Room 6 has had an amazing Term 1!

Little Writers in Room 4

We are on a BIRD HUNT

ROOM 1 Bird Hunting

During Term 1, Room 1 learnt about some of New Zealand’s native birds. We read traditional Maori stories that have birds in them like ‘Rata and the Waka’, as well as fun stories like ‘Pūkeko the Performer’ written by Marie Langley. We also watched videos about native birds too! We saw how quickly pīwakawaka birds can zoom through the trees, and we saw cheeky kea birds chewing the rubber off of car doors.

One morning, William and Lani rushed to share exciting news with our class - They had spotted a tūī bird near our passionfruit vine! We grabbed our binoculars and we paced over to see if the tūī bird was still there.

We searched high and low for a bird with dark blue and black feathers, and a white tuft, but all we found was an empty nest. We hope one day the tūī bird will visit our school again and we’ll all be able to see it!

We are surrounded by our Vision and Values

Our vision is to Kia pai taea tatou - Be the BEST we can and our values are

Aroha (love) Manaakitanga (care and kindness) Koha (contribute) Piripono (loyalty) and Whanaungatanga (family and collaborate).

We have started the learning year by teaching, sharing and learning about our vision and values as our compass for being a successful, connected and confident learner at Yendarra school.

Each class has chosen to share this in their own way for our kaiako, tamariki and whanau to share in each time they visit our classrooms. 

Ka pai tamariki ma for being rolemodels of our vision and values! 

Ka pai Winners!

Ka pai our Winners!

Today we celebrated our certificate winners who have lived our school vision of being the 'BEST' they can be, showing our values of AROHA, MANAAKITANGA, WHANAUNGATANGA, PIRIPONO and KOHA to everyone and for making the best choices in their LEARNING so that they are successful.

Ngā mihi nui to our whanau for supporting our tamariki and preparing them to be their BEST

Bat First at Yendarra

Nga mihi nui to Auckland Cricket and the Bat First program for extending aroha to our Year 3 tamariki to start the year off in the hot sun.

We were delighted to know our tamariki would be able to play cricket if they wanted to at school and at home keeping themselves fit and healthy. 

To everyone who made this possible for the tamariki at Yendarra - Fa'afetai lava (Thanks) 

Malo e lelei from Room 1!