Celebration Friday

It was another fantastic week in Te Pihinga! All of the children in TP are showing attributes for being Enthusiastic Learners towards their learning. 

As this week was New Zealand Sign Language Week we were lucky enough to have two very special visitors from the Senior School, Jorja and Nikita visit us in TP on Friday, we were taught new signs and how to sign our names. We even had two of our own in TP sharing their wonderful knowledge of Sign Language- Ka pai Alexis G and Emma W. 

On Friday, we began our Junior Sport Rotations with four sports to explore- Soccer (Football) with Mrs White, Hockey with Mrs T,  Netball with Mrs Spragg and Rippa Rugby with Miss Sutherland. We all saw fantastic team work, what a great way to learn some new skills and develop some skills we may already know.  

Fridays are always a celebration of the week where we are able to share our wonderful hard work with our friends. We even got to celebrate as a whole school in the Wharehui for the HERO Awards. 

We had many amazing TP children up the front receiving their awards, and many more to come, keep working hard towards your goal team, you are all doing very well. 

From Miss Sutherland and Mrs Spragg. 

First Day Back For Term 2!

Welcome back everybody from Te Pihinga! A special welcome to our lovely Te Kakano students who are now apart of our Te Pihinga family- we are very pleased to have you with us on our journey.  

We have all settled in very well, Mrs Spragg and Miss Sutherland are very impressed with your flexible and resilient attitudes to all of the new and previous changes. We have already noticed that our readers, mathematicians and writers have improved over the holidays and in Term 1, thank you TP families and TP children, we are looking forward to seeing how we all improve this term. 

We have taken a few images from throughout the first day and the teachers have seen some enthusiastic learners especially in Geometry and other learning areas. Enjoy! 

First Aid Training

Today we had the lovely lady from St John come and teach us a lot of wonderful skills to help in an emergency. We got to listen to a story, to practise using some telephones and we got a whole box of patches.

Check out some photos:

TP Learns to be boat safe

We had such a great time learning how to be boat safe with our swimming instructors. Check out our photos.

TP gets Boat Safe on PhotoPeach

Beach Education

What a fantastic day Te Pihinga and Te Kakano had at Beach Education today. It was a beautiful day and the beach was sparkling. Everyone was very excited to be going on a bus and going to the beach. I think the parents and teachers were as well, from their big smiles.

We spent some time learning about beach and water safety from our lovely lifeguards. Alexia got to be a mini lifeguard and rescue Louis.

Finally it was time for togs and to get in the water. There aren't any photos of us in the water because we were all having too much fun. The adults who were in the water were very impressed with the way all the children were so brave in getting into the water. Many of them tried going out further than they would have normally and there was a lot of squealing and delight on all the children's faces. Mr Robertson also had a lot of fun, surfing the ways like a professional.

After lunch we played Fruit Salad and then built sandcastles on the sand. There were some amazing creations.

Then sadly, it was time to get our bags, get on the bus and go back to school But it was a really wonderful day.


Beach Education on PhotoPeach

Orana Park Trip

What a fantastic day Friday was. We were so impressed with the smiles, listening, thinking and involvement everyone had as we travelled around Orana Park and learnt about animals and how we can help to change their lives.

Thanks to all our wonderful parents who came along and supported the children in their learning.

Orana Park Trip on PhotoPeach

Learning how to use Chromebooks

Some of Te Pihinga were learning how to use the Chromebooks today with Mark from Learn, Create Share. This is what some of them produced.

 Well done - it looks fantastic!

 

Athletics Day Photos

Athletics Day on PhotoPeach

The senior medal winners

Literacy Time in Te Pihinga

Here is a look into our morning. 

Mr Robertson is reading the Big Book. The Three Billie Goats Gruff is coming alive.

Our personalized learners are setting up their week. They have to reflect on how they managed their learning last week and set goals for this week.

Miss Rockell is taking a reading group. They are reading about snails. Excellent discussion is happening around how hard it is to process meat versus vegetables.

William is having his 10 minutes reward time for completing his writing. Great to see William making the most of the space and zooming through his work.

It is a busy place in Te Pihinga but there is so much learning going on.

Birthdays and Math Whizz

The holiday's were a busy birthday time. We had a number get a year older. We had to write a number of birthday certificates. Check out all our 'old' students.

This term we are working all together to become great Math Whizzers. Because we are now one class we all have the ability to be top of the Most Improved. Top of the chart at the moment is Parwin. She had this to say:

The thing I like about maths whizz is that it teaches you things that are in maths like addition subtraction and many other stuff and every day I try and do 60 minutes a day or 30 minutes.

 A great encouragement to the rest of us Parwin.

A good first week so far. 

Here are a couple of photo's from our Year 4 Athletics practise, well our 'fun' sprinting practise anyway.