Information Report about Paroa School

Paroa school

Paroa school is located on the West Coast of New Zealand and it’s a quiet small school.

Paroa school originally started in 1872 but it was unofficial then was established in 1876. The school started so kids didn’t have to walk to a different school in town.

Paroa school aims to be an enviro school by achieving a bronze medal.  Paroa school is about 50 meters from the beach and they sometimes have beach clean ups because it plays a big part in the school values. Paroa School also have school committees which are sports, events, 4cs and toki these are important because it gives the students an opportunity to be leaders. There is also Tackle Patrol to help students to play on the field safely and Team Tuakana to help students on the playground and court.

Paroa school is made of 152 students 40% girls and 60% boys there are 18 staff the school has 8 classrooms and a school library where the school reads books the school also has a hall where where the school plays games and has assemblies. The school also has 2 playgrounds one for the juniors and one for the seniors the school also has a massive field.

In summary Paroa School started in 1872 and was established in 1876 the school is special to the community because they get to come to fun nights and help out on school camps and help the students. The school also couldn’t run without the PTA which helps raise money for the school to buy more resources.

By Mack.

The Current Composting situation

Whenua's Goals

This is a slide about our goals. At the beginning of the term we created our learning and personal goals, that we wanted to achieve for terms 1-3. We will then reflect on our goals and make new ones or keep exisiting ones for the rest of the year. After our Student Led Conferences we created a google drawing that presents our goals. They are displayed in our classroom.

READCYCLEREAD

Last Thursday we had two visitors come to school, Julian and Milly Read.  Jay (Julian) is Mrs Read's Brother in-law. What was so special about these two people were, they have just arrived in New Zealand from cycling all the way from London. They left in March 2018 and arrived in New Zealand just a few weeks ago.They visited 24 different countries and have cycled 15000 kms. We asked loads of questions about their trip like what challenges they were faced with, how many haircuts did they have, what animals did you see, what type of food did you eat and what the most scariest moment was etc. If you want to find out more about what and where they are click on this link http://readcycleread.bike/ .

Whenua 2019 He Waka Eke Noa

This is our Waka, it explains who we are as individuals and who makes up Whenua (Our Class).
First we had to research about our Whakapapa, then explore what symbols were important to us, our family and culture. We then had to draft our hoe (paddles) until we were happy with our final drawings, then we published them. We also included our 4Cs and the Blue Penguin as this is who we are at Paroa School.  He Whaka Eke Noa " We are all in this together."

Highest Flag Pole Challenge

On Thursdays the Year 6s have their Technology Challenges with Mrs Hofman, while our Year 7s go to Tech at the local high school. We had to create a stable flag pole that would support a flag that we got to design. We got to use A4 paper, tape and colouring pencils for the flag design. For the pole we had to use newspaper and tape. I wonder what challenges we will be faced with this week...

Animated self portraits using google draw.

We had a lot of fun learning about how images we use from Google have to be acknowledged, and how the best images to use in our work are those we have made ourselves. We had a lesson on how to use an image (of ourselves) and use the polyline tool to draw around the image and make it our own. It was very tricky using the poly line because our faces are not square so we had to be patient and do lots of starting and stopping with this tool. These are a few of our self portraits and we hope you will go onto our blogs to see the rest of our efforts. If you have ever used this skill, we would love to see your examples.