Category: Celebrating Student Success

Kia ora koutou,

After many years of sharing the amazing learning journeys of our tamariki here, this blog will no longer be updated. It has been a privilege to celebrate the creativity, growth, and achievements of our diverse students at Ōwairaka District School.

While this blog may be closing, our commitment to sharing learning remains strong! For the latest updates, please check out our Facebook page or our school app, where we will continue to showcase student successes, events, and important learning opportunities.

Thank you for being part of our journey. Your support, encouragement, and engagement have made this space so special.

Ngā mihi nui,

Rimu Nui

As we have been looking at invertebrates in class, we had some special visitors to class to observe. On the first week we had snails and slugs and the second week we found decomposers in the compost. The creatures doing the “chewing and pooing” to make soil. Some children made bugs out of construction materials, and some collected garden waste to feed the decomposers.

This week was Maths week so we had a time themed Discovery Time. We read a funny story “The Time it Took Tom” and then timed each other doing different activities. We discovered we have some very fast people in Rimu Nui! We also made a picture half day and half night.

Fantastic effort in dressing up Room 6! Every one looked wonderful in their costumes.

Obleck

During Science we are learning about solids ,liquids and gases. We found out that Obleck can not be classified as only one. It is sometimes like a liquid and sometimes like solid. It was loads of fun finding out how it changes.

Last week Room 6 looked at the colour blue and then we used our 5 senses to describe it. Look at the awesome descriptive, poetic writing they did in response to this.