Te Manga Class of 2025

What a fantastic year it has been in Te Manga! The students have grown so much — they have curious minds, kind hearts, and enthusiasm for learning, as a teacher you cannot ask for more!!! We’ve explored exciting science experiments, dived into stories and writing, and shared laughter, creativity, and teamwork along the way.

7 weeks is a long time to be away from school and it’s so important to keep our young student brains active. Please encourage your child to read as much as hey can in the holidays with the PAPARORE SCHOOL SUMMER READING (everyone has a sign sheet) and if possible to check into the Summer Learning Journey on their chromebooks or home device. It’s a fun way to continue exploring, discovering, and learning while still enjoying the holidays. 

Thank you to all our amazing learners for their effort this year, to whānau for your support, and to everyone who made this year so memorable.

Wishing you all a restful holiday and a bright start to the new year!

 

(Unfortunately not all elves made it to the shelf or they’ve gone home before the photo 🙂 and Simeon was away)

Science Fun

This term our class dived into a hands-on science unit that explored biology, physics, and chemistry through a series of fun, engaging, and highly interactive activities. The students enjoyed plenty of opportunities for discovery learning—experimenting, observing, and asking questions about the world around them.

The students know that science if all around us and Scientists observe and notice! That’s exactly what they did!

Click on the link to our SCIENCE page on our class site.

Click on this link to our Science Album

PREDICTION – What do you think will happen?
EXPLANATION – Can you talk about what is happening?
CONCLUSION – WHY did it happen?

Biology – Living Things

We began with biology, learning that biology is the study of living things. Through close observations, and outdoor exploration, they noticed the living things in our environment at different times of the day especially cicadas and Colette Bees who were nesting right next to our classroom in November.

 

Physics – Forces and Motion

Our physics activities focused on force and motion, helping students understand how things move and why. They experimented with pushes, pulls, friction, gravity, and speed, using everyday materials to investigate scientific ideas in a way that felt like play. From moving objects in different ways to noticing how surfaces affect motion, students were quick to make connections and share discoveries. The hands-on fun meant that everyone was deeply engaged and excited to keep experimenting.

Chemistry – Reactions and Properties

We wrapped up with chemistry, exploring reactions and the properties of different materials. Students loved seeing everyday ingredients transform right in front of them—bubbling, fizzing, changing colour, or producing surprising results!

Our science unit was a wonderful reminder that learning is all around us—and that the best way to understand the world is to get hands-on and start exploring!

Coopers Beach Camp 2025

Te Tinana & Te Manga Camp – Coopers Beach Adventures!

Our Te Tinana and Te Manga tamariki had an unforgettable few days at camp in beautiful Coopers Beach! From racing down the massive slippery slide to kayaking, every moment was full of laughter, teamwork, and new challenges. The kids loved Slippy Hockety, tackled the obstacle course with determination, and spent plenty of time enjoying the moana — swimming, boogie boarding, building sandcastles and sculptures, and even creating impressive dams in the creek.

Back at camp, evenings were filled with games of cards and basketball, bouncing on the trampoline, and relaxing with friends. It was the perfect mix of adventure, learning, and fun.

A huge thank you to our amazing whānau, Sir, and the Board of Trustees — your support made this incredible experience possible. A wonderful time was had by all!

Miss H made a cool video to share our photos – click on the link HERE

Click on the following link to check out more photos

Halloween 2025

Our whole school was buzzing with excitement for Halloween Dress-Up The parade was a colourful collection of superheroes, spooky characters and creepy creatures, and plenty of creative homemade costumes. Tamariki proudly showed off their outfits as they walked around the court, cheering each other on and enjoying all the Halloween fun.

After the parade, the energy went up another level as everyone took part in Jump Jam. There’s nothing quite like seeing witches, skeletons, dinosaurs, and princesses all giving their best dance moves. It was loud, lively, and full of laughter. Happy Halloween.  Click on the link to our Halloween Album/

Click on the link to watch our  Halloween Parade

Mahinga Kai

Our Mahinga Kai garden has been bursting with life this term! One of the highlights has been picking and eating our own Snap Peas and Dwarf Peas. They’ve been sweet, crunchy, and perfect for sharing — straight from the vine to our hands!

