Assembly Certificates for this week

 

Here are our amazing superstars for this week!

Te Hāpua Visitors

 This week, librarians from Te Hāpua, the Halswell Library, came to visit Huritini to talk about Matariki. We learnt all about the stars, and the special meaning each star has! Thank you for coming to Halswell School. We loved having you Te Hāpua! 

To help us learn all of the stars, we practiced a song. See if you can have a go at home, we are sure you will recognise the actions! 

Target games

This term for PE we have been focusing on target games. One of our favourite warm-up games is Freeze and Thaw. When we get tagged we have to balance on one foot. Then wait for someone to rescue us by running around us. Then we pass the ball 4 times. 

The goal is to try and rescue as many people as possible.

Another game we like to play is Beat the Dragons. We have to knock down 2 cones (the dragons).

Then we can rescue the Queen!

 

Team work makes the dream work - Kotahitanga in Tī Kōuka

Over the last 2 weeks, we have been exploring the scientific concepts of day and night and how important our sun is.

While doing these activities Tī Kōuka has been doing a fantastic job of showing Kotahitanga.

"We made a model of the Earth and moon orbiting the sun"  (Eliza)

We took turns teaching and helping a buddy how to do it. Once we learned how to do it we could help someone else. We tried really hard not to do it all for our buddy but instead tried to explain to them how to do it themself. 

When it got really tricky we worked together.

For our shadow experiment, we also had to work together and take turns. 

We helped each other use Book Creator to take photos and share our thinking.

Space Week in Tī Kōuka

 

Take a look as we 'launch' into our new topic this term ... SPACE!! We have had so much fun already. 

Assembly Certificates for this week

 Congratulation to these wonderful learners in Tī Kōuka who have done a fantastic job showing our school values this week.

Pause, Breathe, Smile

 This week we continued Pause, Breathe, Smile; a mindfulness wellbeing programme. We talked about lots of different feelings that we have, we listened to the story In My Heart: A Book of Feelings and talked about feelings that are in the green zone and feelings that are in the red zone.