Talent Quest

We are a very talented bunch in Tui Class! We had six people enter into the grand finals plus we sang "The Grumpy Dog" song as a class. Brooke danced the Highland Fling, Isaac told very funny jokes, Emily, David and Dominic sang a song and Dominic played the guitar and Lydia danced the Irish Reel. Congratulations to all of you. We had an awesome time and saw lots of other talented people from other classes.

Helping children in Nepal

We had a toy sale at school. We recycled old toys by bringing them to school and selling them to other people so that they would get some fun with them. We raised nearly $80. We gave the money to a lady in our Parish who was traveling to Nepal to work in an orphanage. She was going to use the money to buy things that the children needed. We sent them this photo so that they would know that we are thinking about them.

Fair Play

We  have been finding out what we need to do to play fairly. Emily has summed it all up in this poem.

Fair Play !

Fun All the people get a go!

Amazing Everyone has a great time!

Inclusive Everyone joins in!

Respect  Respect your players and opponents.

Play fair. Follow the rules and be honest.

Look out. Look out for other people when your   

running around

Active. Everyone’s full of energy

You’ll have a great time if you …..

Play fair!

 

By Emily Smith

Live Simply Day

Today we had only plain, boiled rice for lunch. We wanted to see how it felt to live like people who are not able to have yummy lunch box lunches or Subway for lunch. We are really thankful that we have enough to eat everyday.

Book Week

Today we had a hat parade at school. We had to make a hat that a character from a book would wear. We had the extra challenge of making it out of recycled materials. Everyone did a really good job. Oliver was the winner in Tui Class. He made a hat for Mr Willy Wonka. We had a lot of fun parading around in our hats and then we had a Literacy Quiz.

Making Honey Oat Bars

We made honey oat bars. They don’t have any wrappers on the bars and we wanted to keep the school clean.   

Mitchell

We made honey oat bars. We wanted to have a rubbish free school. Making your own bars is healthy. Learning to cook is fun.

Jordan M

The Big Clean Up!

This week is Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week. We went for a walk along the Waimea Estuary and we picked up heaps of rubbish in big plastic bags. We walked with our buddy class Kereru but the whole school did the big clean up. We were really tired when we got back to school. We think it is important to look after this beautiful world we live in.

Student Led Conferences

It was really good to see so many students confidently leading their conference and being able to share their learning with their parents.

Recycled Art

Tui class made some crosses that Brooke’s mum designed and helped us to make.

We could choose to make crosses or stars.

Mrs Ashley asked if some people could bring some materials from home. There was lace, ribbon, wool, velvet, string, thread, feathers, nails, paint, MDF board and buttons.

Then we drew a design for our cross or star. We painted a white undercoat on the MDF wood. Brooke’s mum hammered the nails in after school.

The next morning we came back to paint our backgrounds in the colours we wanted.

Then we put wool around the nails.

We put glitter-glue over the paint.Then we put trimmings around the edge of the MDF wood.

Cross Country

On Wednesday 1 June our whole school went to Rabbit Island for our cross country race day. We have been training hard for our race. After we had run our race some of us had fun building a wigwam out of sticks.

On Board the Clifford

Land Ahoy at the Museum

When we got to the museum we had fun in our costumes and then all had our photo taken.

Inside the museum we saw a model ship and a cat on a captain's chair.

We saw a big map and a bucket of spew!

The table was on a lean and the plates were smashed on the floor. 

The people would have been frightened when the plates smashed.

Tui Class's Liiturgy on St Joseph

On Friday 18th  of March Tui Class lead the celebration of St Joseph's feast day. We had learned that St Joseph was a gentle, quiet father who had a special obeying faith. Some of us read out prayers and readings. We drew our fathers and shared what we liked doing with our fathers. It was fabulous to have so many Dads and Mums there too!

Wheels Day

On Friday we had a wheels day at school. People were using Ripsticks, Scooters, Skateboards, Roller blades and Heelies. The court looked like a road. People were very excited and they were having a great time. We thought it was fantastic that the senior students organised the wheels day.

Swimming Sports

Yesterday I went to swimming sports at Nayland Pool. It was fun when I came first. I enjoyed it a lot. We called the pool the freezer! By David

Yesterday it was swimming sports. My favourite bit was when I was flipper boarding on my back. It was so much fun! By Dominic

I had great fun on the slide and I went through the hoops. It was fun. By Mitchell

Purple cake day

 Emily’s Purple Pancake Poem

Purple cake day has made me think about helping children in need all around the world.

Purple is a colour that is made of red and blue.

Pink is a close relation of purple it is made of red and white.

Purple Cake Day was made by another Emily, when her family died in the Haiti earthquake.

We should pray a lot for the people of Haiti and Christchurch whose houses have been knocked down.

Purple cake day is about helping children all around the world.

I can do this by:

Traveling around the world and helping people and by donating to needy people and informing people around the Saint Paul’s community that it is Purple Cake Day and by eating some

Purple Cakes!!!!

By Emily Claire Smith  (2011)

The Aquarium at Mapua

We were very excited to be going to the Aquarium at Mapua. We saw crayfish, eels, stingray, snapper, squid, starfish, anemone, clown fish, baby sharks, seahorses red eared turtles! We made Maori fish hooks and used a Maori drill. We saw a crayfish being caught. We were able to put our hands into the pools of sea water and touch the fish. The stingray kept coming up to the glass to say hello. We had a great time at the aquarium and afterwards we had a picnic lunch at the Mapua Domain.

Swimming

We have had a great time at swimming lessons. Because we were so quiet  when we walked into the pool each day we won a prize! We had 10 minutes in the wave pool and all our swimming instructors came in with us.

Welcome to Tui Class. This is our first blog!