Who are we?

Te Rōpū Whakamanawa is a group of Year 6 students at Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2018.

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Welcome to 2018

Welcome back to another year in the Senior Hub of Gilberthorpe School Ara Tū Whakatā.  This year our home base is a group of 33 Year 6 students with home base teachers Miss Waho and Mrs Howland.  We are looking forward to sharing our learning and seeing what our blogging friends from around Aotearoa are up to.  

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Farewell to Our Year 6 Team

Year 6 Leavers Dinner

Each year we say thank you and celebrate our Year 6 Leavers by having a dinner together at Little Sister Cafe.  This year was another very special time.  Everybody looked stunning and we enjoyed our time.  Here are a few pictures from our evening.

Monday, 6 November 2017

Kapa Haka Festival

Uru Mānuka Cultural Festival 2017


Last week we had our annual cluster Kapa Haka festival.  This year we had a mixture of junior students and seniors.  Here are a few photos from the night.








We were all stars on the night and had a great performance.  Check back soon for more pictures from our evening.



Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Duffy Role Model Assembly

The Amazing Scott Tulloch

Scott Tulloch came in today to present our Duffy Awards.
He is an author and illustrator. 
He played us his reading of the book, I am not a Worm. He used fantastic voices and did a very like like illustration of Miss Waho.
You can check it out on you tube!

Bible in schools assembly

Bible Assembly for Term Four

Watch what you watch and watch what you eat.
Mr Marty and Roy were in today for our Bible Assembly to start the term. 

We gave Diesel some advice about how he should eat healthier. We need to think about how we can be healthier by eating healthier. 

We learned about how marketing advertisers trick us into recognising advertising logos and brands. The average child sees 15 advertisements advertising junk food. 

We talked about how we can help people who don't like to read. 
As always, we finished with a game of Zonk! - won by the boys 85 - 20

Ki o rahi trials

Our seniors had trials for the school Ki O Rahi teams recently. It was great to see them managing the game themselves and having a great time!

Chief Selector Tobey, recording notes on individuals standing out. 

Bring on the tournament on the 15th of November

Value for Week 3

Active Listening

Our quality that we are developing this week is active listening.  This slide will help us become better at this which will support our learning.