Kahurangi @ WS 2018

Kia Ora whānau rāua tamariki,

Welcome to week 2! Last week our tamariki really enjoyed our Badminton and Tennis skills sessions. Badminton sessions are run by Shuttle Time New Zealand in the hall on Wednesday mornings. Please help your tamaiti (child) to remember to bring appropriate footwear for these sessions. These sessions will run for the first four week of the term.

With the weather still a bit hit or miss, we ask those students who are keen to get out for a kick around (when the fields are open) to bring a spare change of clothes. We love to see our akonga enjoying the fresh air - but it can sometimes result in muddy and uncomfortable afternoons!

Our Library day has changed this term to Wednesdays. This allows us to work in with Badminton and Tennis sessions on the Wednesday morning and minimise disruptions to our POD programme.

The Navigator Centre are running our Whakarongo School Assembly this week. Assembly starts at 2:15pm in the hall. Crazy Hair Day is to be held on Thursday 9th August (week 3). Please bring a gold coin donation to support KidsCan on this day.

For our Conceptual Curriculum unit this term we are looking at ‘Technological Advances’. To provide another level of hands-on-learning, we are keen to set up a tinkering station. If you have any old technology lying around that you DO NOT WANT BACK, please send this into school so we can take it apart and investigate what technology is inside!

Alternatively, if you have an example of old technology that has since evolved, we would love to see this also! (These items will not be pulled apart!). It is great for our ākonga (learners) to see real life examples and relate to past technological items!

This week the homework consists of students having conversations at home with parents/grandparents about a piece of technology that is now not around anymore or has been superseded by something more modern.

For those students who would like extra homework, there is basic facts and spelling homework available on the blog for students to access, alongside with Chapter Chat activities.

Ngā Mihi,
Kahurangi Pouako