About Mark Pickard

Peria School Pet Day

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PERIA SCHOOL PET DAY WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peria School’s annual Pet Day was a great success with it being a beautiful day along with a great turnout of parents and  community members. The classrooms looked outstanding with displays of miniature gardens, monster masks, baking, clay work, vegetable animals and crazy hats to name a [...]

Far North Hokianga Athletics

Well done team! Another outstanding effort for our students this year Results Chanell, 100m 2nd, 100m 2nd, 400m 1st, 800m 2nd. Amelie, 200m 3rd Nina, 100m 3rd Ashley, 400m 3rd Brian, 800m 3rd Well done, well done students. Thank you to our stunning parents who took the students down to the Athletics Meet themselves and [...]

Taipa Zone Athletics

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Another great day for all the students from Te Rangi. Sun and a great day competition wise. All of our students competed and all tried their hardest. It makes you proud to see our kids form our community stepping up and doing well. Well done to Brian (800m), Chanell (High Jump, Long Jump,100m,200m,400m) Amelie (Long [...]

Shared Kai

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Te Puna decided to have a shared kai one lunchtime, all the kids were enthusiatic and when Te Rangi asked if they could have some too……no problem. Aleesha provided the boil up brisket, potatoes and greens (yum) and Adrian provided fry bread (ahhhh) what a feast. Heaps for everyone.

Eastern Zone Cross Country

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A huge day for all students who attended. I would have to say that it was one of the best turn outs as well as the most competitive I have seen. A special mention about our runners; on the day I did not see one runner give up, every child ran their hardest and completed [...]

Jump Jam Te Rangi

Te Rangi Jump Jam Great fun and another great use for our Smart Boards  

ICT ?

I often have raging debates with friends about the effectiveness and in some cases necessity for ICT in our daily lives. Having been born in an ICT-less era and only recently being a convert to the power of ICT (my degree was only possible by studying online) I still wonder if we truly need to [...]

How much paint?

Measuring and calculating

As part of our regular Mathematics Program Te Rangi Students are being asked to problem solve ‘real life’ situations using their mathematical expertise. This week students have been asked to calculate how much paint we would need to refurbish our school pool. Great learning and heaps of fun. Great interaction between the students some pretty [...]

Slime

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Need to make some. Polymers in action.

Te Rangi and Te Puna having fun!

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  Great thing about our school is the tremendous whole school interaction we have from Year 1 to Year 8, kids being kids!