Auroa School Swimming Sports House Relay

This is the video of the Auroa School Whanau (House) relay from School Swimming Sports held at the Stratford Swimming Pool on Wednesday 4th March 2015.   This video was produced by Jorja and Bethany from Room Three and features Rico and Bethany from Room Three.

APS Whanau Relay 6/3/15 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

School Swimming Sports: Teachers Vs. Parents Vs. Students

Today Auroa Primary School held our 2015 School Swimming Sports at Stratford Pools.   The entire school travelled to the venue to compete in a range of competitions from the juniors with their fun events to having the seniors trying to make it into the School relay team.  One of the highlights of the event was the annual Teachers vs Parents relay.  Mr Tai, Miss Nicholas and Miss Davidson were captained and lead by Mr Chittenden, and scored a resounding victory which you can watch here.


SwimmingSports2014 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

School Triathlon Recount: Jayden

W.A.L.T: I am writing a recount about a school event.


On Wednesday the school had a triathlon we were lining up go to the filed my heart
was bolting I was so nervous all the little kids had gone. Intimidated your up "Mr Tia said on
your mark get set go said Mr Tia" When Mr Tia said go we bolted to the ground."2 laps
Around the field you can do this I said to my self " 1st lap down 4.60 meters around the field.
2nd lap around 3.60 meters then run to my bike.

Bike from school to fords farm then back to school on the way up it was hard biking
up to fords on the way back it was easy biking then 2 tracks came along and I just
about fall off my bike because of the wind from the tracks.The girls are gaining on the boys behind
me. Then we got back to school then we had to swim.

Swim 2 lengths of the school pool which were 1st length 25 meters 2nd length 25
meters all together 1.25 meters then got out of the pool and got dressed then went
and got my justice ice block the day ends with a sausage and drink.

So Hard: Mackennas Triathlon Recount

3... Adrenaline was pumping through me. 2... I'm so nervous. 1... GO! Mr Tai yells. Girls were running through like a stampede of elephants. I was running as fast as my legs would take me. This was hard, maybe impossible, but sadly, I signed up for it.

"Running was pain" is all I was thinking, trying to pass all these girls kept passing me. I was in the middle of the field and I still had a while to go. This was so harsh.

"I've got to stop" I think but I've still got another lap to go. I'm worn out and just to make it worse, my legs hurt!! I was puffing hard out.

My sweat was dripping like rain. This was very mighty. But I still have a bit to go. I could see a glimpse of my destination, that glory, gold and treasure. Almost there... Done!

I was still kind of annoyed that I needs to do the bike but after I could go for the swim! Yes! I'm really excited now, I'm really going fast!

Kyah's Triathlon Recount

WALT: We are learning to write a recount about the School Triathlon.

Taking a glimpse to my left, a line of nervous statues stand on the starting line, ready to go.

My heart was pounding, full pressure.   My nerves were uncontrollable, butterflies race inside of me, then I heard a bang! go! Tension gathered in my body Auroa School Intermediate Triathlon had come to a speedy start.   Running at high speed my opponents follow near behind but I am in the lead.  A flag stands at the last corner of the 750m run.  Bethany roams behind me greedy for victory.  I was bulleting  towards but just was not enough Bethany passed. "there is still the bike and swim my luck hasn't faded just yet I thought".

Zooming down from the run I was exhausted and speechless.  Mum stood at my bike smiling, I hurry up buckling my helmet and off and away I went "4k bike here I come" stepping and pushing my pedals as fast as possible my enemy is up ahead.  Speaking to myself come on you can do this turn your second into first.

She is a metre ahead, racing my pedals as fast as a lightning bolt.   I have achieved my goal by passing but I can not go getting my hopes up now there is still the pressuring swim.

"Splash" I am ready to start my long distance 50 metre swim there and back.   Stroking a stroke my breath was low still pushing myself as hard as possible.  "I can do this whispering to myself.

My breath has come but I am out of the sparkling, gleaming clear water and now Bethany takes a shot in the pool.  

At the end of the day I was proud of my lead but I wasn't the only  person that worked hard.

