A day in the life of a Coastguard

We were very spoilt to have a session with Coastguard volunteer, Maria Heer.

She presented a fantastic interactive session to our class yesterday.  We learnt about what a coastguard does and how we can be safe out at sea.

Her key message was ...

wear a life jacket and...,

make sure it fits! 

We tried on a range of life jackets.

A fun and learning rich session.

Thanks Maria!

Construction Time

New bristle blocks arrived for our class to use in maths. The children were very keen to try them out and use the instructions to make the objects the could see in the pictures.

Look! Here are some of our capable builders.

Good bye Mrs Russell

On Friday we said farewell to our lovely afternoon teacher, Mrs Russell.

We presented her with a lei that we had made and sang to her at assembly. In the afternoon Mrs Chester took a couple of photos of us together. A smiling face and a silly face one.

Thank you Mrs Russell for the lovely card and gifts you gave our class.  We will enjoy reading the books you gave to us.

We hope Mrs Russell enjoys her new job and visits us often.

Team Work

What a great example of perseverance and team work.

Here is a photo of some very happy boys who completed our new 100 piece floor puzzle.  It took time, team work, patience and good communication skills.

Great to see you working together and enjoying a challenge.  Well done team😀

E.O.T.C with the Rangers

We explored the bush using some of our senses.

Touch

Can you find the right tree just by touch?

Paula was excellent at using touch to find Ranger Bronwyn's tree.

We were relating well with others by being careful leaders of those wearing the blind folds.

Smell

We used our scratch, scratch, scratch fingers, our dab, dab, dab sponges then our sniff, sniff, sniff noses to explore the smell of different trees and plants in the bush.  Each plant had its own special smell.

We made our own bush 'smellies' using leaves off the forest floor.

Thank you Bronwyn, Denis and Madelyn for helping us learn more and explore the bush.  It really was a wonderful day!

Education Outside The Classroom

The year 2 students had a hugely exciting and learning rich experience in our native bush yesterday.  Ninety children along with teachers and parents travelled by bus to Arataki.  We went in a bush walk and spent time with our local bush Rangers. 

The bus ride

Assembly point

On the bush walk -up hills

Down hills

Poisonous berries

Poisonous Toadstool

Kereru- Wood Pigeon

Weta

Supporting Fiji- Cyclone Appeal

It was so good to join with others in thinking about and responding to the devastation being experienced by the people of Fiji as a result of the recent cyclone.

One of our class members was in Fiji at the time the cyclone hit and has shared his experience and what he saw with us.

Thank you to all our NWS families for supporting today's coin trail and for the continued donations of food items.

Here are some photos of our class placing coins on the coin trail map of the islands of Fiji.