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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.

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

Learning about the different spheres!

This week we looked at the geosphere. We learnt that the geosphere is made up of lots of different things like lava, rock, sand and pebbles - these are all non living things. Then we [...]

By |17th May 2017|General, Room 6|0 Comments

Geometry Scavenger hunt

In term 2, we have been learning about Geometry. One of our lessons was to go outside and find 3D shapes on the playground. Marley found a cone (twirly whirlies) and a lot of cylinders. [...]

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

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