

As the end of the week approaches, it is important that we all keep our standards high.

Welcome to Tuck In Friday, Room 6's way of showing Owairaka that we are at our very best, right to the end of the learning week!



Monday 18 September 2017

Hockey Lessons at Owairaka





Hockey is the latest sport that the Puriri team has been learning. We picked up heaps of new skills - things like coordination, control, footwork, passing.

Thanks to the coaches at Kiwisport who came to teach us this fun new game!


Sunday 17 September 2017

Room 6's Brilliant Bell Monitors


With the Kauri team busy practicing for their exciting production, it fell to these two organised and responsible girls to make sure the school bell rang on time each day last week.

Thanks for your effort Saana and Joyce, you did an awesome job!


Friday 15 September 2017

School Certificate: Zoe M


School certificate this week went to Zoe M - who is ALWAYS caring and thoughtful to her classmates and the people around her.

Our school focus right now is Be Caring, and Zoe is a great role model of this.

Tino Pai!


Green Day Term Three


Thursday 14 September 2017

Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week

Take a look at some of these photos of Room Six, who worked together to make our local area a nicer place to be this Keep NZ Beautiful Week.


It was great to collect 11 full bags of rubbish. But it was also sad that we collected so much waste from such a small area, we were within sight of Owairaka School the whole time.





Zoe C's dad gave us a demonstration of how the rat bait stations work around the maunga.


It was really special for us all to make it to the top of Owairaka (Mt Albert) and check out the awesome views. 

Thanks to all the super parents who gave up their time to come along and be part of our clean up day.


Wednesday 6 September 2017

Kahawai



A School Journal story - set in the post apocalyptic future, after all the computers have crashed and life is hard, a grandmother and her mokopuna row a dinghy out to salvage materials they can sell. They catch a live kahawai which is both a great surprise and of real value. They decide to put it back.

Tuatara reading group had to write a 'diary entry' about what they would do in this problematic environment. Here are some of their efforts...



Today I will go into that polluted ocean and pick up all of the rubbish in it. Today I will also go into the ocean and try to start breeding new fish in the ocean.
In the afternoon I will go onto the land and ask some people to plant trees on the land with me.
We would try to get rid of some of the flooding water.
I would ask some people to help me make some containers and we would have a massive clean up.
We would try to make some new cars.
It would be hard but our team will try.

By Bruno
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This morning I woke up in a shed, because I live in one.
I went out for breakfast, I had mudcakes and they were yum!
Then, I went to clean the ocean with Olly. Olly will help me put the rubbish from the sea in the bin. I really want to go out on a boat and put more fish in the sea.
Next, I went to go and plant some more trees with Bruno.
By Jake
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I woke up and rushed down the stairs and and made myself a small breakfast of mud fritters.I  was super excited, today i was going to try clean up the place. I planted more trees and picked up lots of rubbish and fish junk out of the water. At the end of the day I felt great.  if everyone did the same, the country would get cleaned up in no time.

By Keane
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Apocalyptic Auckland                            
I find myself in apocaliptic Auckland. I would hate to live (blabbering) no animals. I’d make a society to clean rubbish , dig for seeds and save fish. I would search and search for clean water, stone forts for homes. I wish i had an ipad . I really hate dead leaves for breakfast. Whew it's hot, especially my hand (fire noise’s)  ahhhhhh my hand is on fire!!!!
By Arlo
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I live in an old old shed. it’s rusty. it has holes in it . I t was hot when i got up to go outside. I’m sweating a lot!!! i live on mt eden island . I need a boat to go anywhere. for breakfast i had mud i didn’t like it but it’s better than nothing . Later on, I went Through the Forest, i had a lot of fun. I picked up rubbish with Keane from the sea. It smells. I Was tired. tomorrow i will do the same routine.
By Theoden
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I am kid in the future Auckland. Every day I breed fish to make more fish. At about 10.00am I go out to sea and pick up rubbish so the baby fish don’t die.In the afternoon I go back to land and I dig for seeds to plant a forest to make the animals come back. Then I go back home and eat noodles for dinner. Well, they were noodles, now they are fried worms!
By Oliver
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Tuesday 5 September 2017

Caught Being Good: Jake


What a great role model we have here - Jake has impressed this term with his super attitude to all activities and learning in the school day!

Keep up the awesome efforts Jake.


Friday 1 September 2017

School Certificate: Hood


Happy Book Week everyone - and special congratulations to Hood, who was our school certificate winner this week. 

Hood is always keen to read, and he keeps his reading log up to date each week. Nice one Hood!