What a wonderful festival on Saturday!

Owairaka Primary School is very proud of the seven groups who performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural Festival on Saturday 26 November.

The groups who performed were: Hip Hop, Indian, Indonesian, Kapa Haka, Niuean, Samoan and Tongan.

A huge thank you to all of the children, staff, parents and volunteers that made this [...]]]>  

What a wonderful festival on Saturday!

Owairaka Primary School is very proud of the seven groups who performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural Festival on Saturday 26 November.

The groups who performed were: Hip Hop, Indian, Indonesian, Kapa Haka, Niuean, Samoan and Tongan.

A huge thank you to all of the children, staff, parents and volunteers that made this day such a success.

On Friday 28 October our fale was formally opened with a full school celebration and shared lunch.

Click here to see the programme of events:  Fale Opening

The fale will be a meeting place for parents, children and the wider community as well as a learning centre for all of our children who want to learn more about [...]]]>  

On Friday 28 October our fale was formally opened with a full school celebration and shared lunch.

Click here to see the programme of events:  Fale Opening

The fale will be a meeting place for parents, children and the wider community as well as a learning centre for all of our children who want to learn more about Pasifika culture.

Our fale was built by Athol Greentree from Urban Fale.  He did a superb job, with great attention to detail.  We encourage everyone to make the time to come and see our wonderful fale.

We were very lucky to have some special guests join in our celebrations.  Auckland’s top chef, Michael Meredith, came to cook with some of our Garden to Table students to help prepare for the day.  The Honourable Georgina te Heuheu kindly agreed to be our guest speaker.

Special thanks to our staff, children and parents of the Samoan Support Group for all of their hard work.  Thanks also to The Trusts Charitable Foundation for their sponsorship and the Owairaka Board of Trustees.

We had special visitors, including members of the Eden/Albert Board, who came to celebrate our Enviro success.  We were very excited to be awarded our Green Gold sign and a special flag to fly on our new flagpole.

During the assembly:

This gave all of us a chance to learn about and appreciate Asian cultures.  The library set up a special display and had different activities running each lunchtime.  Teachers and children spent time in class learning some new languages and finding out more about Asian countries.  Thank [...]]]> The first week of this term was Asia Awareness Week.

This gave all of us a chance to learn about and appreciate Asian cultures.  The library set up a special display and had different activities running each lunchtime.  Teachers and children spent time in class learning some new languages and finding out more about Asian countries.  Thank you to all of the children and parents who shared their culture with us during the week!

On Friday 5 August we had a special assembly and ceremony to officially open our Asian Gardens.  During the assembly children performed music, songs and dance.  We also said a very special thank you to Janine Chin from the Asia Foundation for funding our new gardens.  After assembly we all went outside to watch the opening ceremony.   Melissa Lee (MP) and Janine Chin cut the ribbons for us.

Our visitors were treated to a tour of our school and a delicious lunch.  A big thank you to the wonderful parents who made traditional dishes for our guests and staff.

We invited our parents to come and look at all of the exciting learning we have been doing during the term.  There were lots of experiments to try and games to play. 

We gave parents a brochure with ideas for Science and Maths at home.  Here [...]]]> On Thursday 14 July we had a Science and Maths evening.

We invited our parents to come and look at all of the exciting learning we have been doing during the term.  There were lots of experiments to try and games to play. 

We gave parents a brochure with ideas for Science and Maths at home.  Here is a copy of the brochure: Science And Maths Brochure

It was great to see so many families having fun together!

The gardens were designed by Room 5 and will be used over the coming months as part of our Garden To Table programme. 

A special [...]]]> On Friday 17 June a team from Hire-A-Hubby kindly donated their time to help us complete some Enviro projects.  They built many wonderful gardens and put up some signs for our fitness trail.

The gardens were designed by Room 5 and will be used over the coming months as part of our Garden To Table programme. 

A special thank you to Ms Best and Ms Christison for all of their hard work on this project. 

An extra special thanks to our fantastic Hire-A-Hubby team.  They worked so hard in the cold and windy weather – what a wonderful group of people!  Please support your local Hire-A–Hubby if you need any work done!

We encouraged everyone to dress in green and walk to school. 

Walking to school helps our environment – it means less pollution from cars and reduced chaos at our school gate.

At 9.15am we had a special Green Day assembly.  At assembly [...]]]> Owairaka School celebrated World Environment Day on Friday 3 June.  The theme was protecting our trees.

We encouraged everyone to dress in green and walk to school. 

Walking to school helps our environment – it means less pollution from cars and reduced chaos at our school gate.

At 9.15am we had a special Green Day assembly.  At assembly we talked about being WasteWise, deforestation and palm oil, past Green Days and how we can look after our environment.  We also had a special guest from the Beekeepers Association who talked to us about the importance of bees.  Before the assembly ended, two student ambassadors awarded prizes to some of the children who walked to school.  We had 129 children walk to school today – this was pretty amazing because the weather was not the best!

During the day, when it wasn’t raining, we spent some time caring for our environment.  Children did a tree hunt around our school to find and learn about our native trees.  We are very lucky to have so many native trees at our school.  We also added some more fruit trees to the school orchard.

It was a great day!

Schools from all over Auckland came to celebrate their TravelWise success.  Schools were given a bronze, silver or gold award – we were very proud when we were given our gold award!

Mrs Tregoweth, Miss Whysall and three student ambassadors went along to the awards [...]]]> On Thursday 7 April the Auckland City Council held a very special TravelWise Awards Ceremony.

Schools from all over Auckland came to celebrate their TravelWise success.  Schools were given a bronze, silver or gold award – we were very proud when we were given our gold award!

Mrs Tregoweth, Miss Whysall and three student ambassadors went along to the awards ceremony.  The Mayor, Len Brown, gave a speech and then handed out the awards.

Our thanks to all of the children and parents who support our TravelWise activities and events. 

Remember:  walking to school is fun, helps reduce chaos at our school gate and is good for you!