Space Disco

On Thursday night our school 'Space' disco was held. Some children from Room 7 came along and enjoyed themselves!

Welcome Kimiora!

Happy 5th birthday to Kimiora who started in Room 7 on Wednesday!
We hope you enjoy your time at Aranui Primary School.

Welcome to Abby and Lydia

After the holidays Abby and Lydia started in Room 7! Welcome to Aranui School!

Friday discovery time at Aranui School video!

Today we had fun discovering lots of things including:

• critter creatures
• iPads
• dressups
• musical instruments
• blocks
• computers

We love doing junior school discovery every Friday afternoon!
Take a look at our video.

Room 7 busy in the garden!

We had a busy day planting our vegetable seedlings on Monday. We finished weeding our plot then planted broccoflower, beetroot, roly poly carrots, silverbeet and cabbage. We made sure we gave our seedlings a big drink of water as well.
We have also planted out some herbs in the central herb garden including rosemary, lemon balm mint, catmint and chives.

Please check out our school gardening blog here: Aranui School Garden Blog

Thank you to Mitre 10 Mega Ferrymead for supporting our school garden project!

Helping set up our new school Worm Farm

Our school garden is being renewed this year. Each class has been given a plot that they will have to take care of by weeding, feeding, planting and harvesting a selection of vegetables that we will then use to cook and eat later in the year.

Craig, our SWIS (Social Worker in School) helped us set up our Worm Farm today with some special Tiger Worms and a 'Worm Blanket'.

We put newspaper in the different layers of the worm farm this morning with some worm castings from Craig's own worm farm at his house. Then this afternoon we put some worms in and gave them some apples to begin munching on. We will make sure our worms have just a little bit to eat each day so they can make some nutrient rich worm juice we can use on our large garden.

Fun Friends teacher Training

Today Mrs Derrick, Mr Harris, Miss Brown and Mrs Redden took part in teacher training for the Fun Friends programme that we will be starting soon.
It is a fantastic programme and we are very excited to implement it throughout the school, with the middle and seniors taking part in 'Friends for Life' as well.

Please check out http://www.funfriends.org.nz for more information about Fun Friends!

First day of school 2014!

Welcome back!
We had a wonderful first day back at school. We welcome our two new students Lueqis and Masi who had a great first day at school.

 

We read 'David Goes to School' by David Shannon and made a list of things we should do and should not do at school. Then we made pictures of David with guided prompts from Mrs Derrick. We practiced on the white boards first then did another copy in coloured pencils. Check them out here!

 Here is the final result:

Welcome to 2014

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Hello! Welcome back to Room 7!
We are starting back at school on Wednesday 29th January at 9am. School is open from Monday 27th January so if you need anything from the school office you can come in and see Mrs Scott between 9-3.

Please make sure that you have the correct school uniform and your stationery. Our required stationery is as follows (this can all be purchased from Warehouse Stationery in Linwood - make sure you mention that you are purchasing for Aranui School and help our school earn rewards.

Stationery List:

New Entrants Room 7	Number
1A5 Exercise Book	5
Scrapbook	1
20 page Clearfile	1
Learn to Write/JL2W/JWB/LWB	1
My Writing Book One –Clever Kiwi   Company	1
Clever Kiwi Company – Topic Book	1
1A8	1
Journal Bag (Reading Folder)	1
$5.00 to cover the cost of pens, glue sticks, whiteboard markers, highlighters – to be paid to the teacher.

I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday and hearing about your summer holidays.

Mrs Derrick

Christmas Fun Days

We are almost at the end of the year - just 1 1/2 days of school to go now.
This week we have been busy with Christmas crafts and cooking. Here are some pictures of our Christmas Ice Cream Cone Trees, Christmas Gingerbread and Christmas Trees made with strips of coloured paper.

We also had a shared party lunch with our friends from Room 8 at lunchtime! We had so much yummy food - and the great thing is, there are still leftovers to enjoy tomorrow!

Big Day In!

Bad weather meant that we had our Big Day Out to Thomson Park changed to a Big Day In at school.
We had a great time with a gigantic obstacle course from Bibbidi Bobbidi Bounce, fun trying out all of the different Pedalmania crazy bikes, scooter/skateboarding on the courts, movies in Room 4, moonhoppers, sports gear and a yummy Cheeseburger and sausage sizzle at lunchtime using the ASB Community BBQ. A big thanks to the Red Cross Grant that enabled our whole school to have a fun day at the end of a long year.