Have a read to see what the Pātere students highlights were for Term 3!

What is your highlight for Term 3?

Maia

Kapahaka

Izzak

The significant events writing pieces

Liam

Zoom Lessons

Alisina

Winter sports

Arman

Duo lingo

Noah

I liked kapa haka because I am learning a new song in Maori

James

My highlight of Term 3 was EPIC work

Campbell

Zoom sessions because it was fun to do learning with my friends from home

Jacob

I like Winter Sport woodwork for technology

Carys

My highlight of term 3 was science badge , I enjoyed working on these , they are very fun and educational

Honour

Technology & careers

Fazil

Science Badge, Real World writing

Lily

My highlight of this term is staying on task basically the whole term and getting my work done on time

Callum

I would have to give my highlight to the careers because of how inspiring it was and it made me feel like my dream job will be the thing I push for.

Malakai

My highlight for Term 3 is Careers.Because I now understand how jobs work.

Patrick

Winter Sport because I love playing Hockey so being able to play it during school time was really cool for me.

Cassie

Technology because we are learning how to sew. Sewing sounds really fun and I am keen to make some stuff there.

Ellyxia

i really liked real world writing because i got to learn new things that happened in the world

Jaxson

My highlight of term 3 is Significant NZ events, because I love to learn about history.

Cameron

My term 3 highlight is Significant events in Nz History because I liked hearing about disasters and how it changed us.

Lukas

I enjoyed my career because I got to learn about heaps of different jobs. I also like how we got to write an application as well.

Bella

Kapa haka because I love to learn new words and new dances.

Lanica

My highlight from term 3 was the year 6 open day, zoom meetings with Mr Sy and Eden, definitely Winter sports and Athletics practicing.

Wilbur

Careers because I liked learning more about my dream job.

Lachlan

Duo Lingo and Technology

Elise

My highlight of term 3 was significant events. This is my highlight because I enjoyed learning about the events that shaped NZ history.

Arman

Careers - I enjoyed learning about my chosen Career, and its details such as payment, and classifications in financial terms. (Economics)

Willow

I liked doing my science badge so I could learn more about paleontology and learn things I didn't know before, I also liked careers because I really want to focus on my future and make sure I can do what is needed for the job I want.

Aaliyah

Kapa Haka. Netball

Cody

My favorite highlight of term 3 is kapa haka because I get to do what i love and do it with my friends

CJ

- Kapa Haka

- Zoom lessons

- Winter Sports

Daniel

I like that I had fun with Careers because it show me what job I would like to do in the future it was the best highlight of term 3

Charlize

My highlight or Term 3 was the Zoom lessons. This was my favourite because we could stay at home while we were learning.

Jasper

My highlight for Term 3 is Careers, Measurement Maths, EPIC work Duo Lingo and Zoom lessons.

Max

My highlight of Term 3 for me was Science Badge and Winter Sport because I enjoyed learning about Astronomy for my Science Badge and it was awesome fun going to Winter Sport with my team to have fun and play hockey.

Jessica

I enjoyed learning about careers. This is because I liked learning about different jobs, pay and university.

Leroy

My highlight of the term was winter sports. I enjoyed this because I like to play sports.

Matthew

My highlight of term three was doing the multi-school chess tournament, and winning all my games at the town hall in the tournament.

Zach

My highlight of term 3 was Science Badge. I enjoyed doing the science badge because you were doing something you were interested in and you weren't only doing writing but also the odd 'experiment'.

Ryan

Real world writing-I liked this because it taught us some history about the world And other stuff.

Charlie

In term 3 I really enjoyed winter sport because it was fun to do something besides learning. I also really enjoyed going to Te Hapua and learning about filming.

Ethan

My highlight of Term 3 was Te Hapua. I enjoyed this because I love coding and video/editing.

Holly

My highlight of Term 3 is technology. I enjoyed this because it was fun to design things in Wood Work.

Fazil

Science Badge,Real world writing ,Technology,- Careers

Isis

My highlight for this term was doing the Significant Events, especially the Ballantynes Fire and the Erebus Disaster. I found it very interesting learning about the different events that have shaped New Zealand.

Luke

My highlight for Term 3 was Winter Sports. I enjoyed it because it was the first time I had done winter sports in almost 2 years and it was good to do it again.

Liam

Duolingo because learning dutch has been fun and interesting. I have liked Careers because practicing how to write CVs and job applications has been incredible.

Abdul

This term my highlight is for me getting to level 5 because I have been waiting a lot to go on to level 5 on maths because I want to struggle more and also make my maths better. One more of my highlights is that I got the two last points for the game to win because the score was 24-25 and there was only ten seconds left. At the last second I got a foul and got both of them in and won.

Lucas

Technology-I enjoyed Learning different Subjects Like Woodwork And sowing

Jake

Winter sports.

Taylor

My highlight for term three is Winter sport. This is because I really enjoyed playing rugby with all of the people that I would not normally play with. Another reason is because I got to play my favourite sport.

Angel

My Highlight of Term 3 was Careers because it was fun researching different jobs. I also enjoyed Duo Lingo because I got to learn a different language which was Spanish.

Diva

My highlight of Term 3 was Duo Lingo because I learnt a new language which was French. I know a lot of French words now.

Amelia

My highlight of term 3 was winter sports because I enjoyed playing netball with people that I don't normally play with. Another highlight for me was my science badge because I loved learning about marine biology and learnt a lot of new things.

Jaydeep

I enjoyed winter sport the most because it brought me back to year 6 when we did winter sport last. It was a good experience and I bet everyone else enjoyed it too. One thing that made it even better is that most of the people I had in my team were the same people that I had in my team last year, meaning making friendships was very easy again.

