Week Four

Hi everyone! Great work to everyone who participated in the testing over the past couple of days.  Your test information will provide us with some valuable information.  Well done and thanks for your patience and concentration.  

Hello all and welcome back!!  Just getting back into the swing of

things but hope to be updated more frequently.  Check back soon

for updates, newsletters, homework, comments, pics and posts.  

Let us know what you think and come back soon! 

2011 GRADUATION

What a great group of kids to work with! We as the Kauri team would like to thank you for being a kind, respecful and fun group of students to work alongside.
We wish you all the best, keep in touch and Happy Holidays!
Kauri Team

Term Three

Year 7/8's,
Term 3 has well and truely begun. It is cool to see people practicing plays and skits during reading time as well as reading some interesting and kind of random narratives. It is also neat to see the interest in our Space unit and we look forward to seeing you progress with it. Winter Tournament was today and it was a great day! All teams were fantastic, and to all that participated and helped out...Well done and thank you!
If anyone has any cool pictures or school related pieces of work you would like to share on our blog feel free to email us, otherwise,
Lets continue to have a postive term, work hard, have fun and keep posting!!

Term Two

Hi all! It has been a while since we last updated the blog or moderated any of your comments. It is great to see all your positive comments especially from room 16! Keep them coming and feel free to share any of your ideas or questions about life at Kenakena.
The Kapiti Island trip was a success for everyone and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Take Action for Water has been interesting and I have seen some good reports in the making. Our Explore day should be fun and interesting and lets hope we have good weather for it.
Our teacher only day was interesting and we looked closely at our maths program. We discussed the idea of having Maths at 9:30am instead of after morning tea, we wanted to get your opinion of this and any ideas or suggestions of how we can improve mathematics for you. Please vote on the latest poll and leave any comments.
Well that's all for now and enjoy your long weekend

Week Five

Wow!!! Great to you see alot of you posting positive and interesting comments, keep them coming. It is also great to see many of you participating in all other areas of the school too. We look forward to seeing more of your successes as the year progresses.
Well done to everyone during the last couple of weeks with your efforts and patience throughout many of the tests you have completed. We know it is hard work but it is valuable information for us teachers so that we can work with you to help you improve on different areas of weaknesses you may have.

Keep up the good work and keep posting us your comments. We will try and get more photos of you guys up soon.

Work hard, have fun and be kind

The Kauri Teachers

Week Three

Kia Ora! Already week three and things are moving quickly, especially those who made the PCT call-backs!! Be sure to check if your name is on the list! Here are some other friendly reminders for you to put in your diaries.

Boys Mentoring Program:
Every Tuesday: 12:30pm Contact Sports (must have your own mouth guard!!)
Every Thursday: 8:15 am Fitness training on the courts at school


1st Homework Due - February 17th

Life Education Program starts in Week 4

February 25th - Extra Technology Day

March 1st - Meet the teacher/parents picnic @ Otaihanga Domain

March 4th - Interschool Swimming competition

March 22nd - Year 7/8 triathlon

March 23rd - PCT competition @ TeAtiawa courts


I think that is all for now but be sure to keep checking in for any updates and please feel free to post any questions or concerns you might have.


Stay Cool @ School


Kauri Teachers

Welcome back students.

We welcome all the new students to Kenakena School. Its nice to see all of the kids wearing there school hats. As you can see that the kids have been working very hard on there school work.We have got a picture
of the dragon that room 16 made from last year... RRRRRRRR!!!
If you have any questions fell free to ask and we will get back to you ASAP.

Have fun this term from Kassidy,Angel and Maddy.

SKI CAMP UPDATE

LETS GO SKI CAMP!!

Please read the lastest Ski Camp Update with your parents or caregivers.

OUCH!!

COME ON SKI CAMP!!!

Term Three

Welcome Back to Term Three!

I'm not too sure what's more exciting, the changes of Puberty course or ski camp this term? Both should be fun, exciting and educational.

Make sure to keep checking in for any updates, forms/letters, and recent comments. Please feel free to post any aswell and we will try to get to them ASAP.

Have a great term, work hard, have fun and ask lots of questions.

To have an EXCITING, POSITIVE and MOTIVATING

TERM 2

Miss Phillips Green Army

Hey I'm on T.V.!

Great to see Kenakena's School spirit alive and strong today. It was also nice to see some of our top athletes competing hard and fair.

It was a very close match against Paraparaumu Beach School but unfortunately we fell a bit short in the end. Apart from the Touch team our top kickers showed some great skill and achieved some good results too.

Thanks to Miss Phillips who organised and coached the teams.

Airing of this event is on Sunday at 8:00am on TV3. Tune in and see if you made the cut.

Hope you enjoyed today.

Time Flys When You're Having Fun!

Can you believe it is already week 6?? Reports are only just around the corner!

It has been a busy start to 2010 with lots of great things happening and everyone has been doing a great job. Congrats to you all!

Well done to everyone that has completed their english and maths testing, especially the Year 7's. I know it seems like a lot but it is really useful information for us teachers to help you make improvements in these areas.

Gymnastics has been a hit but unfortunately it will be ending this week. Hopefully we can start doing some syndicate sport when it finishes.

Well done to all of you who have been getting involved with different school activities such as sailing, kapahaka, netball, hockey, PCT, Rugby, KK Sound, Digi-Kids and Peer Mediators. Make sure to keep listening out for anything new and exciting that is happening at Kenakena. Keep the school spirit high, work hard and have fun.

Time Flys when you

Vancouver 2010

No, we are not doing a school trip there... But it would be nice!

As ski camp is this year, I hope you are all watching and getting some good tips for the slopes. If you haven't been watching, have a go at watching some different sports or countries that you may not have thought about or seen before.

You can watch it on Prime TV or catch the updates on the Internet.

Tell us what you think about the Winter Olympics or which is your favourite sport. It would be interesting to know what you think.

Check this website out, it gives you heaps of information about what's happening,

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Gymnastis

Gynastics has started and was a blast. I think everyone had fun and got a bitt puffed, even the teachers!
We will be continuing to take the bus to the gymnasium every Tuesday throughout Term 1. Please be sure to pay your money to the office to cover our bus costs.
Look forward to more classes throughout the term.

Happy Landing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNre1yI668

PCT Trials

PCT trials began last week on Friday which turned out to be very sucessful. It was great to see everyone participate and enjoying themselves. Check out more photos of the day in my gallery.
About 50 students have been chosen to advance to the 2nd stage of trials, so be sure to check if your name is on the list (sports notice board by staffroom). See you Wednesday morning!

Mr.K

KAURI

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