The day is finally here! Saturday 26th of November is the day of the Eden Albert Cultural Festival.
Owairaka have 9 cultural groups performing on the day and we are going to be super stars! We have been showing Manawanuitanga all term learning performances and we are ready to showcase our talents.
Come along to Rocket Park in Mt Albert to see and support our culture groups and have a great day out. See you there!
We had a great day this week at The Owairaka Athletics Club for our school Athletics Day. We had shown Manawanuitanga (persistence and resilience) when learning and practicing each of the events. On the day it was great to see everyone giving everything a really good shot and having fun. Here are just a few photos from the day. A big thank you to the parents who came along to support the children and also the teachers running events. Kia ora!
Each year we work hard to produce some cool art work which can be made into a variety of different items. You can choose to have your artwork made into a calendar for 2023, a diary for 2023, or a 10-pack of greeting cards with your artwork printed on the front. Very cool!
These could make great Christmas presents to give to friends and family. It is also a super fundraiser for our school, so please consider helping out. Thank you!
Look out for the order form you can see in the photos below to order the products you would like. You can see a sneak peak of our artwork below, but if you would like a closer look at your particular piece, pop in and see us in Room 16. Kia ora!
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| Our cool artwork. |
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Well done to Hanzalah and Hilary who received awards at assembly this week. You are great examples of our school values of Manaakitanga (respect, caring & kindness) and Manawanuitanga (persistence, resilience & love of learning). You are great role models to us all! Ka pai and keep up the great work!
This week we are very proud to present the 'Owairaka Art Exhibition' for 2022!
We have worked hard all term studying artists and creating our own artworks to be proud of. The school hall will be transformed into our very own art gallery displaying artworks from everyone in the school. Each class has also worked together to create a collaborative piece of art to display.
Come along to the school hall all day Wednesday (7am - 7pm) or on Thursday (7am - 11.30am) to see all the fabulous artworks. There will be a sausage sizzle, raffles and fundraisers happening too.
Here is a 'sneak peek' of some of our artwork. See you there!
Here are some pictures of us in the kitchen at Garden to Table. Each Wednesday this term, we take turns to work in the garden or in the kitchen. We all help to prepare a meal with food the gardeners have harvested, and then we all share the delicious meal we have made. Whanau are always welcome to come along and help. Then you could share the meal with us too!
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Every Wednesday this term we have Garden To Table. It is a great learning opportunity for us. We learn how to plant, grow and harvest vegetables from our garden, then prepare and cook them in the kitchen, and finally we get to eat it! It is one of our favourite times of the week and a great chance to work together as a team. We are always keen to have family volunteers come in to help in the kitchen or garden. If you can help on any Wednesday, please see Andy or send a message in to school. Thank you!
We are a very lucky school! One of our parents won the school a prize - a big van arrived with 10 super fun wooden games for us all to try. We visited the hall with our buddy class and it was fun! Each game presented different challenges and it was great to see the teamwork involved to be successful with them. It was also fantastic to see the Room 16 'big buddies' helping their younger, Year 1 Owairaka buddies.
We really enjoyed seeing all the artworks on our trip to the Auckland Art Gallery. They really got us thinking and inspired! We also loved getting busy and actually being artists at the gallery. We drew and sketched our thoughts and ideas based on artworks we saw there. We also spent time in a real art studio creating sculptures. We have been using what we learned back at school so check the blog again soon to see some of our artistic creations for the Owairaka Art Exhibition coming up at the end of term.
To support our Visual Arts focus this term, we were lucky enough to take a fantastic trip to the Auckland Art Gallery. It was very exciting catching a bus into the city and visiting the amazing gallery. The building is a piece of art as well! We thought about the artworks we saw and did some artworks of our own. It was very inspiring! Leave a comment telling us what your favourite part of the trip was. Check the blog again soon to see more pictures of our visit and to see some our own artistic creations.
