Oakura School Beach Clean

Oakura School took part in the annual Beach Clean on Tuesday. It was a successful and enjoyable day for all. The Junior pupils walked to Corbett Park and collect rubbish on and around the fields. We found lots of interesting pieces of rubbish including a golf ball. 

We are pleased that the hard plastics we found will be used by a local youth organisation called Transformers who will look at ways to recycle the hard plastics. 

Everyone enjoyed a scrumptious sausage sizzle donated and cooked up by F.O.O.S (Friends Of Oakura School) volunteers. Thank you F.O.O.S.

A big thank you to the parents who helped us with the beach clean!

The Perceptual Motor Programme (PMP)

The Perceptual Motor Programme (PMP)

The Junior Team were very excited to start this year's PMP programme
with Prue Hilliam last week. Classes will be taking part in 30 minute
a few times a week during term 1. To learn more about what PMP is
all about, click on the link below.

PMP

Year 2 Collaborative Reading (Room 2&3)

Year 2 Collaborative Reading (Room 2&3)

We work collaboratively across the Year 2 Junior Team for reading on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have lots of fun reading activities on our timetables to choose from. 

Kia ora from Room 3!

Kia ora from Room 3!

We have had such a great start to the year. We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, we have created our own class treaty, brainstormed what our school values looks like, sound like and feel like, started swimming lessons, started collaborative reading with Room 2 where we create our own reading timetable and much more. Keep an eye on the blog to see more about our learning throughout the year.

Junior Swimming

At Oakura School, we are very lucky to be able to cool off in the school swimming pool. Over the next few weeks, we will be working on our water confidence, submersion, breath control, floating and gliding. 

Junior swimming timetable:

Swimming days	Week 1,3,5,7,9,11 (odd weeks)	Week 2,4,6,8,10 (even weeks)
Penguin & Gecko	Monday, Wednesday and Friday	Tuesday and Thursday
Room 2 and 3	Tuesday and Thursday	Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Discover Time - Weaving

Friday was our first Discover Time this year. The Junior team's focus during the session was one of our school values; Respect/Pono. During the morning we had the opportunity to show respect to each other and our environment through play and creativity. We created weaved placemats with Māori designs, paper wakas and contributed to a Junior Kahu huruhuru (feather cloak) by decorating a feather. Check out some of the weaved placements below.