Who are we?

Te Ara Angitu is a group of Year 5 and 6 students at Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2022.
You can also see sharing from Rimu and Whakamanawa students from previous years.

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Duffy Role Model Assembly

The Amazing Scott Tulloch

Scott Tulloch came in today to present our Duffy Awards.
He is an author and illustrator. 
He played us his reading of the book, I am not a Worm. He used fantastic voices and did a very like like illustration of Miss Waho.
You can check it out on you tube!

Bible in schools assembly

Bible Assembly for Term Four

Watch what you watch and watch what you eat.
Mr Marty and Roy were in today for our Bible Assembly to start the term. 

We gave Diesel some advice about how he should eat healthier. We need to think about how we can be healthier by eating healthier. 

We learned about how marketing advertisers trick us into recognising advertising logos and brands. The average child sees 15 advertisements advertising junk food. 

We talked about how we can help people who don't like to read. 
As always, we finished with a game of Zonk! - won by the boys 85 - 20

Ki o rahi trials

Our seniors had trials for the school Ki O Rahi teams recently. It was great to see them managing the game themselves and having a great time!

Chief Selector Tobey, recording notes on individuals standing out. 

Bring on the tournament on the 15th of November

Value for Week 3

Active Listening

Our quality that we are developing this week is active listening.  This slide will help us become better at this which will support our learning.

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Term Four is Here

Our Final Term for 2017

We are in our final term of the year and have an exciting term planned.  Here are a few of the things we are going to be doing this term.

Values Week One-Sharing

Sharing 

This week our quality focus to help us show our FISH! Philosophy vales is sharing.  Here is the slide to help our learning.