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We have entered a competition to have the America's Cup Trophy brought into school and to win $3000 of learning equipment. This is the video we made.

All we need is for people to vote for us! You can vote once a day so please support us!

Maths Week

Last week we celebrated Maths Week. We had a series of fun problem solving tasks to do in groups and we had prizes for groups that were able to solve the puzzles and for working collaboratively.

On Friday Mrs. Cameron had a car full of balloons and everyone had an opportunity to see it and to guess how many balloons were in the car. After all of the guesses were tallied up, only one student had guessed the exact number of balloons... It was Tamati from here in Te Maunga. Tamati got a hamper full of goodies he can use at school.

Online Safety is Paramount

We have been learning about the Kawa of Care and some ways to keep ourselves safe when we go online.

We read a book about online safety. It taught us that it is very important to keep personal information off the web. We also learnt that being friends online with strangers is something that no one should ever do. Just ask Chicken Clicking!

Super Sonic Soundscapes

We have been learning all about different musical instruments from around the world. We read about violins being made the same way for the last 400 years, the erhu, a Chinese instrument, and the koauau, a Maori flute.

We also learnt about sound effects used in movies. We saw that coconut shells were used to make the sound of horses galloping. We came up with some awesome ideas to make some sounds to do with all sorts of themes. Some groups did volcanic eruptions, some did storms and a few did crazy ideas like fighting dragons and zombies attacking!