Elisapeta @ Edmund Hillary School

Kia Ora whanau, trust you are all well.  Nga mihi atu to many of you who are learning from home.  Great to see you attempting a variety of independent learning tasks.  I encourage you to continue collaborating and interact with your peers as much as possible during these shared mahi.  On-site learning has been great fun for a number who have returned.  Our hauora is foremost and students are making the most of beautiful weather in outdoor integrated curriculum activities.  Many appreciate the opportunity to reconnect and interact with their peers over a game of soccer, hide-n-seek, dodgeball and many more.   Our plane-dart golf proved popular with many who made many modifications to their plane dart to improve distance and air-time.  The olive tree (middle & right) and totara (partial left) in the image below is the last station of our plane-dart golf.  I must say, we are fortunate to have a mixture of natives and fruit trees on o...

  Kia Ora whanau - please take time to read our school's latest newsletter.  Check that your parents/caregivers have access to a copy. School Newsletter 18th November 2021 If you have received a Kete Takaaro, remember to share an Appreciation Post.  Share some pics of how you and your whanau are using these for hauora and wellness.   We are working through the following activity: Great outdoor family activity.  Check your emails for a copy has been shared with you.  We've yet to test our latest plane dart modifications made last week. We are therefore hoping to improve on the trial run we had last week.   Have fun! Be kind to each other!

  Kia ora whanau - important notice Click on this newsletter link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DKuAYVLERbLtyjkuIaxW29MA41qW9tdN/view To assist us with our current proposed plan of re-opening, click on this link to complete the 'Are you returning to school' form: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DKuAYVLERbLtyjkuIaxW29MA41qW9tdN/view .....or simply reply to the text message. Alternatively, email me at peta@edmundhillary.school.nz  if that suits you better. We are fortunate with the flexibility under directions of MoE and MoH, as it is with Alert Level 3, children learn from home if possible.   For whanau who are continuing with online distance learning,  Room 10 work will be updated weekly and a scheduled Google Meet daily.   As in a previous blog: Take time to explore some wonderful Ministry of Education resources   (links below) which can be accessed on the Learning From Home portal: Distance Learning Wellbeing Learning Resources Pacific C...