THE MINSTREL !!

On Wednesday we had an amazing time watching the show "Hiwi the Kiwi goes fishing" presented by 'The Minstrel'.

Here he is singing some of his songs, with Mrs Minstrel showing us the dance moves! 

We had a lot of fun dancing along with Mrs Minstrel :) 

We learnt lots of things about looking after fish so future generations will still have fish left to catch. We also learnt how to keep ourselves safe when we are around and on the water.

The most interesting fact the children have remembered really well is:

'If you catch a big mummy fish, make sure you put her gently back in the water, because she may have babies in her tummy'!

Poet in Residence!

What a coup! Matarau School welcomed poet, Paula Green to school yesterday. Over the course of the day, Paula held sessions for the whole school in the library. Even the newest of newbies!! She read quite a few poems to us from her latest collection 'Letterbox Cat' (which has been nominated for Children's Choice at the NZ Post Book Awards!!) and showed us how much fun it is creating poems. When we went back to the classroom, we created a poem together;