End of year Pool trip

We chucked our masks on and leapt onto the bus. It was going to be  fun as day. When we arrived Nikau and I threw off our t-shirts and spirinted over to the dive pool to pop some fat as manus.

It was starting to get cold so we jumped out to have a feed, Nikau fell asleep within five minutes, while I dived back in to have some shoulder wars with Ken and Hemi. Next we went to pop some more fat ones and to watch the bottle pops.

A little while later, we jumped back on the bus and cruised back to school to have a sausage sizzle and to play some games. It was a mean as day!

By Hunter Marsh

By Hunter Marsh

Fun games with Paulo

Monday morning Room 5 learned some cool games from Matua Paulo.

Game 1 - Pass the ball to your team without dropping the ball 10 times.

Game 2 - Pass the ball to your team member then they touch the ground with the ball. Then  they can run and pass the ball to your next teammate. Do this 10 times without dropping the ball.

Game 3 - Pass the ball to your teammates 10 times without passing it back to the person you received it from.

Game 4 - Pass the ball to your teammates down the court. Then a teammate has to have 1 foot or 2 feet in one of the 5 hexagons. You have to throw the ball to them while they're in the hexagon. Once that's done the hexagon is removed. The team with no hexagons left is the winner. 

 Here are some photos of Room 5 playing.

Learning in Lockdown

 Here is some of the mahi Room 5 student's have been doing during Lockdown.  

Check out these student's mahi from Room 5 by copying their blog links into the toggle bar at the top of the page.   We hope you enjoy!

Madie's Algebra mahi - https://apsmadisonm.blogspot.com/ 

Ken's Niue language week mahi - https://apskentarom.blogspot.com/

Tabby's Zespri - Young and healthy mahi - https://apstabithar.blogspot.com/

Dylan's Niue language week mahi - https://apsdylanc.blogspot.com/

Kahurangi's Manaakitanga mahi - https://apskahurangih.blogspot.com/

Tillie, Sam, Unaiki and Kahurangi's blog comments to Anika @ Paihia School (one of our Tuhi mai Tuhi atu blog buddies)  - https://psanikam.blogspot.com/2021/10/pal-day.html

Tait's Prototec maths

Watersafety Dryland sessions with Whaea Nancy

Today Room 5 had our a Water safety Dryland session with Whaea Nancy. She was very interesting and shared fun games we'll be doing in the Watersafe lessons next term. 

She gave us good ideas about not swimming in the local Wairoa awa because it's dirty and polluted. Her advice is if you go, make sure you go with someone older (ideally an adult), make sure someone knows you're there and don't jump in unless you've checked first. 

Whaea Nancy said if you go to the beach or river this summer take a flotation device, towel to name a few things.

Whaea Nancy also said to use the scull technique to swim in a river.  She also said if you get into trouble at the beach or river to ring 111 and ask for the Fire Brigade who will direct you to the Ahipara Surf Life Rescue.  

Ahipara Ag day 2021

This year we had a different Ag day compared to the usual.  Due to being in Alert Level 2, we couldn't have our pets come in to school like they usually would.  So we made a compromise where tauira (students) could take photos of their pet and write a story about them.  The other option was they could make a movie about their pet.

Every class made a variety of cool Ag day creations which were judged by our Teacher Aides instead of out of school volunteer judges.  Here are photos of creations Room 5 made together.  They did Biscuit decorating, made Recycled creatures/creations, Handwriting samples, Potato characters and Mural - Whakataukī (sayings) Art.

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Speeches

On Tuesday 28th September we had the Senior speeches from Room 3, 4 and 5.  Congratulations to all the Room 3, 4 & 5 students who participated in the speech competition. There were so many awesome speeches, making judging super hard.  Ngā mihi nui to all the tamariki who got up and spoke, Whaea Te Rina for judging the Te reo Māori whaikōrero, Whaea Petrina, Mrs Cutler and Ms Peters for judging the Y6-8 speeches. 

Results:

Te reo Māori -1st Tarshana Wikotu

                       2nd Mana-Whakaritenga Peterson 

                       Highly commended - Capri Murray

                                                       - Kahurangi Hawea-Kingi

Y6 - 1st Unaiki Hokianga-Motu

        2nd Michael Brown

Y7 1st Dylan Cummings

      2nd Samantha Perry

      Highly commended - Hayden Frost

                                         - Teal Mallett

Y8 1st Lola Mikrut

      2nd Tane Harris

      Highly commended - Dakota Proctor

                                         - Olivia Hauiti

Jean Batten - New Zealand's greatest aviator

 Recently Rima Ruma have been learning about Jean Batten and her amazing life journey.  Jean Batten was New Zealand's greatest aviator, celebrated around the world for her heroic solo flights during the 1930s. She was an inspiration!  Rima Ruma participated in a Jean Batten Schoolkit and here are some photos of the activities we did  and a slide deck created by some Rima Ruma students.  We hope you enjoy:).  Click on this link for Tabby and Madie's Jean Batten slide deck.

Te wiki o te reo Māori

Last wiki Rima Ruma participated in a range of different activities to celebrate and learn Te reo Māori.  We did things such as: saying karakia, listening to waiata, writing our Pepeha, writing books in te reo, map work - matching te reo place names on a map of Aotearoa, to playing Kahoot and Ko wai (Guess who).  Our class even participated in the Māori language moment.  We hope you enjoy!

