What Makes Living in Aotearoa Special?

Room 1 and Room 5 have been learning about New Zealand and we will be sharing all the things that makes our country special and unique in this movie!

We hope you enjoy our movie and please feel free to add your own thoughts about why you love living in Aotearoa! 😄

"Have you ever thought what make New Zealand special? WE DID! Our movie celebrates how unique Aotearoa is. "

Skipping Demonstration

Today has finally come!
Everyone at Ruapotaka School has practiced from week 1 this term and today we have finally presented what we can do with skipping ropes!

What can you do with skipping ropes?

Thank you to all our whanau who came to support us. 

Microscopes

Today Miss Min brought special microscopes to magnify our classroom resources.

We did not just see a range of resources magnified, but we learned how to take clear photos!

It was so much fun!

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

After reading the fairytale story The Three Billy Goats Gruff, we used match sticks to retell the story. 

Can you see the characters and the bridge?

Tongan Language Week

Mālō e lelei !

For Tongan language week, the seniors visited our classroom to show us the different types of traditional clothing. 

We learnt the names of the costumes; ta'ovala, kiekie, kava.
Boys wear different ta'ovala to girls.

Also, the costumes were hand-made. They were made with coconuts, bark, hair, and more. 

Happy Father's Day

Here is a short video of us sending special messages to our dads.

Hope this makes you smile (:

Daffodil Day 2018

HOPE

Today is Daffodil day and our school made daffodil flowers, thinking of the people who are fighting cancer, helping to cure, and their whanau. We added these special flowers onto our letters for the word 'hope', hoping that this will make everyone smile. 

Poetry Recital

The three finalists for poetry recital this year were Patrick, Mary-Grace, Gracie, and Alilia.

All four did an amazing job reciting their chosen poems in front of the whole school. 



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Ka pai!

2018 School Cross Country

Our school cross country for 2018 was amazing!

Regardless of the result, we are so proud of ourselves because no-one gave up nor stopped to have a break! We kept running to the finish line.

Congratulations to our winners!

Year 1 girls: 3rd place- 

Eve Ma'upese

Year 1 boys: 

1st place- Farhan

Year 2 girls: 

1st place-  Gracie Holani Muti

 2nd place- Toakase Matangito'aho

3rd place- Alilia Mafua

 Year 2 boys:

1st place- Piripi Kepa

2nd place- Daniel Ioelu

3rd place- Nicholas Luva

Welcome to New Zealand and Ruapotaka School!

Welcome to our two special visitors from Taiwan, Hunter and Kevin! 

The two boys will be staying at our school for the next 2 weeks and they are here to experience what New Zealand schools are like and how different it is compared to their home country schools. 

They stayed in our classroom in the morning and completed handwriting and writing tasks with us. 

I hope you enjoyed your time in our classroom!

The Three Little Pigs

This week we studied about the story, Three Little Pigs. 

Horace, Borris, and Percy were sent out by their mother pig to build their own houses with a warning about the big bad wolf.
Horace and Borris wanted to quickly play so they built their houses with straws and sticks as this did not take them long to build. 
On the other hand, Percy built a strong, safe house made of bricks.

We learnt that it takes a lot of time and effort to produce high quality work. 

Look at our houses that we made out of straws, sticks, and bricks!

Get, set, go!

Kiwisport is back with two coaches teaching us different skills.

Today we focused on balancing. We learnt that we use our balancing everyday, nearly every moment. Such as, sitting on our bottoms and not falling over, standing on one foot. 

We were given a special challenge to balance as we are walking with an animal bag on top of our heads! We tried not to use our hands. It was super tricky! How much can you walk with an object on your head, without it falling down?

Red Riding Hood

This term our inquiry topic is FAIRY TALES !

This week we studied about the story, Red Riding Hood. 

Did you know that the little girl is called Red Riding Hood because she likes to wear her red cloak with a hood?

Look at us with our red hoods on!

Skipping 2018!

Finally, the time has come for 2018 Skipping! 

We are going to practice awesome skipping techniques everyday to perform at our Ruapotaka School Skip-off!

Our school's first Powhiri

Today our school gathered together to end our term with a powhiri. 

We showed our respect for the Maori culture by staying silent and paying attention to the speeches made by the teachers and students. We also took part in our school karakia and waiata. 

Although we were unable to visit the marae, it was an amazing experience as we have only heard about it whilst studying Maori culture this term.

ASB Getwise lesson

How do you save your money?

What do you spend it on?

Today a special speaker from ASB came to teach us about how to save and spend our money wisely. 

We learnt all the New Zealand currency and to...

"Spend some, save some, and share some too!"

Last Hiphop session

Today was the last day of hiphop session with Jess. 

A huge thank you to Jess for teaching us some cool dance routines!

Making slimes

Room 10 students visited our classroom to make...

SLIMES!

 All you need to make fluffy slimes is...

- Borax

-Shaving cream

- Dye, or food colouring

It involved lots of stirring and mixing...

...and lots of fun and smiles!