Manu's Message

Today we had a special assembly for a visitor from the Te Oro Art and Culture centre in Glen Innes.

It is a brand new centre that is just for kids to use for art, music, drama and dance.

Manu visited us from the centre in Glen Innes to tell us all about it and how it is opening soon!

Manu told us about the amazing free or low cost art, music, dance and drama classes available for the children of Glen Innes. The centre has so much to offer and it's an amazing facility! He also told us that they have been planning this centre for the last 20 years and it's finally here!! They have dance and drama rooms, art resources and musical instruments and even a recording studio - What an amazing opportunity to be able to use this just like the library, by signing up on the day or any time after if need be.

The facility is between the police station and the library in Glen Innes  - 98 Line Road, GI.


The open day is on Saturday the 9th of May 11am until 4pm - check out the poster we have on our wall. Manu told us that there would be lots of demonstrations and even a sausage sizzle and food available on the day. You can also find more information about the centre on their website - http://teoro.org.nz/

We hope lots of you can take advantage of the free classes and get creative! Lots of these opportunities would be amazing for you and it's free!!

Letters from the Past

In Room 6 we have been writing letters using our imagination - we have been imagining that we are living in 1915 instead of 2015, and writing letters to our male family members who are fighting at Gallipoli.

We thought about what they would be doing and what questions we had to ask and wrote a lovely letter asking them about their life in Gallipoli and telling them about our lives back in New Zealand during the war.


We painted paper with coffee and tea, scrunched it up and ripped the edges to make it look like it was really old, then we wrote our letter on it. They look great!

ANZAC Day Assembly

Today we had an assembly at school to do our part in celebrating ANZAC Day, which is tomorrow.

We put together two white crosses with the names of two New Zealand soldiers 

They were put in the ground on the senior field and it looked like a graveyard with all the white crosses spread out in lines with the names and poppies displayed on the top of them.

We heard from different classes who put together different things. Jessica from our classroom read a poem that we had decorated with our handmade poppies.

Here's Jessica reading our ANZAC poem beautifully!

We listened to the Last Post and stood quietly remembering those who died to keep our country safe and peaceful. We also sang the National Anthem and listened to Mrs Vickers and Mrs Pedersen talk about how important it is to celebrate ANZAC Day with respect.

Please remember that there are lots of ANZAC Day services and parades around Auckland, the whole of New Zealand, Australia and in Turkey where Gallipoli is. If you can go to a parade you will see a lot of the things we've been talking about in class and if not - you can watch Maori Television or TV One and see lots of news reports, movies and information from the places around the world.

ALSO REMEMBER!!! 

No school on Monday 27th April because of the public holiday for 

ANZAC DAY

Our Special ANZAC Visitor

Our junior syndicate was very lucky yesterday - we had a special visitor. His name was Raiti Aperahama and he is a Lance Corporal in the Cadets.

In class we've been talking about ANZAC Day on Saturday and what it means to us in New Zealand, and we were very lucky to be able to talk to a cadet!

Being a Cadet is the step before going to the army to be a soldier and Miss Riley's grand-nephew has been a cadet for 3 years and goes to military school. She asked him to come and talk to us and show us his special uniform. He will be at the ANZAC Day parade and service this coming Saturday, the 25th of April, to celebrate 100 years since the soldiers landed on the beach in Gallipoli.

We heard all about what it takes to be a cadet and how he has to practice marching and be very healthy and do lots of exercise. He showed us how to turn around and march like a cadet and some people in room 6 were amazing at it! Dora, Frank and Jessica were the best!

Have a look at the videos below!

Keep your eyes peeled for more ANZAC Day posts over the next few days - we're having a special assembly tomorrow and we're writing letters to soldiers in the trenches on old looking paper!

Welcome Back!

It's Term 2!

It's going to be busy this term! We're learning about ANZAC Day the next few weeks and we even get the day off to celebrate on the 27th of April :)

Remember to read every night and practice your spelling words - We can see how many of us can be named best spellers of the week!

We have some good weather still, so remember to dress for the warmer weather - no long pants just yet, you'll be too hot!

I hope everyone had a really awesome break and got in a bit of relaxing!

See you soon!

Miss Walters
:)

April Fools' Day in Room 6

In case you forgot and had a few tricks played on you today... Here's the one that Room 6 were tricked with!

We looked at this photo from Miss Walters' trip to Christchurch at the weekend...

We decided that they must have been marshmallows growing in a field and we had a conversation about it for our oral language.

In other rooms, teachers played tricks on their classes too! Room 9 had 'brownies', where Miss Ginders cut out the letter E on brown paper and told them they could each have a 'brown E' for morning tea!


Hands up for who felt a little silly this April Fools' Day!

Hope you had a great April Fools' Day!