Jacks Mill School - Helping out in our Community

In the last weeks of Term One, a team of Te Kinga students helped to clean up the area and statuettes at the Jacks Mill School historical site. This was to help prepare for the opening of a new artists creative/retreat centre. The site located nearby at Kōtuku - and it is a really interesting place (well worth a visit!).

Lake Creatures...

On one of the many sunny afternoons we've had, we ventured down to the lake and found these creatures living in the water - do you know what they are?

End of Term Lake Day...

On the last day of term, we set out to the Arnold River beach area of the lake. One of the important things we learn in Te Kinga is to light, build and extinguish fires safely. This is an important survival skill AND it a fire is a great place to cook on - especially when it comes to baked potatoes and marshmallow easter eggs (yes try this one!). We also went into the bush to check our traps and found some very interesting forest creatures - we are so lucky to live in the beautiful and unique Te Tai Poutini!

Just who is the photo-bomber?!

What do these two creatures have in common?

Andrew our student-teacher lends a hand!

Check out that rainbow!

Cricket Skills with Ethan...

We had a great session with Ethan who is the regional Cricket Development Officer. We had some great fun in our warm-up games and learnt an excellent game called Cricket Rounders...

PALS training in Greymouth...

A group of Te Kinga students had the day in Greymouth with Sport Canterbury, learning how to be Physical Activity Leaders (PALS). They learnt some new games to teach other children, how to make games fair for everyone and how to moderate games so everyone can play. Our PALS leaders can put their skills to use in the playground and at Ka Pai time!

Statistics and The Census

This term we have studied Statistics for our Maths topic. We have looked at chance and invented some games of chance for others to play. We have also been conducting surveys, learning how to display and interpret data, plus learning about the census. We had a special visit from Latham who explained why it is important for people to take part in the census and then we went for a visit to the Census Caravan!

Midland Line Athletics

We recently had the Midland Line Athletics Competition - and half of our class qualified for the Westland competition coming up next week - GO TE KINGA! It was a stunning day at ANZAC park in Greymouth...

BUSH WALKS

We love our natural environment so we try to get out and enjoy it as much as possible. We have traps to check in the bush but on this walk we didn't catch anything! We are planning to study aspects of the bush throughout the year in 2023.

A visit from the Canterbury Rams...

Our school just loves basketball and we have over half the school in the Monday night Greymouth Schools Competition. A visit from the Canterbury Rams players was a real treat for us...