Notice to parents

The blue Gore Main reporting folders do not need to be sent back to school after they have been sent home with a report. They are yours to keep now as we have all of the reporting data on our school system. 

Rugby Skills with Morgan

Today Morgan Mitchell came to Gore Main School to teach each class rugby skills. We had such a great time. Thanks for coming Morgan!

Swimming

We have just had two weeks of swimming each day at the Gore pool. Before each swimming session we also got to go into the multi sports centre to practise our ball skills. We were very tired after two weeks of ball skills and swimming! Here is a video of our super swimming skills and some swimming masterpieces we created last week.

Wig Wednesday

Last Wednesday was Wig Wednesday to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation. Check out our awesome wigs!

Poetry

Illustrators of the week! We found this poem hilarious! We could really relate to it  since we are swimming each day. We learnt about the ow sound in this poem. It can be written ou or ow.

Paddock Opening Ceremony

On Friday we had our Paddock Opening Ceremony where we cut the fence to allow the children into the school paddock. We are going to turn this paddock into a free play area - this is our inquiry this term!

Poetry

Here's this weeks illustrator of the week!

We learnt lots of new words from this poem...like aerodynamic and mishap!

We had so much fun making paper planes and trying to fly them! 

Kakapo Information Reports

We have been learning how to write information reports to give people information and facts.

We wrote our kakapo information reports in our books and then published them on Google Slides. This was our first time using Google Slides!

Kakapo Trip

Last Wednesday we were lucky enough to get to go to Invercargill to see some kakapo chicks that were being hand reared before they were released back into Codfish Island. We were so excited and learnt lots about the kakapo before we left so that we could fully appreciate the rare birds that we were looking at. Miss McKenzie and the DoC Rangers were super impressed by how much the children knew about kakapo after all the research we had done prior to the trip! 

We went to Queens Park before we visited the kakapo. 

Here we are looking at the kaka at Queens Park. 

Hanging out with the Queens Park kea. 

One group was lucky enough to see the kea being fed!

In the aivery with more parrots! We know these ones aren't NZ native parrots though! 

We LOVED the playground at Queens Park! 

We were not allowed to take any photos of the chicks. This was to keep them safe  and so they didn't get scared or stressed. 

We split into 2 groups for the kakapo viewing. While one group was looking at the kakapo the other got to look at some photos of the DoC Rangers working with the kakapo on Codfish and Anchor Island. 

This is the tracker they wear on their backs so the Rangers can track them and find them. They need to find them to see how the kakapo are going and check they are still healthy. 

For such a big parrot they sure do lay tiny eggs!

The DoC ranger told us a story about how a kakapo egg was accidentally squashed by its mother. A ranger found the egg in the nest and patched it with glue and tape and incubated it.....amazingly the chick survived and hatched! Its name is Ruapuke.