What an incredible year it has been for all the children in Room 23. We’ve been on so many trips, participated in activities like Sports Days etc and so many other amazing things. We’ve reflected on how our year was and all the things we are proud of and have achieved. Here’s a snippet of our Year 6 graduation evening performance and montage. Please leave us a comment!
Every term we have an “End of Term” sharing of learning. This term each class had to learn and present a dance item. Room 23 brainstormed and shared ideas. In the end we went with this song here called “Buga”
As part of our Inquiry, all Year 6s got the opportunity to go to Rotoroa Island. We had so much fun learning about the island, the environment, native animals and plants and trapping. Check out our movie to see some of the activities we got up to.
This year we got to celebrate Fijian Language Week during the school term.
Please find here our items from the Junior and Senior Pasifika groups. Leave us a comment. Vinaka vaka levu.
Every first day of the term, our school has a Powhiri. This is to welcome all new students, staff and families to Weymouth Primary School. Here is some footage from today.
This week our school celebrated Te wiki o te reo Māori. It’s a special year being the 50th year of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) in Aotearoa. You can click here to find out more. Here are some videos of the Senior Kapa Haka performance during our closing assembly. You’ll see our class present the story of Maui and the Sun. Our class won the art challenge for the Rangi team and Leone won the writing competition. You can see his writing here. Special mention to Rachael and her whanau for sharing their precious taonga with us: pūtātara and pūkāea. Kia kaha te reo Māori. Ake ake ake.
This term we had Taofi Mose Nehemia come and speak to us about reading. Taofi is a Samoan New Zealand based actor and dancer. During the assembly, she taught us a few Samoan words that we usually hear in a sāsā like nofo and we all had to sit up. It was lots of fun! After her introduction, Taofi told us the story of Sina and her brothers. She acted it out and used lots of humour to tell the story. We thoroughly enjoyed it! Check out the videos here of Taofi’s visit to Weymouth Primary School. We hope to see her again soon.
Our cluster of schools (Clayton Park School, Waimahia Intermediate School, James Cook High School and our school), all had cultural groups perform for the first ever Extravaganza. It was held at Clayton Park School with two stages (inside and outside) with performances that ranged from Kapa Haka, Fijian, Tongan, Samoan, Filipino, Indian and Bollywood dances. The day started with a whakatauki to welcome everyone. Lots of our whanau came to support. Our whole school went on buses to support all our performing groups. Check out some of the performances from the day.
This week has been a week of celebrating Tongan Language Week at our school. We had challenges to complete on our TLW school site here. The challenges were lots of fun! We were very lucky to have Jason Afu come and perform for us too.
Check out some of the other performances from our closing assembly on Friday. Shout out to the Tongan Language Week team who organised everything for us and for our families.
The 2025 theme for Cook Islands Māori Language Week is ‘Ātui’tui’ia au ki te raurau a tōku matakeinanga – “Connect me to the offerings of my people’.
It was an amazing week of celebration for Cook Island Language Week. Our Opening Assembly was on Monday and our Junior Pasifika performed. We also found out what the challenges were.
Room 23 entered the Vaka design challenge, Ura dance and the Tivaevae challenge. Our class won the tivaevae. Each child was given a piece of hessian and sewed the design of a flower or leaf. We created this in two days and worked under pressure because all challenge entries were due by Wednesday 3pm and all Year 6s were at Waimahia Intermediate for their Open Day. Here is our winning tivaevae:
Here’s our Senior Pasifika group performing. See if you can spot the children from Room 23.
You can find more information about all the Language Weeks we celebrate here in New Zealand here. We are looking forward to the next Pacific Language Weeks.