Puriri Teachers 2017

Caught Being Good: Sahar

Our school focus right now is "Great Learners". Sahar is a great example of this because she is focused in learning time, and has worked especially hard in writing to put together some awesome sentences!! Well done Sahar.

School Focus: Great Learners

Room 6 "Weet-bix TRYathlon" CHAMPIONS

These are the seven superstars who participated in, and COMPLETED, the Weet-bix Tryathlon this past weekend. 

Well done - Zoe M, Hazel, Lincoln, Cole, Zoe C, Saana, Alan - we are super proud of your efforts. 

There are many other Room 6 children who have been encouraged to give it a go next year after seeing your smiling faces and shiny medals at school today.

Race Relations Day 2017

Owairaka school was a rainbow of colours this Friday, as we celebrated Race Relations Day with the theme of "Unity". 

We had a parade in the morning, where every child shared their cultural costume on the stage.

Later in the day, the WHOLE SCHOOL got together for an amazing, delicious shared lunch (feast).

Thanks so much to Jane (Zoe C's mum) who shared the story of William Tell and a bit of Swiss history with Room 6. We were hanging on every word of your retelling!

Check out pictures of our cultural costumes here...

Caught Being Good: Raksha

Raksha was our Caught Being Good winner this week. She was spotted being a responsible and helpful gardener when we worked at the Community Gardens on Monday. What a great example for others Raksha, well done.

Room 6 - Community Gardens

Room 6 spent Monday morning helping out in our Community Gardens. We helped our friend Heather from the eco-neighbourhood to dig holes for new swan plants, weed and mulch some garden beds, and check out all the insect activity in the Bug Hotel we installed in term four last year!

School Focus: Getting Along

Caught Being Good: Hazel

WOW Hazel - your teacher was super impressed with your efforts in maths problem solving this morning. You listened to others and shared ideas with your group. You know how to use different strategies to figure out an answer!!

Green Assembly Winners!

What a great Green Day we have had in term one. Well done to our super certificate winners:

- Saana for completing 50 walks to school
- Leilani and Cole for being caught with healthy, wrapper free lunchboxes
- Joyce was recognised for her awesome leadership of young children during a fire drill
- Keane was our class certificate winner today, for being organised and thoughtful in learning time.

We are learning about screen printing

Have a look at the awesome results from our screen printing activity this week. We kept Green Week in mind and collected leaves from outside, before we learnt all about the art process.

Thanks to our awesome helper Paula for encouraging us to be so creative!

Happy Green Day from Room SIX

Caught Being Good - Lincoln

WOW - what a great couple of weeks from our superstar Lincoln. As you can see from the certificate - Lincoln is not only organised for learning, he comes to school excited to learn! What a great attitude, keep it up.

Buddy Class - Learning about Similes

Puriri Jump Jam

Puriri team has assembly together every Monday. Classes take a turn sharing work, we present certificates for super learners, and we alternate weeks between singing and Jump Jam. Here are a couple of photos of the (seven!) classes jump jamming together.