Sunnybrae Normal School

We have had a wonderful camp. Absolutely amazing kids, parent helpers, and kaiako. Ngā mihi!

Our New Bokashi Project is Officially Underway!

Check out the Green Team members pictured here holding our brand new classroom caddies, Bokashi mix, and scrubbing brushes kindly donated to our school by Mitre 10 MEGA Glenfield.

This awesome donation means we can officially launch our school-wide Bokashi system alongside the Kaipātiki Project team. Every classroom is looking forward to taking ownership of their waste and reducing what goes to landfill.

We love our local community partnerships. Thank you so much, Mitre 10 Glenfield, for investing in our tamariki and our environment! 💚

It is an ātaahua (beautiful) day here on camp at Carey Park!

Here’s some snaps of our morning.

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We’re having an amazing start to our day of activities here at camp!

The sun is shining, the tamariki are excited, they are being very well fed and the bed time went okay last night!

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🇼🇸 Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa! 🇼🇸
🇼🇸 Happy Samoan Language Week 🇼🇸

This week at Sunnybrae we celebrated Samoan Language Week across the school. We have enjoyed learning and sharing about Samoan traditions, arts, language and songs.

🇼🇸 Manuia le faaiuga o le vaiaso🇼🇸
🇼🇸 Have a good weekend 🇼🇸

Ngā mihi nui koutou - thanks everyone - for taking part in celebrating pink shirt day at Sunnybrae today!

We were able to raise $760 to support this kaupapa Pink Shirt Day Aotearoa !

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Just a reminder that tomorrow we are celebrating pink shirt day.

We can’t wait to see everyone in pink!
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Today four of our senior students represented Sunnybrae at the Mana Ora Youth Resilience Day to learn more about environmental sustainability, community connection and holistic well-being.

We can’t wait to hear from them about what they have learned.

Ngā mihi to Matua Stephen for taking our tamariki into the city using sustainable transport!

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This week is support staff week in Aotearoa New Zealand and we want to acknowledge and appreciate the wonderful support staff at Sunnybrae.

We have so many wonderful adults here who guide, teach and take care of our tamariki and our school. Our office admin, accounts, librarian, specialist teachers, classroom release teachers, caretaker, ESOL support teacher and teacher aides and learning assistants!

I tried to get pictures of all these wonderful people but they were busy out there doing a great job.

Thank you team for all that you do, you are appreciated!
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This afternoon we celebrated all of our great work of showing our school values last term by having our RICE Rewards afternoon!

It was great to have our whole school split into different groups with children of all ages learning and playing alongside each other. We love to see how this tuakana/teina approach to learning works and celebrates whanaungatanga!

Thanks to Mrs Barlow for organising this afternoon and to our staff for preparing such fun learning activities!

🐝 Sunnybee enjoyed his afternoon too 🐝