EOTC Activity - Day 3 - Friday Funday

Today we had a super fun day at school. School was transformed into a mini gala with bouncy castles, a water slide, tug of war and an ice cream truck. The students enjoyed taking part in all the fun festivities!

A huge thank you again to all our whanau who supported us during the day and especially to Channy for bringing her ice cream truck along to really make it the best Friday ever for every child in the school. What a lovely legend!

Science - An Amazing Substance - WATER

Today we joined with Te Tinana to re-start our Friday Fun Day learning. We have a science focus this term which means every Friday the students will be able to take part in fun science activities.

The focus of our first session was that wonderful, magical liquid that is everywhere - WATER! We used three fun water activities to get the students thinking about scientific concepts. 

The first was EVAPORATION. We were impressed with the knowledge the students already had. They were able to make scientific predictions about what they thought would happen to water when it is in the shade compared to direct sunlight. They had a lot of fun splashing their water about.

Next Mrs Davan showed us a magic trick. She filled up a cup of water and covered it with a piece of plastic. Then she turned it upside down and GUESS what, the water did not come out. The students discussed the idea of gravity to help them to understand what was happening. If air could not get in, the water did not come out. As soon as they shook their cups, air got in and gravity does it's thing!

We were running out of time but we tried one more experiement which turned out to be a little tricky so we may need to give it another go next week. We were looking at the different properties of cold water and warm water. We asked the students to think about which one might be 'heavier' and why? We used cups of cold water and warm water to see what would happen if we put them together with surprising results. The students found out that cold water is more dense so it sinks, warm water 'rises' or floats to the top.

Overall we had a great session and are already looking forward to next week! If you want to have a look at any of these experiments, please click onto the link to visit our Te Manga Class Science page. CLICK on LINK

Term 3 Week 1 - It's going to be a busy term!

It was great to get back to school this week to catch up with everyone and hear all about the holiday fun! 

This week we welcomed Whaea Saroya into our class. Saroya is in her third year of her teaching degree through the University of Waikato and will be in class all term.

The class have enjoyed learning about the Olympics this week and following our kiwi athletes as they go for gold. We have enjoyed watching different events live on our smart board. The students are already thinking of how they could compete at the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane!

Today we joined with Te Tinana for our first 'Funday Friday'. We will be working with Te Tinana every Friday this term. Initially we will be learning about film making as Paparore School has the opportunity to enter two films into the Te Hiku film festival. The theme for the movies this year are 'VALUES'. We are going to have a Paparore Film Festival on 2nd September and will select two films to go through to the Te Hiku Film Festival on 16th September. 

Check out the 2020 Te Hiku Film Festival highlights! 

There is so much to look forward to this term!