Last Day of School 18.12.15

On Friday school will end at 1:30. Please make sure your child is picked up at this time!

End of Term Notices

Couple of end of term notices:

Friday 18th is our last day of school for the year.

Next week we will be starting to send home your child's work and stationary. Could you please send your child with a supermarket/shopping plastic bag so we can name it and put all their belongings inside. This will make it easy for them to carry their things home. 

This Friday will be our last swimming day!

This week will also be our last week for readers. Could your child please bring in all the readers they have at home into school on Friday. No readers will be sent home next week.

If you would like to help out with shelving all our readers next week that would be really appreciated! Let Kathryn or I know if you'd like to help with this or packing down our class.

Same goes for library books, these need to be brought back on Friday. No books can be taken out next week.

Any questions you have in terms of the year ending, please do not hesitate to ask.

Ara Teina All Star Day

We had a great day on Thursday at the Ara Teina All Star Day. The children participated in many events: bean bag throw, hurdles, long jump, sprints, three legged race, high jump, gum boot throw, and egg and spoon race. Everyone seemed to enjoy the challenges and had a fun day. We were all pretty tired in the afternoon!

Auckland Libraries Dare to Explore

Auckland Libraries Dare to Explore

Dyed Rice Rangoli

Making a Samoan Salad

Read to by our year 6 children

FireWise

Cultural day

Auckland Art Gallery

We had a great time at the Auckland Art Gallery today. The students had the chance to create their own art by making patterns out of different shapes. We looked at different paintings and acted out what was happening with our bodies and with pipe cleaners. It was also exciting to see "The Story of Rama" exhibit. Thank you very much to all the parent helpers we had with us. The day would not have been possible without them!!

Reminder

Tomorrow we are going to Auckland Art Gallery.

A couple of reminders:

• Full uniform and shoes must be worn.
• Lunch box should be brought in a plastic bag labelled with the student's name. 
• All students should be here by 8:30 tomorrow morning. 

Ara Teina All Star Day

Ara Teina All Star Day

On Thursday 3^rd December Ara Teina will be hosting an Athletics Day. This will be held on Arahoe School grounds.

Students are required to wear clothes for participating in athletic activities.

• Shorts
• T-shirt
• Sports shoes

Please ensure that your child brings:

• Sunhat
• Packed lunch
• Water bottle

The Arahoe Community Group will be selling ice-blocks in the hall at lunchtime for $2.

We require parent help on the day to assist in the running of an event. If you are able to help out from 9am – 2pm please talk to your child's class teacher.

Thank you

Ara Teina Teachers 

More Rangoli Patterns

We spent the afternoon creating rangoli patterns out of coloured rice. Thank you to our helpers from years 5 and 6. Also a big thanks to Adele Faughey for drawing our rangoli pattern outlines!