Cross Country

We were so lucky on Tuesday that the day was warm and sunny. It was a little wet under foot but that didn't stop the eager runners.
Everyone did their best and had a great time.Congratulations to Chelsea who won the Year 4 girls race.

How Can you Make a Butterfly Fly?

With paperclips and a magnet that's how? 

Mrs Ryan has set up activities to do for Science week.We had fun making our butterfly fly without touching it onto the magnet.
We tried all sorts of ways to make the butterfly stay in the air. Chelsea is our champion for the longest time.

Can you work out how it flies?Ask someone from Room 8 to tell you !

Stars at Assembly

On Friday a group of students from the Year 4 joined together and played music as assembly that they learned at Performing Arts with Ruth Hooke . They were nervous but excited.


Olivia also showed the whole school the clip of her dancing competition. She won a huge  cup for the highest marks. Olivia is very talented and everyone was amazed. Samantha her sister filmed it. If you would like to see it click below.

Little Buddies

Last Friday we visited our little buddies in Room 1 and helped them make a day of the week caterpillar. Our little buddies were very excited when we came and

enjoy playing with us.

Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all our mothers.

 Room 8 made cards with love for all their mothers. We do appreciate all the wonderful things you do for us.

Enjoy your cards and have a great day.

Pou Ceremony

Today the whole school met together with the Muritai whanau group, Kaumatua and Kokiri to celebrate and welcome back the two pou into the playground.

They have been mended and shifted from the sandpit area to the playground outside the main school.
The pou represent links to the earth, the sky and Tane Mahuta, and give strength to the school.
Mr Bird gave a speech in Maori and we sang the school song.

The Kaumatua gave a speech and told us that we can go and touch the pou and they will give us strength when we need it.
We are all very happy to have the pou back in the playground!

Welcome Back to Term 2

We have lots of fun learning to do this term. Remember to bring your running shoes every day for cross country training. We are becoming information detectives to learn  about earthquakes and volcanoes and will be writing like a scientist and  exciting story writers.
Remember your slippers to wear inside this term and your drink bottles.
We need to have your homework books back every day.

See you Monday with all your news !
Check this clip out ! 
 

Little Room 1 Buddies

We met our little buddies for the first time. As they had just started school they were all a little shy however it didn't take long for the conversation to start as they made their shape picture with the help of their big buddies.

Good bye Nora

Our lovely Nora has returned to Germany. Nora has been a hard working member of our class. She is a great friend and helper to everyone. We had a shared morning tea on her last day. Hopefully Nora will come back to Muritai.

Last Week of the Term

What a busy last week of the term we had with lots of things to finish and  learning about ANZAC day. Students and parents came to goal setting interviews and swimming sports.  It was very busy!