THE PUPPET LADY

On Tuesday 11 December, Juliet Neil cam to visit the Pukeko team. She put on a puppet play about Peter Rabbit, using puppets she had made. She had puppets for Peter Rabbit, Mrs Rabbit, Mr McGregor and Mrs McGregor. The puppet play was funny! She also showed us some awesome puppets she had made. There were string puppets and glove puppets and paper plate puppets and stick puppets. One was a bit flying dinosaur with wings that moved. On was a Chinese dragon, One was a human-sized lady called Daphne and some of us got to try her out. We really enjoyed seeing Juliet and her puppets.

Mr and Mrs McGregor in Juliet's version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Becca Wright gets to try out a big puppet called Daphne

Pukeko Presents Friday Week 1

On Friday, we had our first Pukeko Presents for the term. Mr D and his class were presenting.
Rosa, Daisy, Jack, Will and Aidriahna read out their their awesome 'I Am' poems.
Mr D showed us some very funny clips on his computer.
We welcomed new girl Elise to our school. She is in LC1.

Three wonderful Pukeko team members got certificates for being awesome West Melton students. They are Emily Waters, Henry Pearce and Elizabeth Hastie.

The Great Pukeko Geography Challenge

Last term, the Pukeko team children studied world geography. The term's studies culminated in a very exciting geography quiz in the last week of term.
Three finalists from each class were selected for the final, after class run-offs. The LC9 finalists were Caitlyn Parrett, Dwight Felipe and Ben Harrison, the LC 2 finalists were Chelsea Parrett, Toby Blain and Louis Frew and the LC1 finalists were Charlie Marr, Wilson House and Max Spence.
In the grand final, children had to identify flags of countries, state capital cities, state continents and label locations on a map.
The grand final winner was Louis Frew, with Chelsea Parrett second and Charlie Marr third.
Congratulations to these fantastic winners. And congratulations also to all the Pukeko team children who took time to study and improve their geography skills.

Pukeko Presents Award Winners

Every second week, the Pukeko team get together for a team time. At each Pukeko Presents, one child from each Pukeko class is awarded a certificate for showing our school KCs and/or values. Here are some photos of this term’s recipients, who have shown us what great West Melton KC kids they are!

Charlie Marr (LC1), Sophie Clarke (LC2), Angus Turnham (LC9) and Ruby Lundy (LC9) are the proud recipients of certificates in Week 5

Matthew O’Donnell (LC9), Alessandra Ward (LC2) and Madeleine McCully (LC1) are Week 3′s awesome Pukeko team KC Kids!

PUKEKO ART

Did you know that last term, every class in the Pukeko Team made 3-D relief paper mache pukeko? We got the idea from Fiona Gunn and she was very helpful. Now they are up in our classrooms and we think they look great! Below is a photostory explaining how we made them.

SKIPPING, SKIPPING AND MORE SKIPPING

You may have noticed that we have been doing lots of skipping lately. It’s lots of fun to get out in the sun in the middle of the day and try new skills with a skipping rope. Some of us have made amazing improvements on our co-ordination and we can do so many different kinds of skipping: long ropes, backwards, crossover, fast, slow and even skipping with a buddy – two of us on one rope! Mr D had a go one day but it really is not very good for his leg! We like it when we have competitions and see who is the fastest or who can go the longest.

Salma and Caitlyn skipping together

Harry and Wilson get in to the buddy skipping 

 Eva and Becca enjoying buddy skipping together

 Joshua and James being very energetic!

Pukeko Team Maths and Science presentations Round #2

Today, Wednesday 27 June, we held our second session of maths and science presentations. Afterwards, Mrs O’B said, “Many children are making an outstanding effort in their presentations.”  Mr D said, “The standard of presentations was very high.”  Mrs Johnston said, “I was amazed at the information that the children had gathered.”

Mrs Jackson, Mrs McHarg and Mrs Busch also came and looked for a while. Mrs McHarg said, “I was very impressed with the quality of the work done and the children’s presentations. It was lovely to see some parents along also.”

There will be more presentation sessions next term, so keep up the great work, Pukekos!

Here are the awesome Pukeko children who presented their work to the team this morning in the Wharenui

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Pukeko team blog, which will keep you updated on Pukeko team events and happenings. Here are some photos of our fantastic Pukeko team classes: LC1 and Mrs O'B, LC2 and Ms McKendry and LC9 and Mr D.