"The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate"

Students from Glenbrae School were lucky enough to be gifted seats from Gift a Seat to watch the performance "The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate" by Margaret Mahy.

The performance was very entertaining and funny.

Thank you Gift a Seat and thank you Te Oro for having us!

Vodafone Event Centre

Room 9 was lucky enough to go to the Vodafone Event Centre to watch Story Lines.

Illustrators and authors from New Zealand presented their wonderful books.

It was a great day out!

Thank you for the 20 brand new books you presented to us - they will be put to good use in our school library!

New Baby!

One of the students in Room 9 brought their new baby sister in for show and tell! The class was so excited to meet her.

What a great show and tell to share with the class!!

Sentence Starters

In class we have been learning how to write information reports.

We used sentence starters to help us start our writing.

Our day at the museum

For the first hour, students learned how to use the iNaturalist app. Students explored the domain and gardens around the museum and used the iNaturalist app to take pictures of insects, trees, flowers or anything they find.

These pictures are shared to a database and scientists analyse they pictures and let you know what they are!

The second half of the trip, students got to explore the museum with their adult helper. They were split into groups and explored lots of different sections.

They got to use a microscope to have a look closely at different bugs, leaves and shells.

They explored the insect section and got to look at heaps of different insects in glass cabinets.

We had lots of fun!

Cook Island Language Week!

We have had a great week at Glenbrae School celebrating Cook Island language week. On Wednesday we had a mufti day where all the students could dress up in their cultural gear.

We had a disco in the hall and all the students got an island donut. They danced to cultural music and had lots of fun!

Cook Island Language Week

Kia orana!!

It is Cook Island language this week and we started off the week with an assembly all about the Cook Islands. 

We had a beautiful dance presented to us by members of our Cook Island dance group. Thank you to our wonderful teacher aides for organising the dance (and the wonderful assembly).

BEES

Melepalu has been studying bees in her reading group. She created a lovely slideshow presentation about what she has learnt.

Spiders!

Here are some fantastic spider makes that students from Room 9 created on google draw. We hope you learn something new!