What a wonderful celebration of our Science Learning!

Today the senior school shared their Science Fair projects with our school community.
The classes were alive with students sharing their learning from the past term's projects and we were lucky enough to have a large and interested audience!  Thanks to all those who visited!

We were all particularly impressed with the student's depth of knowledge and ability to talk about their investigations - such a wide variety!

Here are some shots of the action!

The Senior School gets creative with clay!

After learning about Australian illustrator Shaun Tan and exploring his 3D Clay illustrations of the Brothers Grimm Fairytales in the book "The Singing Bones".  Students were inspired to write their own myths and create illustrations for these (or other myths they had read) from clay.  The finished sculptures, along with the students' writing, will be on display at our Celebration of Learning on 6th July.  Please come and have a look!

Interzone Cross Country

Our HUGE congratulations to our students who participated in the Inter Zone Cross Country on Tuesday  21st June.

Charlotte McFarlane who placed 4th,

and Mason Donelley, who placed 10th.

Both will now go through to the regionals competition - FANTASTIC!!

Yummy - our tech chefs are at it again!!

STEMM challenge

On Thursday 9th June, 8 of our Year 7/8 students headed to the Dowse for a morning of STEMM!

They did exceedingly well with both teams placing in the top 5!!  Well done!!

Muritai 1 - Oscar Zuijderwijk, Ming Bao, Luke Thompson, Miles Futter

Muritai 2 - Halina Smith, Ethan Hester, Joshua Toomath , Lachlan McLachlan

Year 8s Only - Abel Tasman Fundraiser

08.06.15

Abel Tasman Chocolate Fundraiser

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

To help keep the cost down for our Abel Tasman adventure at the end of the year our Year 8s will be doing some fundraising this term. Next week each Year 8 student will be given a box of Whittakers chocolates to sell. Every box sold is $24 profit! Our goal is for every student to sell at least one box each but there is the option to sell more.

The profit of the 1st box sold will go towards reducing the overall cost of the camp. The profit of any additional boxes sold by a child will go towards reducing their camp fee. For example if a child sold 3 boxes, the first box profit goes to the whole camp budget and the other two boxes ($48) comes off the child's fee.

More information regarding selling the chocolates will come home next week.

If for whatever reason you do not wish for your child to sell chocolates please let me know or simply return the full box of chocolates to school.

All money (plus any unsold chocolates) from the first box needs to be returned to school by Friday 8^th July (the last day of this term).  If, however, your child is keen to sell additional boxes over the holiday this can easily be arranged with the office or myself.

If you have any questions or queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

King regards,

Annette Borgonje

02.06.15

Digital Safety – Invitation to talk!

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Next term we are keen to explore ‘The Internet’ as our Inquiry focus – including looking at the pros and cons, risks and how to keep ourselves safe online.  We would like your thoughts on any key issues you may wish us to cover so would like to invite you to an informal ‘chat’ over a hot cuppa after our Learning Celebration evening on Wednesday 6^th July.

The focus for this gathering will be twofold:

i) Any concerns you have or issues you may like us to address during our Term 3 Inquiry

ii) Sharing any suggestions for ways parents might manage digital safety at home (from you the experts!)

We will also be able to share some resources that may be useful in talking about digital safety with your child.

It would be really helpful if you could RSVP so that we have an idea of numbers.  Please either e mail me borgonje@muritai.school.nz or your classroom teacher before Friday 17^th June to let us know if you plan to attend.

If you have any questions or queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

King regards,

Annette Borgonje