Congratulations: Kaitlyn Crafts

Kaitlyn was really proud of her recent achievement in gymnastics and wanted to share it with all of you!  Congratulations, Kaitlyn!

Great chapter chat activities: Week 6, Term 3

Well done to Anita who has been working with real focus and care in her Chapter Chat activities at school and home.  Take a look at her fantastic invitation to the Party Truce!  Ka mau te wehi, Anita - AWESOME work!  I love how you've used the real images, considered your font carefully to match the theme of the book and

Rataka o te Wa: What's on for Week 4 (Term 3, 2018)

Rataka o te Wa: What's on for week 4

Check out Slide 3 below for Rataka o te Wiki: Week 4, Term 3

Kia ora parents, students and whānau,

• A reminder that on Wednesday, the school is closed due to teacher strike action.  Please ensure you've made other arrangements for child this day and we greatly appreciate your support with this.
• Don't forget to remind your child to make sure their devices are fully charged at the start of the day and to bring their chargers every day please.
• The field remains wet and muddy, despite the fine weather over the weekend.  Please remind your child that if they're playing on the field at play times, they should bring a spare change of clothes so they can return to class clean and dry.
• Today was our last sessions for Badminton and Tennis... it's been great to see the kids enjoying themselves as they learnt to get out there and volley.  Next week we will start a new focus for PE, around Winter Sports, so please make sure students have a change of clothes and spare shoes on Mondays from now on.
• Please also remember that Monday is now our homework day and homework books need to come to school every Monday.
• Last week we launched the Epic reading app... we are currently working through some issues around this and use of it at home.  Please be patient and stay tuned for updates!
• Students: don't forget to check the timetables below (and in the whānau rooms) to see what workshops are on each day and make sure you're booking in for these!

Our Visit From a Police Officer

Steve Rumney came in a shared a great presentation about how technological advancements have changed the way he does his job as a scene of crime officer. We really enjoyed being able to ask him questions about his job and hearing his police stories.

Scene of crime officers lift fingerprints from crime scenes and assess potential forensic items such as blood-stained clothing or weapons. They lift, preserve and package evidence.

Scene of crime officers:

• attend crime scenes and gather, preserve, package and document evidence to help in the investigation of the crime
• dust for fingerprints, shoeprints, collect trace evidence and DNA.

Our First Guest Speaker for Technological Advances

On Thursday this week, we were lucky to have Corrin Hulls come and talk to us. He was able to show us some great examples of how advances in technology have made things easier in his job.

A fun way to prove how good the advances were was the race we had between the original blood pressure tester (sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope) and the newer automated sphygmomanometer.

There was a huge difference in the time each method took!

Posting Guidelines for SeeSaw

Term 3 Timetables