H3 North East Valley Normal School

Telila made some delicious, pink, sprinkled, sweet, soft, spectacular cupcakes for our first day back at school this term. How kind ...

We painted the amazing sunflowers in our school garden before they wilted and died. We are really proud of our work!   Here is t...

Jayden and Tane worked with great  concentration and teamwork to build this road from one end of the room to the other.   Fabulous co-ope...

Here we are on our first day in H3.  We welcomed Tom from China.  He will be in our class for three weeks.  Tom wants to speak lots of Eng...

H3 is going to the swimming pool every day to do swimming lessons.  We were all given new swim caps today to wear in the pool. We need to ...

It has been a LONG time since we have posted anything on our blog!  Watch this space....

Yesterday we arrived at school to find a big surprise.  Ronald McDonald was coming to visit us! He had big, long, red, shiny shoes; yello...

Another frosty morning in the Valley...

We went outside yesterday morning to feel the icy frost.  We put on our winter clothes...hats, scarves, gloves and jackets.  It wa...

Lots of us were feeling tired on this rainy Matariki morning!  So we did some Jump Jam to wake ourselves up and get us moving and grooving...

Here is our school playground yesterday afternoon.  The seagulls were having fun!  I hope you are keeping warm and dry at home today...

We felt weird and a little bit excited when we came to school last Friday.  We saw people wearing pyjamas and onesies and costumes to sch...

Here we are on a summery day way back in February.   Now we are back at school  at the beginning of term 2 and it wasn't so sunny tod...

It is term 4.  I am very impressed that so many children have their hats at school.  We look after ourselves by being sunsafe.  Remember ....

Here we are as artists in action.  Watch the blog to find out what we are creating...

We have so many good spellers in room 10.  Lots of practice helps you learn new words.    Ka pai to this group of amazing spellers!

Last week we did swimming lessons at DNI pool. We were learning to kick on our back, dive into the pool and turn on our backs, blow bubble...

Last week Chris from Kids can Cook, brought his mobile kitchen to our school.  He made crepes with chopped silverbeet and grated apple....

Last Wednesday our first butterfly emerged out of its chrysalis.  The wings were floppy because they were wet.  We had to wait for them to...

In room 10 we went up to the community gardens and looked at sunflowers.  We made sunflowers out of paper...we had to cut out petals  and ...

We have monarch caterpillars in room 10.   We thought about what caterpillars look like, what they do and how they move. All of the words...

A few weeks ago we dressed up as our favourite book characters.  We had a parade with the whole school.  The teachers chose the best dress...

Every Friday we have buddy reading with room 2. It is fun when we read with room 2 because they read to us and sometimes we read to them. ...

We just loved performing in our junior show, "That's What Friends Are For." Room 10 were lions and as you can see, we...

Bike day was so much fun.  We went... zooming wibbling wobbling skidding racing braking pushing pulling sweating a...

We used our five senses to write a poem about our favourite places.  Can you guess where Callum and Jackson's favourite places are?

Mr Whiskers packed his mice stuff and set off to the ferry boat to London.  He packed his mice sandwiches, mice checkers, and mice sleepin...

In room 10 we try to be the best handwriters we can be. We put letters on the line. We make tall letters go to the top of the line....

We read a book called Duckie Duck.  He liked to do different things.  When all the other ducks went flying, Duckie Duck went in a ho...

We read Maui and the Sun and created our own sun designs from the legend.  Maui wanted to slow the sun so he had time to fish and hunt ...

We are learning about our planet in space... our first question is why do we have night and day?

We just love going to swimming lessons ... thank you so much parents for helping us out at the pool!

Well the weather wasn't as kind as it could have been but it was a cross country race after all!  The children were determined and the...