2014 - The Busiest Year Yet

School has closed and we are now all on our summer holidays. It has been such a busy and wonderful year with Class 13. We have all learnt a great deal together, and had so much fun along the way.

It was very sad to say goodbye on Wednesday, our last day of school. We said goodbye not only to each other, but to the lovely Mrs O'Neill who has spent time in our classroom this year. We hope you come back and see us next year.

Congratulations to all the students of Class 13 for an incredible year. You all made fantastic progress in your learning, and you also grew up a lot too. A special congratulations must go to our prizewinners:

• Atareita, Paige and Mitchell for their academic awards
• Samoa for citizenship
• John for effort
• Noah and Simon for performing arts

Also, well done to Ajani, Noah and Mitchell for being selected by Mr Burt to be school photographers for 2014.

Have a safe and happy holiday, and I'll see you all next year!

Miss Nalder x

Movie Making

What makes a good champion from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Commonwealth Games. By Atareita

Waitangi Day

A long time ago there was a huge argument between the Pakeha and the Maori about the land of Aotearoa. On August 25th 1839, Captain William Hobson travelled for four months from England all the way to Australia, then he travelled a little bit longer all the way to New Zealand. He was sent by the Queen to write a treaty to share the land of New Zealand. 

But he wrote it in English which the Maori people didn’t understand. So the Pakeha people had to translate the treaty. After the Pakeha people translated the treaty into Maori they all signed the treaty on 6th February 1840 and they also did a hongi. 

William Hobson died on the 10th September 1842 in Auckland, New Zealand.

By Atareita (with help from Class 13)