Mosaic art

Young master chefs

 Lucy has been cooking up a storm at home as part of her passion project hours.  In fact many students have been keeping their families well fed and sharing their amazing food photos with me. Lucy has made butterscotch fingers, sponge cakes, custard squares, slices and sausage rolls. It all looks delicious Lucy.  Iris has also been trying out new recipes and cooking for her family.

Keep up the great work Young chefs! What a great skill to have.

Passion project...ultimate learning from home

Room 4 students have been out and about, keeping busy with learning opportunities from home. I have loved seeing the amazing passion project work as students are utilising this time at home to complete their project hours. From horse riding to carving, cooking, art

and welding, crutching, woodwork and animal training and handling; our students are out there, doing it and learning life long skills on the way.

Kia Kaha tonu...keep up the amazing work Room 4!

Daffodil day 2021

 Happy Daffodil day everyone!

Today is daffodil day, the annual fundraiser for the cancer society. To acknowledge the day Georgia arrived at our Goole Zoom meet dressed up entirely in yellow and orange!  You are a star Georgia for remembering this important day and bringing fun to our meeting. 

Later in the day, Georgia and her Mum Tara, made some truly impressive 'Daffodil lockdown art'. They used corrugated iron, an angle grinder and spray paint to create this enormous daffodil, proudly standing at the end of their driveway.  Incredible effort Georgia and Tara.

I picked a big bunch of daffodils to remember all the loved ones in my life that have been effected by cancer.

Passion projects - William Pike challenge

 This time at home is an excellent opportunity for Room 4 students to spend time on their individual passion projects.  Todays post is a shout out to James Redpath who has completed his passion project hours. I am super proud of the work James has spent on his project; he is a passionate young farmer who decided to dedicate his hours, training a young heading dog. 

James instigated some help from a local woman, Sam Shaw,  who is an accomplished dog trialist.  He spent two sessions working with her getting valuable tips on working a young dog, giving clear demands and getting good firm control.  He has been helping out with yard work and mustering on his farm, taking what he learnt into his training hours.   Amazing work James.

Other room 4 students are chipping away at their projects learning some amazing life skills such as welding, butchering, gaining confidence with horse riding, crutching sheep, fencing, wood work, carving, learning sign language, training pets, growing native seedlings, knitting and cooking.

Keep up the awesome mahi Room 4.

Matariki celebrations

This week room 4 celebrated Matariki by dedicating our week to hands on activities involving plants.  We know traditionally Matariki was a time for harvesting and planting so we planted garlic to hopefully use in our Food Tech room.  We also explored weaving with harakeke and revisited the rules and protocols associated with harvesting and working with harakeke.  To top off our awsome week students boogied the night away at our Matariki disco.

Muffin making

 Todays Tech from home involved cooking muffins from scratch using a base recipe.  Students were encouraged to create their own flavours depending on what ingredients they had on hand at home.  So far I know Rylee made a delicious batch of blueberry muffins, Sophie baked chocolate chip muffins and Duncan and Georgia made double choc chip.  I whipped some some chocolate raspberry muffins to feed my hungry family! I'm sure we will have more photos to share as they come in but for now...Ta Da!!

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