Our new entrant learners in LH2 have been showing us their capabilities in being responsible, doing a #oresome job at looking after the chickens. Their LC’s support them to give the chickens their food and water every day. After the weekend, the chickens can get hungry and impatient, pecking your feet when you try to enter the coop to feed them. LH2 learners make sure someone with filled in shoes goes into the coop to feed them first.

LH1 have been harvesting and selling vegetables at the Market Day. They have been exploring things they are interested in making and learning to pitch their idea to an audience. Learners have then taken on projects and have been trialling things they can make to sell at Market Day. It has been exciting to have other habitats join us and we are excited for more collaboration to come.

Market Day has been an exciting new initiative within Enviro. Each habitat has been planting their own garden beds full of beautifully fresh and organic vegetables and herbs. OrmPS has been harvesting theses vegetables and selling them to the community for a very small cost. It will be exciting to see others join us to sell their vegetables to!

Our #oresome road patrollers are continuing to do a fantastic job with helping our learners (and parents) to safely cross the road outside our school.  In Term 1 we held some road crossing workshops with LH1, 2 & 4 and it’s great to see that many of these young learners are now educating their own parents and grandparents on how to use the patrolled crossings.

Don’t forget to use the refuge crossing on Kerrykeel Drive, opposite our top field.   This road is getting extremely busy so it’s best to support our learners to keep safe and cross where there is a safe place to wait in the middle of the road.

Fifty Year six and some Year five learners from Habitat 6 headed off to the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau for the day to participate in the annual NYLD.  Hundreds of learners from other primary schools throughout Auckland also participated in the event including our Year 5 and 6 learners from Habitat five.  The theme for this years NYLD was ‘I am a seed born of greatness’ which was unpacked throughout the day by the numerous guest speakers who shared how they grew their seed.  Intertwined throughout the different talks were a number of Maori proverbs such as Ngaro (not letting others opinions affect the way you see yourself), kakano (within everyone is the potential to make the world a better place) and ruia (creating and being in a great environment is how we grow).  

Learners listened to speakers such as Daniel Flynn, creator of ‘thankyou’ water and products who discussed how he came up with his idea and went about making it happen.  ‘thankyou’ products are now sold throughout Australia with 100% profits going to villages in underdeveloped countries to provide basic clean drinking water.  Another highlight was listening to Adam Gard’ner and Duane Major who initiated the very successful Give-A-Little campaign last summer for New Zealanders to buy a beach.  The day was topped off with an amazing performance for the New Zealand band ‘nomad’ who performed two songs, including their latest international hit ‘Oh my my’.  The day was enjoyed by all the learners ….

“I really enjoyed how they (the presenters) explained what they did and told us that it was a group effort to make things happen” Sonny.

“I really liked it how they put games in the middle of it to entertain us and I really liked how they had a DJ at morning tea and at lunch for something to listen to” Azure.

This year at Ormiston Primary School we kicked off the week with a special Hui.

LH5 prepared and practiced special performances the whole week. We had:

1. comedy drama

2. a short drama giving out a message

3. NZSL words teaching

4. a dance and song fully in NZSL.

Angelena and Taylor were our wonderful MC’s. Blaine and Jona shared an interesting presentation. Joe, Lui, Jona and Blaine made us all laugh with their funny dramas. Rawinia, Anthea, Ruilin and Jean-Baptiste shared some animal and time signs with the school. And to wrap it up, all of LH5 signed the song “can’t stop the feeling” and it looked #Oresome!!!

The LH5 staff prepared some fun activities for OrmP School. The learners helped and supported the learning coaches. The winners from each habitat received blue tokens. It was great to see all the learning coaches from LH1,LH2,LH3, LH4 and LH6 involved in the activities.

Michael Wi, our Maori tutor did Maori storytelling in NZSL.  Many learners came to LH5 to enjoy watching the interesting story.

We had lots of fun in NZSL week. We all got a chance to show our amazing talents!! We even had NZSL picture and colouring competition. The winners got a special certificate and prize in Hui time.

Hope everyone enjoyed the #Oresome NZSL week!

Calling all parents and caregivers of Oresome Ormiston Primary School!We are offering a Digital Technologies session for all of our parent community on Wednesday March 8th at 2pm, 3pm and 6pm in Te Manawa, so choose the time that works for you.

Come and learn how to access your child’s learning pathways and blogs. It is essential for you to know how to do this in order to access your child’s narrative assessments, progress reports and learning progressions. We can show you how to comment on blogs and take you through the list of apps that we use.  Devices will be provided. This is an exciting opportunity for you to come and learn different ways to keep our children safe online and how to manage the digital world inside your home.

We also intend to offer English language learning classes for people of all ages and from all backgrounds and for a range of purposes in Term 2. If you or your family need extra english tutoring to increase employment opportunities or to advance yourself in your place of employment or if Nana and Grandad want to communicate in English with your children, come along to the workshop and hear more about how this can become a reality.  

Any further inquiries about this event, please come to the school office and ask for Miss Aerenga or email baerenga@ormistonprimary.school.nz. See you there!

Oresome 奥米斯顿小学的家长

在3 月 8 日周3 下午 2时,3时和晚上 6时, 本学校在图书馆提供家长数字技术会议, 家长可以选择适当时间。

学习如何访问您孩子的学习路径和博客, 知道你孩子的叙事评估，进展报告和学习进步。

帮您通过我们使用的应用程序列表, 可以告诉您如何评论博客。

学校将会提供设备。这是一个令人兴奋的机会，你可以学习使用不同的方式，以保持我们的孩子安全在线，以及如何管理你家里的数字世界。

我们还打算在第2学期为不同年龄和背景的人提供英语语言学习课程。如果您或您的家人

需要额外的英语辅导以增加就业机会, 或帮助您提高工作的英语水平, 或帮助祖

父母和你的孩子以英语沟通，请来参加便可以实现。

关于此活动的查询，请到学校办公室Aerenga小姐可以帮助您或电邮baerenga@ormistonprimary.school.nz。

到时候那里见！

Congrats to the Capable Whanau!

We all sang the Te Aroha and E Toru Nga Mea waiata as part of the process while Luke Sumich, the Leader of Learning at OJC was welcomed to our side with his family.  It is super exciting to have the school open next door especially since our Year 5-6 learners are living in the Marama hub (because we are soo full).

Welcome to our Ormiston whanau!

We have 6 Learning Habitats this year:

LH1- Years 2-3 with Mrs Moopanar, Mr Dyer, Miss Morgan, Mrs Lavakula and Miss Benz

LH2- Our New Entrants with Miss Hans, Mrs Jacob and Miss Blake

LH3- Years 3-4 with Miss Aeranga, Mr Davidson, Miss Barber and Miss Kay

LH4- Years 1-2 with Mrs Patrick/Mrs Hickey, Mrs Lennon, Mr Morrow and Miss Bachu

LH5- KDEC Learning Habitat with Mrs Kobayashi & Ms Francis and Mrs Whilford, Miss Vili and interpretors

LH6- Years 4,5 & 6 with Mrs Pearson, Miss Love, Mrs Croll and Mrs G (this is the Marama hub at Ormiston Junior College)

ELL Team- Karyn Patterson, Ivy Uy, Donna Telfer, May Paraha and Kiki Walton

Our SLT is now Heath McNeil -Leader of Learning, Diana Wilkes, Associate Leader of Learning, Koral Doidge-Executive Officer and Cassandra Everts- Office Administrator