Merry Christmas and safe holidays to everyone

Student wins "highly commended" for national writing competition

Turama's very own Josephine won a highly commended for a nationwide writing competition. A massive congratulations to her! 

You can find the submission here:

https://www.schoolforyoungwriters.org/post/memoir-arlo

Inter-School Tennis Competition

 On Wednesday this week Leon, Seth and Zac competed in a tennis tournament at the Richmond Tennis Courts. All of the boys played at least three games where they played up to 7 games per set.  Leon said that he got on pretty good and won two out of his three games.   A HUGE thank you to Fuji who took the boys over and spent the day supporting them.

Art with Vicki, our awesome student teacher

 Vicki has been doing Tivaevae art with some of our students who were keen to learn this traditional Cook Island art form. Our tivaevae are being made into cushions to give away to elderly as part of our GIVING BACK theme. It's been fantastic for the children to follow the process and have some experience with hand sewing their shapes onto the material. Here are a few pictures:

Swimming Lessons and fun at the Aquatic Cenre

 The children have been showing super focus on their swimming lessons this week. We love seeing the quick progress that they make when they have this intensive two weeks of lessons. The instructors are amazing and our children always make us proud! We receive so many positive messages from the staff about how wonderful they are and what great kids they are to teach.

Cardboard Catapults

 

Spring Art

 

Technology / 3d Cardboard Art

This past week the Turama students have been making catapults out of cardboard. It's been a lengthy process but worth it in the end. The children have had to follow set instructions, do lots of cutting out and work collaboratively with their partner. The next step is to test the catapults to see how effective they are.

Olympic Sports Sculptures

 

Peer Mediation Training

Today some of our Year 6 students took part in Peer Mediator training. The facilitator was very impressed with them all.

Seery's Daffodil Drawing Competition

 Saffie's drawing entry: