Spanish Culture Day by Olivia and Kyla!

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This is a presentation of what happened on the 4th of December 2013!

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Giving Our All!

Matakei? Wairau? Koru? Patuha? Who came out triumphant? Oakura School is eagerly awaiting for the announcement of the winning house after a competitive and successful school Athletics Day. All year 4s and up engaged in a fierce competition of six events. Yesterday, the fields of Oakura School were covered with kids wearing red, blue, green and gold achieving personal bests, keeping fit and having fun.

“I really liked how everyone gave it their all and the competitiveness was at a high level,” said Kara in the Koru house. Blair added, “I found it enjoyable because athletics is always fun and competing in your age group is definitely challenging.” The kids participated in sprints (50m and 80m), 400m run, high jump, long jump, javelin and shot put.

Everybody gave it a go and enjoyed achieving highly. We saw a lot of personal bests being achieved and friendly challenges on the field. Athletics is a fun way of completing the P.E curriculum. As Tasmin said for everyone, “It was loads of fun and I cant wait for next time.”

 

 

Preparing for Life!

How would you apply for a job?
What do you want to do with your life?
Do you know how to manage money?

At Oakura school year 7 and 8 are setting up for a Primary Enterprise Programme (PrEP) to get ready for life.We are making toys, games and food for younger pupils. This is teaching us some important skills such as learning how to manage money and cooperate with others. We are also using the money we get to help the survivours in the Philippines to recover from the recent typhoon.

Lachie said "PrEP is getting the year 7 and 8 ready for their future jobs." He also said his group is working well but it has been extremely frustrating at times. Another student manager, Emily, commented that "it has been dramatic and chaotic" but still thought her group was doing well.

We thought that PrEP has been an awesome, challenging and amazing experience and we hope that everyone will love all of the food, toys and games that we've prepared. Don't forget your gold coins on November 25th!

Puanga Pop

Musical aspirants showed their talent at the Puanaga festival at Waitara Memorial Hall last Thursday October 31st. All the Kapahaka groups gathered to perform in a non-competitive, competitive and puanga idol. Groups who entered this event came from all over Taranaki as well as Wanganui. Our Oakura Kapahaka group were very successful as we achieved a 5/5 overall, 19/20 for our Oakura dance, 15/20 for poi, 13/20 for our haka and 20/20 for our waiata reinga!!!!

Puanga idol was also very successful as Kara and Rhegan dazzled the audience with their beautiful version of Bathe in the River. However we are still waiting for their results.

The Kapahaka group had a great performance and a great experience and we hope that we will be as successfull next year. :)

Written by Saskia and Abigail

Spanish Greetings

Spanish Greetings by room11.oakuraschool on GoAnimate

The Wonderful Wonders of Wearing the Wearable Arts

WOW! The world of wearable arts is coming! We spend weeks working on wonderful garments of every kind to bring creative and interesting art off the wall and into our lives. This year's theme 'Around the World' promises to bring in all types of design influenced all the way from America to Asia.  WOW is being held in the TSB Stadium on Labour Weekend October 25th and 26th.

 

Oakura students have entered four spectacular garments. Siani, Shaelyn, Sophie, Kate and Tasmin have made one garment called 'Teens Tied to Freedom', entered into the American category, showing the balance of social freedom and school life of today's teens. It is the teenage form the Statue of Liberty. A teen holds a torch holding a mobile phone representing social freedom for teens. She also holds a school book representing her school life.

 

There are three other fantastic pieces created by Poppy, Emily, Kara, Kimberley, Jackie, Jade, Phillippa, Anna, Smanatha, Olivia, Jade and Kate.

 

If you would like to see our creations and others from the rest of the world, come down to the TSB Stadium on Saturday the 26th of October to see the world in front of your eyes!

Remarkable Running in Road Relay

"It was a nerve racking race," said Pip after the annual Road Relay Race through Brooklands Park last Monday. Four Oakura teams competed among 43 teams from throughout New Plymouth District. Girls Year 8 placed second in their division and the Year 8 boys placed 5th. The Year 7 Girls placed 13th and 10th for the Year 7 boys.

"Running through the forest was nice at the start of the race," said Hayden "The downhills were fun, but the uphills were tiring, especially the one at the end of the coarse," he continued. The race coarse was 6 kilometres alltogether with each runner running 1.5 kilometres. Kate said that "It was a really fast-paced run."

Oakura Year 7&8's did really well and had lots of fun doing the relay. We did the best we have ever done in all our years of competing. A great race to everyone who competed.