Our final Library visit for 2017

Our exciting Wednesday Walker adventure

For our final Wednesday Walker adventure of the year - we took a walk to the new bridge over the South Western motorway. We were excited to walk a new route, and had heaps of fun crossing high over the motorway.

Wednesday Walkers will be back next year!

Caught Being Good: Arlo

Room Six moved to a new room on Monday. It was a crazy day, so we talked about showing "initiative" when moving all of our resources. Well done to Arlo, who was an excellent, energetic helper.

Thankyou Khaalid!

Well done Khaalid - thank you for proudly sharing your knowledge about incubating baby chicks, and the life cycle of chickens with Room Six. We were so impressed how much new knowledge you have!

Cultural Festival 2017 (just a few photos)

But go to http://www.owairaka.school.nz/latest-news to see plenty more!

Caught Being Good: Tamati

We have had a super busy few weeks practicing for the Eden Albert Cultural Festival. Children have worked with their tutors twice each week to put together some amazing group dances and songs. 

One Room Six student who really stood out during practices was Tamati, who persisted in an activity that he wasn't sure about to begin with. You were great on the day Tamati.

Ka mau te wehi!

School Focus: Be Responsible

School Certificate: Emacyn

We had our final Community Gardening trip for 2017 during Green Week, and it was great to see the energy and enthusiasm Room Six attacked the overgrown beds with, after an extremely long and wet winter.

Well done Emacyn - who got particularly grubby hands digging and raking a whole lot of garden beds!

Puriri Athletics - Room 6 place getters

High jump

Shot put

100m running

200m running

Long jump

Caught Being Good: Brandon

We had a great day in the sun at Puriri Athletics last Friday. There was some close competition for places, and some excellent support and encouragement of classmates.

One person who competed well AND showed a great sense of fair play was Brandon - well done to you!

School Focus: Be Healthy

The Chicken Whisperer

"Get back to your coop!"

Puriri Fitness Week 2017

Netball in Room Six

Have a look at some of the photos of Room Six practicing their catching while jumping, from our most recent Netball lesson at school.

Caught Being Good: Oliver

Our Caught Being Good certificate for this fortnight goes to Oliver. He has found a great balance in class between being a great, responsible learner, while at the same time being friendly and funny when the time is right.

Great to see you enjoying your learning day Oliver!

Term 4 - Wear a Hat at School

Remember to wear a hat at school - every morning tea and lunchtime in term 4.

School Focus: Be Organised

School Focus: Learning Together

Caught Being Good: Bruno

Great start to term 4 Bruno - you were showing that you were ready for learning from the very first block on Monday morning. You had some useful times table strategies to help solve some very tricky maths questions with your group.

Our Final Garden to Table lesson

Thanks to the super Ms Best and the Garden to Table team for giving us such great learning experiences in the kitchen and the garden during term three.

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

Room Six 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

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.

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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