What Room 2 has been up to...

Room 2 at their bike session

Room 2 had a series of bike sessions during the start of the term. They also had a bike session a couple of days ago. A lady from Kiwi Sports was their coach who helped. She set up a series of obstacles on the courts which included biking around in circles with a traffic light flicking from green to orange to red. Room 2 students brought their own bikes and helmets. When raining, they would hold their bike session in the hall. Overall, the Room 2 students found it really fun and enjoyable.

The Golden Tree

They played a series of physical games like Nemo tag. It started with two taggers and lots of people in a large square. They have to run around like a seagull and try to not be tagged by the two taggers. 

Room 2 has also done many wonderful pieces of artwork, like the drawing of the weta. They studied the picture of a weta carefully and made note that they had an abdomen, a thorax, 6 legs and 2 antennae. With all the information they started to draw their own weta. They look terrific! During class, they also did another art piece called the Golden Tree. This can be found displayed on the outside of Room 2.

The Weta Drawing

Room 1

Room 1 
Room 1 has been learning about Pukeiti, the temperate rainforest. As part of this they have been to Puke Ariki, completed artwork and learnt many cool things. They have learnt about the Rata Tree and have drawn one each. They have completed collages of the Kereru (wood pigeon). They have also started some art on wetas which they are learning about.

We asked some of the kids what they thought the Rainforest was before they had learnt about it...

Charlie B thought that it was a forest with rain.

Jaxon thought that there were lots of monkeys and trees.

Oliver thought there were terrible tigers in it.

 

We also asked some of the kids what they have learnt and what was their favourite part.

Blake said "I liked drawing the Rata Tree and learning about the Giant Rata." 
Oliver said "I liked doing the wood pigeon art and learnt that they eat berries."
Kate said "I liked learning about the trees and my favourite was going to Puke Ariki and making my own golden tree."

Room 1 loves learning about their topic! Way to go Mrs Stuck!

- Alexandra and Tayla 

                                          Pigeon Collages  

                                     Layers of Pukeiti

                         The Rata Tree

                                                               Kereru

On Monday the 17th of March the Mangorei School students, years 4 to 8, went to Highlands Intermediate for their swimming sports. Everyone was excited about going to a new area to swim. The day was fine and sunny, everyone behaved well and were good team members, cheering their team mates on.
We have two new life guards, Lauren Giddy and Ben Curry, who carried out their duties excellently.
Everybody tried their best and it came out as a success. The swimmers that got placed first, second or third went to Bell Block to compete.

The winning house was…
Tupare with 1344pts,
Mangamahoe with 1335pts,
Ngahere with 972pts,
and last of all Burgess with 879pts.

The people who managed to get to Bell Block were……
Jack Allemann
Becky Moles
Eva Dickson
Lachlan Moles
Will Poulgrain
Erin Metcalfe
Tayla Manning
Recco Waite
Oliver Doole
Lauren Giddy 
Ben Curry
Luke Turnbull
Jamie Curry
Tom Poulgrain
Ruby Tippet
Joel Turnbull
Marsha Khoo
Scott Mc Donald

                                     
                                     

Mangorei School Athletics

During this term we had a person from the athletics association come and teach us the right techniques and skills for athletics activities, then on Wednesday the 27th of November Mangorei School had their athletics sports. Students from 7 years old to 13 years olds took part in lots of events; shot-put, discus, sprints, long jump and high jump. This year we were very lucky to go to the TET Stadium in Inglewood. It was cool being in a proper stadium. We had some parents come along to support their children or child and we had some very good results from some people.
Thank You to Manuel for teaching us and helping to organise this event.



Grace and Tayla

Gardens Galore

Last week 33 students who grew gardens got a chance to show off their gardens when they were visited by some of the staff members. The students have been working very hard to produce these awesome gardens. This is the third anniversary of our school garden project and some students have been participating in this gardening event for the whole three years. All students who participated will get a plant and may win a spot prize of garden vouchers for their future gardens. Thanks must go to the sponsors, nginz and Go Gardening for donating two hundred dollars worth of garden vouchers and one hundred awesome plants. Also a special thanks to Fairfield Gardens for supporting the enviro group all year round and to Mrs Small who co-ordinates the enviro group.

By Recco & Geordie

Big Sad Wolf Show

On Monday 12th August, Mangorei School was very lucky to have three actors come and perform a Show called "The Big Sad Wolf".  All the kids were very excited. It was amazing how many characters one person could be. It was great fun and the finalé was awesome.  We could tell everyone loved it by the giggles and laughter coming from the audience. We would all love them to come again with another show.

Canterbury Teamwear Fundraiser

Last month Mangorei PTA hosted a fundraiser to sell Canterbury Team wear. They had to sell 10 of each style to make use of the money. We sold this through a notice to families and a stall at Pets Day. These are the styles that we sold:

• Children's and Adults Stadium Pants 

• Children's and Adults Tactic Shorts

• Children's and Adults Ugly Jersey

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  Children's Stadium Pants

Adults Stadium Pants

Tactic Shorts

We made over $900 profit. This money will go towards computers for the children to use.

By Dania and Geordie