The Climbing Wall

 

An awesome experience for our team of tamariki - taking part in climbing the rock climbing wall - all paid for by Roadsafe Taranaki. Good work everyone.

Kiwi Visit

 A big congratulations from Kiwi, who visited our school assembly, to all those students who are checking their traps regularly and ensuring our native birds have the best chance of survival. Keeping the rat population as low as possible is definitely helping. Keep up the good work.

Music with Tobias

 Room 7 students are lucky enough to have weekly music lessons with Tobias. Everyone enjoys having a go at playing instruments and completing quizzes related to music.

Interschool 2022

 

The interschool competition has been a great success despite a term of wet weather and illness. Well done to the students involved for representing our school so well. 

Buddy Class

Room 7 are very excited to have Room Kauri students as their buddies. Buddy time on a Friday afternoon involves reading together and playing a game together.
 

Kapa Haka Fun

Harold the Giraffe visited our Kapa haka session today. He enjoyed blowing kisses and swinging his poi in front of the whole school.
 

Annual Litter Drive

 Room 7 students did a great job picking up the rubbish at the Shearer's reserve. They had some interesting finds - from a broken scooter to a rugby ball. Good work team - and a big thank you to our wonderful parent helpers.

Vertical Horizons School Camp 2022

 What a wonderful experience for the Year 5/6 team - attending Vertical Horizons camp for 3 days. Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers and the instructors at the camp, for ensuring an exciting, eventful and fun time for everyone. You certainly helped all the students build life time memories. Thank you.

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.