Pink Shirt Day
Anti-Bullying Week is aimed at sending a clear and positive message that bullying is neither acceptable or inevitable in our schools and communities. Students wore pink shirt to help spread the word that bullying is [...]
Gardeners At Work!
Students taking pride in gardening. They were enjoying learning about how to plant and what kind of vegetables to plant during Winter season.
A Recount: Marae Visit
It was an exciting day for Room 20 students to be parts of Marae visit, together with Rooms 6, 9, 16, 24 and 25. It happened on 21 June, Thursday when the whole Moana Syndicate [...]
Dream Big
Room 20 students have been learning about "Dream Big." They have expressed their big plans for their future by writing their goals, wishes, what they want to be and do when they grow up. These [...]
Mau Rākau
Every week the tuākana (senior) class of Whaia te Mātauranga are taught the art of Mau Rākau at the side of Matua Chris. Mau Rakau is the art of working with a stick(rakau), this was [...]
Rippa tag with Counties Manukau Sport.
Our tamariki love to whakapakari tīnana, here they spend 40 mins with Counties Manukau learning how to play Rippa tag. All tamariki give it a go and try their best to play together. Tima whero [...]
Origami lesson
Cindy and Candice, students from China are teaching room 13 students how to make birds, roses and bows, using paper.
Haerenga anō ki te marae ō Papatuānuku
This week we returned to Papatuanuku marae with our Aorangi whānau. Akomanga tuatoru know the school haka and the waiata tautoko very well so helped to support Rooms 21, 8 and 14 during the pōwhiri [...]
Gardening is a skill!
Room 20 participated in SPS Gardening programme. The students believe that learning how to plant their own vegetables helps them to survive in the present world. What happened was our class was given a plot [...]
Let’s do Reciprocal Reading
Room 20 students are inspired to have reading using a new strategy, "Reciprocal Reading." It gives them an opportunity to be a "teacher" for the group. It also allows them to use different comprehension [...]