Poetry

Over the last few weeks, Rūma Kererū has been busy learning a different range of poetic styles. Each student has written and illustrated their own book of poems that they are now beginning to narrate. Look out for these on individual blogs. In the meantime enjoy reading a selection of poems by Rose. She's done a great job putting matching images to her words.

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 Competition

Our whole school is competing in 'The Matific Maths Game' competition this week. Students have to complete a range of maths thinking tasks that they receive points for. Schools from out New Zealand and Australia are competing and currently Kaniere School is coming FIRST!!  All class levels throughout the school are also currently in FIRST PLACE! 
Ruma Kereru is extra proud to hold 7 out of the top 10 places with Che currently first and Nate 2nd.

Year 6 - Leaderboard

Rose, Maya and Kaycee are working hard to beat each other's scores.

Kade and Cooper have both made it into the top 10. Woohoo!

Nate and Che - current two place getters!

Belinda - currently 2nd for Year 5, Maya and Faith. Go, girls!

Top Schools - Leaderboard

Year 4-6 Swimming Sports

Thanks to the wonderful support from our school community the Year 4-6 swimming sports ran like clockwork. It was fantastic to see our not so confident swimmers 'give it go' and enter all of the half-length races that were on offer. Some of the length swimmers were in back to back events but everyone still swam their hearts out. A big shout out to those parents and grandparents who stepped into the role of timekeeping. It really is appreciated!

Swimming Time

A big "thanks" to our amazing swimming coaches at our first lessons for the year. We really couldn't have done it without you. Ruma Kereru very much appreciates you giving up your time to help us today. As you can see from the photos everyone was finetuning their swimming techniques for the upcoming senior swimming sports.