Welcome to Nga Tipuranga Syndicate!
Nga Tipuranga syndicate is the Junior Syndicate at the school. We have two classrooms in the syndicate ranging from year 0 to year 1. When children first start school they will enter Nga Tipuranga (seedlings) syndicate.
The teachers in this syndicate are Miss Hedley in Room 12 and Mrs Saunders in Room 11.
The main focus in our syndicate is reading, writing, printing, oral language and mathematics. Each term we integrate a topic into these areas.
This year during the first term we were learning about 'healthy communities'. We had Amanda Parson a police lady in to help us with the unit 'Keeping ourselves safe' and then we looked at the wetlands.
We have started a new programme in Nga Tipuranga called 'Discovery time'. This is where the children work on a certain key competency through discovery and play, they also learn about problem solving and working together. We are working on the key competency relating to others this term. Stay tuned for more about this.
In term 2 we are looking at Fairy tales and nursery rhymes and then, planet earth and beyond. We are also going to Gymnastics at the Kapiti gym. We are learning about landing safely, rotating, balancing, and lots more. Check out these photos.
On Tuesday 3rd of May we did a coin trail to raise money for asthma, as 1 in every 4 children struggle to blow up balloons because of asthma. We raised $69 altogether. We wore red and we even got a cool balloon.
On Wednesday 13th July was our 'Right Choice Day'. All children in Nga Tipuranga got to attend this day as we all made better choices about our behaviour. We have been learning about space this term so our activities were making aliens, rocket ships and ufos. We had lots of fun.
We even had some big buddies help us with our activities as some of them were a little tricky. Thanks for helping buddies!