Paige's Amazing Holiday

Paige from Room Three has been lucky enough to have just come back Raratonga in the Cook Islands. She spent some time on holiday but also spent some time working hard. She made an amazing iMovie of her adventures with the help of Quade and Harry, which includes pictures that she took and video of some of the cultural performances. This is her recount about the trip.

Thump thump the plane had landed! After three hours on the plane it was cool there was a TV on every chair I got to play with it because there was games on it and we could play music and movie too. It was boiling hot once we had hopped off the plane.

Then we had a look around on the island on a bus. That night we got to have a swim, the pool was refreshing. Nana and Aunty jumped in the pool with their clothes on.


Raro (1) from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

We got dressed up and headed for breakfast waiting for another adventure. Me and Dad went to Kids Club and we made a sarong. 

That night we went to a show it was an island dance. We watched the performance. There were two guys doing a fire dance. It was awesome.

The next day we went to the Spa. I got my nails done and I was allowed to have a massage. That night I got a three hour swim.

Highlights from School Triathlon

Today at Auroa Primary School we had our first major school event - the 2015 School Triathlon. The event was supported extremely well by the local community.

Charlotte and Ebony's School Slideshow

Mackennas Hidden Slideshow

Here is a slideshow that I made from Kizoa. It was a task and we were supposed to make it around the school. To make it better we put a hidden object in. Try find it.

Tiger Slug

Tiger Slug on PhotoPeach

This slideshow was created when we had a special guest in the classroom. It was a Tiger Slug that had been brought in by one of our students. It was found on their farm in the Sliverbeet. Its known as the Grey Slug, Tiger Slug and Leopard Slug. It grows to 20cm in length. This was the biggest Tiger Slug that Ashtons Mum has ever seen. Its Latin name was Limax Maximus. It one of the biggest slugs in New Zealand. It eats other slugs and plants. It was introduced into New Zealand from Europe.

Doubling and Halving Maths

Maths Explanation from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
For math's in room 3 we had a hard question so together we found out a way to work it out and how we done that was we used doubling and halving.

Bethany and Jorja's 2015 Slideshow

This is our first official post for 2015 - we've had a number of students who have been working on producing slideshows about Auroa Primary School.

Bethany and Jorja's slideshow - Kizoa Video Maker

Jaydens Introduction to Room Three

Jaydens Room 3 Introduction from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Class Badge 2015

2015 Parent Response Form

Welcome to 2015!

We're very excited to be back in the classroom and online for 2015.  Our 2015 is 25 Y5/6 students located in Auroa, South Taranaki, New Zealand.   We've got lots of amazing projects and work to come this year and are very excited to be looking forward to all the learning in our classroom.  We'd love to hear from you and connect with other classrooms: whether your someone that we've connected with in the classroom in the past in someone new that we are going to work this year it would be great to hear from you.

3D Printing: BBQ Ignition Handles

Thank you so much for your visit.  Students at Auroa Primary School, and across New Zealand are currently nearing the end of their 2014/5 holiday.  Most classrooms and students will be returning to school on the last week of February or the first week of January 2015.  Auroa Primary School will be back on Thursday 29th January and we will be happy to be back in contact with you then.

During the final week of school for 2015 we were approached by one of the parents from the local community with a problem solving issue: the BBQ used by the local Cricket Club was needing some replacement parts made for it.   The problem was one that we didn't have a lot of time to involve ourselves in, Logan, Michael and Tom worked to create replacement parts within a twenty four hour time frame - but they did it.   It was also successful so that when the Y8 students from Auroa Primary School had their farewell BBQ we were able to cook the food and test run the new parts!

Our students have many exciting processes and plans for 2015 and we can't wait to share them with you all shortly.  

Summer Holidays in New Zealand

Thank you for your visit to this site and thank you to those of you who have left comments recently.

Currently students in New Zealand are on their 2015 Summer holidays and will be returning to school at the end of January for the start of the 2015 School year.

We'd love the opportunity to connect or collaborate with you in the future and feel free to leave a comment.  In the meantime. We look forward to hearing from you for the start of our school year.