The New Teacher 10P

This Term At Rakaia School we have a new Teacher named Miss Gardyne . She is the new teacher for 10p in Mahi Tahi . She is teaching year 5 and 6's. This is a picture of her on house  coloured day dressed in blue.

house colour day

House colour day 

Today we are having house colour day where everyone dresses up their house colours .  

This is me and my friends in our house colours  My house colour is yellow witch is shepard .

awesome book week

this week is book week!

 This week's book week activities. Every afternoon a teacher has read us a book, In the library. We have had fun activities running like monster making, mask designing and colouring in today we had a  monster dress up day. The whole school is involved there were  Zombies, Vampires and Sesame street Monsters, I can't wait until next year's book week!

Fun-day Friday in 10R

Fun-day Friday

In 10R on Fridays we have multiple types of rotations such as mandarin,ICT,music and art
In mandarin we have Mrs zhong  today we did some ink painting.

This is my try at making an ink cherry blossoms we used red and black ink to make our master pieces :-)

Monster dress up day!

Today is Friday the 3rd of June and that only means one thing? MONSTER DRESS UP DAY! :P
Everyone has dressed up so freaky and cool!
There are vampires, wear wolfs, zombies and some other cool monsters, even the teachers dressed up!
This is our school and i hope you enjoy reading our blog! :P

funny monster day

this is a ninja and he is going to kill me  run

this is my friend dressed up as a wearwolf

MONSTER FRIDAY

This Friday Rakaia School had dress up day. This years theme was MONSTERS (so scary) everyone looks like they are real monsters and all of the costumes are really amazing and realistic.

                                          This is me dressed up as a zombie.

By latham 10P

Our music rotation

Every Friday we do music. This is my friend. She is learning to keep time and rhythm. It is always fun with Mrs Markham.

by Ryeleigh C 10Q

Our New Teacher

Our New Teacher

This is Miss Gardyne.
She is now a Blake house teacher. We are happy to have her. She was hired in place of Mr Burford. We hope that she will enjoy teaching.

10R, Jump Jam Fridays

Jump Jam 

Rakaia students at Rakaia School have our Jump Jam warm ups every Friday. We have our lovely Leaders Mahina, Emma, Talita, Josh and Seth to lead the Jump Jam songs up on the veranda, with the Rakaia students following along. This helps the Rakaia kids to get warmed up and to freshened their body for the day. Our leaders practise every Tuesdays and Thursdays to teach the Rakaia kids on Friday. We enjoy doing this every Friday, and hoping to this for the rest of the terms. :)

What we are learning at school.

At Rakaia School on Fridays we get to do multiple fun stuff including ICT, Mandarin, Art and Music. Last week we had Cross Country and the school did really well. Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday we do rotations which include Literacy, Maths and Spelling. And you can't forget about Jump Jam. Plus the brand new teacher.



Cross Country











Jump Jam

Rotations  








Mandarin

Miss Gardyne 
The new teacher 

Learning Mandarin

We are having such great fun learning words and a dance with our fabulous teacher Miss Zhong.  The new dance we learnt was called the rabbit dance.  It's to help us remember certain words we have learnt today. Our Mahi Tahi team are starting to become Mandarin experts.

Happy House Colour Day

Happy House Colour Day

Today we have house colour day. Sheppard is yellow, Rutherford is red, Blake is blue and Hillary is green. In the afternoon, we gather into our house groups and play games. 

Everyone puts effort into what colours they wear... even the teachers do.

 House colour day is really fun and great for showing the Rakaia school values quality, partnership and respect.  

The beginning of our journey...

As the sun rose on our first day of Term 2, 2016, we blessed our new learning space in preparation for our new innovative learning journey.  Mahitahi was blessed, our links to our maunga and awa acknowledge as we join together as collaborative partners to become reciprocal akonga - teachers and students as one.

This blog will capture our learning and partnership journey as we navigate our way towards becoming confident, capable 21st century learners.

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