Matariki begins to appear in the classroom

Matariki has started to appear in the Senior Hub. Art work and ideas from last year have made an appearance and at the students request we have got down to some awesome new learning:

Jasper and Hamish working on their star clocks

Alice and Shianne busy at work

More focussed artists

This group is getting taught how to make woven putiputi by Oshaya

Today paper...tomorrow harakeke!

Oshaya is an amazing teacher

This is tricky business. We are making kono (woven food baskets) and they require all of our patience and concentration.

Working it all out on paper first

They're on their way to some fantastic kono.

Kourarau Planting - Taking Action in our environment

It's been all over the news...well our news that is. What an amazing way to Take Action in our Environment with the day up at Kourarau Dam planting to improve the water quality. Here are some shots of the day.

On the bus and we're off!

Getting stuck in to some planting

Kayla with one of the plants. Can you work out what it is?

Phoebe and Japhy thinking about the next step

Connor getting stuck in to digging holes

Look what we found in the Kourarau Stream!

We found these too...the reason for the name Kourarau

Ataahua (beautiful)

Great community effort - making connections/whānaungatanga

Yellow Admiral butterflies live here too

Looking for more invertebrates to check the water quality

Mother's Day Creating

A bit late to the reporting table, but here is a little project that may have made it home to a few mothers some weeks ago:

Hannah teaching a group how to fold card into boxes

More box folders

Dylan and Alice painting their rocks

The finished Mother's Day boxes. They contained a little poem and a specially decorated rock because Mum's Rock!

Bat and Ball Tournament

Yesterday we had the weather smiling upon us and 4 teams of softballers went to the South Wairarapa Bat and Ball tournament. The students showed excellent Gladstone School community identity and enjoyed getting involved with the other schools in a fantastic sport.

Represent!

Plenty of black and yellow

Maggie taking a swing

Mr Brown getting into the spirit

Supporters lined up

Action on the field

 

Watching fish

How cool is this! Connor's Dad came in to school and showed us a live stream video of the Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) eggs at their home hatching.

A still shot of the eggs hatching

We also learned from Connor's Mum that Betta fish put bubbles of oxygen all around their eggs to support them while they are hatching. This was fascinating!

Teachers tweets

Graham brown by Graham Brown

Where am I?

@rutzrox by Micaela Rutene