Koru 2 Bromley

This week, Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 had the opportunity to get involved in the annual Tough Kids event.  Some of Koru 2 chose come along...and what a great time we had! Excitement on our way there! Waiting for the race to begin! The weather was very kind to us, in fact it was perfect.  Sunny, but not too warm for running in. We were amazed at the amount of other schools that were also participating.  Some tamariki even came in fancy dress! We didn't have to wait long before it was time for our group to head off...the course went over grass, through wooded areas, along the beach and some parts even went through the ocean itself! There were some interesting obstacles along the way too - from inflatables to crawling under nets. What a fantastic morning we had!  Can't wait to do it all again next year!  

Our Koru 2 tamariki all worked together and did a massive tidy up in preparation for our celebration of learning evening.  We spent some time on Tuesday playing parents and students practicing giving a classroom tour. Our community evening was a big success.  We had several family and whānau stop in to visit our space.  We were so impressed with many of our Koru 2 tamariki as they did such a wonderful job sharing their learning with them.    The Kapa haka and Pasifika performances were a wonderful way to end the day.  Thank you to everyone who came and made this wonderful event happen.   

Last week we spent some time reflecting on how we think we have been going this year in preparation for our upcoming Celebration of Learning evening. We thought about our school values  ( Caring, Creative, Connected, Curious and Courageous) and highlighted how well we thought we are going with showing each of these values at school. We spent time pondering our strengths and how we use them.  We asked our peers for some honest feedback and we thought about things that we need to work on. We are looking forward to sharing our self reflections along with the work that we are proud of this Tuesday! As a follow on from this, some of us thought a little more carefully about the word TEAMWORK and what this means. We buddied up and had a go at seeing how many different objects we could lift using only our index fingers... Then we came up with a list of ideas around what teamwork actually is and why it is important. We wonder how we will be able to u

Our talented tamariki are exercising their communication and drama skills working together and choosing a part of the Apollo 13 story to act out for their peers. There was plenty of action, emotion and great language used from the story and even some amazing sound effects! What's next... We will create a plot matrix of our story by discussing and pulling key elements out of it.   This will help us to understand the structure of great stories and help us to make new ones.