Final Celebration Assembly - The X Factor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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