Swim! Swim! Swimming!

Room 8 is starting swimming again from tomorrow!!!!!!!!! So don't forget your togs :)

Who wants to live in a black and white world? Not us!!

Just another day in Room 8...

Athletics Day

Next week Team Tay are going to have our Athletics Day on Friday. Room 8 children brain-stormed a poem together about Athletics. Have a read!

Art Week Celebration

During the last week of Term Mt Primary celebrated visual and performing arts by creating vegetable and fruit characters and performing two dances to the school community. A big thank you to the parents who were able to assist with the vegetable creating - we had a fabulous day! Some very creative results! Check out the photos:

SPCA Team Trip

Last week we enjoyed a much -looked- forward- to trip to the Tauranga Animal Shelter. The children (and parents and teachers!) loved patting and leading the new puppies and saying hello to the cats. We brought them in some pet food to keep them going and we hoped that they all find new human companions very soon!

The Legend of Mauao Art Work

Here are some of our completed mixed-media artworks from Visual Art Week (the end of Term 2). These pictures were inspired from the local Legend of Mauao

Budding Artistes!

The last week of Term 2 has been Visual Arts Week. We have been very productive in Room 8, creating paintings and collage / mixed media works inspired by 'The Legend of Mauao' . Here we are carefully creating another masterpiece!

In our collage artwork to follow, check out the feather-winged Patupaiarehe (fairies) with their plaited ropes towing Mauao (woven hessian) to his current location facing out to sea (Kowhaiwhai pattern 'waves').

Heart Jam

Literacy Week

Last Friday we dressed up as our favourite book character to celebrate Literacy Week. Can you guess who we were?

Wild and Wacky Hair Day

Mt Primary celebrated the last day of Term One with a 'Wild and Wacky Hair Day' to raise money for Child Cancer.  We flew to school in our favourite 'Super Heroes' costumes and rocked outrageous hair dos for the cause.  Highlights included most teachers getting into the spirit of the theme and a 'look at me!' parade around the courts.  Mrs Simpson might just get used to the orange hair...

Trip to Te Puna Quarry Park

As part of our study of Insects we ventured out to Te Puna Quarry Park to check out the Monarch Butterfly House.  It was also a great chance to have a relaxing day out in the sunshine -it's not all work without play!

We are on the Learning Wave!

We enjoy learning in Room 8, and we are proud to take responsibility for our own things and our own learning attitude.  We are on the 'Learning Wave' - not getting lost out at sea with the sharks!

Welcome to new Room 8 Children and Families!

Room 8 is looking forward to the arrival of seven new children at the start of Term 2.  Our three current girls can't wait to have some more female buddies to chat with!  Here are the new faces:

3 Cheers for Road Safety

Last week we had a special guest at our Assembly - Ronald McDonald!  Ronald was here to teach us about Road Safety.  We learned how to be safe when playing near roads, how to watch out for 'Sneaky Driveways', and how to 'stop, look and listen'.  Thanks Ronald McDonald!  Here is us enjoying Ronald in action

Welcome, one and all!

Mrs Simpson would like to say welcome to all the new children and families to Room 8!

This week we are getting to know each other and the classroom and school areas and rules, and finding out what we we already know and are good at. From next week we will begin the timetabled routine and enjoy learning together!