KPMG Gift Giving

We are lucky enough here at Edmund Hillary to have the support of Kpmg. They come in every year with gifts for each of us, here are some pictures of accepting our gifts, opening them and enjoying playing with them outside.

2016 Senior School Prizegiving

Kia ora whanau, today we had our senior school prizegiving, it was a great celebration of the successes our tamariki have experienced this year. If you missed it below we have a slide to show all our prize winners and the awards they won. Nga mihi whanau for another fantastic year.

Meri Kirihimete kia koutou from all the kaiako here at Edmund Hillary School.

Manaiakalani Digital Badge

Congratulations to us!

We have just received a digital badge for our participation in the Tuhi mai tuhi atu whanau. We have a vision to connect clusters of students through blogging. Every week we comment on and post our learning to our individual blogs. It has been a great way to connect with others. We have been lucky enough to connect with Lake Brunner School, Paroa School and Wesley Primary and have enjoyed working collaboratively to positively improve our learning.

Week 7 Champions

This weeks certificates are awarded to Shavaughan and Avei.

Shavaughan for demonstrating diligence in every aspect of her work.

Avei for achieving stage 8 in maths, in his gloss and IKAN test.

Well done you two SUPERSTARS! I am super proud of you both. Keep up the good mahi.

Congratulations Jasmine.

City Rail Link tunnel machine named after Valerie Adams

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Jasmine Matthews named one of the tunnel boring machine's Valerie, after Olympic gold medalist Valerie Adams.
An Auckland City Rail Link digging machine has been named after Olympic gold medalist Valerie Adams - unbeknownst to her. Florence and the Machine, Little Red Riding Hood, Greek goddess Athena and Kowhai were all put forward by students at Sir Edmund Hillary School in Papakura for two boring machines that will dig under Auckland's CBD.

But it was Valerie and Maia that were chosen to name the machines that Connectus, a McConnell Dowell and Hawkins joint venture, will use to dig the City Rail Link (CRL) Albert St stormwater tunnels.
A new tunnel boring machine has been named after Rio Olympic silver medalist Valerie Adams.
The name Valerie was submitted by both Jasmine Matthews and Kauri Poki in honour of Adams' strength.
The womens shot putter has two Olympic gold medals and four world championship gold medals to her name. Most recently she won silver at the Rio Olympics.

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The tunnel boring machine is lowered into the shaft to start work on the stormwater drain.
Adams says she was quite surprised when she found out she was the namesake for the machine. 
"It's quite an interesting object to have named after me, but I guess it's appropriate because it's strong and so am I," Adams said.
She said she would have preferred being named after a Ferrari but did see the funny side. 

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The City Rail Link work is progressing as the piling machine and tunnel machines have been installed on the corner of Albert and Victoria Streets.
"It's kind of hilarious, I just hope one day I can ride on this machine."
Maia is the name for the smaller machine and was submitted by eight-year-old Estherbella Haenga.
"It means brave in Maori and working in the tunnel is a brave thing to do," she says.
CRL will use two 3.4 kilometre long tunnels up to 42 metres below the city streets to create a rail line linking Britomart and the city centre with the existing western line near Mt Eden.
Principal Kataraina Nock says it was a "wonderful" opportunity to participate in the competition.
"To think they can all take a ride on the CRL in years to come and know they've been part of its creation makes this meaningful and special."
The two machines will replace the existing stormwater main and re-divert the Orakei sewer main under Albert St.
One of the world's largest piling rigs is now on site building the 362 piles needed for construction of the first tunnel.
The piles are 20 metres deep and each is filled with two trucks of concrete and reinforcing cages. These will line the Albert St tunnels and work is expected to be finished in April 2017.
The stormwater diversion is needed before construction of the CRL's cut and cover tunnels along Albert St can begin.
Valerie and Maia will be launched from 18 metre deep shafts on the corner of Victoria and Albert Streets.
Valerie will be in charge of constructing the new stormwater main and Maia will divert a sewer main to be complete in August 2017.
The CRL is set to cost between $2.5 billion and $3.4b and is expected to be completed by 2022

Frucor Activity Day

How lucky we were today to have Alistar and his team of superstars from Frucor come and take our school for a day of activities and fun. We had a dance battle station, technology, soccer, chocolate river, egg creations and target practise. From everyone at Edmund Hillary, thank you.

Room 2's Term 3 Cook Off!

We had to plan, budget, follow instructions and cook a feast! Each group had to provide and edible item, and made enough for everyone in the class to have 1 thing each. We ended up sampling Hamburgers, Pizza, Cupcakes, Ice-cream cookies, Baked stuffed apple crumble and delicious milkshakes! By the end of the day our puku's were very full!

Lord Hastings

Cycling around the world to raise awareness and funds for clean water! Lord Hastings stopped by our school during the New Zealand leg of his world tour to share some inspirational words. These are some of the things we learned about him.

NZ's Olympic Champions

Today we had the opportunity to go to the home coming welcome for our Olympic athletes at the cloud. We were lucky enough to meet many medalists including Huriana Manuel, Portia Woodman, Tyla Nathan-Wong, Mahe Drysdale, Sarah Goss, and many more. The olympians were so humble and kind towards our tamariki, even though they had just come off a huge flight, and were being swamped, left, right and centre. We received medals, printed pictures, and flags. Thanks to the team at ANZ for making this trip happen!

Counties Manukau Sport Give it a go day!

Thank you to Counties Manukau Sport for organising this day for us!

Whetu Harakeke

Ever wondered how to make your own whetu? Avei has the steps to show you.

Harakeke raranga

Soon to come... more information about harakeke raranga and creating your own whetu. Available soon on Avei and Shavian's blogs.

Tititiri Matangi

We enjoyed an awesome trip to Tiritiri Matangi Island, leaving Papakura at 7am and arriving back at 6.30, it was an exciting and adventurous day! Thanks to everyone that made this trip possible!

Toi Matariki

Wow! What an awesome experience! We had a huge day full of interactive learning!

Auckland Museum Trip

Audio Stories!

These are our audio stories! We had to select music, then identify keywords that described how the music made us feel. We then wrote a short story and recorded ourselves reading them over music. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed making them. Please click on the picture and it will take you to the recording.

Matariki

For homework we have been learning about Matariki and are very excited to share our learning with you all!

 

Tiritiri Matangi

We are preparing for our trip to Tiritiri Matangi and have found out some pretty interesting facts! Have a look and discover more about this hidden jewel in our own backyard!

Algebra

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2016 Yr5&6 Touch Tournament

Digital Korowai

Please click on the underlined word on each students third slide, we have included links to our favorite songs or songs that resonate with us.
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