Duffy's 25th Birthday

This week we also celebrated  Duff'y's 25th Birthday. We had a special assembly by Room 1 and 18. Our role model was Debbie Aitken. 

Debbie joined the Air Force in 2001 as a Logistics Specialist, later changing trades to Physical Training Instructor in 2006. 

Art Exhibition and 90 years of growing great learners

2019 Art Exhibition & 90 Years Of Growing Great Learners

On Tuesday 17 September 2019, we combined the opening of our Art Exhibition with acknowledging the school’s 90th Birthday. The exhibition opened at 9.00 am with a guest speaker, singing our school song and cutting a birthday cake! Family, friends and former students were encouraged to look at the art and stay for a cup of tea and some birthday cake.

Owairaka's Canvas Art. Thank you parent's for you support .

Room 12's Sunflower Art inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's  painting.

Rocket's in space inspired by Colin McNaughton's  illustrations from the picture 'Here Come the Aliens!'

Room 12 thought that the exhibition was amazing and the best part was every child got to have a piece of cake.

Tongan and Maori Language week celebration

Week  7 and 8 we celebrated Tongan and Maori Language week.

In Week 7 we had some students from Y4 come to visit us, They wore their traditional costumes and did a performance. Room 12 were impressed with their confidence and Manaakitanga skills.



Whaea Hamida helped us to learn some Tongan words and showed Rooms 11 and 12 some special items that Tongans use.

Writing 

This week we celebrated Tongan language week. I know that there are many islands in Tonga. We got to watch a video. Whaea Hamida chose Mattias from Room 11 to be Mr Tonga and she wrapped the Tongan flag around him.

Muhammad

We went to Nga Ringa Awhina with Room 11 and learnt some Tongan words. We got to look at some of the special items used by Tongans . Some students chose to stay and do Tapa art  with Whaea Hamida. Mr Tonga had  a special bag that had the magic of kindness.

                                                                                                                                                 Stella

 Maori Language Week 

During Maori Language week , we have been singing Te Reo songs like 'Tutira mai nga iwi' and 

 He honore.

We were getting better playing the 'Buzz game' by counting numbers to 10 in Te Reo. We had to remember say the word  'BUZZ' for the numbers 'Rima' and Tekau.

Rooms 24 and 6 's Assembly was really good.

Book Week Celebration

Owairaka Book Week was a great success. Thank you to our wonderful Library Team who organised such a great week for us.

Room 12 Writers:

Today it was Book Day. Book day is a day where you dress up as a book character. I dressed up as Hermione Granger. We had a Big Parade to show our costumes. Rooms 25 and 5 did an assembly. This week there was Stop, Drop and Read. We did Wally search and made Book Marks in the Library. We all had fun watching the parade and we all loved Book Week. Nora 

Today we had Book Week assembly. We had to dress up because if we didn't dress up we wouldn't look good on stage. Rooms 5 and 25 were doing the assembly. It went from 9:15 to 10:15. Rimu team teachers dressed up as 'The Hungry Caterpillar'. I dressed up as the 'Wild Thing'. My favourite character was the 'Cat in the Hat'. It was fun. Oscar

This morning the whole school went to the hall for Book day parade.  I dressed up as Harry Potter.  I saw my friend with a dog. My favourite book character was me. Huw

Buddy Reading with Room 8, A group of Room 12 students presented a play from their Journal to Room 8 students.

Images of Stop, Drop and Read

 Where's Wally?

We loved looking for photos of Wally that were hidden around the Library.

On Friday we got to dress up as our favourite Book Character.