SPS Pounamu 2018

Pounamu children have been experiencing pattern creating lately.  Here are some examples they came up with using classroom materials. Look out for more patterns to emerge from our habitat as this is our school wide concept for 2018.

Ka pai to the Pounamu children who were given a medal for showing the school values or modelling our habitat goals.

On Friday Pounamu were learning to work together and listen to instructions. Teams competed in an Amazing Race, running around the school to collect puzzle pieces. We had to use a Growth Mindset as it was quite difficult!

The Ladybird's group (Miss Roanna's) started the year of by making a special magical drink called " Jitter Juice "! The ingredients included magic bubble potion , cups of fun , smiles , your own name and sprinkles of growth mindset . We all happily drank our juice and felt own jitters, nerves and worries about school disappear! What a fun start to our year. 

In Pounamu we have 4 medals that the children are given at the end of the day in recognition of great learning and use of our values and capacities. Here are the proud recipients on day 1 - ka pai.

Welcome to the start of another year in the life of Shotover Primary School and the amazing learners in Pounamu. Day 1 was all about getting to know each other and getting rid of the butterflies in our tummies. During Exploring time the children (and mentors) got to explore our space and the resources we have. All of our school values could be seen in action, what a great start to the year!