Information Reports

We have been very active and engaged learners during writing time this week. We have been carrying out research about a chosen animal and writing information reports. Here are some of the results.

Maka's prezi about lions:

Edwin's Puppetpals video about dolphins:

Salah's report about husky dogs:

Doubling and Halving

The Taimana maths group have been working on a new multiplication strategy called doubling and halving. Aniva and Taufeeq demonstrated their learning today by recording themselves using the strategy.

R5's Assembly!

Check out the highlights from R5's assembly.

Here is the Matariki presentation from assembly. Eugenia and Snedhal have used screencastify and google slides to present it.

Once Upon an Alphabet

Our lack of posts this week is due to our preparation for this week's assembly! However we did some creative writing today based on the book by Oliver Jeffers - Once Upon An Alphabet.

Duffy Theatre Show @duffybooks

On Thursday we had the pleasure of watching our very first Duffy Theatre Show. We were absolutely blown away by the performance and we came back buzzing.

The Duffy theatre show😎😃 from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Our Trip to the Auckland Museum

Yesterday we went to the Auckland Museum. We had a fantastic time and learnt a lot of new information about Matariki. Check out the highlights.

Survival Shelters

Last week the Y4 Syndicate spent the week getting involved in a deep learning task. They were set the task of designing a volcano proof shelter for their family to survive in for one week.

Here are some of the descriptions of the shelters.

Earthquakes in our first language #BookCreator

The learners from R5 have been using the @BookCreatorApp to add dialogue to an Earthquake story during their ESOL lessons. Some of them recorded their dialogue in their first language!

Inquiry Presentations #2

We have been busy inquiring into natural disasters. We are learning how to demonstrate our learning in different ways. These groups decided to use Google Slides.

Inquiry Presentation

We have been busy inquiring into natural disasters. We are learning how to demonstrate our learning in different ways. These groups decided to use iMovie.

The Present

The Present from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.


We have been using this excellent short film as a motivation for writing. Here are some of the results.

What to do in a storm #2

More explanations about how to prepare for a storm.