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Sunday, 28 August 2016

Kids to Town

Thursday 25th of August will go down in the Yaldhurst School history books for being an incredible day, where Yaldhurst School and Te Pihinga showed off how great they were to Christchurch.


Miss Sutherland and Mrs Spragg were so impressed with how well each member of Te Pihinga conducted themselves on the bus to town, in eating their morning tea outside the Art Gallery and as we waited patiently for our groups to start. 





 Next you all continued to be amazing as you walked around the Art Gallery looking at all the artwork. Mrs Spragg even got a compliment from one on the employees after her group left the Britten display. The lady was very impressed with how the group sat and listened to John (the fab volunteer who showed the group around).


Then Yaldhurst School performed to the large audience that had gathered. We are pretty sure Mrs T wiped a tear away after watching the junior school perform Tena Koe and It's a Rainbow. It was pretty mind blowing.



Finally you all sat down, ate your lunch and then walked like the Model students you are to the Botanic Gardens. And the photos tell us how much fun it was.








Ka pai tamariki for being so incredible and for showing Christchurch what a HERO school we are!


(And thanks fantastic parents for coming to help!)





Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Book Week

Te Pihinga have started back at school in term 3 with fantastic and positive attitudes. We were glad to see happy faces all arriving on Monday morning. We are all excited about week one because it is Book Week! We are exploring lots of new books and texts in Te Pihinga during our reading programmes. 

On Tuesday we had a visitor called Helen Taylor- a New Zealand author and illustrator, we were lucky and grateful to have Helen visit us in Te Pihinga. We were lucky enough to see illustrations from picture books illustrated and written by Helen, we saw the beginning (fine sketches) and the end results after they had been beautifully painted! After our visit we had a lot of children wanting to become authors and illustrators. 

We even got to ask some questions: 

Corbin: What inspired you to become an author and illustrator? 
Travis: How do you get your drawings so neat? 
Hana: Where do you get your ideas from? 
Chloe: Where do you get your drawing ideas from? 



Below are a few images snapped yesterday.