Monday, December 7, 2015

Friday, November 13, 2015

Athletics Day

We had so much fun on athletics day this year.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Moon Rocks
We have been learning about Space this term.  Yesterday we made our very own Moon Rocks!
They felt... smooth, sticky and soft.

Next time we may need to try a different recipe!




Friday, November 6, 2015

Thanks for helping Kiri!

We were lucky to have Eria-Hone's mum, Kiri come in and hang out in the classroom today.  We love parent help!

Friday, September 25, 2015

Taniwha!!

Our Taniwha is finished!

Awesome work Room 2.

Monday, September 14, 2015

Did you see our Taniwha change colour today?  
We spent today painting and think our Taniwha is looking pretty cool!



Thursday, September 10, 2015


Check out our powerpoint we showed in assembly today about our Taniwha creation.

Friday, August 28, 2015

This week we have begun putting our Taniwha in place.  We all had a go at digging the holes for out tyres.




Thursday, August 13, 2015

CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK CHILDREN WHO GOT CERTIFICATES IN ASSEMBLY FOR DISPLAYING THE SCHOOL VALUES


KA MAU TE WEHI!

Monday, August 10, 2015

Mahi Pai

Tulitua was really enjoying Mahi Pai today! Ka pai Tulitua!

Happy Birthday Eria-Hone

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIA-HONE
On Friday we celebrated Eria-Hone's birthday. 

Monday, August 3, 2015

Environmental Art

Today we made models of what our Taniwha could look like. 






Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Welcome back to the new school term!  We have started out with a visit to the zoo which we all really enjoyed.  Thank you to those parents who came and helped us with our tamariki on the day.  Without parent help, days like these would not be possible.


Saturday, July 4, 2015

Holidays

Enjoy the holidays.  Have fun and look after each other whanau.  I look forward to seeing you all for a fantastic term 3. 
Arohanui
Miss McCulloch

MOTAT Trip

We all had a fantastic day at MOTAT learning how families lived in the 'old days '

Friday, June 26, 2015

Today was Room 2's turn to take the school assembly.  They did an amazing job!!! 








      






Friday, June 19, 2015

Yesterday Fireman Matt came and talked to us about fire safety.  We all learnt a lot about how to what do do in a fire.

Shut the door to the room where the fire is.
GET DOWN, GET LOW, GET OUT FAST.
Go to your meeting place... the letter box is a great place to choose.




Friday, June 12, 2015



First we washed them.
Next we cut them into little pieces.
After that we put them into a pot.
The we added some hot water and a little bit of salt.
To cook them we put the pot on the element and turned it on.
We waited until the potatoes got soft.
Las of all we ate them.  They tasted YUM!

Written together by the students, Guided by Mz Pennial, Wednesday 10 June



 Room 2 Children hard at work!


Tuesday, June 9, 2015


These Children worked together to build a Jungle!   This exercise was to get them communicating and working towards an end goal.

They did a great job!

Friday, June 5, 2015

 
        Today Erica read 
'Little Rabbit Foo Foo' 
to the class.


Ask your child to tell you about this fun story.




                                                           


Thursday, June 4, 2015

This afternoon as part of learning social skills, the children have been working in small groups to build something.  They had to work together by talking and discussing their creations.

We made a house and shops.  There are cars and castles.
Tulitua and Tiranta.


This is a zoo.  And it has an Elephant with seats and a table.  And we had a truck to put a mirror and a bag so the people can ride to it.
Azryiel, Manaiah, Nevaeh.


We built a jungle.  We have cars and then we put the horse behind the person.
Kody and Mark.


We were building a colour playground with a zoo.  And we put some princesses in it and her name is Miss McCulloch.
Malia, Erica, Gypsy.


All of us made a boosting motor bike, a plane and a crab cycle.
Stanley-Kruz, Ajay and Cassidy.

Today we learnt how to play '21'.
Ask me to teach you.  It's fun!

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Well done Gypsy and Mark!  In assembly Gypsy won a Duffy Book and Mark got a certificate for our School Value Ako.

At Park Estate our School wide values are:

MANA: lead by example
Aroha: We all use kind words and kind actions
Manaakitanga: We are all responsible
Ako: We all achieve our beset