Auroa Primary School: World Famous in USA and Ireland.

Today in class we were talking about our learning network and some of the collaborations that we've been involved in this year.   One of the fantastic example came to our attention from the Third Grade Thinkers in Michigan, USA.  They researched our country and learnt all about us.   This is a link to their fantastic blog.

 Our second feature in as many days came from our friends 'If Only the Best Birds Sang in Ireland'.  We've recently been in contact with them to thank them for an amazing gift they was sent to us for St Patricks Day.  Two of our students, Tahana and Will left detailed comments on the site and they responded with two fantastic posts about food and sport in their country.

Then only today we received an amazing gift in the mail - a package all the way from our friends all the way from Siberia, Russia.  We've got a very special post about this coming tomorrow.

Package from Ireland to Auroa Primary School

Earlier this year to start off the school year Mr Webb, Room Ones teacher sent some packages to different countries around the world.   One of which was sent to our friends at "If Only the Best Birds Sang' in County Wicklow, Ireland.   Yesterday much excitement was had in class when students discovered that we'd received a package back! 

We brainstormed about Ireland and found out that some of our students knew a little about the country. We have about ten students in the class out of thirty who have Irish ancestors   We knew that Brian O'Driscoll was about to play his last test match for Ireland.   We weren't sure about the size of Ireland compared to New Zealand but we did some investigations and found that they are quite similar.

We also opened the package and loved what we found inside.  Part of our classroom is having a display about Ireland built by the students, and we will post about that when we finish it, which will be in time for St Patricks day here in New Zealand.

We'd like to thank the teachers and students from our very favourite Irish blog, If Only the Best Birds Sang for their incredible gift and if you've not visited their site we strongly suggest that you do.


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Auroa Schools Piri the Pukeko in Ireland

To celebrate the start of the school year our class sent some packages with information about our School and our area to different locations around the world.

Piri the Pukeko has arrive already in South Africa, this morning we saw that Piri had arrived in Siberia, Russia and last week Piri made it to Ireland.



  This link is to a series of pictures of Piri around St Brigids School, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Piri the Pukeko arrives in South Africa!

When we opened our class page for 2014 packages were sent to different locations around the world that featured information on our area and our school mascot, Piri the Pukeko.   We already had Piri arrive in Ireland mid-week and we received a thank you post on 'If Only the Best Birds Sang' from Ireland.   You can click on the link to that amazing site here.

Today we just found out that Piri the Pukeko has just arrived in Cape Town, South Africa at the class of Miss Tyler Smith.  You can click on the link to this wonderful learning blog here.

We will be sharing the arrival of this information with our students on Monday morning when they return to the classroom.