Animal Learning in Room 3!

Here in Room 3 we have been so excited to learn all about the Animal Kingdom!

This week we have learnt about 

Mammals and Reptiles. 

"A mammal has warm blood and a reptile has cold blood." - Moses

"A lizard is a reptile" - Honi

"A giraffe is a mammal because it has warm blood" - Diamond

We then sorted our animals into the right categories.

 We are super animal sorters!

Fiafia 2015

FIAFIA 2015

Dance is the hidden language of the soul and Yendarra School has recently experienced the love that can be shared through cultural song and dance.

This year we celebrated everything ‘grand’ at Yendarra by hosting our Fiafia event at the Otara Leisure Centre with an amazing number of special guests, families and musicians.

Our children were the super stars and shining stars that ignited a flame that would light up the hearts of many for a long time and this is their story….

On Wednesday 9th December 2015 from 12noon the senior students and teachers prepared Fiafia day at the Otara Rec Centre to celebrate the year and fill people’s hearts with happiness. I felt very proud of everyone who attended the Fiafia day. By: Nora

I really enjoyed performing at Fiafia because I liked representing my dad’s culture – Cook Island. I had fun making people smile and I enjoyed the opportunity to talk in front of a massive crowd. I hope the next generation of us make Fiafia even better than this year so all our parents and special guest feel happy to watch Yendarra perform again!. By: Shalah-Maye

We THANK OUR FAMILIES AND SCHOOL FAMILY

for joining us on our best day ever!

Best Attendance 2015

EXCELLENT ATTENDANCE

Congratulations to 63 members of our whanau for achieving excellent attendance. You are truly amazing and deserve to be congratulated for coming to school every day to make the most of your learning opportunities and privileges.

At Yendarra school we love to see our children’s bright and cheerful faces and they truly make our school a ‘home away from home’ and paradise even when it is cloudy.

Our school class goal is to have 90% of our children attending school every day and we aim for only having up to 4 days away in the year.  We look forward to seeing more children achieve excellent attendance in 2016.

To celebrate our winners we travelled to Mangere Leisure Centre to enjoy sporting activities in the recreation centre, swimming activities in the outdoor pool and returned to receive a cold and delicious treat from Mrs Dunlop and Mrs Takatainga ‘lickety lick’.

Thank you staff at Mangere Leisure Centre, especially Munokoa Leotoga for organising a team of stars that took great care of us on the day.

Well done Mrs Childs and Room 13 for having the most children achieve excellent attendance for 2015. You are legend and the goal is for all classes to aim for the most children achieving excellent attendance in 2016

2015 Sporting Success

2015 Sports Success

Congratulations Yendarra for placing 3rd overall Champion in the Otara Schools Sport cluster for 2015.

Bairds mainfreight were crowned 1st place and we congratulate you on your success.

Our success is a reflection of our school values ‘manawanui – resilience and piripono – loyalty’ because each time we trained and then attended a sporting tournament we showed a never give up attitude with a sense of belonging and pride to be representing Yendarra school.

Thank you Mrs Mautairi for your support and coaching this season.

Thank you Mrs Greig for your coaching and organisation this season.

Thank you families for being our number one supporters.

Thank you Yendarra school for encouraging us to be the best we can.

BRING ON SPORTING SEASON 2016

What a year it has been!

Thank you whanau for all the support you have given to us during this year. Every year our sense of whanau grows stronger and we appreciate your continued piripono (loyalty) to our school.

Unless our children are moving onto intermediate next year, we hope to see all of our children back at Yendarra in 2016. We have already started planning two big school trips, the first to the Auckland Zoo and the second is to the Rocky Shore as well as many exciting visitors, shows and trips throughout the year.

To show our appreciation of your piripono (loyalty) all children who are back at Yendarra School by 19 February as well as any new children, will receive their stationary and a sun hat FREE. That is a saving of $35 per child!

We hope you have a peaceful, love-filled and happy Christmas with your loved ones.

Looking forward to seeing you all back in 2016.

Christmas Blessings

Room 4 wanted to make our families a special Christmas card to say 'thanks for all the wonderful things' they have done for us throughout the year.

We rolled our block with printing ink and it was really cool as the ink made a squishy sound.

Mahine loved the ooey, gooey, sticky feel of the printing ink.

Danneli pressed down a clean piece of paper over her inked block and heavily rolled it. When she could see the outline of her Christmas tree she gently peeled the paper back.

Wow! Evan loved the look of his print. The tree was a shiny green colour and it had a clear white outline.

We made glitter stars to place on the top of our trees.

Lastly we wrote our own special message to our families on the inside of our card.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas, many blessings to you and your family.

Room 5's Creepy Crawly Visitor!

We have had a creepy crawly visitor in Room 5 this week....

A daddy long legs spider!

We loved watching him move and did some writing about his time in our class room. 

"I saw the spider creeping on to the big smart board. The spider went down the table with his 8 legs."

- Sylvia

"The spider was awesome. He walked on the smart board."

-Polly

"I saw the little spider climbing. He is Room 5's friend."

- Teaharnie

 

"I saw the spider climb over the table. I would like to be his friend and play hide and seek. It will be fun."

-Sapate

"We saw the spider under the table. He made a web and was climbing it."

-Lovely

"The grey spider is cool, I liked when he climbed on the sticker charts."

-Harmony

We loved our spider visitor!