Room 3's Cards for Gala

Room 3 have been using their writing skills to write some very important people some letters lately. This has been so we have an awesome product to sell at Gala.

We decided we could make Christmas Cards to sell to our whanau and friends at Gala so that they were sorted for Christmas time. We thought long and hard about how we could decorate them and thought why get our local talent involved so asked Oasis's Dad Uncle Bonce, if he could help us out.

We sent Uncle Bonce some letters asking him if he would mind helping us decorate our Christmas Cards, and he was more than happy to.

Before we started though we needed some card! Thankfully Miss D'Ath knew that Hitchy's mum (Mummy Hitchy), sells craft products so we all wrote her letters asking if we could please buy some card and envelopes off her. We must have sounded like super friendly tamariki because Mummy Hitchy sent us the card, and told us we could have it for free as part of a donation to the fixing up of our school pool!

We also had a very generous donation of beautiful stickers from Nanny Vienna.

So on Monday after our Whakarewa Run we had Aunty Ali, and Uncle Bonce come into class and help us decorate our awesome looking cards!

Room 3 tamariki had a whole lot of fun! Keep an eye out for some Thankyou's in the mail those of you who have been super generous with your time, skills, and products!

Also keep an eye out for our awesome Cards selling at Gala this weekend! They are selling for $2 each! (You will want to get in quickly because they look amazing!)

Bugs in the water!

Yesterday we were very lucky to have enjoyed the sunshine whilst being outside in it!

We all headed up to the Whangawehi River on bus at 11am, and walked up from the bridge to the rapids.

Once there we had a quick discussion with Shane (Our bug expert), about what sort of bugs we want to find, whether it is good or not to find bugs in our water, and what makes our water healthy.

The water was looking reasonably clean, however there weren't many bugs to be found. We all had a look at our identification sheets, and knew what we were all looking for so we began our exploration of the river.

Due to it being a very hot day it was a big relief to be able to get into the water.

We all learnt a lot about water quality and how fast flowing water is always healthier than water that isn't moving too much!

Whakarewa Run

On Monday we had the Whakarewa Trophy run.

This happens every year at Te Mahia School and is scheduled on low tide so that tamariki can run along the sand most of the run, before coming up onto the road.

Room3 ran along the sand, and only had to run a short distance on the road, where we caught the bus quickly back to school to help cheer on our senior runners!

We have some very talented runners in our school, and it was obvious!

A very big KA PAI to Waitama who came 3rd in the junior school! He wasn't just racing Room 3 people, but also some Room 2 people too!

We had some awesome place getters who had some very awesome running times.
A big congratulations to all our tamariki who participated, you all did very well!

Congratulations Te Mahia tamariki!

As you may all be aware we are a Bronze Enviro-school, which means we pay a lot of attention to creating a sustainable environment for the future. We are very involved in our environment, especially the Whangawehi Awa, and we have been working very hard all year on new and exciting ways to improve the environmental quality of Te Mahia.

So this last week we have been working our little hands off getting ourselves prepared for our Enviro-School Celebration.

Today we celebrated with invited VIP's from around the community and further afar. They were invited to come to Te Mahia Kura and see if they thought our hard work conserving the environment was enough to make us a SILVER envrio-school! And guess what!!!

They all agreed that YES we are very worthy of being A SILVER ENVIRO-SCHOOL!

So a very big CONGRATULATIONS to all Te Mahia Kura tamariki who have worked very hard at making this happen, as well as all those beautiful people out in the community who constantly give their time to us here at school. Without all of you this would not be happening.

After the decision was made thisafternoon, all the tamariki had an ice cream to celebrate, and then when  our award arrives we will have to have another party!

If you are around Mahia and want to come and visit our Kura please do and come and see all the hard work we put into our school, as well as our community.

Below are some photos of today!
Ka Pai tamariki!