Ranzau School

Our Ranzau Explorers did such a fantastic job of running our market evening last week! Thank you to everyone who came along to support them. The funds raised will be donated to a local charity 👏

Congratulations to our amazing Ranzau explorers who recently won these awards at the regional science fair!

🏆Food and Innovation Research Award
🏆Science Communications Award
🏆Top Year 1-4 Science Experiment

We're really proud of you all! Keep shining ✨

Thanks to everyone who came along to our learning conferences this week! Our tamariki enjoyed showing you what they have been learning and working on this year. The conversations and learning demonstrations these conferences encourage are so great to see ✨👏

Ranzau School Kapa Haka students participated in the Cultural Festival at Waimea College this week. They represented our school with pride and enthusiasm. They put the mahi in at their rehearsals and it really showed on the day! ✨

Last week our year 3 & 4 hockey tournament team travelled to Saxton’s Field to participate in the Tasman Primary School Hockey Tournament. Both teams were undefeated 👏 and showed such great sportsmanship throughout the day ✨

🪩 Ranzau School Disco 🪩

From crazy neon styles to dazzling dance moves, our tamariki lit up the night – all while raising funds for Daffodil Day 💛🌼
Thank you to everyone who supported this fun-filled evening for a great cause!

✨Last week was all about numbers, puzzles, and plenty of fun as our tamariki enjoyed Maths Week! 🧠🔢

Each day brought a brand new maths challenge, and we wrapped it all up in style with a maths-themed dress-up day on Friday! 🎉

🌟 Celebrating Matariki at Ranzau!🌟

Our classrooms have been buzzing with creativity as our students explore the meaning and magic of Matariki, the Māori New Year. ✨

From beautiful artwork and star-themed crafts to storytelling, waiata (songs), and learning about the nine stars of Matariki, our tamariki have been deepening their understanding of this special time of reflection, renewal, and connection.

🔬✨ Kicking off our term of *WONDER* with a Super Science Day!
Our curious minds were buzzing as buddies teamed up to explore hands-on experiments. Discovery, teamwork, and scientific fun — what a way to launch our learning! 🧪💡

Hello Term 2! 👏We hope everyone had a fun and restful holiday — we’ve been loving all the awesome stories our Ranzau explorers have been sharing! Before we dive into the new term, check out these fun snaps from the end of Term 1, when our explorers discovered the new playspace at Faulkner’s Bush in Wakefield!

This week our students had a visit from the NED Show.

NED is a loveable cartoon character whose name is an acronym for
𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩, 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭.

We were lucky enough to have this show 'paid forward' from another School - in return the students can purchase Yo-Yos through the NED program which fund then next 'pay it forward' for another School! (see the School office if you didn't see the information sheet about this and are interested)

Displaying what we learnt about and made at the Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao. Our very own 'stained glass' window. Doesn't it look amazing in the Awa classroom 🌟

Here’s the beautiful stained-glass window created by Ranzau School students after their visit to the Nelson Provincial Museum this week. Awesome mahi! 🌟