Camp

We are all very excited to go to Camp on Wednesday. We will be going for 3 days and 2 nights and will be back at school by about 2:15 on Friday.

Camp Raglan has a range of activities for us to take part in including BMX, Confidence Course, Archery, Low Ropes, Air Rifles and Swimming.

Included is a map of Camp Raglan as well as the Activity Groups and Cabin Groups.

Remember to be at school by 8:30 on Wednesday! See you there :D

Quality blog comments

Kauri 7 have been discussing how to make quality blog posts by being Positive, Thoughtful and Helpful.

Here are some examples of sentence starters that you can use when commenting on blogs!

S.T.E.A.M.

This term in Kauri hub, Kauri hub students have been learning about S.T.E.A.M. This means Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. 

Kauri hub completed a S.T.E.A.M. rotation where they completed challenges about how to use Spheros, a 3D Printer and a Makey Makey as well as how to create fastest ramp.  

In the hub, there were some white roses in different coloured water to see how the petals changed colour with the more water they drink. 

Today Mrs Thompson came in and showed the hub how to create batteries using lemons using the Makey Makey and positive and negative charges through different types of nails.

Relating to others

Kauri hub has been working hard to build as one very large team!

We finished Term 2 with a team building day where we got to know different students and the teachers through a variety of games and activities.



This term we have been learning with different teachers and our ako whanau "learning family" groups. Students are worked hard to learn and relate to different students than they would normally pick to learn with. The teachers are very proud of the students!

Learn Create Share

On Friday 31st of August, the students of Kauri hub had the opportunity to create and decide their own learning for the day.

Their only instructions were to

• research their chosen topic
• create a slide presentation, report, poster or video about their chosen topic
• share their learning to others in the hub

Here are some of the examples of what was created. We hope you enjoy!

Our new hub

 Welcome to our new hub space!

We are settling in and getting used to the new spaces and furniture. Kauri hub is enjoying having the freedom to choose their learning space and where they want to sit. Here are some photos for you to have a look at!

We love having visitors to show and explain our learning spaces to 😀

How to post on your blog

Thank you to all the families who came to our open morning on Monday. Children whose families could not make it can share the Hub Site and their blogs with their families to see.

Great to see everyone posting on their blogs!
Here is a reminder of what you need to post. I will be giving some rewards to the children who do the best blog posts!

How I post a piece of learning on my blog

1. This activity was about......I was learning to ...... I was revising ....
2. I created a slide presentation/video/drawing/infographic to post on my blog to share my learning.
The things I found easy were......... The things I found hard were .......
3. What I enjoyed about this was ......
What I might try next time is .......
4. I look forward to your feedback, so please write a comment on this post.

Remember to share your blogs with your families to show them what learning you have done!
Miss Gallagher

Welcome to Term 2!

Hope you all had a great first week back.

I have had such a welcoming first week as a part of Kauri hub. 

As a hub, we have started discussing plans and ideas for the variety show. This variety show will be an important fundraiser towards camp and allow the class to present some of our learning about the arts and collaboration.

Today we had an extremely interesting lesson with Mrs G about our digital footprints and what information we should and shouldn't share. The class was very interested to learn that Facebook had allowed user's information to be used by other companies. As a part of this discussion I told the class I would share with them the age restrictions for different social media platforms to discuss with their families. Here it is:

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Gallagher

2017 Highlights

Amazing Animation

One of our Learn Create, Share activities for Maori language week was to animate a popular myth to share with others.  Well done Cam and Beau you did a great job!