Homework Certificates

Congratulations to our Homework Award Recipients. They have completed their homework each week this term and were awarded for their efforts. Well done to Levi, Alex, Mazzlin, Sienna, Tristan, Dallas, Aila, Shakshi, Sienna-Nicole, Luke and Tamzyn.

Certificates for Week 4

Congratulations to Luke who received the Principal's Award for Week 4. He has been persevering to make great progress in his maths.

Congratulations to Sofia, Dallas, Madison, Levi and Tyrone for receiving the PRIDE Certificates for demonstrating PRIDE in different areas of their work. 

Safety Vests

The school received their safety vests to wear while waiting for the buses today. Here are some of the students wearing their vests. 

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.

Week 1 Certificates

All students have worked really well this week and it has been a challenge to choose just one person to receive the Principal's Award. We have been working to complete some art work for the Indoor Exhibits for Calf/Lamb Day. Aila has demonstrated great perseverance and diligence in completing her artwork. 

Our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 1 are Annabelle, Aila, Jessica, Luke and Shakshi. Aila, Jessica, Luke and Shakshi has put in extra time over the holidays to write post to their blogs. We also welcome Annabelle to Room Totara. She is learning the runnings of our class and it fitting in well to how we work and complete activities.

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 6

Today has seen another week of certificates being handed out to people showing PRIDE.

Luke and Levi were recipients of the Principal's Award for their effort in completing our Round the Mountain Challenge.

PRIDE Certificates also went to Mazzlin, Madison, Dallas, Aila and Dalia. They have been persevering in their Stop Motion work and complete reading activities at home.

Round the Mountain Challenges

Congratulations to Levi and Luke who have completed the Round the Mountain Challenge. They have completed 153 laps(km) in our preparations for cross country. They have run the equivalent of running around Mount Taranaki.

These boys have also reached their goal that they set at the beginning of the term. 

Also congratulations to Caitlin, Caleb, Christian, Dallas, Tristan, Shakshi, Jessica and Sienna who have reached their goals that they set.

Certificates for Week 5

Congratulations to Troy. He received the Principal's Award for Week 5. He is a student who is always demonstrating PRIDE and will persevere to get all of his school work completed to a high standard.

Congratulations also go to Connor, Luke, Tyrone, Caleb and Tamzyn. They have been demonstrating PRIDE in their work as well.

Opunake Flooding News Report

Here is the first of our News Reports that are being created this week for our writing. We have used our recent flooding to work on writing news reports. Keep an eye out over the next few days for the other news reports.

Here is the news report from Luke, Troy and Tristan.

Certificates for Week Two

Congratulations to Aila for receiving the Principals Award for Week Two. She has been persevering to get her work completed and then posted onto her blog. 

You can check her blog out and the blogs of other members of our class by clicking on their names on the right hand side of this blog.

Congratulations to Jessica, Troy, Alex, Luke and Shakshi. They have also been putting in a great effort to get their work completed and posted onto their blogs.

Homework Certificates

Congratulations to those students who brought in their homework each week for Term Two. For their efforts they each received a certificate and a prize. 

PRIDE Certificates for Week 8

Congratulations to Troy, Levi, Luke, Alex, Shakshi and Jessica who received the PRIDE Certificates for Week 8. They have been persevering to get all of their work completed and ready for our Open Day which is happening at the end of the term. Keep persevering.

Visiting Teachers from Tawhiti School

Well done to Alex and Luke today. They were chosen to share our work with some visiting teachers from Tawhiti School. They were able to share the work they have done on Google Drive and Google Slides. They also got to use Apple TV to show the teachers our Learning Portal and our class Blog.

Thank you Luke and Alex. You have done your class and teacher proud. 

ITM Rugby Cup

Yesterday we were lucky enough to get to see and have a photo with the ITM Cup. The cup came around each classroom and we were able to have a look at it and talk about it. Here are some of the photos taken of us with the cup.