Final Tech for 2014

On Wednesday 26th of November students from Auroa Primary School attended their final Technology Session for the year at Opunake High School. Our Y8 students had Food Technology and as a celebration for their final session the students held a dinner at the High School. These images were of the final meal. Year 8's Restaurants on PhotoPeach

Character Book Day: Dayna and Meg's Slideshow

Last week at school Auroa Primary School had their annual Character Book Day, where students came dressed as their favourite book character. This slideshow was created by Dayna and Meg from Room One, created in class on Wednesday 5th November 2014. Book Character Day 2014 on PhotoPeach

Auroa Primary School Vs. Oakura

On Friday 22nd August the second to last round of Taranaki Trophy (Y7/8 Sports) Competition took place at Auroa Primary School.   Auroa hosted Oakura in Netball, Football and Rugby.   Football was a tight game, with scores being tied at 1-1 at half time before Auroa were able to take a win 3-1.

In the rugby Auroa were looking for another strong performance prior to the arrival of St Josephs Stratford on Monday, their final home game.   These highlights, filmed by Kaiah, are of that game.  Oakura are in the red and black and Auroa are in the dark blue with orange.   The game ended up being 85-0 to Auroa Primary School

Oakura vs Auroa from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The other action of the day centred around the Netball.  In it, Auroa were looking for another win to continue their good run of form in the competition, as to date their only defeat had been against St Josephs Hawera in the second round.    Auroa are in the Dark Blue with Orange and Oakura are in the red and black.   The game swung Auroas way early and Auroa were able to claim a convincing 37-5 victory.  

Netball vs. Oakura 22/8/14 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Wills Amazing Adventures in Fiji

Recently some of our Auora Primary School students have had some fantastic opportunities in other countries.  One of the great things about the potential for blogging is that the students can contribute or post, even if they are in a different country and continue to share their learning.  Three students from Room One have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to do so recently.

James is currently in Europe, having posted about some amazing adventures along the way.  Dayna recently was able to blog about her time in Fiji.  Will also has published an amazing series of posts about what he's been able to do.  You can see some of his images and his media by clicking on the link here.  He was also able to visit a School and be involved in a Kava Ceremony, you can watch his slideshow here.

New Zealand compared to Hawaii

One of our collaborations that has recently taken place is a collboration betweeon our students in Auroa, Taranaki, New Zealand with students from Illima Intermediate School in Hawaii.  Our students have look at comparing and contrasting ourselves and our students with theirs.  There's considerably more material to come this slideshow was created by Dayna and Emily from Room One.

Auroa Primary School Library Tour

Our students first filming task of 2014 is identifying an area of special interest at Auroa Primary School and conducting a tour around that area of the school, explaining its uses. The film needs to consider overseas visitors who might be coming onto our blog and also used as a discussion point with presenting, volume and speaking. The students then needed to imovie the task by themselves (from start to finish) and then publish to vimeo. We also looked at the length of the movie with two to three minutes. This is Dayna's film explaining the Auroa Primary School Library.

Auroa School Library Tour from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School - School Council Speeches P3

These are further speeches from the Auroa Primary School student council speeches for 2014. This highlights video, created by Meg from Room One features Kaiah, Dayna, Heavenlee and Meg. The speeches were performed in front of all Y4-8 students at our school on Thursday morning. The results will be announced later today but everyone of the twenty two students who performed were fantastic.  
APS School Council Speechs 2014 Part Three from Myles Webb on Vimeo.