ACTIVE recipients

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the ACTIVE awards. These awards are given to one Year 3 and one Year 4 from each T group, voted for by their peers. What an honour for you all!

Back: Jaxson, Mercedez, Jourdain, Tyler, Tamati, Brianna, Adele

Front: Holly, Portia, Declan, Ashton, Anamika, Olivia.

Also a huge congratulations to Nikita who received the award for most improvement in swimming lessons at Starfish Swim School. Well done, Nikita!

Rubbish bins

Rubbish free lunchbox

Large sign board

Sign board to help visitors be self directed

Welcome to Orongomai sign board

Playground and sign posts

Water feature and sign post

Sign/sculpture in a pond and Google slide

Signs

Shaped Rubbish Bin

My rubbish bin is a monster. It has the Halswell School colours.

Orongomai Playground and Sign Board

This is a model of a treehouse, a playground and more nature. This is going to be outside Orongomai. It helps visitors because there is a sign board about Orongomai. We also need it because we have hardly any playgrounds or places to play.

ORONGOMAI assembly week 9

This is our last team assembly for the year. 

Well done to our wonderful assembly leaders, Kate, Harrison and Rosa.

Well done to our certificate recipients - Samantha, Joyce, Samantha, Aidan, Finn, Jess, Talia, Jack and Olivia. What a deserving bunch! 

Halswell School App.

Made by Zara, Holly, Jayden, George and Lewis M.

This app can teach visitors about the things we do in Orongomai.

Signpost

This is a signpost to show visitors where to go when they visit our school. By Reuben, Ashton C, Bryn, Harrison, Tamara and Tainui.

Octopus bin

I would put it on the grass next to the library 

The school needs an octopus bin because it has sign posts and a rubbish bin.

Virtual tour

Ashton K, Jourdain, Cameron, Barnaby, Blake and Madden have made a model of a virtual tour on an iPad to encourage visitors to be self-directed.

We are making models so people know witch block is witch it's going to be made out of wood the words are going to be carved and we are going to cut holes in it and grow plants out of it well we hope you like it and please vote for us we would appreciate it thank you by making a comment.

Our inquiry

Cross Country recount by Scarlett

On Thursday 5th of November it was our Cross Country. It was on at Halswell Quarry. When we got to the quarry we put our bags done. Then Miss Macfarlane called out as loud as she could and said, “Year 3 girls, follow Mrs Nuthall!”

So all the Year 3 girls did. We got to the starting line then BANG! and CLAP!

So soon we sprinted off like jet planes. Soon we all slowed down all of a sudden. Then along came Jess. We were both huffing and puffing. We kept the same pace the whole time. We did the same thing. Jess and I went fast then slow then at the end, the boys were cheering us on. In the distance I could see the finish line. I was so close. We ran so fast, so quickly, then I made it!

I was so happy I didn’t come last. I ran to see if anyone was watching my race. I saw Poppa. I raced to see him then I hugged him and that was the end of the Cross Country.

Our leaders and certificate earners today:) great work everyone

And some more photos..

Orongomai Athletics Day

What a great day had by all yesterday, here are a few photos I managed to take before lunch.

We are very proud of you all for having a go with great attitudes!:)

Week 8 Spelling Words

This week we have a spelling review of our long 'e' sounds.

The patterns are:
ee
ea
e by itself
e-e (magic 'e' rule)
ey
y
ie / ei (group 4/5)

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall Long e review	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly Long e review	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac Long e review	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac Long e review	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac Long e review
beet sleep meat cheap behind fever happily forty honey turkey	freedom cheeky dreaming easily concrete complete eighty history parsley chimney	evergreen engineer meaningful easterly athlete discrete geography beauty keyboard storey	eighteen guarantee realism seasonal stampede ecosystem quality naughty unbelievable either	spreadsheet proceeding freakishly feasibility gangrene intervened recovery attorney retrieval inconceivable

Assembly certificates

Congratulations to those children who earnt a certificate from your teachers in Orongomai today, well done!

Thank you to our assembly leaders!

Great job today thank you both for leading our assembly in Orongomai with positivity and clear voices, well done:)!

Week 7 Spelling Words

It's all go for another week of spelling. Here are your words for buddy testing next Friday.

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall Long e	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly Long e	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac Long e	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac Long e	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac Long e
y, ey	y, ey	y, ey	y, ey	y, ey, ie, ei
happy unhappy many body anybody party key donkey monkey valley	happily unhappily carry windy fifty forty honey monkeys volleyball turkey	eighty hurrying twenty seventy history company library parsley chimney trolley	geography beauty February January delivery alleys jockey storey journey keyboard	naughty quality rhapsody odyssey thieves unbelievable retrieving seizure either receive

Spelling Week 6

A reminder for all children that we will continue using Week's 5 spelling words for next week due to the long weekend and swimming.

Have a wonderful weekend with your families.

Wet Lunchtime Fun in Orongomai

Today we had fun creating during a wet lunchtime full of rain and hail!

Cross Country Certificates

Science and E-Ako and certificates, well done!

Certificates at assembly today

Assembly leaders today

Well done boys thank you for your great job as our assembly leaders today:)

Cross Country Videos

Results are posted below.

Spelling Words Week 5

Here are the spelling words for Week 5 - we are continuing with the long"e" sound; this week it is "e" by itself (with a few e_e words for Groups 1 and 2). Have fun learning!

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall Long e	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly Long e	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac Long e	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac Long e	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac Long e
e, e_e	e, e_e	e	e	e
these even being even emu evil before below zero return	fever secret video legal stereo female behind decide email media	complete eleven senior routine secretly genius believe because beyond evening	equally concrete geography centimetre vehicle reception theatre frequent decision geometry	sequins sequence millimetre frequency equalise stereotype ecosystem equilateral unbelievable geologist