Fun Day

Team two had a fabulous day at the pools to celebrate the end of the year. We played in the pool, went on the hydro-slide, and then returned to school for hot chips and a movie.

Year 6 leavers video 2013 - Apanui Primary

Narrative Day

Narrative day was fantastic! We all dressed up as our favourite book characters and had a mini parade. It was wonderful to see our favourite stories coming to life! As we have been working on writing our own narrative stories, we then got together with a buddy class and shared our own work. We have some budding authors in team two! Well done kids for getting actively involved in the day!

Fonterra Milk for Schools (whole dvd)

Milk for Schools

It was an exciting week last week! Children are loving the ice cold milk they receive daily from the Fonterra Milk in Schools programme. Thank you Fonterra!

Sweet Success

It is always wonderful to witness our children being actively involved in community events. Our inquiry this term was called  'sweet success'. Children were given the provocative statement 'Children can't effectively package and sell sweets for a profit' and boy...did they prove it wrong! They looked at effectiveness of sweet packaging, exploring features like colour, logo, font, brand names, product names, heath warnings e.t.c. Then they set to work creating their own sweets and packaging them for the gala. Our stall made over $400. Way to go you clever kids!

Gala

Our gala was awesome! Thank you to all of the fabulous staff, parents, and kids who made this day a huge success. We raised well over $10,000.

Ukulele Kids

We have had three ukulele groups running this year. Mrs McIntosh takes the year 3/4 group once a week. Here are a few of our awesome ukulele kids from all levels of the school.

Grand Opening!

It was wonderful to have the powhiri and official opening ceremony of our original infant building last Friday. This historic building is now being fully utilised. Anne Tolley came and cut the ribbon. It was fantastic to see members of our wider school community attending.

Whanau Day

We always enjoy getting into our school house groups and working together. Friday's whanau day was fantastic! Thank you Mrs McIntosh for your superb organisation.

Speeches

 

During term three, classes worked hard on refining their public speaking skills as part of our oral language programme. Year 2-3 classes were asked to learn and recite a poem, and the year 3-4 classes worked on researching, writing and presenting an informative speech. We were thrilled with their efforts! Once students reach the senior school, they have the opportunity to compete in a school and Eastern Bay speech competition. Here are our winners for this years schools competition, and as the overall winner was only a year four...I think team two can still claim her as one of their own!

 

Dance Day

Dance day is held every two years at Apanui school and is always a great event that brings the community together. Classes worked hard to perfect their moves, and felt proud of their performances. Thank you to all of the families who attended!

 

Touch Rugby

It is fabulous to see so many Apanui pupils involved in sports. The touch season kicked off late last term, and we have a total of seven school teams. Two of these are from the middle school - coached by Mrs TeWhata and Miss Trask. They ave made a great start to the season. Keep it up kids!

Winter Sports

 

The sun shone and we had a fantastic day at Rex Morpeth Park for winter sports. Thank you Mr Templeton for organising this fun event. Our kids competed fairly and gave every activity 100%. Great effort Apanui!

Sports Skills / Taneatua Sevens

We have been swapping teachers every Monday in preparation for winter sports day. Each week we focus on a different skills session and fun game in hockey, netball, kiwi tag, soccer, and dodge-ball. It has been great fun.

Our middle school sevens team have also been training hard for the Taneatua Sevens and cleaned up the competetion to take out the title. Way to go kids!

Art Rotation

The middle school children have been busy exploring the arts! Every Monday we have winter sports, followed by a focus on the Arts. Children are exploring dance, drama, and music. Here are room four enjoying their session on the Marimba. They had fabulous rhythm!

Daffodil Day

In true Apanui spirit, our kids got right into our Daffodil Day parade and dressed in yellow and green to raise money for this worthy cause.

Kids for Kids and Stars at Apanui

A huge shout out to all of our amazing choir kids. You sang like angels at the Kids for Kids concert, and performed like professionals at Stars at Apanui. Keep on singing!

Netball

In the weekend we had the final rounds of netball. Two of our three school teams placed second in the competition. A huge thanks to all of the fabulous coaches and parent for turning up every weekend to cheer our kids on. They did us proud!

