Harakeke

Welcome to all from the Harakeke Room!!

We are the New Entrants at Welcome Bay School. We have only just turned 5. We can already write some words on our own. We love learning about the computer and the programmes and activities that we can play on them. We especially love swimming!!!

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Welcome to 2010

The new school year is about to start....wow the holidays have gone fast!!

This year it is hoped that each class will have their own blog which will be linked to this collaborative team blog. The digital era is upon us, and as teachers we are trying hard to embed this technology into our everyday teaching....watch this space!!

We are all looking forward to this year - lots of exciting things are going to be happening.

Term 1 is all about team building, relationships, setting the class climate....and lots of swimming!!!

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Junior School Athletic Sports

Friday the 27th of December was a lovely sunny day thankfully as it was the day chosen for the junior school athletics.

The children participated in a variety of events including: sprints, long jump, throwing, high jump, novelty events and games.

The children all participated with enthusiasm and had a great day. Here are the photos:

Junior School Athletics on PhotoPeach

Cross Country

Our school cross country took place in Term 2. All children trained hard around our school field. On the actual cross country day, the whole school walked up to Waipuna Park, where the school cross country was to take place. There was a pre-schoolers race before each year group had their race. All children did very well. Here are some photos of our children running:

Welcome Bay School's Cross Country Term 2 2009 on PhotoPeach

Junior Block Upgrade

During Term 3, the junior classes moved out and the builders moved in.

The entire block was gutted and 3 new classes, a shared office, 2 utility rooms and a resource room were created.

We have been in the new block for about 1/2 a term, and have really enjoyed working in our new spaces. We created 3 very different classrooms through colour - a green room, a blue room and a red room. We wanted to use bright primary colours in these rooms as they are children's rooms. We linked the rooms by using the same blue in each room. The office is a different colour - octane, as we wanted a "grown up" feeling in our workspace. We think they look great!! Have a look below:

Junior Block After the Renovations on PhotoPeach

Art Week - Term 3 2009

Our whole school was involved in an art week. We had an Environmental focus for this. The juniors decided that we would liven up our sandpit area and our fence behind the Junior Playground. Here are some before views of this area:

We invited parents and whanau to help the teachers and children with the enormous task that we had set ourselves. We thought of this week as a starting point....we were realistic.....we probably wouldn't finish this project in a week!!

Well, the week came, and we had fantastic support. We were able to get a huge amount of work done. Here are some pictures of this work:

During Art Week on PhotoPeach

After this huge effort, a few parents continued to help out - on a daily basis!! We have finally finished the sandpit fence and the fence behind the junior playground. The children also worked on cutout butterflies, bees, dragonflies and fish. These will be displayed behind gardens, the bag bays, and the junior shed. All children also painted a rock to put around our gardens. Look out for them in the photos below:

Post Art Week - Getting our art up on PhotoPeach

Using ICT in Maths

Room 1 have been using the Kidpix programme to create repeating patterns (algebra). We used the stickers to make the patterns, the paintpot to colour in the background, and typed in our name using the text tool. Most of us needed help to write our name.

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