Certificates for Week 6

Congratulations to Dante who received the Principal's Award for Week 6. She has been persevering with her writing. 

Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate recepients. They were Christian, Mazzlin, Sienna-Nicole, Troy and Connor. They have been working diligently with our art for our end of year production.

Gaming leads Auroa School students to a moa

CATHERINE GROENESTEIN

Last updated 17:37, November 11 2015

Two youngsters keen on video games have proved their skills can be educational.

Auroa School's Kaiah Bloor,12, and her brother Durann,11, won the supreme award in the second annual Moa Awards in Opunake on Tuesday night.

The two teamed up to make winning movie The Bum Race, an imaginary journey around Taranaki.

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Kaia and Christian Moeahu from Opunake.

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"They sat on their bums all around Taranaki. Each photo was a still and they used stop-go animation," principal Heath Chittenden said.

"In between, they've got video gaming noises, magic boxes appear they can punch to get more points and they get to fly on broomsticks."

Chittenden was thrilled with the win, as well as the swag of other awards the school's students achieved.

"The calibre across the whole cluster is extremely high. We have some pretty talented students and teachers here," he said.

This year was the second time the technology awards for students of Matapu, Opunake, Auroa and Kaponga Schools (known as the MOA Kluster) have been held.

Parents were begging for tickets to the sold-out awards night, Opunake Primary School's Hannah Williams said.

The theme for the night was Star Wars and the school principals all dressed as characters from the movies. 

Awards were presented in 10 different categories, including Te Reo, blogs and graphic design, animation, short movies and educational video. 

Finalists were driven to the awards in classic cars and entered via a red carpet, Williams said.

The awards were started to help the four schools incorporate digital literacy and new technology into their curriculum, Opunake Primary deputy principal Leo Frank said.

"The nice thing is that all our traditional subjects are in there, behind everything there is learning going on that reflects the curriculum, its just a really good, interesting way for the kids to learn what they need to learn."

"The kids who have an artistic bent have a real chance to scratch that itch, its really nice to give them that opportunity."

 - Stuff

Certificates for Week 3

Congratulations to Alex who received the Principal's Award for the week. He has been persevering with his maths assessment to show what he has learnt throughout the year.

Also congratulations to Luke, Connor, Christian, Troy and Sienna-Nicole for their diligence in their maths work throughout the week.

The nominations are in...

Congratulations to everyone who has been nominated for the MOA Awards. Room Totara have been very lucky to have eight nominations over seven different categories. 

Our class nominations are:  

Nominated for Best Music Video - Intermediate

Room 15 - Fun, Fun, Fun 

(Whole Class)

Nominated for Best Te Ao Maori - Junior

Christian, Levi, Alex - He aha te tae?

Nominated for Best Graphic Design - Junior

Madison - Said Poster

Tyrone, Alex - Ice and Fire

Nominated for Best Animation - Junior

Dante, Reece, Caitlin - Mana Means PRIDE

Nominated for Best Te Ao Maori - Intermediate

Jessica, Sienna-Nicole - He Aha Te Tae?

Nominated for Best Book Trailer - Intermediate

Levi, Luke - Best Mates

Nominated for Best Teacher ICT

Miss Ogle - Teaching with ICT: Reading Portal

Students will have letters sent home which invite them to the MOA Awards event.

Art: Movement with Lines

We are getting ready for our Calendar Art. Here are some photos of us complete Step 1 and 2 of our Art. You will have to wait until next week to see the finished product. 

We will be presenting this art at Calf/Lamb day next Thursday as well.

We hope you will come in and see what they look like.

Certificates for Week 8

Congratulations to Jessica who received the Principal's Award for the week. She has been demonstrating PRIDE in her school work.

Congratulations to Sofia, Sienna-Nicole, Sienna, Christian and Connor. They received the PRIDE Certificates for this week. Keep demonstrating PRIDE everyone.

Term 3

We have started Term Three off with a hiss and a roar. Room Totara has jumped right back into lots of work.

Today we saw the launch of Mana the Lion and all of our PRIDE rewards. Each class received a box of goodies with PRIDE Certificates, Mana Moments, Mana Tick-its, Principals/Deputy Principal's Certificates and our very own Mana.

We have a very large Mana the Lion (80cm tall) which Room 12 were proud to be presented with for the week. They were the best class during Assembly this week. Room 15 hope to receive Mana proudly in the next few weeks by demonstrating PRIDE in Assembly.

These students were just some of the students who received Mana Moments in class today:

Daily 5

This week in Room 15 - Totara we have been working hard on our Daily 5 activities.

 Shakshi is 'Working on Writing'. She is writing about a happy time she has had with her mum.

 Tyrone and Joel are 'Listening to Reading'

 These students are completing a 'Word Work' activity using the dictionary. 

Troy, Tamzyn and Sofia are 'Reading to Self' by reading their poem and completing an activity.

ITM Cup

Here are some more photos of when the ITM Rubgy Cup came to visit our school. You will even find a photo of Mr LeProu who couldn't resist having his photo taken. 

Certificates for Week 3

Congratulations to Sienna who was awarded the Principal's Award for last week. She has been working diligently in her Daily 5 Reading Activities.

Also congratulations to Tyrel, Christian, Connor, Shakshi and Madison who received the PRIDE Certificates for Week 3.

Reading - Super Senses

This week for Shared Reading we have been reading about Super Senses. We read about dolphins and how they use 'echolocation' to identify where objects are. We tried it out for ourselves.

PRIDE - Swimming Pool Expectations

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the rules and expectations while at the swimming pool. We have discussed as a class what we should see while at the pool. Members of the class have been putting posters and videos together to show others what we should do and see.

Click on the videos below to see the first of the videos created in Room Totara.

Reece, Alex, Sequoia, Shakshi and Troy

Tyrel and Christian

Levi and Connor BD

Anika and Dallas

Caitlin, Madison, Kade, Mazzlin and Luke

Week 7 Certificates

Congratulations to Anika who received the Principal's Award for Week 7. She has been persevering and working diligently, especially in her reading. 

Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 7. They are Shakshi, Dante, Tyrone, Tyrel and Christian.