Mangonui School

The Recycling Circus

2012-03-04T15:01:00.001-08:00

Mangonui School had the amazing 'Recycling Circus' (Sabrina and Diego) come and perform a whole range of amazing acts that totally engaged everyone. We hope they come and visit us again!

Extension Artists

2012-03-01T18:36:00.003-08:00

The beginning of our new art project has started with our artists planning our sea theme murals. The students are using the walls to draw on as their planning sheets. Sounds a bit naughty but it is all good and most importantly itlooks really good.

Kotuku@Whatawhiwhi

2012-03-01T16:55:00.001-08:00

The Kotuku classroom have just spent the last 3 days at Whatawhiwhi on theircamp doing a whole lot of cool stuff. Here is a little preview of what they gotup to. Check out the mangonuikotuku.blogspot site to see what else they got upto!

Principal Awards Week 5

2012-02-26T12:34:00.000-08:00

Hannah and Will won the Principals award this week for their mature and consistent approach to learning. These guys are the Key Competencies Kings, able to manage themselves, relate to others, think at a high level and particpate and contribute to their school and learning.

Jaxon Hall - Hiwi the Kiwi Writing Winner

2012-02-26T11:42:00.000-08:00

Jaxon wrote this awesome story to win the Hiwi the Kiwi Competition, scoring a new fishing rod! Tara, Sadie, Dhannis and Izaiah won prizes for putting in huge effort into their writing and will be going fishing with the Principal on Snapa Slapa a local charter boat. Big thanks to our local fishing club for making this possible.

NO MORE HUNGRY FISH!

Finally after months of nagging my Dad gave in and finallytook me fishing. We got all our burly and bait together. Grabbed our fishingrods and carried them all down to the beach.

We marched around thesharp rocks. Theses rocks really hurt my feet, but my dad has tough feet, hedoesn’t seem to mind them. Dad sets his sights and finds a good spot to fish.We put all the rotten, stinky, slimy and burly into the water to attract the fish.We set up our fishing rods and then cast our rods into the shiny water.

We sat back and waited and waited. It took ages but wefinally started to feel little tiny bites nibbling our bait away. After feedingthe fish a dozen or more times and sitting in the hot baking sun, I finallyhooked up a beauty. My rod shook, and the tip bent right over nearly touchingthe water. I felt my body getting pulled towards the water. I began to windthis fish in, I heaved with all my might. My heart beat as fast as we played agame of tug-of-war.

Finally after minutes (but it seemed like hours) I startedwinning, it was getting closer and closer to the rocks. But the big wild fishgave its one last burst, my line went PING! and the fish swam away. I can’tbelieve my dinner swam away into the deep blue ocean.

After that we feed the fish a few more times, we decided thefish’s puku were full enough ( fuller than what we had for tea that night). Sooff we went home with grumbling tummies.

Jaxon Hall

10 years old

Mangonui School

20 New Netbooks

2012-02-21T15:44:00.002-08:00

Mangonui School was given a great donation by the Southern Trust to purchase twenty new 'Net Books'. These are just the same as a normal laptop but a lot smaller. The learners from the Actice Ferns wrote letters to say a big thanks.

Principal Award

2012-02-19T14:49:00.000-08:00

Two amazing students who received the Principals award thisweek for excellence in attitude! Well done Moki and Katelyn

Celebration Assembly

2012-02-16T18:20:00.000-08:00

Taonga share their work

A whole range of exciting learning was shared at ourcelebration assembly this week.

Pukeko Class: Shared their treasure boxes which they madeand then filled up with taonga. They then wrote stories about their boxes

Kowhai Class: Shared their portraits of themselves andwriting about why they were special (taonga).

Taonga Class: Shared life size drawings of themselves andtheir writing that described themselves.

Nga Ringa Awhina: Shared their amazing ‘Name Art’ where theyhad to fit their name perfectly into a geometric design.

Tuatara: Shared their learning about measurement whicheveryone found really interesting.

Active Ferns: These guys sang an wonderful waiata about theimportance of looking after our ocean and ourselves when on the ocean - ‘KaiMoana’ .

Kotuku: Shared their beautiful art work and descriptions ofthemselves. You can see their work in the photo.

Kotuku korowai and artwork

Parents as Role Models for Reading

2012-02-16T18:05:00.000-08:00

A special hui was held today for parents and caregivers oflearners that are being specifically targeted for reading. Glenys Brown(Ministry of Education) and Jeanie Skinner (National Library) spoke about theimportance of parents been role model readers. Jeanie shared ideas of howparents and caregivers can help at home. Library cards were given out toencourage whanau to use our school library. We are looking forward to meetingnext term for a celebration of reading progress.

Education Life Trust

2012-02-12T17:03:00.000-08:00

We are very lucky this week having Harold the Giraffe come with the Life Education Trust in their cool transportable classroom to teach our learners about their tinana (body). Every classroom has their own health topic they learn about for the three days that they are at Mangonui.

