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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.

Maths Learning Term 3

Our maths learning this term is around statistics and measurement. In statistics we have been collecting data around our favourite sports and our eye colours and showing our data using bar graphs. This made it [...]

By |4th September 2017|Classes, Room 6|0 Comments

Technology Inquiry Learning

We have started on our Inquiry learning this term. Our focus is on technology and specifically the function of technology and design. We have explored the problem solving cycle and had a go a solving [...]

By |14th August 2017|Room 6|0 Comments

Our 5 structure challenges you might want to try.

This is what you need: Jumbo popsicle sticks, pegs and clips   Here are the 5 challenges: Build a structure that can support the most possible weight. Build the tallest structure. Build the tallest structure [...]

By |28th July 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

Our new Book Nook

We have a new literacy area for Room 5 and 6 to use.  In the book nook we.... We do respectful learning about reading. We have lots of games like sight word fly swat, peg [...]

By |27th July 2017|Room 6|0 Comments

Kapa haka practises

We have been practising kapa haka everyday in the hall.  We went to the college today to practise on the stage with Matua Grant. We've been doing this for awhile and it is a very [...]

By |16th June 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

Maths Learning

We are learning about measurement in our maths learning this term. We talked about how we can measure things - with a ruler, but also about how we can use lots of other things - [...]

By |12th June 2017|Room 6|0 Comments

Masterchef at School

  In our Learning Zones we have added a baking zone. Today we made cheese muffins. We made them with milk and eggs and flour and cheese. We took turns to add the ingredients and [...]

By |6th June 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Our beasts

This year we have been using Dojo in the classroom. We have been watching videos about Mojo on class dojo about taming the beast. The beast is inside of us and is made up of [...]

By |2nd June 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

PJ Day at Reporoa Primary

Today we have Pyjama day. We are going to wear our pyjamas all day. We won't forget that pyjamas are what we sleep in. Some people wore their dressing gowns, pyjamas and slippers. They are really [...]

By |26th May 2017|Room 1|0 Comments

Learning Zones are back!

In learning Zones we decided to have a rotating zone that we change every 2 weeks. This week it changed to the science zone! We did the walking water experiment. We put water and food [...]

By |22nd May 2017|Classes, Room 6|0 Comments