WALT CODE: 1.12.16

Have you ever wanted to create your own COMPUTER GAME? Now you CAN!!!
Here are some easy-to-follow-steps to create your very own game...
Make sure you have internet access...and go to www.scratch.mit.edu to create...

WALT Design an Iconic Building - Generate Detail Group

I think this group has done even better!

Technology Challenge

Well done to Riley Best, Maddison Brown and Greta Shepherd on creating a 'free standing flagpole' with working flag. Their flagpole was the most successful of the ones created. Awesome

VOW: Courage

Student Achievement

A big CONGRATULATIONS to our very own Kahurangi POD member Alex Willis, who has been selected to represent NZ in a squad of 100 athletes, as one of the twenty five 10-year-old boys, competing at the Trans Tasman Athletics Championship, in Sydney July 2017. 

He has been selected to compete in 4 events: 100m sprint, 200m sprint, Discus and Shotput.

Ka mau te wehi Alex!

Noho Marae Visit

Last Friday, the Kahurangi Pod and our whānau went to Te Hōtu Manawa ō Rangitane ō Manawatu marae.

When we arrived, we were welcomed onto the Marae by Whaea Ellen and Whaea Kararaina who both did the Karanga. Once inside the marae, Matua Shane did a whaikorero. Mr Radford followed with his Whaikorero and laid a kōha on our behalf to say thank-you. We then sung a waiata to support Mr Radford. To conclude our Pōwhiri, we had to hongi Mātua Shane and Whaea Kararaina.

Our marae activities for the day included: listening to the Marae history, mau rākau and poi making.

It was an awesome experience! Here is a video of us practising for the Pōwhiri and at the marae…

Integrated Mini Inquiries: Learning to code...

Why learn Coding?

Code powers our digital world. Every website, smartphone app, computer programme, calculator and even microwave relies on code in order to operate. This makes coders the architects and builders of the digital age.

Over the next 10 years it is estimated that there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer sciences and only around 400,000 graduates qualified to do them.

Jobs not directly linked to computer sciences - such as banking, medicine and journalism - will also be affected by the need for at least an understanding of programming and coding...

Integrated Mini Inquiries: Designing an Iconic Building

Our Manawatu Digi Award Finalists

We are so excited to share that we have two digi award entries that have made it through to the Manawatu Digi Award finals this year...

We are so proud of the girls that have created these entries.  A BIG Congratulations to...

Anya Jeff-Mills - Year 4-6 Digital Photograph Finalist: Sunset

Amber Baker, Aleisha Cheetham, Zoe Hemmingsen & Kate Ramshaw - Year 4-6 Mini Documentary: Our Ecosystem