Maara Kai!

Today we headed on down to Ruawharo Marae to have our Master Chef Maara Kai competition.

We were all very excited and couldn't wait to get started on our planned menu.

To start with we watched Nanny Sophie demonstrate how to make a bull kelp steam bag. Some of us were lucky enough to do this with Nanny Sophie at the end of last year.
We sliced open the kelp and stuffed it with our onion, potato, kumara and carrot.

We then watched a demonstration by Chef Shaun, on how to make a delicious warm caramelised onion dip! We all agreed it tasted amazing and Whaea Jenni has agreed to share it with us all on the Te Mahia School facebook page!

After that we begun the prep on our own menus of a salad and a nutritious drink. It was awesome to see the teamwork involved, and the discussions between team members.

It was an amazing day full of fun and food.

The winning team was Mokotahi!

And we have a very awesome team of amazing Chefs heading into town next Wednesday to compete against other Wairoa Schools. The team is Patricia D, Anthony, Violet and Azure.

Kia Kaha Te Mahia Chefs!

Have a happy and safe long weekend,

Mrs Hitchy and Room 3

Week 6

Kia ora Room 3 whanau,

We are in week 6 and Miss D'Ath has come back Mrs Hitchy! I missed everyone while I was away and it is so nice to be back.

We have been up to a lot of exciting things this week, especially today.

Today we had our second Enviroschools day where we focused on finishing up our "School Song". Tamariki have been putting forward a lot of awesome ideas about our school and what they think is special about it.
After we all wrote down some feedback and feedforward about what we already had written we split into three groups.

1 group headed with Miss Kereru to perfect the tune and beat for the song, another to Miss O'B where they perfected some awesome moves for the song, and the third group headed to Mrs Hitchy to express the song artistically. Keep your ears peeled for our new song coming soon!

We also had another exciting visitor to school today. Nurse Grace in her dental caravan! Room 3 were so excited to see her! And she even informed me that the teeth in Room 3 were looking pretty good. I was very proud of our brand new 5 year olds who couldn't wait to get in there and meet Nurse Grace!

I hope you are all coping well in this heat!

Mrs Hitchy