Visual Art in Room 13

We have been learning about the famous New Zealand artist, Robyn Kahukiwa. We looked at lots of her artwork and we chose one piece to inspire our art.

We practiced drawing faces like this. Then we stopped and talked about the features and proportions of a face. It is important to get things the right size and in the right place! We used brown dye and black crayon. Then we created Maori inspired borders for our pieces of artwork, we learnt about koru’s and what they mean.

Our artwork is displayed in our classroom.

Here are four examples of our finished work.

The Tuli Family Say Thank You

We had the privilege of rowing in our ‘waka’ and touring the ‘pacific’ with a performance from the Tuli family in honour of their sister Sosiana.  We feel blessed that we could give a little during mufti-day to support Sosiana and were overwhelmed with the aroha extended back to us from the entire family.

MY RECOUNT

Watching the Tuli family during their performance made me feel excited.

First Mr Tuli performed a Tongan dance.

Second the Tuli family performed a Maulu’ulu from Samoa.

Finally Mr Tuli introduced all his family performers to us.

It was a fantastic show and I’m glad we gave to the family for mufti-day.

By Devon

MY RECOUNT

Watching the Tuli family performance under the fale made me feel so happy because their performance was done beautifully.

First Mr Tuli and his group performed an amazing Tongan performance that is only performed for royal people.

Then they performed a Samoan sasa and Fijian fan dance that was very upbeat and entertaining.

Thank you Tuli family for visiting and dancing for us, we are happy that Sosiana is doing well.

By Fesui

Week 5 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for achieving best attendance

Room 18 with 96%

Room 13 with 92%

Room 2 and Room 23 are tied for third place with 90%

 Who will be the winners for week 6?

Week 4 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for best attendance.

 Room 2 with 95%

Room 21 with 90%

Who will be the trophy winners next week?

Water Safety

In term 3 last year, our seniors from Room 18 and 19 were learning the value of swimming safely in the water and on a boat.  The opportunity made possible by Kiwisport funding and the Otara Leisure Centre staff.  The programme was on Mondays and each week the children, parents and teachers were excited about the new learning children gained from the experience.

Room 19 boys learnt a lot and wanted to share this learning with you.

 

I have learnt that it is important to wear a life jacket on a boat every time.  By Latrell

We learnt that you need to take warm clothing and signalling devices on a boat trip so you can stay warm and can get rescue teams attention. By Asera

If you are in the water you need to make a huddle to stay warm from each other’s body heat and keep injured friends alert and protected. By Sila

And do you know where the REFLECTORS are located on a life jacket?

While we can’t wait to share with you more learning in the weeks ahead, until then stay safe and ALWAYS WHERE YOUR LIFE JACKET… IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Click on these links to see the learning in action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfnbG4yUSbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7FUZbsy6Y

Week 3 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for best attendance.

Room 23 with 100%

 Room 13 with 96%

Room 18 with 91%

Who will be the trophy winners for week 4?

Kids Drama Show at Yendarra

The STORMWATER game show visits Yendarra School!

Last week Friday (7th May) we watched a Stormwater game show. My favourite part was when the presenter said ‘pause’ and the family froze. This made me laugh because the actors were awesome with their funny faces.

We were all cheering on our friends Jasmine, Tiare and Tukia who were the lucky children that got picked to participate in the show. They had to answer some hard questions about our water system. But they did well.

I felt so happy when Hannah said “Remember that…outside drains should only drain rain” because that’s what we learnt in our class.

 

It is important to learn about our storm water drains so we know how to look after our water system and ocean. For example: If my mum and dad wants to wash our car on the driveway at home, I’m going to tell them to wash our car on the grass or at a car wash because we wouldn’t want the soapy dirty water to go down the driveway into the outside drain and then flow into our ocean.
By Valentine (Year 6)

 

My reading group read an article about Wellington’s underground water network. This article helped me understand the importance of stormwater and what I can do to help our environment. Like when I see rubbish around our outside drains, or even around school, I will pick it up because I don’t want rubbish going down our stormwater drains because outside drains SHOULD ONLY DRAIN RAIN. By Jasmine (Year 5)

“Stormwater is rainfall that flows down gutters and into our drains. This water then goes through pipes that leads into our ocean. I’ve learnt that after heavy rain wait at least 48 hours (2 days) before you go for a swim because our ocean may have pollutants”

By Joseph (Year 6)

Thank you Kids4Drama Stormwater show for visiting Yendarra School and helping us to be the solution and not the pollution to our stormwater system.