Pumpkin Festival with Mrs Meyers

 Pumpkin Festival 2022

Each year Mrs Meyers gives children an opportunity to grow giant pumpkins at home. The children bring their pumpkins to school and compete for a variety of prizes. This year's festival had an amazing array of interesting pumpkins. So interesting! What is your favourite?

 The Ping Caravan and Room 8

When the Ping caravan came to Ahipara School we could go on the games caravan or dance along to the videos. It was amazing being a dance avatar. We hope they will visit again next year!

Swim Safe lessons with Nancy 

Room 8 enjoyed water safety lessons with Whaea Nancy. We loved being turtles and trying different ways to float and keep safe in the water together. It was cool fun!

Having Fun with Volume and Mass

Having Fun with Measuring Volume and Mass

As part of our Maths learning, Room 8 was  finding out the volume of 3D packets by filling the space with  centimetre cubes. We learnt that we could not leave any spaces between them! This lead to. us calculating the volume of a 3D shape by multiplying the 3 dimensions of length, width and height. Having hands on materials was a lot of fun and made the learning so much easier.

Team Building in Room 8

 Team Building in Room 8

To commence the year, room 8 explored what it means to be part of a team and what the phrase "Together Everyone Achieves More" really means. We learned that great things are achieved by listening to each other, encouraging our team, having a plan that we all work together on, and, including and valuing each team member. We liked the variety of team opportunities. It was easy to see the benefits of team work!