New Zealand children’s authors
Our students were lucky enough to meet published New Zealand children’s authors who all shared similar pieces of advice and inspiration for aspiring writers. They emphasised the importance of tenacity, resilience, confidence and practise, practise, practise! These are all qualities that have been crucial on their journeys to publishing. Serendipity or karma gave James Russell […]
Traffic Safety
We urge parents to abide by our traffic safety rules. These are to ensure the safety of students, staff, and visitors, as well as to maintain good relationships with our community. Maintain a 5KPH speed limit on school grounds during drop-off and pick-up. No right turn onto Esplanade Rd. Parents are never permitted to park […]
Walking the Te Araroa Trail
The Te Araroa Trail opened in 2011 after ten years of work by volunteers, the Department of Conservation and the government. It is a walking trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff, meandering down the country to take in bush tracks, river routes, mountain passes, beaches and roads. It is 3035km long, compared with 1403km as […]
Navigating with Stars at the Maritime Museum
It is indeed wondrous to consider how the earliest settlers to New Zealand found our islands given the vast size of the oceans they were traversing. Sailors have navigated by the stars for many hundreds of years and on their recent visit to the Maritime Museum, our Year 3 children learned just how these early […]
Powerful Speech Deliveries
The importance of a powerful speech is not only in the writing of it, but also in the delivery. Ficino School is well known for its emphasis on clear communication – the importance of articulation, the use of gestures, sincerity and preparation are all witnessed to good effect in our annual speech competition. This year’s […]
Y7 and Y8 Tidy Kiwi’s
Our Y7 and Y8 students have spent an afternoon a week for the last 8 weeks completing an Introduction to Leadership course with Youthtown in Mt Eden. Both classes spent their last session cleaning up Mt Eden. Many of them reflected on the positive feelings they got from ensuring their community was cleaner but also […]
Athletics Day Winners
This weeks assembly recognised the overall champions from our recent Athletics Day at Mt Smart Stadium. Congratulations to our overall Junior and Senior winners: Girls: Olivia Bosher and Ava Maher Boys: Ian Bosher and Kiaan Patel Ficino School senior girls champion jumps high jump Ficino School senior boys champion wins 800 metres Ficino School Junior […]
Safe Conduct in our Community
Keeping our Ficino School community safe is always a top priority. With this in mind, please: do not drop off students before 7:45 a.m. observe the 5km speed rule turn left out of the driveway remind children to enter and exit the school on the pathway adjacent to the Preschool, not via the driveway be […]
Class Concerts
We were treated to some beautiful music this week at Ficino. Many children overcame their fears of performing to step up and share their music with us. Even though students played different instruments and had a range of ability levels, everyone was enjoying their music and putting in the utmost effort. Their friends were a […]
Commendations and Awards
Every term the students from each class are invited to share their achievements with their peers. Not only does this foster a sense of pride in their work, but it also helps students to build confidence in their presentation skills. This term our visual senses were ignited by Year 1’s hot air balloon artwork and […]
