Room 11 Fraction Hopscotch Designs
Room 11, designed fraction hopscotch games to show their understanding of what they have been learning.
And the winners are… NZ Children and Young Adult book awards 2017
Illustration award and Margaret Mahy Book of the Year: Snark Best first book award: The discombobulated life of Summer Rain Picture book award: That's not a hippopotamus! Junior fiction award: Bastion Point Non fiction award: [...]
Author visit – Joanna Grochowicz
Into the white: Scott's Antarctic Odyssey Year 5 & 6 students had an entertaining morning last week listening to author Joanna Grochowicz speak about her new book and being an author. We learnt about courage, [...]
Popular books Term 2
These were the top 5 issued books in our Information Centre last term. I'm not surprised! Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are so popular, they're hardly ever on the shelf. Have you [...]
Famous in Howick
Room 22 has appeared in the Howick Times paper! We were very excited to have old Star of the Sea student Therese Henkin (also the daughter of former OLSOS teacher Helen Henkin) come and interview [...]
Room 15’s NED SHOW stories
When we went down to the hall I wasn’t excited at all. We were all sitting down impatiently and all I could see was a lady blowing balloons and making us laugh. She had a [...]
International Speeches.
On 27 July, 26 students presented speeches in their home language of Taglog, Mandarin or Korean. The standard was very high in both content and presentation and covered a range of topics from ‘If I [...]
