Happy Birthday Zarah!

We hope you had a lovely birthday on the 13th of May Zarah!!

School Re-Starts!

Well done everyone for staying home and saving lives! NZ can be very proud!
School re-starts Monday 18th May at Tatuanui.
Write a comment about the thing you are looking forward to most of all when you get back to school.

Happy Birthday Leon for the 5th!

Hope your ankle is getting better. Stay safe!

We're On The Same Team People! KID PRESIDENT

Being boring is easy! 

Now's the time to be Awesome!

Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday Zayne!!

We hope you had a fantastic day on Monday 27th April.

ANZAC DAY

New SumDog Contest has started

A new Sumdog contest has started and finishes this Friday at 3pm.
Congratulations to Malbika who took out top honours in the last contest. She is the one to chase at the moment!

Blake's Volcano

Explosion time!

Blake has made this cool looking volcano during his holiday lockdown time. Go to his page for other pics and ask him a few questions about his creation in the comments section. 

Cody in Lockdown

Farm life carries on. Cody sets to the task of dismantling a mule to re-use the parts on another one. See his page for other pics.

Taylor's write-up about Covid-19

Taylor wrote a report about the virus and was willing to have it shared. Check out her page on the side bar. Great effort Taylor!

SumDog Competition

In case you weren't aware... a SumDog competition is underway for both Kereru and Ruru Maths Classes.
It finishes next Tuesday afternoon. Happy sums everyone!!
If you are having trouble logging in, try     tui2020     as the school code (instead of tps2017)

School Starts Tomorrow...at your place!!

Hi everyone. Mr Haddock here. I hope you have enjoyed your holiday time (as different as it has been) and are ready for a start to school life in lockdown. Dun dun duuunn.

Your parents have been sent an email. Please ask them to check their emails.

I will be hosting two ZOOM sessions tomorrow. One at 11 am and one at 2 pm. Look for an invitiation in your gmail inbox or your parents email inbox.

Here is a BIG opportunity for you to show your learning from home. As Kid President would say - don't just sit there - it's time to do something yi-all!!

See you at the ZOOM session :)  Mr H

Kid President is in the House

20 things we should say more often... messages of kindness. Important to remember these ... especially to your family in times like these!

Happy Birthday Keegan

Hope you had a fantastic birthday Keegan. 

From Te Whare Ruru!!

Self Isolation & Staying Connected

If you would like to share a picture of any experiences you are having during self isolation / lockdown, email the pic to my email address along with a blurb (a few sentences) explaining the picture. Please ask your parents first :)
It could be a pic of your pet, an indoor fort or lego build, a backyard garden project, farm life etc. etc. If shared, it may just inspire others in our class and beyond to give these things a go too!
**I will upload the pic and the blurb you send me onto your page in the blog.**
Let's keep connected ;)

SumDog Competition

Well done to all who participated in the SumDog Maths Class Competition that finished midday today (Friday - NZ Time).
Below is a screenshot of the top placegetters...

Happy Holidays everyone.
Stay Safe and Keep Well.
Mr H.

Happy Birthday Message

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AURORA!!

MORE 24

Try these ones from level 3 and the decimal level (hard ones).
Keep trying even when you are in the learning pit!

Post your solutions in the comments area. Remember there can be more than one solution to each of these. Good luck!

SumDog Competition

24 March update

Hi everyone!

I hope you have been helping your family prepare for the covid-19 lockdown in NZ.

If you are keen for a challenge, I have created a SumDog Competition for Ruru Maths Group.
It starts today and finishes this Friday at 2:30 pm. (nice and short)
I'll be interested to see how it goes...
Simply login using your current SumDog account.
Here is the link below...

Sumdog website

Take care
Mr H

24 Game

Can you make 24 by using all 4 digits once and either adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing to reach 24?

101 Ideas if you are Isolated

Click this link below and see what ideas we can all come up with.
Ideas Link

Tryathlon and Swimming Sports Day

What a day it was. Thankfully the weather for us held.
The Year 6 students did a great job on the track supporting and encouraging the younger ones.
It took some time before the older students raced and the nerves were starting to grow.
Everyone gave their best and the training we did back at school helped the athletes with being fitness prepared. Well I think it did?
I'd like to have had more time in the deep water experience part of the day. I can think of other things now we could have done. Like diving off the start platforms and retrieving objects from the bottom. Maybe we should have visited the Rec Grounds Pools in week 2 of term and had some deep water experience then? Can you think of other activities we could try?

Paper making

Our school has had an ongoing problem with too much paper in our yellow bins before the recycle collection time. It would overflow. Mrs Vester would become anxious, and so, could something be done?

After viewing a Mystery Doug science clip about how paper was made from wood pulp, Te Whare Ruru Home Class got busy with a paper re-making kit and had a go. We learnt about pulping the paper process and using a deckle to settle the paper "soup"We worked collaboratively in teams and by the end of the day had made 10 sheets of paper. and form a new sheet. These just need to dry now.