Kia kaha, Christchurch!

In response to the horrific incident in Christchurch two weeks ago, Rūma Rima created a sign to put outside our school for cars and people passing by to see. The sign was made to show our support for the members of our community who were effected by the incident.

We discussed what it meant when Jesus told us to love one another. We also discussed what our school value of Compassion meant and applied this to specific examples in our lives.

With the only instruction being that the shape had to be a heart, each one of us chose to either write a word or draw a picture inside it to express love and compassion.

We collated all the images together into a slideshow.

If you were to draw something to represent love or compassion, what would it be?

What word do you associate with love and compassion?

May the peace of God be with you all!

With love,

Rūma Rima

Athletics Day 2019

Last Thursday, we had our annual Athletics Day.

All of our training and practice was put to the test: shot put, high jump, long distance running, sprints and relays. Many of us were nervous about the day, but we had a lot of fun overall.

We went in our year groups around four rotations but gathered as a school for sprints and relays.

We are all very proud of our achievements!

Here is a slideshow of what we enjoyed the most and what we were the most proud of!

Class Treaty 2019

Each year, the class learns about te Tiriti o te Waitangi.

We learn about the importance of a treaty in the classroom, too.

We used our school values of Compassion, Excellence, Responsibility and Respect to come up with some promises to keep in the classroom.

We wrote our names on a piece of paper to show we agree with the articles on our class treaty. If someone was to not follow the treaty, the whole class becomes responsible as we are all a collective group!

As part of our classroom treaty, we wrote when we belong at school and when we feel respected at school on the orange and blue feathers.

The feathers were cut out and the stencil used to create a background for the feathers to be layered on.

We have become more compassionate towards each other and respectful because of this treaty.

Do you have a class treaty?

Is there anything in your treaty that is similar to ours?