Once upon a time Olng’aura School got a surprise visit from children’s author and illustrator Daniel Kirk. It was the first time the children had ever met a real author. It was also the first time they realised that you could, if you wanted, grow up to be someone who writes books for a living, …
As well as the Library Mouse series Danial Kirk also sent lots of beautiful story books for younger children. The Squirrels and the Rhinos were delighted. We don’t have very many books and Danial Kirk’s delivery quadrupled the number of story books they have. Now there are new stories to read and new pictures to …
In art today we were working in the style of Kandinsky. Thanks to Babs and Anja, who sent us some great art books with pictures from a range of different artist, we have been able to expand our ideas and investigate new techniques.
Peter has been teaching the Leopard group to tell the time. They are now very good at it. They always had a strong sense of time, such as when lunch was late, or when it was time to go and play football, but now they have the skills to prove it!
Our lovely dinning hall had been reinvigorated thanks to the new tables funded by Solenn, Maria, Charly, Pierre and their friends. Good for dinning, good for playing in and pretty good for studying in too. The Leopard group, who use the dinning hall as their study base, are extremely pleased. Actually everybody wants to hang …
Every 45 minutes we take a 15 minute break from our classes. I had read about schools in Finland doing this (and we all know that Finish schools do most things pretty well) so I though that we should give it a try here at Olng’arua. When children have been sitting in class it gives …