Native Area

Native Area Inquiry

Inquiry Update: We have been working on a native area brief at the back of the school for the past term to attract native birds to our school. We decided to do this after our school camp and got inspired by Zealandia and decided to the same.We have just organised the ordering, now we are waiting for an answer (if all of the plants we would like are in stock). We are hoping to get them all by the end of the week if we can't it will put our planting back a week. We have ordered 102  plants, one plant for each senior to put in. Hopefully the planting will start next week.

By Megan and Ishtar

Cultural Art

In Room 14 we are working on cultural art. You design six drawings that represent you, like where you are from, what you like and your hobbies. We are doing drafts first in our inquiry book using pencil, then we get a small square piece of paper. When we are done we will glue our art onto a big black piece of paper. 

Here is a draft of Kaitlynn's artwork. Keep checking out our blog for the final piece.

Super Six

On Tuesday morning the Super Six tournament started with an opening ceremony at the Sports Park. Miss Kittow, Mrs Pearse, Hayley, Maua, Aroha, Innika, Courtney, Amy, and I were playing Netball. The super six Netball rules are played like the intermediate rules using the big hoops, quarters were 10mins not 15mins and holding the ball for 3 seconds not 5. We played 5 games and won 2 of them. We had lots of fun and enjoyed playing in a tournament because it was our first year there and it challenged us. We came 6th out of 14 team so we were proud of ourselves.

We also had Mr Chatfield take some lucky boys to super sixes at the sports park to play some barefoot rugby in a competition for schools. This was also a trial to see if we would do this again next year. These boys were Oscar, Jayden, Lockie, Dylan, Henry, Vikta, Ethan, Robbie, Arnie, Yuri and Isaiah. We almost got into the semi final for our pool but we didn’t make it because we lost against Te Mata School. It was a great challenge playing against all of the schools. We had to work well together and have lots of fun!

By Oscar and Kadence

Using the Compensation Strategy in Maths

W.A.L.T: Solve multiplication problems by taking some off or putting some on (compensation).

In Maths at the moment we are learning what compensation means and how we can use it. Here is a video to show you how we solved 58x3 using the compensation strategy.


Maths from Mahora14 on Vimeo.

Clive Pools Slideshow

This Term all the Team 3 children were given the opportunity to have 10 swimming lessons at Clive Pools with trained instructors. They loved their time at the pools and got a lot out of their lessons. Here are some photos to show you what they got up to while we were there.

Clive Pools from Claire Bojesen-Trepka on Vimeo.

Plane Vs Scientist

Tuesday 8th of September


My name is Daniel Lagaaia. I am a scientist discovering new life when all of a sudden...BEEP BEEP BEEP! The planes going down. Brace for impact! I was flying to Samoa when the plane I was on starting smoking and breaking into pieces in front of my eyes.

Crash! There was smoke every where but we landed in water so it went down easily. I checked to see if there were any more survives but it was only me. There was 1 survivor out of 16 and that 1 was me. I Scratched around the island to see if there was any food to live off. As I slowly got weaker my body begins to shrivel up and the more I starve the worse it gets.

I start to slowly die. With no fresh water or food I'm pretty much done for. I would like you to remember me as a normal person, a scientist who loved to discover new things, yes just a normal person...

My Crazy Adventure

Hi my name is Jessica Bloom, I travel all over the world just to take photos of wild life and nature! I live in all sorts of different places but I was born in England on November 25th in 1996. I am 19 years old. At the moment I am on a cruise ship about too make my best MASTERPIECE, a nature magazine.

I was taking photos and then CRASH! The boat smashed into a rock everyone had too evacuate the ship. Me and some others , went the wrong way in the life boat... it took forever too find an island, the others got dizzy and thought they saw an island and swam closer to their picture. No doubt they're gone. I saw an island, I did not feel dizzy so I went closer... I could feel the hot boiling sand tingling between my toes making me itch. I lie there helpless, until something hits my feet.

I looked at it, it was a bottle with paper inside. I took a pen out of my pocket and started to write. A couple of days went past, still nothing to eat. It looked dark, I threw the bottle in to the ocean like a person diving in deep. I dug a little bit of sand and lay down. Hours went by I heard a noise...

Chit Chat Chit. I looked up, a helicopter. They must of got my note.

Card Games for Math

In our class room we have been using cards to help us with our basic facts. The game helps us answer quicker and is a lot of fun.

You pick a buddy, grab a pack of cards and find a place to sit. You then half the pack and flip one card at a time. The first person to add both numbers together and get it right, wins that round and keeps the cards.


At the end once all of the cards have been used you add them up, and put your score and name on the board. 

Mini Maths Workshops

In Room 14 we have been doing mini workshops which include using the box strategy, arrays, pictograph, multi-step questions and number lines to subtract. At the beginning of the day you choose a workshop that you would like to focus on for that particular maths session.

The teachers of the group have a series of questions that the students have to answer. Some students get to be a teacher, they get to roam around their group asking questions like "Why did you do it that way? How would you solve it? Can you explain your answer to me?

The teachers model it for the students first so they know what they are doing. Then they hand out the sheets and the lesson begins with the first question.

You cant pick the same workshop every time because you need to learn different strategies and techniques. If you already know the strategy its probably a good idea to refresh your mind. You also have your friends around you to help when you get stuck, but the teacher is probably the best idea.

Room 14 Bloggers

Our names are Esther and Kaitlynn and we will be your Room 14 bloggers for the rest of Term 3. We really love getting feedback and comments on our blog posts, so if you have time please leave us a message that we can share with our class.

We look forward to hearing from you!