Kia ora everyone around the world. This is Room five's first try at creating Digital Korowai. We hope you enjoy reading them. Please leave us some feedback. We are particularly interested in getting messages from around the world. Thanks

Chromebook Launch

Kia ora everyone, We had a lovely day on Wednesday the 23rd of March celebrating the launch of our chromebooks in Room 5.

Swimming sports

 Swimming sports was a great success.  Well done to the winning house group which was Kereru!  We have some talented swimmers and all the staff, parents and children thoroughly enjoyed the day.

We are learning to summarise a story.

Check out Roseena having a go at summarising her story.

Success criteria:  

1) Talk about the main characters.

2) Discuss the setting and where it happened

3) Discuss 3 main things that happened (at the beginning, middle and end).

Swimming lessons

Kia ora everyone,

Our swimming lessons started on Monday and it was lots of fun!  Swimming lessons this week will run on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (not Wednesday because of our school trip).  Here are some photos of the day.  Please don't forget to bring your togs and towel on these days.

Swimming groups:

Group 1: Rasheed, Hamiora, Hauroa, Toni, Jamie-Lee, Rashantie

Group 2:  Faith, Atanda, Amanda, Fetuli, Ngaire, Mya, Chelsea, Estherbella

Group 3:  Kelis, Antuarne, Mercedez, Chris, Kelis, Roseena, Emanuel, Ben, Sapphire.

Chrome books

Kia ora whanau,

Thank you to those parents who have contacted our office about purchasing your child a chrome book.  This year Room 5 along with Room 2 and Room 9 are digital immersion classes.  This is a fantastic opportunity.

If you have any questions around the payment options please contact our school office on Ph (09) 298 9132 our aim is to make it accessible for you all so please don't leave it to the last minute we want to get underway as soon as we can.

First day back at school for 2016

Kia ora tamariki ma,

Hope you had a wonderful holiday.  Just an update about when we start back at school.  Our first day is Wednesday the 3rd of February 2016.  Look forward to seeing you all then and hearing about your holidays.  Have a look at the information slides on our class site to have a look at some of the things that will be a focus this term.  You can also have a look at what group you are in for Reading, Writing and Maths.  We will change the learning goals and planning when you have settled into school.

Here is our class site link:

https://sites.google.com/a/edmundhillary.school.nz/moira-s-site/