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!

Exploring Citizenship

How to be a considerate member of a community has been our focus for this topic.  We have explored an acronym for standing up to and not accepting bullying.  Thanks girls for presenting it in such an eye catching way.

Cross Country

We have been learning to describe a special moment in time instead of recounting the whole days events.  Charlotte wrote a detailed description after being caught in the rain training for the cross country.  I love how you have highlighted some of your adjectives and verbs.

Matariki Celebrations

We have been reading about Matariki this week and have been choosing ways to show our learning and celebrate the Maori New year.