We are so proud of Kirrin with her kind act. She baked about 130 cupcakes and sold them to raise money to donate to the Salvation Army to help families at Xmas.

Proud of our students showing Hauora.

Conservation Week

S3 have been busy for the past 7 weeks working with Squawk Squad an organisation promoting sustainability and Kaitiakitanga. (Caring for our Environment) They were lucky enough in Week 5 to win a weeks work of chocolate for the video they presented. They all had a go at eating wraps made from cricket flour.

Art works

We are very proud of Emily and Darlea, whose art works were selected to be exhibited at the Kaiapoi Library alongside art works for the Waimakariri/Enshi Sister City Children's Art Exhibition called my 'Home' town. The student's chose Maukatere ( Mount Grey) and the Rakihuri River.

Kaitiakitanga

The Rua team have been learning about Kaitiakitanga ( caring for our environment) Nick Ledgard from the Rakahuri Rivercare group came to share how his group care for the environment and help protect the Wrybills form us and predators.

Values

Look at the wonderful students who showed the value of Kaitiakitanga.

Hauroa

It was hard to pick students for showing the value of Hauora. We have so many students who have 'Growth Mindset'- looking after their emotional and physical well being.

Colouring Competition

Athena was busy one lunch time and entered the colouring in competition. She won first prize for her age group.

Whanaungatanga

We are proud of our students who care about others our school

community.

End of Term Assembly

We are proud of the students who received certificates for Academic Excellence  and Excellent Progress for Term 2. It is very hard to select students as they all deserve a certificate.

STEM

Students have been having fun designing a complex machine using the 6 simple machines. They were trying to make a marble roll.

Food Technology

Mr James from Technology kindly invited a small group of students to be involved in a cooking activity. He is going to repeat this when he has a small gap with his visiting schools.

Certificates

We are proud of the students who showed the RBS school value of Hauroa.

Bollywood Dancing

Look at our beautiful Bollywood dancers. They gave us a wonderful display on our Cultural day.

Certificates

Very proud of these students- Displayed the value of Manaakitanga.

Certificates- Cross Country

Very proud of our Cross country winners.

How Machines Help Us

We have been busy learning about Simple Machines and how they make our lives easier when we have 'work' to do. The students had fun trying to lift a 15 kg bag of sand using different types of pulleys.

Maths learning

In S5 for Maths we have been talking about the best way to record information quickly and accurately. Today we took our learning outside to see if King Street or Church Street would be the best place to cross the road. The students recorded the number of cars that passed them and found that Church Street has a lot less cars.

CSO

A few members of the CSO came to share with us their knowledge and their skills. Students were even selected to be conductors. We look forward to going to their concert in Term 4.

We are very proud of our student's with their certificates.

PE

Our students love the new skills and games they learn from our Sports Coaches.

Kaitiakitanga

We are proud of our students who showed the value of Kaitiakitanga.

PE

Great game of Kia Ora Rahi

Chapter Chat

These two handsome boys have made a cage for Ralph the mouse. I don't think he will

be able to escape!

Discovery

As part of discovery we looked at algorithms - a set of instructions to do something, as preparation for beginning coding next week. The students had to look at a range of instructions on how to make a paper plane. They ordered them and then gave them to someone else to use to make a plane. Then we had a go at throwing them!!!

Chapter Chat

Love the creativity that is happening at Reading time in S3. We are involved in the Chapter Chat study of the Mouse and the Motorcycle. Follow us on Chapterchat year 3/4

Touch Rugby

Our future 'Sevens' team. Runner up medals for their age group. Very proud of them.

Mouse and the Motor Cycle

What creative little darlings we have in S3. They created a home for Ralph and his family using lego. Can you spot the yellow mice?

Whanaungatanga Certificates

We are so proud of our students who showed the value of Whanaungatanga ( I am an important part of my community). It was so hard to choose as all our students are showing this value everyday.

Discovery in S5

Today in Discovery we used our plans and created our sand saucers. The students brought in different foraged items and we had flowers, stones, shells, twigs and other things available for them to use. They built their creations and they look amazing!

Weetbix Tryathlon

We are very proud of Elliot. He competed in the Weetbix Tryathlon last weekend. We will be cheering for him in the future when he competes in the Olympic Games.