Pigeon Mountain Primary School

A huge congratulations to our talented gymnasts who competed at the HPPA competition today! After a lot of hard work learning and refining their routines, they went out there and absolutely shone. We couldn't be prouder of their dedication and incredible performances. Well done to the Year 4 girls team (Rosalie, Emma, Ava and Queenie) who placed first overall and individual placing Antonia 8th, Queenie 6th, Emma 5th and Ava 3rd.

Important information for our Year 6 students.

Today is the final day of New Zealand Maths Week, although Maths is everywhere! We use it all the time in our daily life. Here are some ways to keep talking and learning about maths at home.

Day 4 of Maths Week, here is another game to support learning multiplication facts using Uno or playing cards. There is a Junior and Senior version.

It is the third day of New Zealand Maths Week and here is an 'open task' you can try together at home.
Open maths tasks encourage flexible thinking and creativity, showing students that there are many ways to approach a challenge and build deep mathematical understanding.

Congratulations to all the PMPS students who represented our school today at the HPPA Cross country. The course was very muddy but our students were amazing. A special congratulations to Kayley who placed first Year 6 girl. Thank you to all our parents who helped out and came along to support the team.

Today is the first day of New Zealand Maths Week. Here is a fun game that can be played at home to support students' quick recall of simple subtraction facts.
Have a go this week!
🎲 Race to Zero
🎯 How to play
Start with the number: 100, 50 or 20.
Take turns to roll the dice and subtracts that number from your current total.
The first player to reach exactly 0 wins!
⭐ Important rule
If you have 3 left and roll a 5, you cannot subtract 5. You must skip your turn until you roll a 3.
🧠 Questions to deepen understanding
“What number do you hope to roll next?”
“How many different ways can you get to zero?”
“If you have 8 left, which dice rolls can you use?”

Reminder: parent meeting with Chris Clay about Artificial Intelligence tonight at 6pm in the school hall

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 speech competition winners. All of our students in the Senior school prepared and presented a rap, spoken word or traditional speech. The quality of speeches was very high and we are so proud of all 12 students who shared their speech at our finals today.