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A last day of Term Three treat - We rubbed in butter -stirred in milk and patted out our scone dough to make yummy scones - smothered in butter and jam!

Special thanks to our Room 13 Tuakana for helping...

Investigating Invertebrates!...

Can you guess the riddle?...

Room 23 has been researching...

Exploring half...

Yummy popcorn...

Look what we learned...

What a fun day! We learned so much on our Arataki...

Room 13 and Room 15 went to Arataki Visitor Centre in the Waitakere...

We have had such a fun start to term in Room 23. First was the opening of our Kowhai team Nature Trail and we are all enjoying using this new space at play times. We have also been learning about kindness and how we can look after each other. In...

What a great day we had!...

so proud of our efforts for the Maker...

Getting to know our buddy class, Room...

Wacky Hair Day Fun...

Room 23 has been wondering how we can protect the trees in the bush area outside on our Kowhai playground. All of the Kowhai classes have been working to solve the problem for our Inquiry this term and we have decided to turn the area into a nature...

Room 17 played with shaving foam, we even wrote our names in it. What...

Room 17 with lovely clothes and awesome hairdos....

Room 17 had fun blowing bubbles...

Room 18 were blowing and catching bubbles and it was so much fun!...

The Junior School Cross...

Read a true story about nature in...

Room 24/25 have been working on our collaborative skills. We love working together in pairs and in...

We are tinkerers and creators in Room 24/25. Come and see our Crazy Characters that we made using recycled...

2 classes, hammers, nails, axles and...

Find out what is happening in Kowhai this...

Read what is happening in Rimu this...

Numbers, numbers, Numbers...

Lego, Joinks, Zoob - what can you...

We have been using an engineers brain and stretching our...

Reading in Room 9...

Robot Tinkering ...

We have started netball with the kiwisport...

Room 23 had a special visitor to help us with our shape art this...

Last week MOTAT brought their road show to Blockhouse Bay. Read Myra's recount of what she...

Fun with our buddies...

Room 23 have had a fun start to term 2...

MOTAT stem came to Blockhouse Bay Primary...

Read our stories...

The process......

Imagination......

Mrs Addison helped us co construct a...

Our morning mission was to create a mode of transport for your egg to make it safely to it's...

Room 13 are thinking, echolocating, hanging and creating all things...

Kim reading us an afternoon...

Cross Country Superstars of Room 9....

Classes in Te Raranga learn Tī...

Dinosaurs Galore!...

We had to use only a rubber band and four strings (no hands on cups) to unstack, stack & unstack...

The lovely Mrs Aherne taught us Tī Rākau to E Papa Waiare....

Cultures, hopes and dreams. ...

We recognised the heroes in Christchurch......

We enjoyed laying back and watching hundreds of bubbles float above us. ...

How do you make a paper...

Slowly spinning silky threads the spider spins her piece of...

We have been enjoying learning about bread this week - different bread around the world, taste testing our favourites and finally making our own today. Yum! We also loved showing our superhero costumes on Thursday but agreed we can continue to be...

Morning Missions with a Rimu...

Our creative challenge...

Look at our two classes working hard on our ocean art...

We are proud of getting a Relating to Others Topa ticket from the duty...

Room 2 and 3 had some more Tinkering...

Room 2 and 3 learned how to unmake...

Room 2 and 3 have been on an Inquiry...

Moments like these bring us...

Room 19 have made their own...

Te Papakainga students having fun baking with Mrs...

This term we have been focusing on collaboration and...

Room 10 and Room 23 are froming tuakana and teina relationships this year....

Learn about Room 22...

Morning Mission...

Our morning mission...

Making friends...

Check out our writing...

Talk about having to use our Thinking Key Competencies! We had to think outside the...

We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year....

We are data collectors ......

We used our growth mindset to complete our training...

First time working in...

"Hut building was collaborative and fun. We really enjoyed working with our group. Once the hut was...

In Te Manawa, we have been enjoying creating in the makerspace. In the library we have so much room...

Coming together as a whānau...

Meet our class pet ...

Room 21 have had fun creating our self portraits using a black sharpie and crepe paper. The best...

Room 21 and Room 20 have enjoyed our two week swimming lessons. The children have shown confidence and resilience in the pools....

Rooms 2 and 3 wanted to know what TINKERING...

Tinkering is creating, making, building, planning and...

Room 16 had fun blowing up balloons and letting them go in the...

Room 16 blew bubbles outside our classroom. The bubbles went everywhere. It was a lot of...

Celebrating Chinese New Year...

In groups we created volcanoes and acted out the...

We made helicopters.....

How do you spell your...

We are really enjoying spending time in Te...

He waka eke noa - 'everybody in one waka with no exception' Wondering waka and all things...

One week done, another to go in the...

Morning Missions...

We are so ready for an action packed...

Thank you Mrs Joyce for the idea...

We are a Year One and Year Two class of lovely...

Room 3 used our Makerspace areas to make spiders. Our shared book of the week had 2 spiders in it...

After Mrs Crisp's visit Room 3 thought about and rearranged the furniture in our...