School Opens Monday 14 March

School will be open again on Monday 14 August.

We are looking forward to seeing you all again. 

Remember to bring a bottle of drinking water with you. 

School Closed because of Earthquake

Our lovely school is once again closed because of the Earthquake that struck our city at 12.51 on Tuesday the 22 February. The children were mostly out playing in the playground at the time and all did exactly what they have been taught... assuming the turtle position.  
They then all stayed in the playground in their classroom groups until they were collected by their parents. They were all wonderful and very brave during this time despite the huge aftershocks. 
Our school is OK. We just have a lot of tidying up to do, and some of our computers may be damaged beyond repair, but we are all OK which is the important thing. 

We are thinking of all the people of our city  at this time.

Welcome Back

Danny and William show Sheena where they lived in China.

We are now into our second week of school for 2011.  We would all like to welcome back to Addington Danny and William who have been living in China.  We are looking forward to finding out lots about life in China.

Happenings 2010

More of our 2010 photos for you to enjoy.

2010 in Pictures 1

Happy Holidays

The children would like to wish you all a very 'Happy Holiday'. For all those celebrating Christmas they would like to wish you a 'Merry Christmas'...

Maori: Meri Kirihimete

Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou

Tongan: Kristo abe anduwe muciindo ca Christmas

Tokelau: Ke whakamanuia te Kirihimahi & Tauhaga Fou fiafia 

Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon

Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas

Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom

Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh

Arabic: Milad Majid

Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad

Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year)

Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket

Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal

Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!

Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak

Somali: ciid   iyo sanad cusub oo fiican 

Malayan: Selamat Hari Natal

Prepositions - Where is Bingo?

Check out some of the children's great preposition pictures.

Grammar Rock Preposition

We have been learning about prepositions this week. We watched this movie, then we went out into the playground and took our own preposition pictures. We will publish some of these soon.

Adjectives

This week we are learning all about adjectives. We played a game called ‘Tell Me More’ where we had to use an adjective to describe something in a picture. We were able to come up with lots of interesting words. We took turns to say a word and then we used it in a sentence. We then said to the next person ‘Tell Me More’. 

Bao, Neelofa, Miracle, Isabel, Vincent, Niumalee, Sofi and Kabir

Wow!!

Hazel and Amanda check out the amazing panels at Rongomaraeroa Marae Te Papa during our recent visit to Wellington. 

Horton has the Addington Attutude

Yesterday we read the book, ‘Horton Hatches the Egg’.  Afterwards we talked about all of Horton’s qualities. 

We thought that Horton would be a GREAT role model for our school. 

Horton showed the following qualities...

Integrity

Responsibility

Resiliance

Passion

Respect

Acceptance

Risk Taking

Caring

We would love to have Horton at our school.

Sofi, Niumalee, Vincent and Kabir

We're Back

We are back. After all our earthquake disruptions and holidays we are now on board and looking forward to another event full term. 

Since the 7.1 magnitude earthquake we have had the grand total of 1908 aftershocks. The last one today was magnitude  4.41 at 9.28 am.  Consequently we are still having very regular earthquake drills. 

Last term our school took part in the Christchurch Primary School’s Cultural Festival. We had three groups involved Te Tipuranga, Nga Matikao and our school Ukulele Orchestra.

We hope you enjoy the pictures of the children performing on stage at the Town Hall on Thursday 2 September.