Term Dates

2012-02-09T16:55:00.002-08:00

10 Feb: Hiwi the Kiwi

13 Feb: BOT Meeting

13-15 Feb: Life Education Trust

17 Feb: Celebration Assembly

17 Feb: Target Reading Hui at St John’sHall 10.30am

28 Feb: Rm1/Rm2 Camp

28 Feb: Rm7 Camp Puketi Forest

29^th Feb- 2 Mar: Rm5 CampWhatawhiwhi

7 Mar: Rm3 Camp Paradise Bay

9 Mar: Celebration assembly

13 Mar: Swimming Demo Day

14 Mar: Active Board PD

21 Mar: Swimming Finals

27-28 Mar: Rm6 Camp Matai Bay

5 Apr: Celebration Assembly

2012-02-09T16:25:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone who came along. We are holding another session on Wednesday 13th - 3.15pm

Reading in the New Entrant Classroom

Come and learn about:

¨ The Reading Process

¨ How reading is taught at school

¨ What you can do at home

¨ What NOT to worry about!

This is an opportunity to get a better picture of reading in the junior classroom and what you can do to help your child be successful at school.

Venue Pukeko Classroom, Mangonui School

Time 4.00pm

Date 9 February

Tea/ Coffee provided from 3.30 onwards

Hiwi The Kiwi Visit

2012-02-09T15:27:00.000-08:00

The Minstrelcame to Mangonui School and did an awesome performance for the students. Hesang, danced, told jokes and stories about the sea. He told a story about theimportance of wearing life jackets “You would be crazy not to wear one”! Healso talked about the importance of throwing back the really big fish and smallfish. Heaps of prizes were given out to the good listeners. He also gave theschool a top fishing rod to be given to the student who writes the best fishingstory. AND Snapa Slapa 2 a local charter boat has given 4 free trips tolearners who put the most effort into their work. The Principal has to also go along!

"Kai Moana for you and me"

Good Listening Max!

Target Learners Hui

2012-02-07T17:00:00.000-08:00

Parents and Caregivers of learners who have been identified as needing a special boost in reading this year are invited to a hui at the St John Ambulance Hall, 10.30 Friday 17th Feb. We have special guests who are coming along to share ideas on how you help your child at home with their reading. We are big believers that 'it takes a village to raise a child'.

2012-02-07T16:47:00.002-08:00

Reading in the New Entrant Classroom

Come and learn about:

¨ The Reading Process

¨ How reading is taught at school

¨ What you can do at home

¨ What NOT to worry about!

This is an opportunity to get a better picture of reading in the junior classroom and what you can do to help your child be successful at school.

Venue Pukeko Classroom, Mangonui School

Time 4.00pm

Date 9 February

Tea/ Coffee provided from 3.30 onwards

Our Classrooms 2012

2012-02-06T16:45:00.000-08:00

New Entrants - Pukeko Class

Year 1 and 2 - Kowhai Class

Year 1 and 2 - Taonga

Year 2 and 3 - Nga Ringa Awhina

Year 3 and 4 - Tuatara

Year 4 and 5 - Active Ferns

Year 5 and 6 - Kotuku

2012-02-02T18:31:00.000-08:00

Powhiri For New Students and Whanau

Haere Mai
Piki Mai
Kake Mai
Ki Mangonui School

A beautiful karanga was called by Yr 5 student Tryneece inviting our new school whanau onto our whenua. The senior boys lead a school haka to support the karanga.
We also welcomed our two wonderful new teachers, Mrs Timmermans (Mrs T) and Mrs Pedersen - haere mai!

Paint Job

2012-02-02T18:10:00.000-08:00

Half of the school has been painted over the holidays with the other half to be completed in April holidays. The colour has changed to reflect our local envoironment. Thanks to Brendon and Charotte for the excellent job.

Final Celebration Assembly - The X Factor

2011-12-01T18:02:00.000-08:00

Our last celebration assembly was held today and it was definitely the most enjoyable. Poetry, plays, dance, puppets and drama making the assembly full of variety. Everyone is made it to Hollywood thanks to the excellent judgements made by our panel of experts

Our Judges

Pukeho Puppet Play

Room 3 Dance

Room 2 Pig Play

Christmas in the Park 2011

2011-12-01T11:27:00.000-08:00

This event just keeps getting better and better. Large crowd, great good, awesome entertainment and beautiful weather made this a very happy and successful day. Organised by the Kotahitanga (working together as one) group as a community event and fund raiser for the school.

Writers in the Kowhai Class

2011-11-16T17:10:00.000-08:00

Each week some students will be chosen to feature on our blog because they done great work. This week we have Will and Ben from the Kowhai classroom. They have been learning about panda bears.

Will
I went to the zoo. Pandas are experts at climbing tree. Wah Wah and Sing Sing are brothers. Two panda clubs are playing. Mother panda is teaching her children to eat bamboo.

Will's Story

Ben
The panda sleep all day. When they wake they eat bamboo. They are white and black.

