Making Milk

The Kids area of the Anchor website has some great info and a neat animated explanation of how Anchor produces their milk. Have a look together.

Assembly Stars

Congratulations today go to Angela - sharing her ideas and experiences from the farm trip, and Emil - fabulous progress with the size and neatness of his handwriting.

Well done you two, we are proud of you!

****And a double celebration for Angela who achieved her 100 nights of home reading certificate today as well!****

'Random Acts of Kindness' day

Hauraki School is celebrating 'Random Acts of Kindness' day on Tuesday 1st September, a day where everyone is encouraged to do something unexpected and kind for someone else. We have talked about this at school and the children had some great ideas. What will your family be doing?... Check out their website for inspiration.

Ambury Park Farm

Our thoughts on Wednesday's trip to Ambury Park farm...

Another reader achieves their goal!

Well done Reihana for achieving your 5o nights certificate.

You are such a great reader!

Yee Haa 100!

Well done J, you've made it to 100 nights.
Such a great effort...keep up the great work.

What a day we had at Ambury Park Farm!

We had such a great day at Ambury Park Farm...

Here we are ready to go...

This is the milking shed where we watched Lucy the cow being milked...



We learned that flies can be a problem for sheep so they have their woolly bottoms shorn...

Here we are setting off to see and feed the other animals on the farm...

Here we are feeding the hungry goat...

More people to be proud of

Congratulations to this week's music star...

and a fabulous reader who has achieved 50 nights of reading at home...

So proud of you both!

Our friend Harold

Our friend Harold the Life Education giraffe is off into space!!
Read all about in in the newspaper this morning!
We can keep in touch with what Harold is doing, seeing and learning by reading his space diary. Maybe we can even send him a message together?!

Using 10s frames

This website has some fabulous activities that link directly with our class numeracy lessons - great practise in counting and addition. Give them a try...let me know how you get on by leaving a comment!
The site can also be accessed from our "Websites worth a look" page too.