KIMI ORA UNIT ​
Papanui High School
Focus on Ability - Short Film Competition
We have made a film and entered it into a short film competition. The film aims to promote the abilities of people with disabilities. Hope Knapman-Evans did all of the filming and editing. Hope is severely visually disabled. The students are all involved in the film and enjoyed showing off their abilities and talents.
Our film is called I CAN DO ANYTHING. We are entered in the SCHOOL ENTRANT - DOCUMENTARY category.
To vote click on the image above. This will take you to the web site to vote. Once you vote you will receive an email which you need to click on to verify your vote.
Papanui High School Ball
We had an awesome time at the ball. It was my first school ball that I have ever been to. Dancing with all my friends and having a fun time was wonderful. I had a nice pretty dress on. It was black and pink. I looked very nice with my face and hair done up form our pamper day in the Kimi Ora Unit. I hope I can get to go to the next school ball. By Hope.
Kimi Ora Day Spa
What a wonderful day of pampering for everyone! We were lucky enough to have two lovely hairdressers spend the cutting and styling our hair. We all had manicures and pedicures. The girls looked amazing wearing their make-up and the boys all looked smooth after their shaves.
Many of the Senior students attended the Papanui High School Ball that evening and looked stunning.
Even More Kimi Ora Birthdays!
Last week we celebrated two more May birthdays!
Tor turned 17 and Joshua turned 20. What a party! Great singing, dancing and some really AWESOME cake!
Ngaio Marsh visits
Posted December 20, 2013
Every week I go to Ngaio Marsh Rest Home. We talk to the residents. I like talking to Dick. He teases me. We then sing songs. The residents love us going there. On our last visit we sang Christmas carols. I am excited to go back there this year.
Olivia R
News and Events
Kimi Ora Unit
fundraiser
at
Winnie Bagoes
Ferrymead
on
Tuesday 15 April
$25 per head ($10 to Kimi Ora)
we hope to sell 100 tickets
($1000 to us!)
We need your help!
Buy a ticket and join us!
Sell 2 or 3 tickets to friends and bring them along!
Weekly Photopages
Updated May 13 2014
Each week we try to put together a photopage of some of the many events and activities that have taken place that week.
We think that photographs are really an important part of what we do. They can often be the only way that the parents and families are able to keep up with what their sons or daughters are doing at school. Up until now we have been printing these off and sending them home via the student diaries. Now we can upload them to our website.
Many of the photos are taken by the students in our photography group. Others are taken by our team members when we remember to grab a camera!
The results are often quite special.
Take a look!
nb. because these have been created via Microsoft Publisher, any Mac users out there will have to rely on the hard-copies that come home each friday. Sorry!
Kimi Ora Unit on the National Programme Radio!
Listen to Tessa Ward and her son Sammy Kahn as well as our own Sharon Scott talking on National Radio.
One In Five for 2 March 2014
One In Five for 2 March 2014
Originally aired on One In Five, Sunday 2 March 2014
This week on One in Five, Katy Gosset is at Surfability Day at Christchurch's Sumner Beach.
The event, run by the local long boarders club, offers people with disabilities a chance to get out in the waves, each supported by a large crew of volunteers. The club runs an event each year to give something back to its beachside community: this year it chose the Surfability concept proposed by a club member, Gary Butt, who had run similar events in Kaitaia. The participants include novices and, in some cases, more experienced surfers testing the waters again after a life changing accident.
Duration: 23′ 23″
End of Year Showcase
posted December 2013
It was once again a full house when all the Kimi OIra students performed at our end-of-year showcase in front of parents, family, teachers and friends.
We farewelled Kelsey, Cameron and Grace this year, all now 21 years of age and High School graduates after 8 or 9 years as students in the Kimi Ora Unit.
​The Perfomance Dance group delighted everyone with an awesome version of the legend of the 3 Mountains. We sang and we danced and we watched heaps of photos that told the stories of our year, as well as the individual journeys of the leavers and their time with us in the Kimi Ora Unit.
See previous page for a youtube link!
We've added the Kimi Ora News
At the end of each term we produce a full-colour magazine that tells the story of what we've been up to throughout that term.
Below, for the first time, is our latest edition of the Kimi Ora News.
Please be patient because it may take a minute or so to open!
Upcoming Events
FRIDAY JULY 4
MR KNOWLES' last day
SAT JULY 5 to SUN JULY 20
TERM HOLIDAYS
MONDAY AUGUST 25
MID-TERM BREAK
MON 25 to FRI 29 AUGUST
SPECIAL OLYMPICS BASKETBALL TRIP TO NELSON
WED OCTOBER 15 TO 17
KIMI ORA CAMP
MONDAY OCTOBER 27
LABOUR DAY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14
SHOW DAY
THURSDAY DECEMBER 11
END OF SCHOOL YEAR