James K Baxter Poems.

 We read one of James K Baxter's Poems. We had to look at the descriptive language, the nouns and verbs that were used. We then thought about our own special place and wrote poems using his poem as a scaffold. 

Check them out

ART WORK

 Check out some of our amazing art works that are now completed and up on our walls. 

ART TIME

 A couple of weeks ago we went for a walk over to the river near UC. We took photos of the landscape. Here are some of the photos. 

Our next step was to look at Pointillism artworks. We traced the main outlines of our chosen photo then used different techniques to work on our art pieces. 

We learnt about the colour wheel and how to mix colours using the primary colours only. 

Cross Country

 WOW what an awesome day we had weather wise, maybe just a little too hot... but we all got through it. 

Congratulations to everyone for going out there and giving it their best shot. So proud of all of you. 

Ka Pai to the following students from Room 4 who will now go through to West Zones on 23 May. 

Alexandra, Quinn, Anjulan, Lola, Adah and Nevaeh W. 

We had a Whanau lunch before the cross country. 

Cultural Day 2024

What a FANTASTIC day for celebrating our Ilam School Cultures. 

CULTURAL WEEK

 Cultural Day 2024

Preparation: what you need to do

• Decide on what you are going to wear - something that represents your culture. 

• Organise a plate of food from your culture to share with your team

• Practise an item to perform in the Cultural Concert if you would like to do this 

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Week 7

 Calling all of our cultural singers, dancers or anything!

We need you for our Cultural day concert. Please see Mrs Ewen as soon as possible to sign up. 

WEST ZONE SWIMMING: 

Well done to the students who participated in the West Zone swimming event last Thursday.

Hi Jihyen: we all miss you 

CAN YOU BELIEVE THE AMOUNT OF RUBBISH WE FOUND OUT AND ABOUT IN OUR SCHOOL GROUNDS LAST FRIDAY!

PRINCIPALS AWARD

 Congratulations to Adah for the awesome award she received last week at the assembly. You Go Girl!

WALK:WHEEL

We were so lucky with the weather. We were able to get in our time for Walk/Wheel before the rain came down. Ka Pai to our School Council members for all of the organisation. 

PAPER TRICK

 On Friday Mrs Ewen set up paper on our tables. We were allowed to look at it and try and work out how she had done it. There was some discussion, lots of cutting and some bad looks on our faces. 

These are some of the comments once we had packed up:

WOW: Way too hard

I DID IT!

Can;t wait to go home, it is almost time

It's impossible

Mmmm Interesting

BORING

HOW?????

Witchcraft

Confusing

Unfair

How are we supposed to do that?

Yay I did it!

That makes sense

SWIMMING SPORTS

 Congratulations to our 15 swimmers from Room 4 who participated in the Ilam School Swimming Sports. Many of you stepped into the stretch zone and achieved more than you have done before!

Congratulations also to those swimmers who will now take part int he West Zone swimming event on Thursday 14 March

WEEK 6

 Another huge week at Ilam School last week!

CBHS: We had our last two sessions with Boys High School. 

TOP TEAM: Thank you to our parent helpers for supporting us on such a fantastic day. The seniors had their time first thing in the morning. Our House Captains were out there all day, first participating then supporting the middle and junior school.  Ka Pai!