About Us - A short slideshow showing how we live in Oroua Downs for our friends in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1. About us
Room 5
Oroua Downs School

2. Where we live
• Students in our class live in 3 areas:
1) The Countryside
2) Himatangi Beach
3) Foxton
Our school has got about 75 students in it from
ages 5 – 12. After our school the students go on
to high school for 5 years until Year 13.

3. The Countryside
• Braxton, Toby, Ava, Emma, Keegan, Dayjarn,
Molly, Lydia, Rua-Matipou, Luke, Tyler, Peyton
and Niamh all live in the countryside.
• Some of us have cows, chickens, roosters, pigs,
horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, goats, sheep and bulls.
Molly’s family has 755 cows on their farm. Tyler
and Emma have thousands of chickens because
they raise them for the shop.

4. Countryside photos
Lydia’s house in the
countryside

5. Himatangi Beach
• Cearna, Logan, Shay, CJ, Tiopira, DeShontay,
Levi and Shanelle all live at Himatangi Beach
which is about 10 mins drive from Oroua
Downs.
• Logan says it is a beautiful beach and we are
even allowed to drive on it with our four-
wheelers and horses!

6. Himatangi Beach photos

7. Foxton
• Benjamin lives in Foxton. He used to live in the
countryside but now lives in the nearest town
to Oroua Downs which is called Foxton.
• Foxton is a small town with a high school,
supermarket and a few cafes and fish and chip
shops!

8. Foxton photos

9. Our School
• Here are some interesting things about our
school
• We have two swimming pools here
• We have a big playground
• We have a PE shed where we can get things
out at lunchtime to play with
• We can take scooters to school
• We have a big field to play sports and games

10. • We have an environmental area where we can
sit down and relax in the trees
• We have gardens that students plant
vegetables and fruits in
• We have a passport party at the end of each
term for those students who display our
school virtues of respect, excellence,
teamwork and creativity.
• We have two courts to ride our scooters on at
lunchtime and play netball or other games
• Most of us catch a bus to get to and from
school

11. Photos of our school

12. Some Annual Events at ODS
• Pet Day
• Moto-X fundraiser
• Swimming Sports
• House competition
• Tabloid Sports
• Athletics Day
• Splash n Sizzle (swim and a sausage!)
• School Waterfight!