Abbey stretches for the ball while Olivia and Nziwa look on.
Congratulations to the players and coaches of the Red netball team. The reds had a fantastic season making it to the grand final of their competition. The team gave 100% against Roto-0-Rangi in the final and even some impressively grazed knees didn’t slow them down. In the end the reds finished runners up, a great effort!
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Room 3 students beaming into space!!!
Nicky, Harold and the Life Education truck have been at school teaching us all about staying healthly, caring for our bodies and staying strong in difficult situations. Part of the presentation has involved a journey into space to check out how things are on different planets and how they could be for us if we don’t make wise choices.
Let's hear it for Harold!
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Our staff adds to the coin trail.
One of the charities that we support as a school is the Cancer Society. Each year we get behind daffodil day, we dress in yellow, create a coin trail and discuss the great work done by the Cancer Society. If you would like to make a donation you can click on http://www.cancernz.org.nz/ and there is a link. Thank you to everyone who supported the cause this year!
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Mulch movers, Connor, Quinn and Blake!
Thank you to everyone who came along to help out at our annual working bee! We had a huge turnout of students and parents with many hands making light work of the clean up. It is great to have the school looking spic and span, ready for next months jubilee celebrations.
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10th grade rugby players receive their awards.
Another successful rugby season culminated in a prizegiving on Friday night with awards as follows:
6th Grade Little Rippa Trophy Drew Signal
11th Grade Sportsman of the Year Buster Clark
11th Grade Coach’s Merit Award Stephen Atkinson
11th Grade Player of the Year Cam Roigard
Thanks to Grant and Steph Atkinson for donating the 11th Grade individual trophies and the other families who have donated the annual trophies.
Huge thanks to this years coaches and managers:
Jason Cameron, Maria Cameron and Caroline Webbon. Ian Fraser, Graeme Ireland, Clark Fraser and Kerryanne Walker. David Roigard, Grant Atkinson and Charlie Clark.
Your enthusiasm and dedication is very much appreciated.
Lastly a special thanks must go to Lisa Roigard for the hours of organizational work she does for our KMH Club-thank you Lisa. Thanks also to the Roigards for picking up the tab for the prizegiving shortfall
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Maths, marvellous maths!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our parents numeracy sessions on Monday 23 August. The PowerPoint presentation and parent handout booklet are available on the learning links page of our website.
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Blake, Ava and Charlotte practise guitar.
Here at Karapiro School we have a great many budding musicians working hard on their skills. We have regular singing lessons and present a musical production at the end of each year. From time to time we also train choirs for events such as the World Vision Kids for kids concert. All of our senior students learn to read and play music using the recorder as a friendly introductory instrument and the really enthusiatic can take up optional guitar and keyboard lessons right here. We certainly are a harmonious school!
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Jessica problem solving.
This week is maths week! All classes have been working on a range of maths problems, challenges, games and activities to celebrate the week. We have school wide activities such as an estimate the jellybeans competition and a maths assembly and dress up day, along with daily challenges. On Monday 23rd August, we will be having a parents meeting to continue to share ideas in how you can help your child enjoy even greater success in maths. The session will run from 3.10 pm until 4.10pm and will be repeated from 7 pm until 8 pm on the same day. We hope to see you there!
Natalie checks whether her arm span or height is longest.
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Sam works on his digital story.
A major learning activity for this term is our ‘living legends’ study. Each student has chosen an older person who is significant in their life and has used research skills to gather a range of information about their person. Our students then tell the ‘digital story’ of their person through photographs, documents, music, art and biography. This learning has been particularly rewarding for our students and some wonderful, often previously untold, family stories are being uncovered.
The living legends study is a fantastic build up to our school jubilee and supports the aims of the social studies curriculum in helping students to make connections with and celebrate the past.
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THANK YOU to everyone who came along to our coffee in the country open morning on Tuesday 3 August. It was GREAT to meet you and to share some of the things that make Karapiro School such a special place to learn and grow.
Although we intend to repeat the open morning PLEASE REMEMBER that EVERY morning is an open morning at Karapiro School. Please feel free to call in for a coffee, a tour of the school and the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about learning at our school.
Please give David a call on 827 7642 or 0278 468 959 (after hours) to arrange a time or just call in to see Jenny at reception. we would love to meet you!
Come along to find out WHY…
In the meantime please feel free to have a look around our website – why not explore the tag cloud or check out the archives?
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