Kia Ora, Hello, Ni Hao, Bonjour, Kia Orana, Dia dhuit, Ciao!
We are Poutama 2023! We have 21 students; 14 of us are girls and we have 7 boys! Our teacher is Miss Salton.
This year, we are doing some tech lessons with Miss Salton and the Year 6’s from Tuakana, while the Year 7 and 8’s go to Manawatu College for their tech lessons. We have started with art by making mosaic tiles and clay sculptures. We will also be doing collage art. Throughout the year, our tech lessons are going to cover: music, dance and drama, cooking, science, design and digital! We are excited to learn these new skills!
In literacy this year, we are doing Structured Literacy for our spelling; our writing this term is narratives – where we get to make up our own stories! Our reading is all different depending on our groups.
In maths, this term we are learning addition, subtraction, place value and we will get to multiplication as well!
We love going outside and having PE or swimming sessions! We have our swimming sports in term 1, which some of us are looking forward to (some of us aren’t though!)
We are a PB4L school and use our 4 C’s to make sure we are following the rules. These 4 C’s are: Communication, Collaboration, Consideration and Creativity! At the end of each week, we might be lucky enough to have our name pulled out of the draw, at assembly and win a prize!
In our class, we are allowed to eat throughout the day, whenever we are hungry; however, our snacks have to be healthy in the morning. We also have weetbix, fruit and muesli bars in class that we can eat whenever we need to.
We will be updating our class blog, and our own blogs every week, so we look forward to hearing from you! Please ask us any questions you would like to know about our awesome little school – Poroutawhao, or our class – Poutama!