Ben's Writing

The Lads

Art Mural Project 2011

2011-11-06T13:51:00.000-08:00

Our students have been working on a mural project that reflects our vision statement "The environment of choice for a voyage to success '. The murals depict our students involved in a whole range of different activities showing them practising the Key Competencies. Fish were also included to show the relationship between our school and the sea – The harbour is a place where young fish are nurtured and made ready to enter the world beyond the harbour, much the same as Mangonui School.

Murals 2011

Room 3 Goes back to Kindy

2011-10-05T20:15:00.001-07:00

Room 3 Visit Local Early Childhood Centres

Last Thursday Room3 students visited River Kids and Doubtless Bay Kindergarten in Taipa. When we arrived at our destinations we set up our activities for the little kids. The children tried the activities we had planned for them to do. Such as: rugby passing, making rugby people with spoons, talking about weta and showing our 3D weta art, maths games, reading stories, twister – body parts and colours in Te Reo Maori, and bean bag throwing. After the children finished our activity we gave each child a sticker for trying their best. All the kids smiled when we gave them a sticker, this made us feel joyful and warm inside our hearts. It was cool to hang out with the little people and make new friends. This trip was to support our friendship unit. We hope the little children enjoyed our visit as much as we did.

Jump Jam at Mangonui

2011-10-04T18:59:00.000-07:00

Jump Jam plays an important part at Mangonui School. One of the Key Competencies is called Participating and Contributing (being actively involved in communities). Joining in on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for Jump Jam is a school-wide event. We even have a concrete stage that the experts use to show the rest of us the right moves.

Cullen doing the right moves

Reading Week

2011-10-04T18:47:00.000-07:00

Every year in the third term Mangonui School celebrates Reading Week. This is an opportunity to promote reading as a cool thing to do. Each day we had a different activity from inviting parents and caregivers to read to 'Drop Stop and Read'. We even combined Clean Up NZ Week and Reading Week together by having a 'Clean and Read' day.

Freddy Moki Nightmare

Black Out Day

2011-09-21T19:28:00.000-07:00

On the 9th of September all Mangonui School students dressed in black to support the All Blacks in their campaign to win the World Cup of Rugby. Students then toured Mangonui waving out to locals and visitors. The Boys finished off the visit with an awesome haka.

Cross Country

2011-09-21T19:20:00.000-07:00

Most the school attended the annual cross country at Peria School. The top ten students were selected to go to the Far North cross country also held at Peria School. We had 47 of our nstudents make the top ten. Thats quite amazing considering we had 140 students entered.

Julius Peterson coming first

Room3 - Nga Ringa Awhina

2011-05-25T18:51:00.003-07:00

Te Weta

This term our class has been learning about the weta. Here are some pictures of things we have learnt.

Sports and Cultural Events

2011-05-25T18:47:00.000-07:00

On Friday four teams attended the Far North Kiwisport Netball competition in Kaitaia. Four year groups were represented. Even though we did not win the competition our students played with great enthusiasm.

Mangonui School

2011-05-25T18:41:00.000-07:00

Mangonui School opened in 1858. Part of the original school is still in use today as the Room 7. It has a lovely view past neighbouring historic St. Andrews church and over the upper reaches of Mangonui Harbour.
Mangonui School is a great school of which the community is very proud. Since the introduction of "Tomorrow's Schools", Mangonui School has managed to utilise available funding to enhance and develop the school grounds and environment. The school is situated in one of Mangonui's prime real estate positions, sitting in a bush setting with beautiful harbour views.
The school has a swimming pool, two tennis courts, field area, large new playground, newly concreted court area, a seating area which has been designed to include a stage. The bush area is also available as a play area for the children. We also have a wonderful sandpit which has been shaded with two playgrounds for our students.
The charm and peace of this busy fishing port obviously hold a great attraction for those weary of city life.
The children are typical Far North students, kind, creative, intelligent and active. We place a lot of emphasis on manners and developing strong values. Every Monday morning students are acknowledged for displaying positive behaviours towards one another.
The community is very supportive but at the same time expects a high standard from its school. We are a progressive school involved in a number of Ministry of Education contracts. We are in our final year of in-depth professional development in writing. We are also working on developing stronger 'authentic' learning contexts. We use 'best practices' which are evidenced based practices that are proven to have the biggest impact on student achievement. We pride ourselves on providing a modern learning environment.
There are at present seven classrooms.The teaching staff are all experienced and very competent. They are dedicated to the children and the provision of quality education. They are forward thinkers who are always keen to find out about new trends in education and incorporate them in their programmes.

Friday Celebration Assembly
Last Friday produced an amazing display of items that the students have been working on.
R1 - The Hungry Caterpillar
R2- Singing and playing the ukulele
R3- Play and Weta Poetry
R4 - Pirate Stories
R5 -Sharing stories
R6 - Poems and Stories
R7 - Freeze Frames of 10 inteteresting facts on tuatara