Hōpara - Explore Blog 2020

  Kia ora Hōpara whānau  Another week has flown by in Hōpara! It was lovely having Monday off as a holiday, it gave us a the extra refresher that we need at this time of the term! This week we really delved deep into our core learning, our major focus for maths this term is fractions and in literacy we are really trying to build our language feature knowledge within poetry. Chill clubs has been busy this week, we have students recreating childhood games in digital forms on scratch, sport coaching, fashion design and academic studies. The children continue to be highly engaged with these projects which is exciting to see!  Head-lice  - There have been a few emails late this week regarding head lice. Today your child will have come home with a notice asking you to check your child's hair. This really requires a team effort to get on top of it - please return the notice Monday next week and treat where needed.  Production:  The children have select which "scen...

Kia ora Hōpara whānau  Wow this week has been very eventful with students in Hōpara competing in the Duathlon and our annual athletics day. It was wonderful to see all of our team giving every event their best shot, encouraging each other and striving for personal excellence. Thank you to all of the parents that attended, this makes the day so much more special for the children!  I would also like the opportunity to introduce our two student teachers Zara Toohey and Ashley Nuttall. They are both 1st year students and have slotted into our space perfectly - we feel very lucky to have them with us for the next couple of weeks.  Production:  This has been underway with staff over the last few weeks and we are now at the stage where students will be selecting their "team item". Today they would have heard a "pitch" from each team, in which they will choose in connection to their interest and passions. There will also be a number of "main roles" that will be an...

Kia ora Hо̄para Whanau  We hope you all enjoyed your holidays?! Hōpara students have returned to school with positive learning attitudes which has been awesome to see. This week we have been doing some initial testing, this was in fractions and decimals and spelling.  Next week your child will be coming home with a list of words they got incorrect. These words all have the main spelling patterns that form a majority of words at different developmental stages. We have also been experiencing different athletics events daily and we look forward to our annual Athletics day next Wednesday...I hear there is going to be a coffee cart!!  As I'm sure you are all aware Thursday's often mean Coding and Science and this week students were coding a baseball game. We were very proud to say that 100% of students were able to complete this task. So if you get some time, ask your child to show you how the game works. Good luck to the children competing in the duathlon on Monday!...