Jump Rope For Heart

We loved learning to skip and had a marvellous day Jumping Rope for Heart! Thank you Miss Trask for your wonderful organisation. Well done to all of the pupils who raised money for the heart foundation.

NZSO

We were extremely lucky to watch the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra perform at the War Memorial Hall recently. They were quite simply outstanding!

School Murals

Our school has some beautiful new murals to brighten our environment.  Well done to all of the pupils who worked hard on creating these masterpieces! Come in and have a look!

 

 

Autumn Fun

The team walked down to Warren Park to explore on Friday afternoon. We looked at the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees and talked about why the leaves change colour and fall to the ground. We were fascinated by the clusters of monarch butterflies in the trees and the abundance of toadstools growing in the leaf litter. The boys and girls had a competition to see who could make the tallest leaf pile...which the boys narrowly won! The girls had to
barricade their pile to protect it from George the master 'leaf thief'.

Team Two Camps

We had a fabulous time camping last week. Our year 3-4 classes all had a three day experience at Aongatete Lodge in Katikati, and our year twos enjoyed a sleepover in Ohope at the Surf Lifesaving Clubrooms. Thank you to all of the great parent helpers who supported us - you were awesome!
Here are some images from the Room 1, 2 and 5 camp. Pictures from other camps will follow!
The Katikati Historical Museum

Camp Aongatete Activities

Volcanoes

We have been learning about volcanoes. We were extremely fortunate to have Issac from White Island tours come and talk to the team about the NZ's most active volcano...which is right on our doorstep! We learned so much about this incredible place and really enjoyed the informative talk and hands on experiences. Thanks White Island Tours!

Room Two and Three completed projects on Volcanoes as part of their homework. We have some super talented kids (and parents) who blew us away with their speeches, posters, baking, board games, and 3d models on a volcano theme. Well done!

 

 

 

 

Farewell Mrs Clayton

We were so sad to see Mrs Clayton leave that we had to all wear silly hats to cheer ourselves up! This much loved staff member has influenced so many of our pupils and will always be a treasured member of our school. Good luck at your new school Mrs Clayton. You will be missed!

Firefighter Fun

We gave the field a good watering when the local fire brigade came to school on Friday and emptied the pool. It was awesome to see the children (and Mr Reade) playing in the spray from the fire hose! Thank you Miss Boyd for organising this fun activity.

Fun 4U Day

Sport Bay of Plenty ran a marvellous day at school last week for our year 1-2 pupils. The wheelchair games were a huge hit!

Swimming Sports

We had a fabulous day at the aquatic centre on Tuesday. The senior school and Room 2 and 3 showcased their skills in the pool. During the next two weeks our other middle school classes each have a swimming demonstration at school. Please come and join us!

Week Four Walk Through!

It was wonderful to wander through the classes this week and see the fabulous learning activities and environments in our team. Check out what we've been up to!

New Junior Playground

Our new playground is nearing completion. We are very excited about this new facility and appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into fundraising by our PTA. A special thanks to Mrs Harvey for being the driving force behind this! Our playground will be open by Friday...so come down and have a swing on the monkey bars and reclaim your inner child!

School Picnic

It was fantastic to see so many families at our School Picnic on Thursday. It was a great opportunity to meet people in our learning community and enjoy another beautiful summer evening!

Meet The Team

We have a fantastic team of teachers and support staff working in our team.
Our marvellous teacher aides are; Toni, Sheryl, and Mary Jo. We couldn't survive without them.

 

Our awesome team of teachers are; Mrs TeWhata, Miss Hems, Miss Trask, Whaea Katipa,

and Mrs Templeton

 

Welcome Back!

 

Welcome back! We are thrilled that the school term is underway! Team Two have made a fantastic start to their learning. We have five classes in our team this year.

 They are;

Room One - Year 2/3 - Miss Hems

Room Two - Year 3/4 - Mrs Templeton

Room Three - Year 3/4 - Miss Trask

Room Four - Year 2/ 3/4 - Whaea Katipa - IMMERSION

Room Five - Year 2 /3 - Mrs Te Whata

 

We are looking forward to getting to know you all better! Welcome to Team Two!