Lily

My highlight of term 3 was winter sports because I really enjoyed playing netball with all my friends.

Mela

Measurement,Careers,History of New Zealand and Sports

Meagan

My highlight for this term is real world writing because it was fun to learn about some new things and I really liked it.

Zach H

I have enjoyed duo lingo because it's helping me learn a new language. Lockdown was really fun cause you could choose when you do the work.

Charlotte

My highlight of this term was winter sports because in my opinion sports is better than any other subject or thing we can do! I also enjoyed kapa haka and duolingo :)

Dominic

My highlight of Term 3 was doing careers education. I enjoyed doing this because I got to learn about a lot of potential jobs I could do, also because I got to write my own CV.

Eden

My highlight for term 3 was the year 7 open night, because we got to show what we do in the year 7/8 hub. I also enjoyed Kapa haka.

Arman

Duolingo because I learnt a lot of Spanish and had a lot of fun. It was more enjoyable than I expected.

Huny

My highlights for term 3 was epic because it was fun because it helped me so much and i loved reading and things like that

Myra

My highlight of Term 3 was Careers. I enjoyed learning about all the careers there are.

Rae Anne

My highlight from Term 3 was Technology, because we did all sorts of things that were very enjoyable.

Max

I also enjoyed going to the Chess Tournament at the Town Hall because I won all my games and it was fun.

Pixie

My highlight of this term was Real world writing because I got to learn more about Nz and I enjoyed it.

Michelle

My highlight of Term 3 is Kapa Haka, because Kapa Haka is the best thing and it is also the funniest thing on a friday.

Liam

Winter Sport.

Josie

For this term (term 3) my main highlight was tech, along with heaps of other little things on the side but the reason was because I really enjoyed doing food tech and making new recipes I never thought of. I also enjoyed the start of woodwork although we only did 2 sessions this term and one session was just paperwork but the second session we could make something, which I'm now excited for next term's sessions.

Laura

One thing that I have enjoyed in term three is significant events in New Zealand history because we go to learn more about what big events have happened in New Zealand's history.

James

My highlight of Term 3 was EPIC work. I love reading a book and writing about what the book is like so I can not see what is coming in the team for me.

Hollie

My highlight of the term 3 ways technology because I had foods and it was very fun to make food and learn more about skills in the kitchen.

Luke

My highlight of Term 3 was winter sport. I enjoyed this because it was fun to get out of the class.

Kaitlyn

Kapa haka

Zoom lessons

Winter sport

Te hapua

Technology

Careers

Nikhill

I enjoyed doing Real World Writing because I liked learning how to write a trade me listing.

Jesslyn

I really enjoyed doing measurement math this term,because we got to experiment with new things.We hadn't done this in a while ,and trying this out again was really fun! Going back to volume and area was fun,because I didn't learn it before

Dishsa

I enjoyed all the different activities we did because we did a lot of epic work that I enjoyed.

Sienna

For term three I really enjoyed winter sport because I loved playing and competing against other schools.

Cohen

Careers because it was so fun. I loved Real world writing. I loved making a trade me application.

Rylee

Kapa Haka.

Te hapua.

Zoom lessons.

Technology.

Careers.

Epic work.

Carson

I have enjoyed the EPIC work because it was fun to do. I have also enjoyed the zoom meeting because I liked the fun lessons.

Ayla

My highlight of term 3 was winter sport because I love to play hockey, playing it with others versus other schools and having a bit of fun. I also liked doing my science badge, I enjoyed it a lot even though I didn't get to finish it.

Nicole

My highlight for this term is Technology because I've learnt so much from Tech. Something that I've learnt is that different materials are fit for different purposes. You can't build a house out of paper, it has to be from wood, bricks and cement.

My last highlight for this term was the Science Badge Challenge. I enjoyed researching, drawing and learning new things from doing this Challenge. Miss Dench even said that she learnt something new from my Science Badge Slide. All my hard effort of doing the Science Badge Challenge, got me my Human Biology Badge.

Connor

My highlight for term 3 is Duolingo because it is fun learning a new language and I enjoyed all the funny sentences. Duolingo is also fun to use near friends because we always make funny comments on the mascot duo the owl.

Zara

I really liked choir because I love to sing and it really makes me happy every Friday.

Lucca

Doing the multi-school chess tournament at the town hall because i won all of my games and it was fun

Arsh

My highlight for this term was Kapa Haka because I enjoyed calling and leading with the others. I also enjoyed the science badge learning as well because I was in a group of lots of people.

Dean

I have had fun doing kapa haka because it is fun using my voice in something that I really enjoy.I have also enjoyed careers because I enjoy learning about a job that I can possibly do when I'm older.:)

Kade

My highlight of Term 3 was Kapa Haka, Te Reo and Winter Sports.

Ethan

My highlight of Term 3 was EPIC work. I enjoyed this because it was fun learning to read all sorts of books.

Nathan

My highlight for term 3 is winter sport because it was really fun and we got into the Canterburys.

Samuel

Winter sports.

Taifou

Winter sport, because playing rugby was a pleasure and it was fun representing my school. I would like to do it again because it was fun having my friends playing in my team and we had good sportsmanship.

Jack

I had lots of fun doing sport and it was fun going out for games with the teachers taking us out for a game at the end of the day.

Aurora

Careers because I like people to know what I want to be when I'm older. EPIC work because I liked how easy it was and how fun it was.

Zar

I liked kapa haka.

Natalia

Careers.

Milli

My highlight for Term 3 is winter sport because it was fun to go out of school and play netball with other schools and lots of my friends.

Avia

Careers, Patere Sport Competition, Real World writing.