Reading in front of others

The students in Pukeko class have been reading Maori books at level KKA and have re-written the sentences in the story "Etahi kai" and have made their own books. The process involved reading the story to familiarise themselves with the sentences and then using the dictionary to find new words and making their own sentences. It took alot of cooperative work and planning to finish their books. Not bad for a first try. Mauri ora!

Success stories in Pukeko Class

We have been busy bees in Pukeko class over the past few weeks. Big congratulations to Te Uwhinga for winning the middle year Pink T-shirt logo competition with King Home boy. She absolutely deserves this award as she is a very caring student who dislikes bullying.

Awesome work from our orchestra students - Shaniqua, Shannon, Calais and Merani who performed last night at the George Hawkins theatre. Your behaviour was excellent and your performance made everyone very proud.

Big ups to Merani and Leilani Mei who both got certificates and books at the last two whole school assemblies for been hard working students. Mauri ora!

Dance for Asthma Information

Firstly, congratulations on committing to Dance 4 Asthma. We have received our first finished dance! I will post this next week.

There's still plenty of time for you to produce your video - you have until 5.00pm the 19^th June to load it on YouTube. Please name your video – Dance 4 Asthma 2014 – (and your school name here) so we can easily find them.

To see who else is dancing, take a look at the Dance 4 Asthma page on our website. Here you will find a list of all the schools as well as links to their bragging selfies. You can also find the 2013 videos

complete with comments from Erin Simpson, who will once again be judging Dance 4 Asthma.

Speaking about bragging selfies, thanks to all the schools who've had a chance to send these through. When you do, we also post the links on our facebook page giving you an opportunity to brag to your community, family and friends. Feel free to post positive comments on our facebook page about how your school will be dancing for asthma.​

Did you know that an estimated 550,000 school days are lost every year due to asthma! For the 1 in 7 of our kids who take asthma medication it is so important to be active to be healthy. So once again congratulations for helping us to raise the profile in a fun way to your school community.

Any questions please email or call.

Cheers

C

Cindy Borrie

Communications

The Asthma Foundation

07 852 5565 / 0274 433 905

Taupo Trip is close just 3 weeks from now

Kia ora tatou!

Our class will be going on their trip to Taupo in Week 7. This means students have only 3 weeks left to make payments at the office. Kia tere koutou as it is going to be an awesome experience. We will be going up Mount Ruapehu, visiting the Prawn farm, learning about Tuwharetoa kawa and generally having a wonderful experience. Mauri ora whanau!

Space Jump Book Show , Pink Shirt Day, upcoming Cross Country Run and $60 for Taupo Trip

Tuesday and Wednesday are two very special days. We will be having a show from 9:50 - 10:55 am tomorrow for Book week and then on Wednesday we will be having Pink Shirt Day to show how we can be positive and stomp out bullying across schools in New Zealand. On Wednesday June 4th we will have our cross country run with sponsorship forms. All money raised will go towards the Year 7 and 8 Gold coast trip. There are many things happening this term so keep a look out for the latest events.

REMEMBER REMEMBER our Taupo Trip on Weds 18th - Fri 20th June is now ONLY $ 60. This is a super cheap price for the amount of fun activities that we will be doing. Nga mihi nui to those who have already paid so far. You can make small payments until final payment is required in Week 6.

Mauri ora!