Welcome to the Arohanui Syndicate page, featuring Year 2 children from Rooms 1, 2 and 3.
We are studying about eggs and today we had an egg expert come and visit Room 2. Have you ever touched a chicken? Has a chicken ever come to your classroom?
Things we learnt :
Chickens are soft and feathery
Chickens can have pom pom hair
Chickens can have greenish colour eggs
Wow!!! How lucky we are to have Father Soane visit us in Room 2. He reminded us that Sunday 12 May is Mother’s Day. He told us a secret. He said that the best present for our Mothers is love.
Today Room 1a visit the Papatoetoe Museum. We made some poppies and had a scavenger hunt.
We saw ANZAC biscuits and a lot of pictures about ANZAC Day. We learnt how the Australians and New Zealand soldiers got killed in Gallipoli. 
We had a great time in the Papatoetoe Museum.
Room 2 walked to the Papatoetoe Museum and learnt many things about how New Zealanders remember the men and women who died during in wartime. We learnt about how Kiwis remember these men and women today after so many years. Did you know that the Carruth family use to live in a house where Youthline is now? Ethelwyn Carruth was a nurse who served on the hospital ship Marama during WW1.
We made poppies, we looked at ANZAC artifacts and we visited the museum to locate treasures.
Congratulations to Evan Johnson-Nebu and Ruby Neil-Nili for receiving Principal awards this week.
Well done! Keep up the good work! 
Congratulations to Jahzaria Ah Chee for receiving the Catholic Character award for Compassion! Great job Jahzaria!
Did you know that tucked in next to New World in Papatoetoe is a wonderful greenspace called the Papatoetoe Community Gardens where you can rent a plot of land and grow things to your heart’s content.
There are experts there who can help you learn. We went and learned how to get the soil ready for plants to grow, we learnt about sewing seeds, we learnt about how to keep pests away.
We saw gardeners with tools, vegetables, inventions, seeds and so much more just a walk away from Holy Cross School.
