Pirongia School "Other Work" Page

2011 Snapshots 2011 has been an exciting and productive year for children at Pirongia School. Below are some of our working highlights from around the school. Click the cropped miniatures to see the complete pictures.

We LOVE writing at Pirongia School	Learning about Algebra, Patterns and Rules in A Team	Harakeke weaving

Working together across the school for Maori Language Week

Fun in the classroom with Mrs McKenzie	Writing and learning together	Electronics exploration in the Senior School

Conservation at Pirongia School 2011 We are very privileged at our school to have a beautiful native bush area as well as stunning flower and vegetable gardens. We all help to keep our environment tidy and beautiful. Click the cropped miniatures to see the complete pictures.

Bradley helping to plant ferns in our native bush	Many hands (no matter how muddy) make light work!	Weeding our vegetable and flower garden boxes

Busy in the native bush	Working together to keep our grounds tidy	Raking leaves is FUN!

Book Week 2011 This year we celebrated Book Week with daily reading activities including quiz competitions, special library displays, special visitors from the community who read to us, a visit from Clifford the Big Red Dog and ending the week by dressing up as our favourite book characters. Click the cropped miniatures to see the complete pictures.

Reading with our special visitors

Dressing us as our favourite book characters (we love our resident Smurfs; Mrs N and Mrs H!)

Buddy reading together

Term 1 2009
This trip was to the Te Awamutu museum as part of our learning about the Treaty of Waitangi and how it was meant to bring people together, as part of this terms focus on working together. We learnt about some of the land wars that happened close to our school and how they were caused.

Click the cropped miniatures to see the complete pictures.

Children's wall projects studying history of the Pirongia region

Brightly decorated classroom wall on the topic of "Contributions"

Cody, Ollie and Matt sort
their history puzzle in
good quick time

Gea, Kimble and Shonise
working together to
get theirs solved

Tayla and Matt racing to
load a gun the old way
at the museum.

Term 2 2008 Work Spotted Around the Classrooms Click the cropped miniatures to see the complete pictures.

The "History of Pirongia" Wall in Rm 11	Close-up of Lydia's work from the history wall in Rm 11	The Rm 4 "Contributions" corner is a blaze of colour

Beatrice, (left) and Bailey enjoy the shade of the tree in the Rm 7 science/reading corner.	Rm 2 has been sorting leaves by attributes in maths	From left, Kayla,Georgia and Paige enjoy the Rm 3 "Contributions" corner

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