Flying Themed Assembly - Such Fun!

 Palm is photo bombing!

 The lovely crew

Emma and Libby as flight attendants, Lucy and Kate Dunbar

 Jarelle as Co-Pilot

Kane is photo bombing!

Vist to our Pop-Up Library in the Hall!

Let's Get Competitive!

As Angus dribbles furiously, Max tries to catch the ball in mid bounce.

Libby and Emma are both trying desperately to get their ball in first.

It looks like this game is very intense!

This looks very difficult!

This group is playing a challenging game.

Captions by George.

Being creative with our calendar art!

Welcome back to our braided beach buddies!

Emma has been surfing in Bali and Libby has been snorkeling in Fiji. Lucky ladies!!

It's Maori Language Week. Here are some Maori values in action!

 Manaakitanga - Sharing the love

These boys spontaneously sung Bella 'Happy Birthday!' on Monday. So heartwarming!

Kotahitanga - Unity

Students in Team 23 playing together and using a fair strategy to determine who will be in!

Self- managed learners - Maths marking time!

 Thomas and Max solving problems.

 Max and Bella using place value and tidy numbers to solve problems.

Jordyn solving the hotspot questions.

Gym Time!

For the last couple of days Team 23 has had some nice teachers from

a School Of Gymnastics to help us work on a few things: rolling, balancing, swinging, handstands and cartwheels. Here are some photos of us balancing!

Thank You Jackie, Jason and Janice (our gym teachers).You were awesome!!!

Buddy reading with Room 9 during BOOK WEEK!

Great Current Events Presentations

 Thomas telling us about the Crusaders and who made the All Blacks.

 Niamh informing us of the recent weather patterns across New Zealand.

Kane presents his strong stance against orcas and dolphins being at SeaWorld.

Super Stars of Team 23

 Superb book reviews by Emma and Charlotte!

Niamh was player of the day for her Hockey team on Saturday!

Team 23 remember to prepare your poem or song. Be ready to present next Monday!

More photos from our Water Day!

DRIP DRIP DRIP Water Ignition Day!!!!

Term 1 Reflection

Our Highlights:
We had a great time at Aqua Gym. We all improved our swimming levels thanks to the swimming teachers.
Quail Island was fantabulous. We would love to go the short way next time.
Turbo touch was a blast. A big thanks to Shane for helping us.
How good was Hagley sport? We'll tell you. Chontel, Lee, Miss Dunbar & Bridget were awesome managers and coaches. Thanks to Mr Mac and Miss A too :)


Things We Learnt:
Not to go the long way at Quail Island.
That we have the best class in the school.
That the milk are rainbow,blue & dots.
Miss Dunbar is a radical teacher.
That Luca likes rainbow pandas.
That Fynn is scared of spiders and snakes
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Personal Comment:
That we have had a stupendous start to the year & can't wait till next term.
Thanks to Miss Dunbar for helping us fit in just right.


Note:
Miss Dunbar you survived the 1st term. Get ready for the next!


By Luca & Fynn:)

Basket making with our buddy class

We had a lovely afternoon on Tuesday making Swedish Heart Baskets with our buddy class, Room 17. It was a little bit tricky but we all managed to make one!

Happy and colourful times in Team 23 this morning :)