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3rd August The value this week is responsibility. The house leaders showed a clip about responsibility to the school that really made us think about our responsibility to others. media type="file" key="responsibility.mp4" 31st July We have been back for two weeks and boy have we been busy! Our new inquiry topic is "Heroes and Villains". We are learning how heroes and villains make a difference in other people's lives. To kick off our unit the Awatea team went out to lots of places in the community where other people make a difference. It was a great day and really got us hooked in...



26th June It is nearly the end of the term! One more week until we are all on holiday. But.... we still have a few things to do. Tonight is the twilight toy sale and the PTA is trying to raise money for the school by selling our old toys. On Tuesday the Awatea team is putting on a dance show for the parents. We will be doing a dance as a whole team and our class will be doing a traditional dance. We are all looking forward to it!

27th May We have been writing explanations this term to improve our written language skills. The current topic is how the eye works. What an amazing thing it is! Here you can see for yourself:

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21st May



Wow! Today was the Whakarongo School Book Fair Dress up Parade. A lot of children (and teachers) dressed up in some fantastic costumes to celebrate the book fair. The theme this week has been "boogie into books" so we have really taken on the musical theme. Check out a few pics from the fantastic people in top ten:

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15th May

The new turf At the start of the year some builders came and chopped the trees down in the back paddock so that they could build a new sports turf. Whenever its raining we get to go on it because it won’t be muddy. It is almost finished.



In Top Ten we have been learning about sign language. We tried to learn the New Zealand national anthem in sign language. Some people thought it was easy and a lot of people (including the teacher) thought it was hard!

Here is a link to the NZ alphabet:

media type="file" key="NZ Sign Language Alphabet.m4v" 2nd March 2009 Today we had a magician in our hall (called Marty) who told us a few things about how cool it is to be kind and how uncool it is to be cruel! He bought a balloon and managed to put a needle right through it to show us how a thought goes through our mind. He had a little puppet who was funny (his name was either Vert or Bert or Vern...?) who liked to repeat everything Marty was saying. Marty did a few magic tricks and turned one of his balloons in a swan. He got people to help him do the magic tricks.

Marty had a few important messages. They were: Treat people how you would like to be treated Not to be a bully otherwise people will remember you as one Respect other people and respect other people's things We need to make sure we have a RESPECT day not a SPECTRE day!

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27th February We had a visit yesterday from a percussion group called Strike. They were totally amazing - we all really enjoyed their performance!

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This is a clip for the top ten people. It was filmed all in one go!!

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Term One, 2009 This is where we share our learning at school so that others can find out what we are doing. The value at school this week is responsibility. Take a look at one example of taking responsibility: