We are a bronze ENVIRO-SCHOOL!

Over the past few years everyone at Yendarra School has worked very hard to look after the environment. We have been recycling paper and cardboard. Our food scraps are put into compost bins and then the compost is used in our beautiful gardens. So we decided to invite Haley Lowe, our Enviroschools facilitator to visit us so we could reflect on our journey.

We welcomed Haley to our school with a beautiful waiata sung by Room 18. 

Click here to listen!

Then some wonderful Year 5 and 6 students represented our school and shared our journey with Haley. We even took a tour around the school so we could show Haley what an amazing school we have! She loved seeing our gardens and beautiful student artwork that we have displayed around our school.

Haley loved looking at our beautiful mural which shares our school vision with the world.

Our reflection team talk to Haley and tell her why Yendarra Students are empowered!

“Wow!” said Haley “I would like to announce that Yendarra School is a Bronze Enviroschool!”

She gave us a lovely certificate and we all cheered. What an exciting moment!

We will keep working hard so that we can become a Silver Enviroschool.

What ways do you look after the environment?

Why is it important to look after Papatuanuku – Mother Earth?

Week 4 Best Attendance

Congratulations to the following classes for reaching BEST attendance...

Room 21 with 96%

Room 20 with 92%

Who will be the winners next week?

Week 1 And Week 2 Attendance Winners

Congratulations to the following classrooms for achieving best attendance.

Week 1

Room 13 with 92%

Room 18 with 91%

Room 14 with 90%

Week 2

Room 21 with 96%

Room 23 with 94%

Room 20 with 92%

Who will be the winners next week?

Yendarra Tamariki Meet The Police!

The local police have heard what AMAZING tamariki we have at Yendarra School so they came by for a visit. It was great to see the police officers at school during lunch time because they got to talk to lots of children and answer their questions.

Some of the questions that we asked the police officers were:

Do you always have to wear a uniform?

Why is your uniform blue?

How did you become a police officer?

What is inside your police car?

What equipment do you have on your belt?

What do you use the equipment for?

Can we please see your handcuffs?

We loved listening to all of their answers! It made us think… maybe we could be police officers when we grow up!

Some of the police officers even joined in the senior school hockey game. Other children were spectators and cheered them on.

It is always lots of fun to see the police officers at Yendarra School. Thank you for everything that you do for us because you help to keep us safe. We hope to see you again soon!

Learning about Statistics

As part of learning about statistics, Room 21 have been learning to gather and graph evidence using different graphs.

After conducting surveys and gathering evidence within our own classroom, we decided to venture out and gather evidence from our neighbourhood.

We asked the question;

What is the most popular car colour on Bairds Road?

'what colour will this car be?’

We used a tally chart to record our observations.

We graphed our results and discovered that white and silver are the most popular car colour and yellow was the least popular at the time of our evidence gathering.

What colour car do you drive?

Week 10 Attendance Results

Congratulations to the following classrooms for achieving BEST attendance...

Room 23 with 95%

Room 20 with 92%

Room 2 and Room 22 with 91%

Ka rawe Tamariki!

Matariki Learning

Children in Room 21 have been learning about Matariki, what makes it unique to New Zealand and how we celebrate it.

We read and listened to stories. We learned that there is a cluster of 7 stars. There are old stories that say these 7 stars represent 7 evil sisters that tried to starve Matai’s brothers to death. (Keithaline)

We learned that there are many ways to celebrate Matariki. We can celebrate it by spending time with our family and friends. We can gather kaimoana and go fishing. We can also learn to weave and carve. (Awhiana)

A small group of us visited our wharehui to look at the beautiful carvings.

We thought we would try weaving. With the help of our kaumatua Mrs Baker, we learned to weave angel fish and flowers. We discovered that it is a lot harder than it looks!

We can’t wait for Matariki next year!