Pallet Gardens

As part of our Recycled Pallet Garden design process, we get to make our designs out of Lego and Popsicle sticks. We do this so we can see what our design will look like and to help us draw our back, side and front view for our final design.

Ka pai Kai

Today we were lucky enough to enjoy smoothies made by Rynelle, Gemini, Shyloh and Brooklyn, as part of our Ka pai Kai- healthy eating unit with Whaea Anna. Yum! They were delicious.

Descriptive Vocabulary

In Te Puawai we are learning to use more descriptive words in our writing. Today we had fun and used balloon rockets to help us come up with some descriptive sentences.

These are the sentences we came up with:

Ki-o-rahi

We are very lucky to have Wiremu Sarich from the Te Rarawa iwi coming in to teach us how to play Ki-o-rahi. We are practicing for the Matariki Games in Taipa later this term.

Year 5 and 6 Speeches

In Te Puawai we have been writing and presenting speeches. We have enjoyed sharing ideas and trying to persuade people to believe what we are saying. This year the year 5 speech winner at Paparore School was Lincoln Evans. The year 6 winner was Caedance Brown from Te Kauru. They represented Paparore School at the Far North Reap speech competition and both came third in their year level.

As winner of the year 5 speech competition, Lincoln got to say his speech to the whole school. The audience enjoyed his humor, facial expressions and ability to keep us entertained the whole time. When he said his speech in front of Te Puawai his peers gave him some feedback:

Feedback from Te Puawai to Lincoln:

Humor, loud, funny

Loud, funny, clear  

Humor - it looked like he wanted to be there, loud and clear voice, "presenting " get it?

Humor - punctuation.

Incredible ,funny, amazing words.

Confident, loud and clear, interesting

Humor - loud - eye contact

Well done Lincoln! You did a great job!

Ripper Rugby

Today some of our year 5 and 6 students traveled to Taipa to participate in a ripper rugby tournament held by Northland Rugby. We had an amazing time and all four of our teams made it to the finals. We have lots of excellent sporting talent at Paparore School. Our students represented our school with pride, showing our school values the entire day. They were commended for their integrity, sportsmanship and team work by the organisers and referees. Well done tamariki!

League

We are loving the League skills we are being taught by Jim and Kally. Every Tuesday afternoon we get to spend half an hour learning how to play League. We learn different fitness techniques, how to pass and catch the ball and our favourite, playing clap and catch!