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Room 13 Recounts

Lola, Rome and Jacob taught me about time connectives in their weekend recounts! Fantastic Achievers!

Room 15 Achievers

Stephen Clark, Jasminder Boyle and Lola Mcguiness sharing their writing about Fathers Day, Busy Bees and Te Puke and the goodness that grows here!!

Well done Room 15.

Future Force inquiry Learning

The Future Force have been involved in an inquiry process that hooked them in through a Te Puke local who has raised money to design and build a skate park here in Te Puke. The students invited the expert in and also visited a number of skate parks before researching the elements of what a successful skate park looks like and has included. The achievers then designed and constructed prototypes using mine craft and miniature models... The following photos are some of the designs being judged...

New hall / gym update

We have currently had three companies produce a stage one design / tender for our new community multiple purpose facility. Each company will present to our BOT. The new facility will be built on the existing basketball courts between Rm 16 and the old dental clinic.

What does it mean to be Active at TPPS?

Our students are currently unpacking our draft Achiever Learning Rubric within their classes that was developed by our students and teachers. 

What does it look like to be ACTIVE in Room 3?? Student voice around our Active Value here at TPPS!

Vertical learning at TPPS

The question many educators have is around vertical learning groups and whether it adds value to ALL students involved?? What are the benefits...

An ideal opportunity for our Unstoppables and Curious Kiwis to be Active, Responsible, Innovative and Confident in their learning!!

Rm 8 designing a skate park - social action for the community!!

Aligarh, Kyra, Stephen, Leon, and Zac on their 2nd phase of design for their skatepark using clay. " we have been helping Richard in his designs for Jubilee park in Te Puke!"

"We have been innovative, confident, active and responsible by working together" - Lyra

Mr Williams reading to the Base

Mr Williams sharing his love of reading with our Curious Kiwis - true Achiever!!

Curious Kiwis - brand new Achievers being ICT savvy

Our brand new little Achievers to the school (Curious Kiwis) teaching each other how to take photos and explore their handwriting using kid pix.

Baking a Fijian honey cake for Mr Cunliffe on our Cultural celebration day!

Molly, Amanda, Daz and Niomi we're baking a Fijian honey cake for Mr Cunliffe.

First they preheated the oven to 175 degree's Celsius.

Then Daz coated the loaf pan with butter.

After that they combined all the secret ingredients...

...then mix.

Next we poured the mixture into the loaf pan and flattened it out.

Then put the loaf in the oven to cook for 45-55 minutes.

Now we can eat the Fijian honey cake yum! Bula!

Anzac biscuits

Izzy and loralei (rm 13) sharing their Anzac biscuits they made with Mr Cunliffe and Mr Arthur.

We all enjoyed the sweet,chewy, and delicious treat!!

MARSHMELLOW descriptions using our senses!

Daemon and Xavier from room 8 using their sight, smell, touch, taste and sound to describe their MARSHMELLOW!

Daemon: my next step in learning is to use similes for more description.

Xavier: my next step in learning is to use full stops and similes too!

Room 8's writing

Jayde, Aliyah, Charlotte, Nicole and Kyra are teaching Abby and Anaru to use their senses to add detail in their writing!

1. Start each sentence with a Capital.

2. End each sentence with a full stop

3 Each sentence makes sense

4. I have used all five senses to look, smell, feel, h ear and taste a MARSHMELLOW!

Rm 15 Henna designs with Whaea Joybelle

 Showing off their henna designs:-)

Lola, Noah and Peni 

Rm 3 teaching Place Value in their class.

Grace, Achaia, Ade and Grace using flash cards to order numbers in tens, hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands!! This will help us when saving up to buy a dog $500 - we need 5 lots of 100! Grace.

Rm 6 using some of their new furniture to collaborate as mini teams!!

Zane, Elizebeth and Shayla-Jade learning together how to use comprehension strategies to gain new knowledge about the frogs in their class!

Ryan Addison Rm 15 - creative critters

Thank you Ryan for teaching Mr Cunliffe his letter blends of using e and y in my writing - very innovative!!

Lola Walmsley - Rm 13 Creative Critters

Lola teaching Mr Cunliffe how to use a simile in her writing to compare Mrs White Parsons cat to the colour of snow using " like" Well done Lola :-)

ACHIEVER Celebrations

Karli Russell from Rm 13 Creative Critters, teaching Mr Cunliffe how do use vocabulary (new words) in my writing eg explored the classroom... We'll done Karli!

Welcome to the fantastic staff here at Te Puke Primary School

A warm welcome to the 2014 edition of The Cunliffe Chronicles and the start of the 2014 TPPS season:-)

Great to see the starting line up for our First X1 here at TPPS for 2014.

We would like to welcome Rochelle Watson (Unstoppables Syndicate Leader Rm 3) and Chloe Ashton (Sports Coordinator) who have transferred to the team over the summer transfer window!!