Merry Christmas!

This year has been a fantastic year! We have achieved a lot and have really enjoyed having a classroom blog for the first time! We hope you have a great holiday and will see you back here, with a new class, at the same address next year! Thank you to all of those people who have taken the time to check out our blog and leave comments. Happy holidays.

The Fruits of our Labour

This afternoon, we opened up a shop outside A1 to sell our garden produce to parents and students. We really enjoyed harvesting our garden and selling what we have worked so hard to grow! The sale was a huge success - we sold everything!

Caring for Pets

Every Friday, A4 go to the library for ICT with Mrs Clark. This term their inquiry topic was pets. Their task was to find and present information about caring for a goldfish.  Then, they had to present their findings by creating a slide using Powerpoint.



The Great Garden Sale!

Look at how much our garden has grown!

On Wednesday afternoon, we are holding a fruit and vegetable sale. Here are some of the things that have been growing in our garden!



A yellow courgette



lettuce




radishes



strawberries



cos lettuce

Come along to A block on Wednesday afterschool to buy some delicious fruit and vegetables. All of the money raised will go towards our classroom pets.

Junior Sports Day

On Friday morning, the junior school had a special sports day. Here are some photos from the day.

Here are some of us talking about our favourite part of the sports day.

Papatoetoe East's Annual School Concert

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the juniors and seniors held their annual school concerts! Here are the highlights.

Here are the highlights from the Senior School Concert.

18 Sleeps Until Christmas!

We are very excited about Christmas in A4! We have spent a lot of time discussing what presents we would like. Today Hemakshi, Makaveli and Theodore wrote letters to Santa. 

The Octopus

We love reading non-fiction books in A4, especially stories about animals. Last week, the Penguins reading group read a book called The Octopus. Here is a video of what they learnt.

And the winner is...

On Wednesday afternoon, Papatoetoe East held its annual East Idol competition! Gabrielle came 1st with her amazing rendition of Ave Maria. Nick came 2nd and Zian and Brasilia came 3rd.

Tania getting ready for
her performance

The MCs Dimitrius and Miss Nola
get the crowd ready for the show

Here are the winners! Well done guys!

To see highlights of the concert, check out C1's Blog where Miss Lamb has some great photos and video clips of the show!