Come and support your Tamariki, funds will be for our whole school noho 2020.

We LOVE Boil Up.  

Our GTT Roopu (Guardians of the Garden) have made a delicious Boil Up which we have shared across 3 other roopu.  We have used the vegetables from our garden and some leftover sausages from our BBQ.  We are fortunate enough to have our caretaker make a delicious naan bread on our big BBQ.  It was just like roti, it was delicious.  

This week we are participating in Matific Maths Challengers and here are some of the challenges we have had.

Math Week Challengers

Week 4	Math week activity
Monday	Estimate how many green balloons  it takes to fill Mrs Smith’s car??
Tuesday	Junior school- Year 0-3 Adrianna has 10 pieces of gum to share with her friends. There wasn’t enough gum for all her friends, so she went to the store to get 3 more pieces of gum. How many pieces of gum does Adrianna have now? Senior school- Year 4-6  Nathan has a big ant farm. He decided to sell some of his ants. He started with 965 ants. He sold 213. How many ants does he have now?
Wednesday	Cross country day- Problem solve how many children  participated in cross country today?
Thursday	Whole school problem- Guess how many lollies are in the Jar?? The winner gets the lollies!!
Friday	Junior school- Year 0-3  Ariel was playing basketball. 1 of her shots went in the hoop. 2 of her shots did not go in the hoop. How many shots were there in total? Senior school- Year 4-6  Your team scored a total of 123 points. 67 points were scored in the first half. How many were scored in the second half?

Positive Blog Posts

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Duffy Theatre 2019

Duffy Theatre comes to Kaikohe West School 2019

Whainga Ako:  to listen and participate when asked at our Duffy Theatre Production

This is the Duffy Crew.  When they first started they introduced themselves and then we sang the Duffy song while he played the guitar.

We were all sitting down at Tawaraunui.  The sun was shining in our face.

These are some of the characters, the man is Duffy in his muscle costume and the fat round lady is the "Dismantler".

This is Duffy's cousin Sam.  Duffy was visiting Sam when he was sucked into the Magical Bricks game that her grandmother had invented.  Duffy had to find a way out of the game.  He had to solve the code.

Duffy asked the tamariki to help him work out the code on the magical bricks before the Dismantler came and wrecked the word.
What was the word?

Once they had worked out who invented the game, they had to solve the code for getting into and out of the game and it had nothing to do with the grandma's glasses.

So Whetu was the grandma's name, now just to try and remember what she did to access the game.

The codebreaker came in and tried to break up all the letters, but then we knew that it was actually the dance that grandma did that could get us back out.  

Finally we both did the dance and escaped back to our own home where our Mum was waiting for us.

Update on our Mural

Here's an update on our Mural, we are just about finished, but need to get a very tall ladder to finish off the top.  Unfortunately, we don't allow tamariki up that high, so looks like this will have to wait for the school holidays to be completed.  

A mural is born

Northlands Year 4 - 6 mixed Team League 2019

Wow, what a day.  A couple of Room 13 tamariki were lucky to travel down to Tikipunga today to compete in a Rugby League Competition.  
The day started out with an hour trip down to Tikipunga then a full on 5 game onslaught from some awesome teams around the Whangarei District.  The experience was so worth the effort for these League crazy crew.  We had such a hard out day, all the players went hard and still had energy to burn.  Fanstastic behaviour and manners and all were followed the fairplay rules.  You rock Jamie and Miah, ran and ran and tackled and tackled and had a blast.

Get well soon Arthur, we are thinking of you, and our love and aroha goes out to Whaea Lucinda, who is by his side during this time.  God speed and a speedy recovery for you Arthur.  Here is one of our tamariki making a Card for Arthur, Lucinda and whanau.

Tin Foil sculptures

Wow, these are made from tinfoil, they have been sketched then formed by scrunching up the foil and moulding it.  I think these look fantastic and a good medium to work with as well.

Whainga Ako:  to design a flat picture with a few lines, then be able to transform it into a 3D sculpture.

 

Update on our Mural - woohoo coming along fantastic, hopefully will be finished by  the end of the term - more to come......

 Tamariki have been working to add the green maunga and the awa, they are getting use to the ridges in the wall surface

Nice pics of a couple of very good friends, handy, was just trying to show the scale of the mural.

Irrigation

Once again a huge thankyou to our whanau members who come and do this mahi for our tamariki.
Thank you Ruku and Bubs - You Rock!

Irrigation line is going in to feed the outside gardens, the native tree nursery and our green houses.
We are very lucky to have such awesome whanau and a cool as Caretaker.

GTT - Cooking is part of our Garden to Table Programme

If there is one thing that tamariki love - it's cooking, and the next best thing they love is eating

We have cooking as part of our GTT programme, we try and use produce from our gardens.  This week we used produce from our gardens from last year, yes we had preserves which we used in our Fruit Cupcakes - yummo.

Whakapapa - we all have it.
Whainga Ako:  to recognise who is in our immediate whanau and how to answer Ko wai to ...

We used a visual approach to help tamariki see who they were talking about in their whanau.

The warriors come to Kaikohe

The Warriors come to Kaikohe

Whainga Ako:  to use our Whanaungatanga values in our community.

Some of the tamariki from KWS were privileged enough to be invited to meet the Warriors and do some training with them.  Even the weather didn't put them off.

Week 6 - Self Portraits

Digital technologies for Ruma Tekau ma Toru with Whaea Deb.
Our tamariki were all hands on with robotics, electronics, minecraft, picmonkey and 3d images.
They all said they would love to do this every day and with the level of engagement evident I think this would be the perfect learning environment for our tamariki.  When we can get enough resources to stock our Makerspace area, I think their inquisitive natures will come to the forefront.
Thank you Whaea Deb for a wonderful day.

Fantastic visit to the Navy Ship HMS Wellington which was berthed at Opua Wharf.  We were fortunate to be able to see and ask exactly what their role is in keeping our coasts safe and sound.  The tamariki were very enthused to get to the bridge of the ship and sit in the captains chair.  They asked some very pertinent questions and the officers that were showing us around were equally impressed.  Great day had by all.  Big shout out to our whanau Rueben and Matiu, who were also very interested in all the information that we learnt.

A view from the Bridge of the ship

One of the officers that was our guide - very cool.

Coming down the gangway.

Checking out the gym onboard.  The crew also run around the ship starting at the Hangar then off out to where the helicopter lands and back.

Some pretty hefty questioning going on here in the Officers Lounge.

A huge thank you to Opua School for helping us out on Monday.  Your hospitality was so very much appreciated.  YOU ROCK!!!!

The mural is underway.  We have a very dedicated whanau member who has offered to scale the ladder and get our OSH areas done, so tamariki will be engaged in filling in the bottom half of this mural shortly.  Big ups to Whaea Marie for all her awhi - it is looking super fantastic. Will keep everyone updated as we go.

Stay posted for new and up and coming information and tamariki posts that will brighten the day and add another dimension to our learning.  Looking forward to seeing and hearing from all our whanau this year.  

Nau Mai Haere Mai ki te Ruma Tekau ma Toru Blog 2019.  Hari Hou Tou e te Whanau.