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?