Tupu-ā-rangi Netballers

Winter sport started this week, here is the Year 5 and 6 team playing Te Horo. Tau ke!

Dane Coles visits Ōtaki School

It was a big day at Ōtaki School - Cassius came first in the senior syndicate cross country practice -  rawe! Also, Roger Booth from the Kapiti Motivation Trust visited with local boy, Dane Coles. Dane Coles is the Hurricanes captain, as well as an All Blacks player. He shared with us his story from a young boy playing rugby, through to the hard work it takes to play rugby as a professional. Dane spoke about his love of the game of rugby, and despite it being hard work, how much he enjoyed playing rugby professionally. Living his dream!

Mothers Day Assembly

Today we joined together as a school to honour our wonderful mums as a school. Te Korowai Whakamana kaiako presented a play and many classes shared the mahi they have been doing during class time. Almost everybody dressed up as their favourite book character as it was a Duffy books assembly also. Tau kē tamariki mā!

Mother's Day

A big mihi out there to all our fabulous mothers! And a special mihi to those of you who are doing a double duty as Nanas or Dads. All the the students out a lot of effort into the cards for you on your special day!

Dinosaurs

This term our topic focus is Dinosaurs. We began working on this topic last week, talking about what we know and what we would like to know. On Friday during our topic time we did observational drawing of dinosaurs. Ngā tamariki were very focused on their task, and paid a lot of attention to the details.

Cross Country Training

Cross country training began in earnest today with all students in the senior school running around the block in order to prepare for the Cross Country race in week 5. Tupu-a-rangi all ran well! Keep moving everyone!

Bread making

During our Topic time on a Friday morning we tried making bread for the first time. Earlier this week we had read a book about different breads. There has been alot of discusssion about the different types of breads we eat - we will continue to practice our bread making skills next week.

Helping Hands at Ōtaki School

On Thursday 4th May Ōtaki School had a visit from a group of volunteers from Fonterra, who came to do some jobs around the kura. They spread bark, they refilled the sandpit, they weeded the gardens, they even fixed our netball posts! Wow what busy people! But best of all they brought us some snacks! Yum!