River Study

The Year 4/5/6 team had a wonderful time at the Timaru River today - checking out the awa for larvae along with spending time enjoying the environment. Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers.
 

Kapa Haka Students in Room 7

 Room 7 Kapa Haka girls, dressed and ready to perform. Awesome.

Music with Sam

 Room 7 students are very lucky to have weekly music lessons with Sam Johnson. Here the students are creating their own music and moves, similar to Go Noodle sessions. Fun times!

Athletics

 

Room 7 students enjoy weekly athletics activities with Sport Taranaki instructors. Here students are learning which is their preferred leg for taking off in a high jump.

Ruby's Rainbow Day

The whole school dressed in bright colours to remember a much loved student, Ruby. We all brought a donation to school which will be passed on to the Starship Children's hospital in Auckland. Over $1000 was raised. 

Enviro Centre Fun

 Room 7 students love building shelters in the enviro centre. A great outdoor classroom.

2021 School Cross Country

 

Sound proud of all the students who tried their best during our school cross country event. You all did very well. 

Cycle Skills 2021

 Room 7 students were very lucky to take part in the Let's Go cycle training programme today. Important skills covered include safe braking, the life saver look, the importance of fitting your helmet correctly and maintaining your bike. 

Year 5/6 Interschool Final Competition

Our Year 5/6 Interschool rugby and netball teams proudly represented Oakura School at the recent finals competitions.  They both had tough games - rugby played against Inglewood and netball played against Waitara East. Proud of you all.
 

Be Seen Day

Oakura School students understand the importance of wearing bright colours when out and about, getting themselves actively to school and other places. They realise that wearing bright colours makes them much more visible to people driving their cars, thereby increasing their chance of not being injured while out and about. 
 

SMAK Testing

 Tane visited Oakura School yesterday to take our students through how to use the SMAK (stream monitoring and assessment kit) to see how healthy our streams are.

Interschool Games

I felt so proud after observing how well our students hosted Spotswood Primary School at our recent interschool games. The weather played its part with only a few brief showers and a beautiful rainbow. All students gave 100%  effort during their games and we came away with great results. Awesome.
 

Pukeiti Field Trip

 Room 7 students had a wonderful day at Pukeiti today, learning how measure the clarity and temperature of river water, along with appreciating the special place Pukeiti is. A big thank you to Emily and Richard, our experts and our wonderful parent helpers.

Interschool 2021

 Once again our Year 5 & 6 students proudly represented their school in the interschool competition against Coastal Taranaki School. Excellent sportsmanship coupled with amazing talent ensured everyone had a wonderful afternoon. Awesome.

Music With Sam

 Room 7 students really enjoyed making the sound effects to go with a section of the Incredibles movie. They used a selection of stones, shoes, leaves, tins etc. to make the sound effects. 

Life Education

 Important messages for us all to remember.

Life Education

 

Room 7 students really enjoyed their first session in the life education bus - meeting up with Harold the giraffe and learning all about how to deal with their stressful emotions. A great session with lots of very relevant suggestions from the students. 

Len Lye Centre

 Room 7 attended a workshop at the Len Lye Centre related to street art. First we all met at the Huatoki Plaza and had a close look at the wonderful street art. From there we went to the art centre to create own own piece of art that could be used as a mural on a wall. Our parent helpers, and Chris from the Len Lye centre, made the session a huge success. 

Marae Vist

 

Beach Clean Up Day

 

Room 7 had a great morning picking up rubbish at the Shearer's Reserve in Oakura. Even though at first glance there appeared to be no rubbish, once the students started hunting amongst the bushes, they found bags full of rubbish. After the hard work was done, we all strolled along Oakura Beach to the Oakura River where we had a swim, a sausage and free time to play. The weather was gorgeous and everyone had a wonderful time.

Football Skills

Room 7 students really enjoyed football sessions with an outside provider. Lots of fun for everyone.
 

Americana

 

The Year 4/5/6 team were lucky enough to view some of the cars that drove through Oakura today as part of the Americana event. Students were excited to see the wide range of vehicles - Mrs Z's favourite was definitely the vehicle in the photo above. 

Cricket Skills

 

Room 7 are very lucky to take part in cricket skills over a few weeks. Some great batting and fielding skills developing.

Welcome to 2021

 Welcome to 2021 and another great year of learning in the Year 4/5/6 team. We have got off to a great start - getting to know each other along with learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. We have so much to look forward to this year.