Swimming Sports

On Friday we had our school swimming sports. The whole school walked down to Jellie Park for a fun afternoon of swimming and races.

We had a great time watching our friends and joining in with all of the different races especially the egg and spoon and the starfish competition!

It was great to see all of the Piwakawaka Team showing our school values and completing the races with confidence!

Miss Smits and Miss Browne are very proud of you all!

Numeracy - Must do/Can do

We have been working really hard this week to learn our new must do/can do activities for numeracy.

We have really enjoyed being able to measure, make patterns and explore different shapes as well as play games from our numeracy boxes. 

Check out some of our learning from this week!

Te Waka o Matariki

Our newest Burnside Stars are showing just how independent they can be with their learning.  Today they all buddied up by themselves and followed our Must Do and Can Do board brilliantly and with focus.  You are awesome Burnside Stars already!

Hui

Every morning we start our day with a Hui.  A Hui is a meeting where our whole team starts the day in the Red Room together.  We sing some nursery rhymes and do different activities to have a positive start to our day.  

This morning we learnt some clapping patterns to go with our rhyme this week, Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake.

On a Thursday we also discuss those people who have been 'caught' showing our values.  Today we celebrated Destiny who received the sticker for 'Compassion' and Satriani who received the sticker for 'Integrity".  We are very proud of both of these girls who show the Burnside Values.

This is the sticker we use to represent 'Compassion' because Pukeko's are very good at looking after their nests and their babies.

This is the sticker we use to represent 'Integrity' because the Four Winds that blow over Christchurch can't be seen but they can be felt.  If you are showing Integrity you know the right thing to do even when there is nobody watching.

Canterbury Museum, Riccarton House and Dean's Bush

Here are some of our photos from our trip on Friday.  What a great day we had.  There was so much to look at and we made some great connections to our learning from earlier on this week.  We look forward to using all that we saw to help us with the next steps in our Investigation "Big Things come from Small Beginnings".

 Look carefully in these two pictures.  Can you see the Piwakawaka?