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About Richelle McDonald

Kia ora. I am Richelle, principal of Reporoa Primary School since 2016. We hope you find our website informative and helpful! Please feel free to contact us with any queries you have.

We are scientists!

Our focus for inquiry this term is a science one - we are looking at earth systems and we will be looking specifically at the hydrosphere - all water found on, under and over the [...]

By |10th May 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Kapa Haka Practice

Every Friday we practice our Kapa Haka with Matua Grant. We love to do the Haka because it is so loud and we get to move our bodies around. We also learn to count using [...]

By |12th April 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Reading Rotations

In Room 1, we have four reading groups there names are: Tui's, Kiwi's, NZ Robins and Kakapo. Here are the different activities we do in our rotations: Teacher: we read a book and learn about [...]

By |7th April 2017|Classes, Room 1|0 Comments

Meet our new teacher – Whaea Rachel

Last week we were very lucky to have our new Room 5 teacher Whaea Rachel come and visit us for the day. She told us about herself - we asked lots of questions! She has [...]

By |6th April 2017|Classes|0 Comments

Class profiles

We have been learning how to blog about our identity and putting it onto our school website. This has been a great opportunity to talk about being safe on the internet and how much information [...]

By |3rd April 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

25 nights of reading

Tayla is the first person in Room 1 to reach 25 nights. Well done Tayla!!  

By |31st March 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

Using the iPads in Room 6

During our reading rotations we use the iPads. We go on the iPads and we either read or listen to books on Epic books or we go on Eggy 100. Eggy 100 helps us to [...]

By |27th March 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Camp

The senior students are having a wonderful time at camp. On day one they participated in a beach education programme. Take a look at the photos!

By |22nd March 2017|Classes, General, Sports|0 Comments

Our Learning about Identity

We have been learning that people are the same and different. Some things that make us the same are we all have shoes, we all have eyes but they are different colours. We learnt that [...]

By |20th March 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Rippa rugby with Kelly

  On Friday 3rd March, Kelly from Sport Bay of Plenty came to our school. We played the ball game, we picked partners and if Kelly said 'Ball" we have to be quick and pick [...]

By |3rd March 2017|Room 1|0 Comments