Movie making

At Paihia School we have all been making movies. The theme was story telling. In Te Awa we retold the story "How zebra's lost their colours" by Janet R Adams.

Here is the MOVIE LINK

Here we are making our movie

Anna and Rieko

Pania, Akira, Ryder and Bodhi

Ezekiel

Back row: Pania, Evie, Ryder, Mia

Front row: Akira, Ruby, Ezekiel, Bodhi, Kowhai, Rieko, Ella

Cross country

On Friday we had our anual Paihia School cross country. For many of our Te Awa students it was their first experience of a school cross country. I was very proud of all of the Te Awa students. They all gave their best effort and had a great day. For alot of them the bus ride there was a highlight, as it was their first time on a school bus.

Ella and Ruby

Keirah, Thebe and Ella

Anaru and Akira

Ryder and Wolf

Rieko and Parker

Layla and Sage

Keirah and Thebe

Bodhi, Aotea, Pania, Thebe, Ella, Parker, Ruby at the start line.

Parker, Ruby, Layla, Rieko at the start line.

Pania, Thebe, Ella, Parker, Ruby at the start line.

Bodhi, Aotea, Pania, Thebe at the start line.

Rieko at the finish line

Ella and Ezekiel at the finish line

Thebe, Layla and Bodhi at the finish line

Sage at the finish line. Very impressive, as Sage has only been at school for a week.

Aotea

Wolf and Khayson

Maia and Evie

The bus ride back to school

Khayson and Rieko

Akira and Aotea

Rieko pretending to be asleep, with Khayson and Ella.

Parker and Layla

Making Matariki Kites

 We have been learning about the Matariki stars

We are learning about Ururangi. Miss Simmonds thought that Urururangi was the smallest star (but she was wrong). Hiwaiterangi is the youngest star.

Ururangi is the star connected to the winds. It tells us what the winds will be like for the coming year.

Ururangi is the higest star in the Matariki group.

We made kites to celebrate Urururangi. We gatthered sticks from our playground and we used colourful wool to weave our beautiful kites.

Keirah

Khayson

Anaru helped Mia with her kite.

Aotea, Rieko, Thebe, Layla, Anaru, Anna, Akira

Ruby helped Ezekiel 

Anaru helped Evie

Ruby and Ezekiel worked together.

Anaru's beautiful kite. He did it all by himself.

Khayson

Ryder and Pania

Pania and her beautiful kite

Walk to the beach to check the tide

Today we walked to Paihia beach to check the tide. We are learning about the ocean this year and this Term we are learning about tides. Thank you very much to the parents who came with us (Marcus, Jimmy and Natasha). We would not have been able to do our walk without your help.

The tide was very high today. We made a mark on the boat ramp. Next time we visit we will see if the tide id high or low.