Westland Milk Products - Westgold Winners.

In term two, Westland Milk Products gave all primary school students in Hokitika the opportunity to enter a drawing/design competition they were running under the theme, '12 days of a West Coast Christmas'. 

What the students had to think about was how their design would look on a packet of Westgold butter, and more specifically what their design represents about life in Hokitika and how they spend Christmas with their family on the West Coast. 

In line with the '12 days of Christmas', the 12 winning entries have the honour of having their design and name on a packet of Westgold butter over the Christmas season.  

We are really proud to celebrate the success of six Rūma Kererū students who along, with Isla from Rūma Weka, had their designs picked as winners! Well done to Marnie, Rose, Nate, Mackenzie, Ngaio and Rebekah. These students have won four movie tickets and been given their winning designs in postcard form. In a couple of months, they will see what their design looks like in a Westgold butter wrap and no doubt shortly after that we will see them appearing for sale so keep an eye out for them. Thanks, Westland Milk Products!

The winners . . . Ngaio, Marnie, Rebekah, Nate, Mackenzie, Rose and Isla.

Below you can see the winning Ruma Kereru designs printed in postcard form. Isla's design will feature on Weka's blog.

Designer: Ngaio

Designer: Nate

Designer: Rose

Designer: Mackenzie

Designer: Marnie

Designer: Rebekah

Matifics - Confirmed Results

We knew we were the champion school this year and now we have the official results through!
As the newspaper articles states, "Kaniere School has won the Olympics of the maths world." Our school was not only the first placed school in this year's Matifics Competition, but we also topped the champion classes leaderboard.  This has been a great achievement for us. Congratulations again to all our hard-working mathematicians.

It was great to read about our success in the West Coast Times today! 

Sign Language with Ruth

15 May 2019

We were really lucky to have Ruth come into our class this week to give us a 'taster' session on New Zealand sign language. From the time Ruth stepped into the class she didn't speak - a very different experience for everyone. Using picture cues and modelling with her hands the class learned how to sign the letters of the alphabet and sign their own names. It was great learning how to sign simple greetings and ask questions such as, "Your name what?" and "You have animals what?" As Ruth explained to us all the 'little' words are not used when signing.

Kaycee spelling out her name. 

Rebekah masters the sign alphabet.

Flynn learning how to ask questions.

You can almost see Aaliyah's brain working!

Cards for Constable Jos

The whole school 'turned out in blue' yesterday in recognition of Constable Jos who, along with Constable Terri, has been coming to Kaniere School over the last 15 years to teach our students valuable skills. Rūma Kererū students also look forward to the safe cycling lessons and biking around the challenge course on the turf, before practising their new skills out on the roads. All classes also made cards for Constable Jos and know he is going to be kept pretty busy reading them! Rūma Kererū students put thought into designing their cards on google draw and thinking about what they wanted to write. Well done, Abby, Rebekah and Kaycee your cards look great!