Month: June 2022

Mānawatia a Matariki

Such a significant week with Matariki. All week our team (Team Maunga Y5s) had been practicing a waiata (song) to perform and share at our school assembly on Thursday. Thank you Miss Ha’unga who led and helped teacher our tamariki. It’s quite historical, with it being the first time ever, that we are celebrating a National holiday – the first Indigenous holiday in Aōtearoa.

Room 18 learned some waiata, played Kahoot, baked star cookies and had pineapple pie to celebrate. We are also finishing off our Matariki art. This is using wax colouring crayons and once finished, we covered it in black paint. Once dry, the children will scratch in their picture including the Nine Stars of Matariki.

Here are videos of our whole school assembly on Thursday. Our Y1-6 Kapa Haka group and the Team Maunga item. We hope you are all having a wonderful week celebrating Matariki. Mānawatia a Matariki!

 

Netball in Action

For the last three weeks, we have been learning skills to play netball. We’ve had coaches from Counties Manukau and Sport Auckland come and take our Y5-6 classes for 30 minutes sessions. Some of the skills we have learned so far are the different types of passing (chest, shoulder and bounce), how to plant our feet and not move them and shooting the ball in the hoop. Here are some photos and a short video of us playing on Thursday. Thank you Kaylah for coaching us.

Here are our “Caught Being Awesome” award winners. Congratulations everyone!

Jumping June

For the past four weeks our whole school has been taking part in fundraising money for the Heart Foundation. There are a few children at our school that have congenital heart conditions and have had to have heart surgeries since they were babies. Each child was given a sponsorship booklet and all classes were given a set of black skipping ropes.

Each week leading up to today we have had short practices at skipping and played games too. At lunchtimes, the long skipping ropes were given out to children to practice jumping too.

We’re very lucky to have Mrs Johnson organise this day for us. We had lots planned to do in our houses today but because of the weather we had to accomodate everyone in the hall and under the sun shade at allocated times instead.  Everyone that participated today were given a participation certificate. One child was nominated as the overall winner and were given prizes. Our school raised over $6000!! Jumping June is so much fun!

Samoan Language Week

This week our school have celebrated Samoan Language Week. We had some challenges for the theme “Myths and Legends”. Lots of us were involved in our Year 5 and 6 Pasifika group and our Maunga team learned a song and dance. We sang the Samoan National Anthem every morning alongside our karakia (lotu). We sampled “pai fala” – half moon pineapple pie, did lots of art and ate panikeke from our local Evalina’s shop. Every day this week children and staff got to dress up in Samoan and Pasifika clothing too. Here’s some pictures and a movie of our week and final assembly. We hope you enjoy and have a wonderful long weekend!!