Honeybee

The queen bee lay eggs in wax cells than they hatch into grubs called larvae in the cells. Next, the wax cells get covered with wax. After a few weeks it starts to eat its way out. 

After a few more weeks, all of the young bees have hatched. The bees are old enough they can make wax.  After a couple more days, they collect pollen with the other bees. 

By Callen
Takiritia Toru!

Lent - acts of kindness to help others

Today we are thinking about how to help other people who are not as fortunate as us...

We watched a video about the floods in Cambodia and talked about how we, here in New Zealand, can help the people who live so far away.

We are in the season of Lent which began yesterday with a whole school mass as it was Ash Wednesday.. The purpose of Lent is the preparation for Easter through prayer, doing things for others, going without treats, saying sorry and trying to think like Jesus.... 

What else do you think we could do?

We'd love to hear your ideas!

Takiritia 2020 @ SPX

We are a wonderful group of learners, 

in a fantastic new space, at SPX.  

Our space is called Takiritia 3.  

Our teacher is Mrs Pulotu. 

We are learning to show kindness to all...

Follow our learning this year as we share our wonderful adventures and PLEASE leave a comment on our blog...

We've got the Beat

Our book week

To-day we all dressed up as our favourite characters from our books we read. We tried our best to use our brain to create our costumes. We had to ask our family to help us with our costumes because we can't do it by ourselves. 

Some of us were greedy cats and one of us was a robot because he read the book, 'Why do we eat?' We all enjoyed sharing about ourselves because they were fun and exciting. The big bad wolf wanted to eat grandma and little red riding hood. So many stories we shared about to-day. We hope that we will do it again in the near future.

Caught in action

Our best learning circle. We do meditations once every fortnight.  When we have this time to ourselves, I think of Mum at home and Dad at work. I sometimes feel that I miss them so much.

I always pray and ask God to look after them while I am away. I also think of my 'Mum & daughter time" during the school holidays.

This is a time where I get to speak to God silently in my brain. I always look forward to my meditation time with the soft sleepy music. 

By: Naomi

Catholic School Day with St Patrick & St Ignatius

One rainy, cloudy day, our whole school went to St Patrick School at Panmure. It was quite cold,  but we were more excited to see other students from the other two (2) schools. 

We all went to church as Fr John, Fr Felise and Fr Andrew co-celebrated the mass for us. St Patrick and St Ignatius were waiting for us to arrive.

We all sang our hearts out as we really loved singing with the other schools. We were also excited as we were looking forward to meet new students.
                                                                                                        Finally, mass ended and we all went to have lunch. Sadly, it was raining and we all had to return but we all enjoyed the trip down to our neighbouring catholic school.