Congratulations to our Caught being good certificate winners

Congratualtions Luke and Joyce. Great work!

Duffy Assembly with guest speaker Daniel Faitaua.

We were very lucky to have Daniel Faitaua in speaking to us for our Duffy assembly. He gave a very inspirational speech about the importance of reading and told us how many opportunities it opened up for him.

Here is his bio:
Daniel is a graduate from the NZ Broadcasting School and the University of Canterbury. He’s a familiar face on TV as the newsreader for TVNZ Breakfast and 1News Midday. Before that he developed extensive experience as a broadcast reporter for ONE News and Close Up.

Questions we hoped to have answered:

1. What was your most exciting news report? This is the question we submitted to him.
2. What is your favourite sport?
3. What's the best thing you have cooked?
4. What's the worst thing about your job?
5. What do you like about your job?
6. Who is your role model?
7. What do you like about your life?
8. In the breaks do you go get a coffee? If not, what do you do?
9. Where is the studio?
10. Do you have a mansion? 
11. Do you play Fortnite? Or any video games?

Race Relations Day 2018

Crazy hair day

Our very awesome Mrs Mudgway, supported by Mr Lyons, Mr Greenfield and Mr Faulder, shaved off her hair fundraising for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand by doing 'Shave for a Cure'.

Such an selfless act which took a lot of bravery and committment. Kapai Mrs Mudgway and the male teachers who took part.

Owairaka School helped support them by having a Crazy Hair Day and bringing in a gold coin donation.

If you would like to donate to this awesome cause please visit this link.

Certificate winners

A big congratulations to our awesome superstars of Room 23, Joel and VJ, who won the 'Caught being good - Duffy certificates' the other week.

Keep up the great work!

                        

Holiday blog blasters

Big congratulations for VJ who won a certificate, and a fidget spinner!, for her awesome blogging over the summer holidays!

 

Chapter Chat trailer

Check out this awesome trailer done for the Chapter Chat book we are reading - 'There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom' by Louis Sachar.

Awesome work!

An extra Green Day clean up activity

 Cleaning up the field - definitely not as much rubbish as last year!

Green/Sea week art with our awesome buddy class

Check out the awesome art we made for sea/green week with our buddy class. We dyed coffee filters then made a sea creature shape, coloured it in with crayon then painted it black over the top. Once it was dry we scratched out a pattern and stuck it on the coffee filter. 

On the windows the sun hits the artwork and shines through making the dark silohuette stand out. 

Awesome work Room 23 and Room 19!

Sea Week

On Monday we had Steve from 'Young Ocean Explorers' come and talk to us about some of his amazing adventures videoing and photographing sea creatures all around the world. Here is a quick snippet of some videos he showed us. Check out the oohing and aahing from all our Owairaka students!

Swimming lessons and swim safety

We have been working with the swimming instructors twice a week and have started picking up some great skills. Check out the picture video of our instructor time and the video of us safely entering the pool.

Warriors visit

We were lucky enough to have a couple of Warriors players talk to us about how important it is to drink water, sleep lots and stay fit and healthy in order to live a positive and long life. 

Lots of students won bags/wrist bands and even rugby balls. 

Check out the photos...