Month: March 2024

As part of our Weymouth Way kaupapa here at school, we held a cultural celebrations day. We encouraged all children of all cultural and ethnic background to dress up in their heritage clothing. For those that couldn’t we emphasised that wearing our school uniform is part of our school culture and were welcome to wear that too (which some did). Our school gathered under the large white sunshade and had performances from our Kapa Haka roopu and our Pasifika group. Every class got a chance to stand and walk around the rest of the school waving their flags. Two students from each class introduced the ethnic makeup of their class. Here are a few photos and videos from our celebration on Tuesday!

Last week on Friday a group of 20 Year 6 children were involved in a leadership conference. It was run by the GRIP leadership organisation. When we arrived we found our seats and there were four sessions throughout the day. During and between each session students participated in: loud task games that involved lots of screaming. Other activities included: short skits that involved games and there were times throughout the day students had to get up and go and talk to students from other schools. Some of the things that we learned are: leadership involves sacrifice and helping others. We also had to think about ideas that are working well at our school and some things that need improving and our ideas to improve them. All of us came back feeling really encouraged about leadership and how we can help our school to be even better than before. Here are a few pics and videos from the day.

 

 

We’ve been reading Dawn Raids by Pauline Vaeluaga as our Chapter Chat study for the term. In the book we read about Mr Parker teaching Sofia’s class the rakau stick game to E Papa Waiari. We thought what better way than to interact with the book is to give the rakau game a go. Watch our videos here and you should give it a go too!