This week, we rolled up our sleeves and added even more to our growing space. Together we planted new cucumber, lettuce, and broccoli seedlings. Everyone worked carefully to tuck the seedlings into the soil, making sure they had water, space, and lots of encouragement to help them grow strong. We are going to send these seedlings home for our whānau. It’s exciting watching our seedlings grow.

Click on the link to view all our Mahinga Kai photos

Farewell Ailaah-Rose

Today we had a delicious shared lunch in honour of our lovely Ailaah-Rose and Mareikura, who are finishing at Paparore School this week. It was so lovely to see their mum, Awhina who also came to Paparore School with her siblings. We will miss Ailaah-Rose and Mareikura and their whānau very much and know that they will always be a part of our kura.

Ngā mihi nui to our wonderful Te Manga whānau and tamariki for bringing such a delicious selection of kai today that we all enjoyed and then we even were able to share with lots of other tamariki.

Ngā mihi nui to Whaea Darlene for picking up our pizzas and getting things set up and Whaea Leahana for also helping to set things up and cleaning everything afterwards! Also, thank you to our teacher helpers for being wonderful helpers.

ALSO another huge thank you to Whaea Leahana for the cool video and awesome photos of our lovely farewell lunch.

 

Manaiakalani Film Festival

Today we attended the Manaiakalani Film Festival which was an absolute treat. We were cheering on our Paparore entries and really loved watching the films from all the other schools.

Click on the link to view all the 2025 Manaiakalani Films

Click on the link to view the photos from the film festival viewings

Tanner and Reuben represented our class at the evening viewing and were there when they announced that our Pink for the Future Film won the top film award. Tanner and Reuben also won the best actress and actor awards too. We are so proud of both of our film and everyone who helped to make it!

 

Paparore School Film Festival 2025

This month our class have been working hard to complete films for our Te Whare Kuaka Film Festival. We had six film ideas and aimed to get at least four films completed for the film festival.

The films we completed were;

Our School Values – a film for us to learn how to be film makers and actors, and actresses whilst showcasing our school values.

Plastic Revolution – The Young Ocean Explorers save Te Oneroa a Tohe from Trashzilla!

One Shot – The basketball team won’t let Ariana join in but she doesn’t give up and shows them that all she needs is ‘One Shot’.

Pink for the Future – The future is  grey and bullies rule. Mia and Leo travel back to 2025 to find out what kindness looks like to take ‘Pink’ back to the future.

Congratulations to Tanner and Reuben (and the rest of the cast and crew) as Pink to the Future was voted to represent our class at the Manaiakalani Film Festival.

Click on the link to our films

Our ‘Emotions’ film should be completed by the end of Week 8 and our Rahi and the Patupaiarehe film will begin filming in Week 8.

 

 

Year 4 Speech Semi-Finalists

Congratulations to our wonderful Year 4 speech semi-finalists! Each of these Year 4 speakers did a fantastic job, and we are so very proud of all of them. Sir was the judge and he had a very tough decision to make. A big congratulations to Janie, Alexis and Arthur, who will present their speeches one more time on Wednesday (after morning tea) as part of our Senior Speech competition. Best of luck to all of you!

A huge congratulations to Janie for winning the Year 4 Speech Finals with her speech ‘All classes at Paparore School should have a class pet’.

Far North Mobile Library visits Paparore School

Today we had an exciting visit from the Far North Mobile Library van! The van rolled into Paparore School, bringing shelves full of amazing books right to our doorstep. Our tamariki had the special opportunity to hop on board and each choose one book for our classroom.

There was something for everyone – from funny chapter books to colourful picture books, cool non-fiction and exciting adventures. It was awesome to see the smiles and excitement as our students carefully chose a book they thought their classmates would enjoy too.

These new books will help grow our classroom library and support our goal of encouraging reading for pleasure. When tamariki have access to books they love, they’re more likely to build a lifelong love of reading.

Ngā mihi to the Far North District Council and the Mobile Library team for helping bring the joy of reading to our kura!