On Friday, November 22, Year 2 and 3 students, teachers and whānau visited Paihakena Marae for a special reason.

Teenaa koutou e te whanau o te Kura A Rohe o Whaingaroa

On Thursday the 28th of November, E3 class picked up rubbish.

One of the biggest problems in New Zealand - even the world - is Climate change.

On Monday 2nd December we took a number of Year 3 - Year 8 Students into Porrit Stadium to represent RAS at the Athletics Champs.

For the past month, the Year 11 Social Studies class has been targeting a large social issue, in hopes of making a change. Our social action was supporting Mental Health Week, and addressing the discrimination towards people dealing with mental health.

The social issue we have chosen of housing affordability in Raglan is a very relevant issue in our town and has the power to impact my generation in the future.

Photographs of the Year 9 and 10 exhibition of work from the Fibre Technology and Visual Arts options.

E2 student building their own town with a race track using their knowledge they are learning in class about measurements.

A few snapshots of the Year 0-3 Papahua end of year beach day picnic.

In choir we’ve been singing songs from around the world. This song is from Samoa and it’s called O le Pepe. In choir is so fun to learn new songs and make new friends.

My mum came home one day and had a duck in her jacket.

A few shots from the recent Western Cluster Athletics.

A select group of keen Year 9-13 Raglan Area School students had the privilege of going for a day trip to the Whenuapai Airforce base North of Auckland last week.

I1 was lucky to be invited by Whaea Ang to conduct an experiment.

On Friday 2 November, 40 students from Raglan Area School attended Tabloids Sports at Te Uku School.

E5 has been getting creative and exploring text improvisation and movement for the song One Potato. Check out their creative and unique potato ideas!

We are learning about rhythm and rhyme - Dr. Seuss style

Photos courtesy of Margaret Dillon.

After attending Group Day with their lambs, hosted this year by Waitetuna School, Hana and Metua Herbert of Meremere, Te Roopu Aroha ki te Reo, interviewed Whaea Sue Brown who has been the Raglan Area School Rep on the Raglan Girls’ and Boys’ Agricultural Group Committee for some 20 years, taking over from former staff member Vicki Johnstone in the 1990’s.

The year 11-13 drama class finished off their performing year with an afternoon showing their final performance assessment to a group of parents and students. They have been working on devising which is a collaborative process in which their group creates an original piece of theatre based on a specific starting point, eg. a theme or a newspaper article.

A few Fridays ago the Year 9 & 10 drama students headed up to Auckland’s Q Theatre to see NZ’s acclaimed devising and physical theatre company, Red Leap Theatre, perform Owls Do Cry.

Thanks, Whaea Ange for having the Year 3 students in the lab for some imploding can science!

A story by Sage Bennett.

Recently, the Year 1 students headed down the tidal pools adjacent to the jetty to discover what lives in the intertidal zone. Here is what some of them had to say about the experience.

Recently, we held the Junior Athletics for 8-12 year-olds. Click through the photographs for the results.

Five students from Raglan Area School returned safely back home mid-November from competing at the World Junior Surfing Championships held in Huntington Beach California, U.S.A.

Mackenzie and I went to a Cheerleading Competition. There were over 100 teams in the competition, we felt very overwhelmed but excited.

Year 4-6 students made pizza as part of their Big Day Out... Check out what they had to say.

On Friday 22 November, RAS hosted the Western Cluster Cricket Festival for years 5 - 8.

Rocket Acrostic Poem

The Year 4-6 Syndicate went paddleboarding as part of their big day out excursions. Olive Peart wrote a poem about the experience.

Look at the fun we are having learning about patterning in D1 with Whaea Celia, Whaea Cindy and Whaea Liz.

D2 made robots...

Matua Jason got the portable stove out. Jade and I went to the staff room to get the egg flipper, bowl and a pan. Neveah mixed the egg, flour, and sugar. After we finished mixing all the ingredients together, we cooked them in the pan. We ate the pancakes. Then we had to clean up. Then we went outside with Whaea Tracy.

The Year 4-6 Syndicate went surfing as part of their big day out excursions. It was super fun and we wanted to thank Raglan Surfing School for getting the kids out surfing safely!

On Friday 8th November, RAS celebrated the achievements of all our students who played Sport for the School in 2019.

He mihi nui ki a koutou e te whaanau o te Kura a Rohe o Whaingaroa

Ray White have been massive this year supporting our Senior School Sport and we just want to say Thank You very much!

It has been a busy couple of weeks with our Summer Codes and the Senior Sports Awards.