This year's theme was WATER. Our students were fantastic. Thanks to all our community who attended this wonderful event. Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru provides an opportunity to future proof the education of all Rotorua learners and will make an essential contribution to make Rotorua a great place to learn. A place where people will want to come because they have heard of the quality of the learning that takes place within the district kura and schools. Malfroy Schools is working with Ngapumanawa e Waru during 2016-2017. We recently contributed to this video. Check it out! Every two years we attend Tui Ridge camp for team building activities. Thanks to all our parent helpers who ensured we had a great two days even though the weather wasn't that kind to us. A special thanks to Flip Out also. This year the leadership team sat in the front row as this was the last year Mrs Collie would be in the staff photo. We normally mix all the staff up so that there is a different look from the previous year. Remembering ANZAC DAY is very important for New Zealand and Australia. Mrs Ellen Collie and Jenny Brell combined their talents to set up the rememberance wall in the school foyer. Mrs Shirley Lane provided her father's WW11 uniform and photos. She also made poppies out of wool. Each school in NZ were provided with a resource box containing white crosses of soldiers from their community killed in WW1. ![]() This was our first talent quest and our students were certainly up for the challenge. The Ambassadors who organised the talent quest received 16 entries from over 30 students comprising a few solo performers and the rest made up of groups. This was the group who performed in the first of two lunch-time sessions.
Our students enjoy the opportunity to get involved in activities outside the normal classroom programme. Teacher aides were given the task of producing a story book they could use with children they work with. This included learning how to customise page settings, uploading images, inserting images, text and shapes, formatting, saving and printing. Education consultant, Sharon Ross is supporting our Reading focus this year. Sharon is reading "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" with Tessa Threadgill, our reading leader showing how expression and use of text is very important with children's reading. The focus is on listening, thinking and enjoyment. |
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