Out and about to Portsmouth Street Kindergarten

We went and visited our friends at Portsmouth Street Kindergarten this morning. Mrs a Derrick made this iMovie of our walk through our community.

This iMovie is dedicated to Squeak the rat.

Visiting the Aranui ELC

Today we had our first visit of 2014 to the Aranui Early Learning Centre which is right across the road from our school. Lueqis, Summah and Salem used to attend this kindy. We saw Janae who is starting in our class next week. Summah had fun doing Helen's hair. Lueqis played with his friend Tyler and the rest of our class's enjoyed playing outside on the equipment and doing some art.

We are looking forward to some children from the ELC who are visiting us next week with their teachers.

Long lost iMovie from 2013

Here is a link to our 2013 entry to the Pegasus Digi Awards - we won a prize for the 'Celebrating our Community' category for Years 1-3.

This shows how we like to connect with our local preschools and kindergartens.

Our visit to Portsmouth Kindy

We visited our friends at Portsmouth Kindy today.
Taurean, Briley and Vanessa saw their old teachers Linda, Janine, Poi and Jo. We saw Samantha who will be joining us in Room 7 very soon.

Out and About - Week 2 - Visit to E Tipu E Rea Early Learning Centre

Today we walked down to E Tipu E Rea Early Learning Centre to spend some time with the children there.

We loved playing with all of the amazing equipment at E Tipu E Rea. It is a great Early Childhood Centre.
Summer and David were excited to see Janet and all of their old teachers.

Pre-schoolers come to visit Aranui Primary

On Friday, we hosted many local Aranui preschools for a Cultural Performance in the school hall. The Pasifika and Te Kakano group performed for all of us.

Out and About Week 3: Portsmouth Street Kindy

This weeks out and about was a walk to the Portsmouth Street kindergarten.
We walked from school on a beautiful spring-like winters day and spent some time playing and connecting with some more new friends.
We met the kindergarten's pet mice, Bubble and Squeak, were monkey's on their playground and joined in celebrating Drake's 5th birthday. We hope to have a small group from Portsmouth Street kindergarten visit us soon and also come back to visit to keep the connection strong.

Visit from the Aranui Early Learning Centre

We had some special visitors visit Room 7 on Thursday from the Aranui Early Learning Centre, which is right across the road from our school. 

Room 8 children also came along and all the school students showed the kindy kids some of the learning activities we get up to at our school.

We did rainbow writing, made letters and names with play dough, puzzles, interactive tv and iPads.

We look forward to going back and visit our new friends from kindy in a few weeks.

Rainbow writing our names

Learning letters with our iPads

Eating our morning tea together

Showing the kindy kids our playground

Our visit to the Early Learning Centre Kindergarten

On Tuesday 25th of June we visited the Aranui Early Learning Centre across the road from our school. Salem and Caleb met some of their old teachers and friends. We all had fun. On Wednesday we each wrote a sentence about some of the things we did during our visit.

 I climbed on the frame and jumped down.
Toreka

 I was picking up boxes. I needed them for the side of the house.
Jasmine

 I went on the computer with Keira.
Salem

 Salem's on the slide. He is sliding on the slide.
Tua

 I climbed on the bridge. I was running.
Caleb

I played in the sandpit.
David

Interaction between APS and local Early Learning Centres

Today Mrs Derrick visited some local pre-schools and kindy's around Aranui to take them some copies of our Aranui Primary Junior Learning News. 
Lots of the teachers want to spend some time at our school as they can see the awesome work all of our children do at Aranui.

We are hoping to host some small groups from the local kindy's and pre-schools in Term 2 and go to visit them as well!

If you would like a copy of our learning news please email Mrs Derrick at e.derrick@aranui.school.nz and she will send you out this terms copy!