Click on this link to see our Māori language moment

Learning in Lockdown #2

 This week Room 5 students have been working hard and doing all sorts of different learning and sharing during lockdown.  Here is some of their mahi and sharing, we hope you enjoy.

Learning in Lockdown

Room 5 ākonga (students) have been working hard during lockdown.  Here is some of their mahi and activities they've done.  We hope you enjoy!

Alice's mahi

Ahi's Mahi

Tabby's Mahi

Tait's Mahi

Mathex

Today 5 teams from Year 5-8 competed in Far North Northland Mathex Competition at Kaitaia College. The year 5 team came 3rd and the year 7 team came second. Congratulations to all the students that participated.

A special mention goes out to Dylan, Ken, Mana and Tait from Room 5. 

Ka mau te wehi!

Footy fun

Screeching, laughing, huffing and puffing are the sounds of Room 5 enjoying some fun footy drills and games. 

Reflection: 

Pou - I enjoyed getting the ball at the end of the game.

Mana - I enjoyed stealing the ball off the other team. 

Tillie - I found it challenging getting the ball off Kahu. 

Dylan - I found it challenging to defend the ball.

Tane - I need to learn how to play football. 

Kauri Dieback with Whaea Stella

Today we had a really interesting visitor - Stella from Northland Regional Council who came to speak to Room 3. 4 & 5 about Kauri Dieback.  She spoke to us about some really interesting topics.  

Did you know... 

Endemic means  - Only can be found in this country e.g kiwi, kukupa, moa

Native - Made it's way here on it's own 

Introduced - brought to NZ & had help from humans

Fan worms are eating our native and endemic creature's food

Pollution (poo) is infecting our Moana and awa  e.g ecoli in the water

Kairaru - Largest Kauri on record was found in Okaihau.  It's trunk was 10 metres wide and it's height from base to top was 65 metres in length.

There are only 7% Kauri trees left

Uses of Kauri - houses, furniture, floorboards, gum ,varnish, tattoos with fish oil, toothpaste 

Kauri are 250 million years 

Humans have inhabited the earth for 150 000 years 

The main message Whaea Stella promoted was - How important we all are.  Why? Because we can be the ones to protect our Kauri from Dieback.

Who can be Kaitiaki?  We all can be protectors of our Kauri trees and nature in general.

 Stages of Kauri

Sapling, Ricker, Mature

Kauri dieback is a... 

- phytophthora: plant destroyer

Agathidiciada - Kauri killer

There are Feeder roots, osspores, zoosspores. 

Zoospore can smell the nitrogen and stops the nutrients 

Key messages:

To help keep Kauri Dieback away from our Kauri you need to...

Scrub, check, spray trigene

Protect our taonga, be a kaitiaki, do what you love, keep Kauri standing - clean your boots

Terrific Tennis

Walt: hit the ball using different strokes 

Bounce, bounce bounce go the tennis balls along with the screech of room 5 students excited voices. Learning how to use different strokes such as volleying backhand and serving are just a few.

 Reflection: 

We learned to hit the ball with the front of the racket (forehand stroke) and used backhand strokes.

We enjoyed playing doubles. 

We found it challenging to practice our volleys which is when your buddy throws you the ball and you hit the ball back, don't let the ball hit the ground and you're close to the net.

We could improve by not hitting the ball down but up.  

Speed and coordination

Walt improve our speed and coordination

Today Ruma Rima had Matua Paulo and he taught our class to work on speed and coordination drills with hurdles, the ladder and running.

Reflection:

We learned to... improve our speed and coordination.

What we enjoyed was... jumping through the ladder.

What we found challenging was... sprinting

What we could do to improve... asking questions if we don't understand instructions.

Fun games with Matua Derek

WALT: play fun games with Matua Derek

Room 5 had amazing fun playing 3 games: He Pokopiko He Taniwha, Whano whano and Matimati.

These games involved being sharp, using good listening skills and following instructions.  There were lots of laughs and excitement to be had.   

Bio Poems

WALT: Write an interesting Bio Poems 

 Room 5 have been working hard at writing their Bio poems to describe themselves where they share interesting information about themselves. We hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Reflection:

What we learned was to... write an interesting Bio Poem about ourselves.

What we enjoyed was... showing our creativity when we were writing our Bio Poems.

What we found challenging was... having to follow the correct layout of our Bio poems, checking our spelling and putting the punctuation marks in the right places.

What we could do to improve... finish our poems quicker and edit our work properly.

Horohopu

Walt: play Horohopu

To play Horohopu you split your class into two groups. The ref throws the ball up in the air & you have to pass it to your team mates without running, until you cross the goal area. 

Reflection: 

We learned how to play a new game called Horohopu.

We enjoyed learning to play a new game and to practice our throwing and catching skills.

We sometimes found it challenging to listen carefully to instructions.

Next time we could work on looking at and listening to the speaker without talking.

Watersafety

Today Room 5 had a great time with our Watersafety teacher Whaea Nancy. She taught Ruma Rima students how to do a lot of different tasks to help us be confident in the water. 

We had to be fully dressed in the water and we also wore lifejackets. 

Ki o rahi

Walt: play Ki o rahi

This morning Room 5 played Ki o rahi with Matua Derek and we had an awesome time. 

We dodged, sprinted, tagged different pou and dived to score goals. What a way to start the day! 

Reflection:

We learned to play Ki o rahi as a team and to show Manaakitanga (caring for others).

We enjoyed spending time with Matua Derek and playing Ki o rahi.

We found it challenging to score goals.

Next time we could work on using our concentration and being careful of others when we play.