Room 5/6 have been baking!

Room 5 and 6 put their baking skills to the test in a Bake Off to create the best batch of gingerbread Christmas cookies. There was some wonderful creative and colorful icing designs and each team produced beautiful and delicious Christmas biscuits to take home and share. A big thank you to Karen Talbot and Annabelle Wood, who gave their time and baking expertise to help us with our bake off.

Enviro Schools Silver Award

The Bay Academy Enviroschools team together with all students, staff and visitors were excited to welcome members of the northland regional Enviroschools organisation, including Susan Karels the regional manager to present the recently gained silver award.

This is a very special day for the school and particular the team who have worked so tirelessly to meet the requirements for the upgrade from bronze to silver. We the students and staff are very proud of this achievement.

Kerikeri Men's Shed Helping Out!

The Kerikeri Men's Shed visited the Bay Academy equipped with their tools and an appetite to support our students building bird houses for the pollination garden. Students are hoping to bring a richer bird life back into the gardens, which have recently been developed into our own marae where students and staff pōwhiri and welcome new visitors to the school.

The students loved working with these talented men who demonstrated skills and helped the students complete four new bird houses ready to go up in the gardens.

 

The students acknowledged the support of these generous men with our school haka. The men themselves shared how much they enjoyed their visit and how great the students were to work with.

Buildings Upgraded and Opened (almost!)

We recently held a ceremony to officially acknowledge the new toilet block and renovations to rooms 1 and 2. Both facilities will open shortly as we await final sign off from a very busy council inspection team.

We were honoured to pōwhiri and welcome Kaumatua and Kuia from Te Tii who generously gave their time to come up and support this important development for our school.

Ngā mihi nui ki te hapu ō Ngati Rehia i tae mai ki te tautoko a tātou kura. Mauri ora!

Summer Oscar Programme

“Organising a group performance requires planning and working together”

How we organise ourselves - Kerikeri Xmas Parade 2018

The past few weeks have been really busy for Room 1 and 2 students as they were organising their entry into the Kerikeri Lion’s Christmas Parade. The event held on Saturday 24th November was a massive success and our students can be very proud of their resilience, organisation and bravery. Our school encourages student agency and action and we think Room 1 and 2 modelled these perfectly.

Quite often the assessment is not about the finished product but about the process it takes to get there, though in this case the finish product was also amazing!

Preparation for the event included planning, contacting the Lions club via phone, writing letters to parents, designing and creating costumes and lots of decision making. In order to make this event so successful, the classes showed to be open minded and respectful communicators. Our students made the decision to raise money through the planning and chose “Plastic Free Kerikeri” as their charity. As they were “saving the planet” they thought it apt to dress as eco warriors at the event.

The day of the event was a complete wash out but this did not dampen the spirit and excitement of the students. They rode their bikes and scooters through Kerikeri, chanting and singing all the way round. The support from whanau was outstanding, backed up by the cheers from the crowd. Well done Room 1 and 2!