Kids Helping Kids

The Whanau-House Leaders are pleased to announce that the inaugural Johnsonville School initiated Kids Helping Kids appeal has raised a total of $436.40.

The Kids Helping Kids 'Hearts on our Sleeves' Day brought in $192.00 and the Kids Helping Kids Market raised $244.40.

Thank you to everybody who supported us as we raised funds for Koru Care NZ. Koru Care works to make dreams come true for seriously ill and disabled Kiwi children. 

Kids Helping Kids Market Day - Sales Team

Ready for the customers

Open for business

Our Year at School. By Room 8

We have had an awesome time in room 8 this year

We’ve written a cool poem which we are going to share.

We’re going to tell you all about some things that we’ve done

And I’m sure you’ll see that we’ve had heaps of fun.

We like to learn maths and to subtract and to add

When we know all our times tables we will be really glad.

Room 7 and Room 8 really like working together

We really don't mind about the weather.

Kahoot is a maths quiz that we all like to do

The questions were quite hard but some of the answers we knew

This year our school was one hundred and fifty years old

People came to the reunion and had a great time we are told

We show our families our work when we post it on seesaw

We share our writing and our maths and the pictures that we draw

JSPA is really amazing and some great things we have done

We learned to dance and sing and play and it was really fun

We write awesome stories and we have done some amazing art

We think that we are now really really smart

Cupcake day was at the start of the year

We all made cupcakes to bring and to share.

There were so many yummy cupcakes in the school hall

We had to choose two but we wanted to eat them all.

Softball started this year in term four

We liked it so much we wanted to play more and more

They taught us how to throw and how to hit the ball

The weather wasn’t great so sometimes we were in the hall.

In term 1 and term 4 the school discos were held

We laughed and we danced and we sang and we yelled.

We had a fun evening in our classroom in term three

We ate dessert and we helped to paint the tree.

Waikanae pool trip in February was heaps of fun

It was warm and we enjoyed our day in the sun

Revealing our seat in the garden was so cool

The enviro team opened it for our school.

We’ve been learning how to throw and catch the ball

We sometimes play basketball with room 7 in the hall

Mihi Whakatau welcomes families who are new

We have them every term and it’s something we like to do

We love meeting new people but they come and go

At our school we have learned to just go with the flow

The school triathlon was really fun but hard

We had to run and bike around the schoolyard.

One of our favourite things at our school

Is Thursdays when we go swimming in our very own pool

Te Reo is fun and lots of new words we like to learn

Whaea Adrienne teaches games and we like it when it’s our turn

In choir we sing with an amazing band

Who help our choirs sound really grand

We hope you’ve enjoyed your school year as well

We can’t wait to hear the final bell.

Our year is almost finished and the holidays are near.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and we will see you next year.

BY Room 8

The Buzz about Bees

This term Room 14 has been learning all about bees. 

We started off thinking about what we would like to know about bees and then wrote all of our questions on hexagons and made them into a hive. 

We then worked together looking on the iPads and in books to answer our questions. 

With all the new information we had, we decided to make a book to share all our exciting facts. 

'Cats' - Special Education Unit

Magazine Cats

Check out our wonderful art for this week based 

on the picture below... 

Kids Helping Kids Market

The Kids Helping Kids market stall did a roaring trade at the fruit and veggie market on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who bought something from the stall.

We are very proud of the Senior Syndicate kids who volunteered their time to man the stall and worked really hard as a team to fundraise for Koru Care. Oliver worked the full four hours, and was well-supported by Theo S, Aliyah and Jesse. Thanks to Jayden C for helping pack up.

More used household goods well be available for sale on Wednesday afternoon - 2.30pm to 5.30pm, outside Room 7.

Kiwi Bounce

Special Education Unit

Kiwi Bounce

In term three the students in Room 11/12 went on a trip to Kiwi Bounce. 

Everyone was exhausted by the end of our trip.  

Train trip to Wellington

Special Education Unit

Our Train Trip to Wellington

On Monday 13th November Room 11/12 caught the train at Johnsonville Station into Wellington.  

It was freezing cold.  Everyone loved the train trip.  So much so you could have heard a pin drop. Once we arrived we stopped off at McDonald's on Bunny Street for a bite to eat before heading back to Johnsonville.  

Robotics

In Term 3 nine Year 6 students worked with Keryn Akers from the Wellington Loop, as well as students from St Bernard's School, Brooklyn and Thorndon School to learn how to program robots.  They then had to apply their learning and program the robots to do a variety of activities of their design.

Click on the words below to see what we created.

The Movie!!

Room 3 and Room 8 Softball

This term we have had some awesome people from Softball Wellington come in and work with us.  We have been learning how to throw the ball properly, how to run the bases, how to hit the ball off the T and how to field.  We have really enjoyed learning these new skills and working with the people from Softball Wellington.  We hope that they can come back again next year and teach us some more things.  We are going to work hard on our softball skills over the summer!