Year 8 Graduation - 2020!

After a fun day for Team 5 at Swimarama, the Year 8s made it back to school along with their whanau for our last big event for the year - Year 8 Graduation 2020!

It was a special celebration with speeches from our prefects, rangatahi leaders, Mrs Tele'a, Mrs Samuels and Mr Burt. 

Check out the video below from Mrs Lagitupu for some highlights!

Sonnia and Paschal looked amazing and did a lovely job of introducing Ms. Tapuke - what a fabulous turnout of Year 8s from our Room 2 whanau for 2020!

Back row: AJ, Paschal, Sonnia, Ms. Tapuke

Front row: Mr Burt, Maddy, Jarreka, Sione, Shania, Isaiah, Caleb, John, Nesi, Mahoe
Absent: Damien

Swimming at GI Pools - Lesson #3

All students in Team 5 have the chance this term to take part in 4 lessons to improve their swimming and water safety skills. 

Students walk to our local pool in Glen Innes for a 30 minute lesson from trained instructors. Each class is split into two groups depending on their swimming ability.

Each week more and more students are taking part - Week 1 - 12 students; Week 2 - 13 students and this week, 19 students from Room 2 got into the pool.

Next week is our last lesson and we are going to work hard to get EVERYONE, like Bradley, in the pool!

Lunch Box Heroes - Healthy Eating - KAURI and CALEB

Congratulations to Kauri and Caleb for being one of this week's Lunch Box Heroes. Every week, there are 10 winners - their names are picked out by our prefects at our school assembly to celebrate students who had brought a healthy lunch to school during the week. 

Enjoy eating your fresh fruit!

Kauri (L) and Caleb (R)

Myths and Legends - An Aboriginal Story of Creation - JARREKA

 Find out more about a creation story from Aboriginal people of Australia from Jarreka

Today for Inquiry our main focus is all about an Australian myth based on a Blue-tongued lizard named Lungkata and his creation Uluru.

End of Term - Shared Lunch

Today we had a shared lunch to celebrate the end of Term 2. We outdid ourselves and ended up having a huge feast to share with each other - hot chips, ham rolls, cakes and even fresh chocolate brownies! There was so much food we all were aching with full stomachs. It was great to hang out and finally see the end of The Lion King!