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.

Earthquake Stories

Addington children returned to school on Monday 13 September. They began the week by catching up with friends, sharing stories and practicing their "Drop, Cover and Hold" moves. Here are some of their stories...


We got in our car and drove and drove and drove. We were looking for a safe place.

My mum was saying “God please stop this” in our language. We didn’t know what was happening. We slept in our car. Our car kept rocking. I saw some smashed roads and houses.

I didn’t know what was happening. I was shaking and couldn’t stop. I thought a monster was coming to get us. I sleep under the table with mum every night now. I don’t like sleeping in my bed anymore.

When the shakes come my mum cuddles me.

My big brother jumped out the window and cut his arm. 

We put our mattresses all in one room and sleep together now. We like sleeping with mum and dad.

We know what to do if it shakes in our classroom and if we are in the playground. We are good at being Tommy Turtles.

My friends house fell down but ours is OK. It just shakes some times. We don’t like that. 

My chimney fell down but only on the outside of our house. 

Since the 7.1 original earthquake we have had over 700 aftershocks. 

School Re-opening after Earthquake

School will re-open tomorrow - Monday 13 September. We look forward to seeing you all again. 

Earthquake - School Closure

School closed until Wednesday at least because of the earthquake. Things look OK but waiting on all the buildings to be checked over by the experts.

Cultural Festival Dress Rehearsal

On Friday the children from Te Tipuranga and Nga Matikao got together after lunch for a dress rehearsal for their performance at the Cultural Festival next week. They were all very excited. 
They will be performing at the matinee on Thursday 2 September. 

Cultural Festival 2010

YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED to CULTURAL FESTIVAL 2010! Over 3,000 children are getting ready to ‘make a splash’ at this year’s festival which explores the wonders of one of our most precious resources – water. Showcasing a fresh lineup of multicultural performances, visual art and wearable art pageants from some of Canterbury’s most talented primary and intermediate schools, Cultural Festival 2010 is not to be missed! Tickets @ Ticketek or check out www.culturalfestival.co.nz<http://www.culturalfestival.co.nz/> In the words of one of last year’s attenders - “…absolutely fantastic, the standard of performance was extraordinary!”