Cultural Festival 2015

What an amazing festival on Saturday!

We are all very proud of the seven groups who performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural Festival on Saturday 28 November.

The groups who performed were: African, Indian, Kapa Haka, Niuean, Samoan, Scottish and Tongan.

A huge thank you to all of the children, staff and families that made this day such a success.

Awesome Owairaka, awesome!

Green Day and Walk to School

Friday 6 November was our last Green Day for 2015.

In the morning we had a special Green Day assembly.  During the assembly we reminded everyone about the importance of the things we can do every day to look after the environment.  Reduce, reuse and recycle – these are things that ALL of us can do!

We also recognised children who are great at looking after our environment with a special green certificate.

You may like to watch this Going Green clip that we shared during our assembly.

This Green Day our focus was on learning more about vegetables.  Our school has many wonderful gardens where a variety of vegetables grow!

We had a Wrapper Free Lunchbox Challenge – it was great to see so many healthy lunchboxes with no plastic wrap or packaging.

Our thanks to children, staff and families who dressed in green and came to school in a TravelWise way.

Keep up the great work Owairaka – together we can make a real difference!