Robots By Teah

Last week Te Maunga went on an app called Sphero. It was to control robots. We were put in groups and went on our computers and started coding. Group by group we went in the library to make another code. Then we pressed start and the robots followed our code. After that we controlled them with a dot that we moved around in a circle on the screen. The robots followed the instructions given by iPad. Then group by group they did again and again. It was fun playing with all of the robots and I hope we get to play with them again!

Rippa Rugby by Archie

Today Hayley-Jade came to Paihia School for our rippa rugby lessons. She comes once every one or two weeks. We do some warm ups at first and then we play some rippa. We have three teams yellow, blue and red. We call the yellow team the chicken nuggets, the blue team are the blueberries and the red team the tomato sauce. I think lots of people enjoy playing rippa so it’s cool that we get to play rippa during learning time. I think having sports at School is really cool and fun, don’t you? I don’t think most schools get to play rugby during learning time. We are a very lucky school and I like that. The seniors and the juniors are always on different days. I enjoy playing rugby at school and like going to tournaments. The good thing about rippa rugby is that you can just give it a go. If you don’t like it at least you tried and you should be proud of yourself.

8 Crazy days!

What a huge week and a bit we've had at Paihia School!

We had our school tryathlon on Friday March 15. What an awesome way to spend a sunny day at school!




On Wednesday we played Rippa Rugby with Hayley-Jade and had a great time. We learnt all sorts of new skills and can't wait for the tournaments coming up during the year

The Talent Quest was held on Friday March 22. It was outstanding to see all of the talented students we have at school. Te Maunga had a wide range of acts during the show and we even had some of our classmates win prizes! Akaycia won a prize with her group for dancing, Azure won a prize for doing some very impressive gymnastics and Brisa was the overall winner of the Talent Quest for her amazing dance!

Welcome to Te Maunga!

We finally have a blog up and running in Te Maunga! We have 5 students in charge of making sure the world can see all of the great learning we do here in class. Akaycia, Archie, Lincoln, Teah and Yazmin will all be working hard to make sure our blog gets a lot of updates and lets everyone know how much we are doing in class.

There are 55 students in Te Maunga in Year 4 and 5. We have moved into our new classroom and it is awesome! We really like the furry walls.

This blog will be updated every week to show you all of the awesome stuff going on at Paihia School, in particularly in our class.