We are learning about perseverance - episode 3 (final)

http://vid.ly/7n2r9f

Eden Albert Culture Festival 2016

What an amazing festival!

We are all very proud of the ten groups who performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural Festival on Saturday 26 November.

The groups who performed were: African, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Japanese, Kapa Haka, Niuean, Samoan, Scottish and Tongan.

A huge thank you to all of the children, staff and families that made this day such a success.

Awesome Owairaka, awesome!

You can see more photos from the day here.

Room 6 builds a bug hotel

As a follow up to our planting and gardening in our community in 2016, Room 6 decided to build a "bug hotel" at Owairaka Park, as a habitat for creepy crawlies and pollinators to live in.

Thanks to the awesome and creative Heather Lyall for guiding us through this project, Room 6 you worked extremely hard to get this project done in one and a half hours!

We look forward to working with you again in 2017 Heather.

Caught Being Good: Questyn and Casey

Congratulations Questyn for your persistence and effort to give the Scottish Cultural group a go! You were amazing on stage at the weekend.

Casey, Room 6 has noticed your excellent attitude to school this term - you have given thought and enthusiasm to all activities in class, and you had a HUGE smile on stage with the Niuean Cultural group.

Room 6's super star athlete

Room Six is super proud of Casey... she represented Owairaka at the Eden Albert Athletics day last week.

Casey was in the long jump, 100m and 200m running races, and she also ran in the 8 year old girls relay.

Some of our seven year olds can't wait til next year, when they will be old enough to race and compete for our school as well!!

Caught Being Good - Eli and Ronan

These super boys have had a great term four. 

Eli has been focused when learning to write a narrative about a character who perseveres. Really interesting to read!

Ronan has continued to use excellent manners, AND he can use a number line to help count backwards.

Keep it up for the rest of 2016 boys.

We are learning about perseverance - episode 2

http://vid.ly/3j6i8k

We are learning about perseverance - episode 1

Green Day Certificate - Joyce

Room 6 had a great Green Day in term four - we spent the morning taking extra special care of our school chickens. 

We cleaned and tidied their coop, gave them lots of fresh greens to eat, and even let them have an extra long walk around the gardens.

Well done Joyce for winning our Green Day certificate - you helped raise awareness about our environment by dressing totally in green!

You can read more about the day at 
http://www.owairaka.school.nz/green-week-term-4/

School Focus: Be Caring

Puriri Athletics Day 2016

Fair Play Awards

Caught being good - Bruno and Lorenzo were spotted competing hard at the Puriri Athletics last week, while also showing an awesome sense of "fair play" when supporting their classmates.

Excellent example to set for others boys, well done.

Garden to Table - and our special visitor!

Last Wednesday was a very special Garden to Table. We had a guest chef to help us prepare what may have been our most delicious menu yet!

Many thanks to Jasper's dad, Merouane, who taught us how to make both savoury and sweet crepes. 

It is always great to have families from Room 6 come along to these special lessons. If you are keen to volunteer, we have two lessons to come in 2016, on Wednesday 16th and 30th, both at 11.15am.

School Assembly - Victor and Joyce!

Well done Joyce - caught being friendly and helping others in the playground by our Kauri Team peer mediators.

Victor - you have perservered through 2016 with an awesome "Growth Mindset" attitude to learning. You don't mind a challenge, and are great at encouraging others to keep on trying!