Coromandel Life Spring/Holiday 2014

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From Principal Anna Yates... At our small, family-focussed, rural
school, we love to see our students taking responsible risks in their
learning, both inside and outside the classroom. Taking a risk pushes
them out of their comfort zones; and for all our students this is an
important part of their play and the development of themselves as
confident, life-long learners.
TE REReNGA SCHOOL ...
‘LEARNING, IT’S WHAT WE DO…’
Nurturing a Community of Lifelong Learners
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6km down the road from our school is Whangapoua Beach and from
there we are able to walk to one of the most beautiful beaches in the
world…New Chum Beach. Earlier this year two of our classes visited the
beach for the day to enjoy and experience this local treasure. It is a place
that we love, treasure and value as an untouched paradise. Our students
used our visit as a stimulus for writing persuasively through formal letters
and then descriptively to create a movie. Room 4 posted the movie they
made combining their thoughts with images taken from our trip. See
Students enjoy the serenity of New Chum beach, spelled out in shells
and seaweed, right.
Kids for Kids Concert
23 of our Te Rerenga School students travelled to Thames in August
for World Vision’s Kids for Kids concert. This concert was a special
opportunity for our students to actually perform with Jackie Clarke
in front of a large audience. In the lead-up to the event our students
practised 18 NZ songs which was a large repertoire.
On the night, different schools from around the area combined to form a
huge choir and they were amazing. Our students loved every moment.
Our head students were motivated by the event to raise some money
for World Vision. They are planning a disco in term 4 to start their
funding for this goal.
Cember and Paige want this event to be their lasting legacy within our
school as they recognise how incredibly fortunate we are to live in our
beautiful corner of the Coromandel.
New Chum Beach School Trip
Kuaotunu kindergarten
A Rudolph Steiner School
Pizza Chefs in Training!
This July, Luke’s Kitchen in Kuaotunu invited the
local kindy kids to a pizza party where they got
to assemble their own on heart shaped dough.
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