Year: 2024

Year 6 Graduation Leavers

This term has been a very busy one for everyone. We’ve had lots of Language Week celebrations, sports, sharing of learning, a trip to Rotoroa Island and lots of other amazing things happening in the classroom. To celebrate all Year 6 students and their journey here at Weymouth Primary School, there is a big graduation evening where children dress up and bring their whanau (family) along. Each Year 6 student when called to the front, receives their leavers tshirt, a taonga (pounamu necklace) and a certificate. It’s a great time to celebrate and remember all the amazing activities and fun tasks that happened throughout their time here. Please find below the amazing leavers video created by our Room 20 kaiako (teacher) Miss Amy McLaughlin.

Have a wonderful Christmas holiday and relaxing break and we’ll see everyone in the New Year 2025!

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2024: Keeping our emotions in check

This year, our class focused a lot of our Talanoa sessions on our school values like: Respect and Honesty. We also looked at Empathy, Friendship, Responsibility, Making good choices and How our emotional brain works with our logical brain. As a collective we compared what we learned from Talanoa to the movie “Inside Out” and wanted to adapt the ideas to our own. We hope you enjoy our movie. Please leave us a comment:

Counties Manukau Games 2024

Our school took part in the Counties Manukau games for children aged 8-13. Lots of school across South Auckland participated in many sports. Our school sent 5 teams of 49 children to take part in: Girls basketball, Soccer, Ki-o-rahi, Tag and Volleyball. The competition took place over 3 days at Bruce Pulman Park in Papakura. It was so much fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. Here are some videos from the tournament:

Faahi Tapu e Vagahau Niue

Fakalofa hofihofi atu kia mutolu oti. Here at Weymouth, it is week one of Term 4. It is also Niue Language Week. The theme this year is:

The 2024 theme for Niue Language Week is ‘Leveki mo e Feaki e Vagahau Niue ma Anoiha – Protect and Nurture Vagahau Niue for the Future’. 

On Monday we had our Opening assembly. The challenges for the week were announced and on Friday it was our closing assembly. We had so much fun throughout the week. Check out the site for Niue Language Week here.

Enjoy our videos:

Te wiki o te reo Maori

Like all language weeks, Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori is celebrated here at Weymouth Primary School. To open the week, we had students from James Cook High School’s roopu Puutake come and perform for us.

During the week there were challenges that students across the school could take part in. On Friday was our closing assembly. The theme for the week is: “Ake, ake, ake” – “A Forever Language”. Check out our own Kapa Haka roopu.

Tongan Language Week

Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga – Tonga Language Week

Celebrate: 18 – 24 August

The 2024 theme for Tonga Language Week is ‘E tu’uloa ‘a e lea faka-Tongá ‘o ka lea’aki ‘i ‘api, siasí (lotú), mo e nofo-‘a-kāingá – The Tongan Language will be sustainable when used at home, church and in the wider community.

This theme derives from the overarching Language Week Series theme for 2024, ‘Sustainability’.

This picture is of Felisita and she is making our class Otai.

Our school celebrated Tongan Language Week. In our class we entered challenges and some children made Ōtai. Here are some photos and videos:

Cook Island Language Week 2024

This week our school celebrated Cook Island Language. We are very fortunate here in New Zealand to have the Ministry of Pacific Peoples. You can find all the language weeks and dates on the site. On Monday we had our opening assembly and the Waimahia Intermediate School Cook Island group came to perform at our school. Throughout the week, we learned a imene called Akapapa tatou nei and our school challenge was to build a vaka (canoe). On Friday we had our whole school closing assembly and lots of children performed. Check out some of our items:

WERO Trip 2024

Our team were very fortunate to go to the Vector WERO White Water park here in Manukau. It was a full on day and we all gave every task a go. The supervisors (adults) spoke to us about safety. Once we finished getting dressed up in wet suits, boots, helmets and vests, we practised walking across the river a few times by ourselves, in pairs and in groups. This was to help us realise the dangers around water, the current and how quickly things can change.

After that, we all got into groups again and this time we sat in a raft with our oars and worked together on the river. Once we had a few chances paddling down the river, we were then allowed to jump in the river and swim around to safety. Lots of children were scared but everyone gave it a go. We are so proud of ourselves and very thankful to the WERO park for letting us have this learning opportunity. We can’t wait to go again next year!

Here’s a video of us and our time there. Enjoy!