Our tamariki are doing some amazing learning.

I regularly visit rooms and sit alongside the tamariki and it has been a pleasure to chat with them about their learning and see the great things they are doing. Taking a visiting family around today they remarked on the settled learning atmosphere and how the tamariki were so well engaged in their learning. Every group of tamariki gave a friendly greeting to our visitors as well. The Education Review Office Team also highlighted the strong learning culture and support through Redwood School.

As you will see in this newsletter our Tamariki did very well at a recent interschool problem solving competition, EPro8 Challenge. In this Science/Technology team challenge Reddie 1 came 1st and Reddie 2 came 2nd against ten other schools, including some very well-known private schools. The venue was at Cobham Intermediate. What stood out was both teams exhibited great teamwork, whereas the opposition teams weren’t as cohesive. This really relates back to all the work we have done over recent years with our Reddie Learner values and PB4L (Positive Behaviours for Learning). Well done to both teams of four… read more about this in our newsletter.