What’s happening in the world?  Why is there rubbish flowing freely everywhere we go?  Why are our waters so polluted?  It’s all because of us.  We all know about how we are the reason our waters and roads are trashed with rubbish, but what’s actually going on? The Problems As time goes on, the effect […]

What is Kaitiakitanga?  Kaitiakitanaga is our semester topic.  What does it mean?  Kaitiakitanga is the Māori term for guardian of the sky, the sea, and the land.  Currently we are focusing on the sea area,  we went down to Tōtara park to look at our local awa, The Puhinui stream.  We walked around and took […]

The Start of his Life It was 3 January 1892,  the date of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s birth.  He was a bright man who grew to have a passion for writing and making books. Family & Childhood Johns childhood was black and white until he met the special girl who brang colour to his life.  […]

Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.5 Billion years old.  It’s made up by 8 planets, many stars (including the Sun), 146 moons, heaps of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and dwarf plants such as Pluto.  The order of the eight planets from closet to farthest from the sun is Mercury;Venus;Earth;Mars;Jupiter;Saturn;Uranus;Neptune.  An […]

It was a gloomy night in Auckland, New Zealand.  All you could hear was the thuds from the rain smashing against the windowsill and the sounds of the eerie wind blowing outside.  The only source of light was from the streetlights outside but they weren’t bright enough to comfort Melissa from her fear. Melissa had […]

My first few days as a year 8 in Kāhu have been enjoyable, calm, and positive.  I have been enjoying being back at school and hanging out with my peers and friends.  So far we have the work we have done is a writing asttle,  marking the writing asttle,  learning about the different SDL tasks […]

It was a hot and sunny day, and a group of 8 girls were getting ready to go to Rainbows End.  They were all so excited to go on the fearfall except for the few that had acrophobia (Fear of heights).  They were all sitting in Malia’s room waiting for her mum to take them […]

On Monday after the roll Kāhu students line up waiting to go to assembly probably already wanting to go home.  In the assembly we get certificates, more certificates, even MORE certificates, a prize from Mr Van Tonder (Mr VT) after we watch his weekly science vlog thing…, and person of the week.  Soon after the […]

On Friday the 17th of March 2023 our year 0’s, 1’s, and 2’s made a wonderful slideshow to show what they’ve been doing, performed a couple of dances, and showed off their beautiful art work to the rest of the school and the Parents that came to watch their children! The assembly of course started […]

On Thursday 24th November the science fair for tgs was set up.  There were lots of different experiments e.g Kiwis skittles in water experiment, Pukekos edible science (cookies, ice cream, hokey pokey, & butter), Kahu’s  volcanic eruption experiment.   When the Piwakawakas went down to see the science fair these two  children named Almaan and […]