Kate Dare

Deputy Principal/Kupe Team Leader/Room 1 Teacher (Year 7/8)

kdare@ruahine.school.nz

Recent Blogs

Production
26 Aug 2016 - 10:34am

Congratulations to all our Ruahine ROCKERS! They performed marvellously in 'A Giant Mix-Up' last night. This is a culmination of our drama ('The Arts') inquiry. Pounamu team and Room 3 retold 'The BFG' with enthusiastic dancing and acting, and Kupe team performed 'The Iron Man' with some awesome interpretative dance and visual displays.  

Interschool Mathematics
5 Aug 2016 - 11:45am

Congratulations to all those students who competed in Dannevirke Interschool Mathematics last night. Our teams competed against teams from St Joseph's, Norsewood, Huia Range and Dannevirke South.

Our Year 5/6 teams came 1st (William, Thomas, Maria) and 3rd (Ella, Jessica, Jack) with our Year 7/8 teams coming 1st (Anne, Amie, Natasha) and 3rd (Hughin, Walter, Aaron) as well!

MidCentral Health Area - Measles
3 Jun 2016 - 3:25pm

As you are no doubt aware, there has been a measles outbreak in the MidCentral Health, with confirmed cases in Levin and a suspected case in Palmerston North. Below is a link to Ministry of Health information around measles.

Link: Ministry of Health, Information About Measles

Mathematics Teaching and Learning at Ruahine School
24 Jun 2015 - 9:45am

You may have seen recent reports in the media criticising the Numeracy Project and it’s focus on teaching lots of different strategies for solving problems at the expense of the basics, leading to a decline in Mathematics achievement. You may find it pleasing to know that at Ruahine School we identified these exact issues in 2013 and in the last 18 months we have changed our way of teaching Mathematics to address this. 

At Ruahine School our teaching and learning of Mathematics focuses on:

Tararua 7-A-Side Competition
2 Jul 2014 - 3:36pm

All students Rooms 1, 2 and 3 competed in the Tararua 7-a-side tournament last week. Out of the 8 cups available, we were thrilled to take home 2 - winning both the Junior Rugby and Senior Soccer!