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21 Nov 2025

Kia ora e te whānau,

A fun week in Whānau Puna (Rooms 7, 8, 9 and 10).

In literacy Room 9 have continued their shared text - Iggy Peck Architect, by Andrea Beaty. The book inspired us to take on the role of an architect and design a structure and space surrounding the structure. We have each created these using a range of classroom and natural materials in the class. These are available to be seen this week in Room 9. Room 10 has continued their shared text - Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. This week we have been engineers focusing on the best places for inspiration and sharing these using compound sentences. On Tuesday, we had Jo for STEM and as engineers designed and made marble and water runs and explored movement with cogs and chains. In Room 7 and 8 we read the rich text: The Cat’s Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman, focusing on rhyming words.

In maths this week we have been working on:

Room 7/8 - Money

Room 9 - Writing time, sequencing events

Room 10 - Identifying, finding and representing halves as fractions of a whole by equal sharing 

Hats are compulsory this term, please make sure your child has their hat with them everyday.

We had a fantastic Athletics afternoon this week. The children were all amazing participating in their running, throwing and relay races. We are so proud of how well the children participated and enjoyed their afternoon.

Whānau Puna team

Tracy, Sasha, Gerry, Wendy, Bev and ClaireS

 

20 Nov 2025

Tomorrow is the last day for Scholastic Book orders - 21 November.

20 Nov 2025

9 - 11am

 

Due to running less events today the Y4-6 athletics will be completed 9 -11am.

 

Events not run today will be run in class time as soon as the field / long jump pit is drier / usable.