Planting time in the garden

We had lots of fun planting the wonderful Zealandia plants we received as part of the Tui Schools Grow off competition.

Gaden club has started on Tuesdays at lunchtime.

We had a working bee on the weekend at the beginning of August where the Mokes helped us turn over the soil and add all that wonderful Tui compost as well as emptying the school compost bins, worm farm and copious amounts of blood and bone.

Malaysia comes to visit us.

We borrowed Malaysia for a wee visit to our class. It was awesome to see how much the children remembered from last years Roots of Empathy programme. Malaysia loves listening to us sing and will copy us as we show her how to pakipaki.

Robot making

Look what you can do with an old dvd player, some creativity and a few friends.

Technology fun

We have had several class technology challenges. Here are some photos of some of them.

New Computers

Room 12 has been lucky to have some computers donated from the Department of Internal Affairs. We have set them to good use and the children have been learning to set them up once they have had the school operating system installed. Sharron and Maree have been fantastic in helping us do this. A big thanks to the Department of Internal Affairs. We really appreciate this donation, publishing our work is now achievable.

Captain Barnacle's Adventure

Room 12 of Koraunui School have been visited by the famous author: Paul McNamee.He has been reading his true story to us for at least a month or so.His story has enlightened our class with understanding how pirates had to live back in the 1800’s.He has even let us have a treasure hunt for a mysterious bottle that was found by: Jayden T ,beside a massive rock the size of 1 whole classroom, at Mahina Bay.The bottle is no ordinary,Coke bottle but is a fragile,shell-covered,piece of 200 year old art.It contained:1 weird coloured rock,2 pieces of marmite-smelling,coffee-stained,extremely old paper and 1 piece of cloth that was helping the wax stay on tight.The wax was a mix of chrome and bronze.We all thank Paul for coming and sharing his story with us.

Keeping Kids Safe

We had a visit from the people who run keeping kids safe. They talked to us about different ways we can stay safe. Ben was chosen to help show us how he would keep himself safe when riding a Harley. First he needed a leather jacket and boots.

Maidstone Max

Maidstone Max on PhotoPeach

What if the BP Oil Spill had happened in Lower Hutt?

If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill

Click on the link to see a map of how it would affect us.

Silverstream Landfill

Allbrites 2

Remember to reduce, reuse and recycle!

Allbrites 1

Year Six Sam's Wold of Waste Trip

The Year Sixes were lucky to have the opportunity to do this trip sponsored by Hutt City Council. It fitted in well with our Take Action inquiry and showed us that we are able to do a lot more to keep our environment clean when we take personal responsibility for our waste.

We visited Allbrites where cans, glass, plastics, paper and card are recycled. We were able to see that sorting our recycling on rubbish day is really important.




When we visited the Landfill we saw how many people do not bother to recycle and just throw away many things which could be used by others.

More fantastic kapahaka

Kapa Haka at the sitech conference

More Take Action photos

At the end of Term One, Koraunui hosted the sitech interactive whiteboard conference. What an amazing reflection of our fantastic community. The feedback from visitors was overwhelmingly positive. Senior classes even had students presenting a workshop. How awesome is that. In our class, James was the presenter and he has done a wonderful job of passing his skills on to others in the class.

Our Kapa Haka and Pasifika groups both performed to the conference participants and were fabulous.

Take Action for Water 2010

Take Action for Water will be our main focus for the year for topic. It involves learning about healthy aquatic habitats and testing our local streams to see how they measure up. Our first field trip was to Korokoro Stream in Belmont which we discovered was in excellent health. Next we went to Oparu Stream in Lower Hutt which has been extensively modified by people and is in poor health. Here is a slide show of some of our trip photos. The video shows us in the Belmont Regional Park classroom getting ready to do our stream testing.

Swimming

Swimming has been our term 1 PE focus. We have done heaps of hard work and we celebrated the end of our lessons with some fun in the pool.

Self Portraits

We looked at some portraits by the artist Modigliani on the IWB. Mrs C showed us how the artist had given his subjects very long necks and included their shoulders. We used photographs of ourselves to draw from. Our pictures were created on black paper and then we blended pastels to create our awesome self portraits.