Bird Spotting in Isolation - Ornithologists in Training :)

One of the nice things about being around our homes a bit longer, has been taking the time to explore our very own backyards.

Thanks to the people who have shared their bird spotting snaps with us. The challenge is on. 

What bird species have you got close by? Have a go at capturing some and send them through to us here at the blog.

We begin our hunt with this beautiful Tui from Alfie's back garden. Credit to Alfie's Dad for snapping these two shots.

A rather large Kereru visited Heidi's Totara trees, and took a quick explore around the fish pond.

Its amazing what kind of "wildlife" you can find in our own backyards. Thanks for sharing Amanda :)

Jess came across a bird hiding under the eaves in her bird spotting adventure.

Anzac Art - Learning from home

Cathy issued us a challenge for Anzac Day. As we are unable to celebrate together and remember our ANZAC heroes, we are trying to create a visual art work to share and show from our homes.

We will post people's ideas and art work here as they become available to us.

The first one is a great piece to start us off from Anneke :)

Kaela completed the next poppy to place on her letterbox.

Fianna has her poppies along her fence line - great contrast with the white fence as the background!

Wow! Your creative lights are shining bright - keep imagining and creating Marama - we love sharing your ideas.

Thanks for sharing Evie - I think Mostyn helped with these too! Very Impressive Team :) 

Sophie created her beautiful poppies from crepe paper - fabulous!

Thanks for sharing these shots Alfie - The sun rising through the poppies looks very cool!

Amanda created this sign to celebrate Anzac Day at home. :)

Henry helped his Dad out with the poppy challenge - we think he was a great help by the looks Toby!

A beautiful wreath created by Saree and her family.

A very unique adaptation- we are really loving the creativity in this autumnal ANZAC wreath - thanks for sharing Caleb.

A team effort to create this sign for Anzac Day - good to see some recycling of all those Coca Cola cans.

Another beautiful creation to mark Anzac Day at home - thanks Jack.

Great to see what materials you used to up-cycle into your poppy. Your final creation looks great.

And this view of the sunrise is amazing - thank you so much for sharing.

Thanks team Olykan for getting the school wreath down to the Community Centre - a great way to remember our ANZAC heroes.

Teaching Tech with Tuakana Teina

A small group of fabulous senior leaders supported our buddies in Ramaroa Nui today.


  

Our buddies learnt how to access their school office365 accounts and send an email. 

  

Our buddies are now very patiently awaiting their reply emails!

  
Our next learning focus is to teach the children to access office 365 and use word to create a story.

  

Tryathlon 2020

                                     

A huge congratulations to all of our students for their awesome effort in the school tryathlon last Friday. 

We were so proud of you all for giving it your best and being supportive buddies to the younger students. 

Well done to the students who made it in the top three for their age group. 

Meeting our Buddies

Today we spent some time with our new buddies from Ramaroa Iti and Ramaroa Nui. 

It is always so special to see everyone getting along so well and looking after each other. 

Tomorrow is our first school event where the seniors will run alongside their buddies in the Tryathlon. 

                                    

                               

Marama 2020 - Welcome

Welcome to Marama 2020.

We have started the year with beautiful weather and, thanks to Patsy's hard work over summer with the pool, a fabulous splash about every morning.

We are a hard working, engaging and imaginative group of 43 students who start the year with 3 fabulous teachers: Toby, Lauren and Heidi.

We are really looking forward to the adventures ahead of us this year, and hope you will all follow us on our class blog.

Ma te wa
Marama 2020