Eco West Festival

The Eco West Festival kicks off this weekend. There are many fantastic events for you and your family. The Eco West Festival fits in well to Arahoe's "Green" learning theme this year.

You're welcome to join me, Kirsten Bland, Tania Makani and other teachers from Arahoe on the Waka Walk this Sunday 16 March. We will retrace steps Maori took to take their waka (canoe) from the Waitemata to the Manukau - a walk manageable for Year 2s (a few lollies on the way will help). It starts at Olympic Park at 9:00am.

Please find more information on Eco West under, "Newletters." There are so many good events - take your pick!

Winners

Here are the winners of the Year 2 sandcastle competition. They are from a variety of Year 2 classes and worked together spontaneously to create a system of castles, moats, roads and tunnels - all interconnected. Great community work children! Well done to all the sand castle competition entries - all to a very high standard.

The Parents vs Kids tug-of-war was a grueling battle but the overall winners were undoubtedly the children, pulling the parents right back into kids' territory. Ka pai tamariki!

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS)

Arahoe School children are about to start learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS).

This will be taught through the teachers and through Constable Carl, our local police officer. It is a positive personal safety (child protection) programme that aims to provide children and young people with the skills to cope with situations that might involve abuse. It will help them keep themselves safe in their interactions with other people.

 KOS was developed in response to an increased awareness and concern among teachers and police of the need to protect young people from abuse. Please click on this link to find out more about the programme, Keeping Ourselves Safe.

Cornwallis Beach

We had a wonderful day in the sun at Cornwallis Beach. The children had a chance to play all day with their brand new 2014 peers.

Thank you parents for coming along to help with numbers and making this a fabulous family day out.

Green Day

Green Day GREEN DAY! On Friday 14th March The kids can dress up in mufti (preferably green) and pay a gold coin donation. 

If you can, please put your order in by this Friday, 7th March. However, last orders can be placed for food on Monday 10th March before 9am - NO LATER.

Birthday Girl

It was Persia's birthday on Friday. She showed us how to be a kind and polite host of a party. You are a star, Persia! We loved your party.

Room 24 Unique Profiles

Room 24 is learning to show how we are special and unique. Our next step is to do some e-learning by writing about ourselves on Padlet. Padlet is a simple Google tool where you can post things easily.

Please help your child click on Padlet below and help them fill in information about their name, ancestry and their culture. I have written a little bit about me to start… but you can't read about it until you have the password!

Created with Padlet

Only Room 24 parents and children will be able to see and write on our Padlet site. This week, I will send home the password and details on how to use Padlet. Please log on and help your child complete their profile by next week, Friday 14 March.

Thank you
Fleur Tuck