Reward time: Respect (Manakitanga)

At PCS we look at the 4 key PB4L features. As we settle back into school we have been focusing on the feature of being respectful. The children identified this as actions such as taking turns, listening to each other, not shouting out, and being careful around their friends.

The reward we decided upon was to have a class picnic! We knew we had to be super careful of germs, especially right now, so we had separate cups and plates. We remembered to wash our hands and our teachers and teaching aides helped give us food using gloves.

We were also lucky enough to share our jump jam time with RM15 and their teacher Mrs Andrews. Jump jam is important in getting our bodies moving. Even if we find it tricky we always try our best! Have a look at our pictures of us dancing and enjoying our well earned picnic!
Enjoy the long weekend everyone.
Love Miss Rayner

Maths Madness

Kia Ora everyone,
we have had a great first week back and have had lots of time to discover our new classroom and all of the exciting bits inside of it! This week we have been exploring our maths' drawers which have lots of activities in, designed to further both our maths' knowledge and some of our key competencies such as managing self, and communicating with others.
Have a look below at our super pictures!




Have a great weekend, and I will see you all on Monday.

Love Miss Rayner

Healthy habits in RM16

We're so excited to see the majority of our children back in school this week. It's difficult trying to readjust back into school life for many of us but one thing  RM16 have really excelled at so far this week is their hygiene practices. We have had lots of discussions on how germs move, and how important it is to always wash our hands when we enter the classroom.

Now we know:

We wash our hands when we walk into the room.

We wash our hands when we walk out of the room.

We wash our hands before eating food.

We wash our hands if we forget and accidentally give our friends a high five or hug.

We cough into our elbows.

We sneeze into our elbows.

We give our friends space.

We don't touch our eyes/mouths/nose (not even to pick it!).

We know to give our friends space to keep them safe.

But sometimes we do forget, and that's okay! But with the help of our adults at home and our friends and teachers in school we are sure to keep up the good work.

 More updates to come soon,

Lots of love, Miss Rayner

Distance Learning Timetable from Miss Fox

Good morning all! How exciting for us that most of us are starting school today. Don't worry if you are unable to start yet due to personal reasons such as high health risk or self-isolation because the wonderful Miss Fox has created a Junior Distance Learning Timetable just for you to keep everyone going.

Have a look at the timetable here.


Have an awesome Monday! 

Love Miss Rayner

Week 5 Day 3 update

I can't believe the amount of hard work being put in by our amazing children. It was so awesome this morning to see so many of you in the Meet. I have also loved all the updates and emails from you all since yesterday's post! I have had lots of contact from you all which has been great, so below is just some of the brilliant work RM16 has been up to. Keep it up guys!

See our superstar's work below:

Luke - Luke has been doing some awesome work at home. He tried really hard to share the fish in this week's small maths session and went on even further to consolidate his number bonds with his mum using coloured rods. Great job Luke!

Waris - Look at the different (and unusual) shapes that Waris has found around the house. Lovely to see  your drawing book featured as well Waris! Fab work!

Aquarius -  How creative have you been Aquarius! I love the rainbow colored Jellyfish you have made. Keep it up!

Te Aupouri - So awesome to see you at the meet today Te Aupouri. I am super proud of the amount of work you have been doing and I'm glad you're having an awesome time at home with your family!

Isaac - These pictures show you have been working hard Isaac and having fun whilst you've been doing it! You're doing amazing!

That's all for now Room 16. We're all going to get to see each other fairly soon which is very exciting, but for now stay safe and happy. 

Lots of love - Miss Rayner

Super work from Waris - Monday Week 5

Have a look at the awesome work sent in of Waris trying her best.
 Waris, you have been doing a wonderful job in lock down and coming to our meets as well. Keep up the good work!

Love Miss Rayner

Week 4 Day 5 extra update

Another shout out to the lovely Te Aupouri who I'm super excited to hear has been doing an awesome job with her learning at home with her family.

These pictures of you logging on to your Sunshine Classics are wonderful, and it's great to see you smiling. Keep up the great job!

Have an awesome weekend everybody, I'll see you all on Monday. 

Love Miss Rayner

Week 4 Day 5

Wow, the end of another amazing week of online learning. As always the superstars of Room 16 have just blown me away!

Here is work from Aquarius, Rara, and Heidi that has been sent in. I'm also super impressed with all the children who have been joining us every day or who have been communicating via email. Well done everyone, we're a great team!

I hope everyone has a good weekend and we get some lovely sunshine - I'll see you all online again next week. 
Love Miss Rayner

Aquarius - You have been so brave and worked so hard this week to join our meets and do some awesome work! Take a look at Aquarius' work below.


Rara - Rara has been making a dragon with the help of his sister. He has also been assisting with the 'creative direction' of his scarecrow which he and his dad have been working on. Excellent job guys!



Heidi - Heidi has been working super hard on her dragon all week, and mum tells me she's also been doing some awesome reading and really challenging herself! That's brilliant news! Have a look at Heidi's dragon below.

Week 4 Day 4

Hello amigos, 

Today we already have some awesome work to share from Room 16, and I was blown away by the work that children brought to the meet this morning! You guys are such Rockstars, keep it up! 

Don't forget that tomorrow we won't be reading Dragons Dragons Dragons again as we are doing Show and Tell of our dragons that we have made, as well as giving out certificates for the week and having a bit of a boogie to a song of the children's choice. 

Have a look below at the work sent in so far: 
Love Miss Rayner

Dragon pictures by Rara and Miss Nickie



Next up we have Waris and her wonderful work from this week. Waris has been doing lots of hard work writing and drawing. Keep it up!
Finally, here are a couple more pictures of Rara's work from yesterday. He looked at the L and F sound. How imaginative, super job!