Hi my name's Grace. At school in term 1 in our inquiry we were learning about the early Maori life. My Mum , Dad and I went on the computer an we found out that I have Maori anseters. My Nana sent me my family tree and it goes all the way to my Maori anseters. 1 of my Maori anseters are called Motiti and she is a real Princess! So I am related to a real Princes! This is how they Motoitoi and Richid got marred : One day a man called Richid Divier he was a boat driver he and his crew were sailing in a Maori owned airaer. When there ship landed on the Maori's area the gards killed all the crew they were about to kill richid  but sence he was the captin  they took Richid to there leader. Days later they were about to kill Richid but Motoitoi grad her father's clock and swang it around Richid. She had saved Richid's life. It wasn't just love at frist sight but it was life insted of deaf. I'm real happy to share this new's with you. (:

When the year fours were at the Big Sad Wolf performance the year fives stayed in the classroom with Mr Winterbourn. The first thing the year fives did with Mr Winterbourn was get a metre of string.  Then we put it up to our side and see where it is up to on ourselves. Then the second thing was the year fives had to draw a picture on there black peace of paper.  After that we got our string to see if our meter string would fit

On Monday the 20 of May the year 4s got to go see Big Sad Wofl. It was awesome. At the end they did gagman stily but they changed the song to difrent words. Big Sad Wofl was the best performance the school as ever seen. (:

The Paper Plus students have been testing the Ashburton River water at different sites and are about to test it again at the town site.  During this time, we have also been discussing why there are changes to: the invertebrae population, algae growth, temperature and clarity at each site.  Today, we completed some activities to build our awareness of the many different uses of rivers and how different community members might view our river.
Miss Church

The Paper Plus students were bursting with news today as it was the first day of the term.  We were given a card and had to find others with the same card that belonged to our news sharing group.  The card also told us what our responsibility was within the group.  Everybody had plenty to say.

Miss Church

Today, the Room 16 class took some time to think about why we treasure each other.  We took turns writing something special about others in the class.  At the end, we could could read our piece of paper and all the lovely comments written that describe us.
Miss Church