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:

Indie's LEGO Creation

 

Indie took up the LEGO challenge and made a boy's bedroom and a girl's bedroom. Both bedrooms look very tidy :-)   Well done Indie!

Online Lessons

Some of our awesome students have been stepping up once again in Turama by offering lessons via Teams Video Chat during lockdown. Luna has been leading drawing, Saf has been leading flexibility and Lini has led dance. This has been a great way for students to connect with each other and share their strengths.

Here are pics from today's drawing class and flexibility class.

Writing by Saffie

 Playmate character description 

 

The cutest playmate in town. Only trying to play with his owner but he refused. But spilling ink didn’t help. 

Playmate was clumsy, funny, cute and a little bit needy. Being clumsy didn’t help him reunite with his owner because he had spilt ink on his owner’s science paper and falling over his chess board while he was playing chess wasn’t useful. 

Aside from being clumsy, Playmate is cute and small. He is grey and I’m pretty sure he is a robot. 

 

                          The end

Playmate Video

Writing by Linnea

Taking Flight 

Pobble Storystarter:

It was a calm morning. There was a slight ripple on the surface of the blue water, caused by a whispering westerly wind that whipped across the bay. 

A hungry heron hopped happily along a floating log, waiting for its moment to strike. Any second now, it would sink its sharp, saber-like beak into the salty water, hoping to pluck an unsuspecting victim from beneath the surface… 

 

Splash! Plucking out the panicking cod, the heron started to the sky, only to come plummeting down to the ground again, surprised by the unexpected weight of the fish. Irritated the heron tried jerking up its head to call the rest of its flock for help, only to once more have its head dragged down. Furious, the heron tried to drop the cod, but annoyingly, the fish was stuck to its long beak. 

Losing its temper, the heron struck its head on the log it was perched on. SNAP! As the irritating fish came off its beak, the heron tried rising to the sky, only to be dismayed by the fact that its wings were soaking. Clambering onto the soggy bank of the river, the heron let itself collapse onto the sand, uncomfortable at the fact that its wings felt greasy from the sand stuck in its feathers. 

Looking up to the sky, the heron felt a pang of loneliness as it realised that the rest of the flock had flown out without it. 

As the heron's hope started to vanish, a squawk came from the sky. Looking up, the heron felt happiness light up inside it. Another heron had been left behind! Excited, the heron lifted to the sky, its tiredness forgotten. The other heron squawked with delight, and the two birds flew off together. 

Native Tree Planting