Last week, we held our first ever Celebrate Matariki event. The event was an oppurtunity for our Kapa haka and Pasifika groups to perform and for our school community to come together to celebrate Matariki. After our groups performed we enjoyed some kai that was prepared by the students, everyone loved the famous Casebrook Sapasui!
Here is a video overview of all the great learning that happened school-wide around Matariki.
Check out the awesome art piece Room 6 has created! Each student was given a section of a piece of art to replicate. Each piece was then put together to create one giant piece of art.
The piece of art shows Kupe in his waka trying to kill a giant wheke (octopus) who leads him to discover Aotearoa, New Zealand. This was one of the stories we learnt about early navigators and their voyage to New Zealand as part of our Mātauranga Inquiry unit last academic term.
Along with our art is a whakatauakī (a Māori proverb) - He waka eke noa. This has several meanings, we are all in this together - a waka we are all in together - we rise together, fall together, work together, keep going together.
They were presented with their Super REP badge by Mr Leith and will have their photo on the Super REP wall in the office foyer.
Our school-wide REP focus for Weeks 6-7 is showing REP while using our school toilets. Check out the video that Room 5 and 6 have made to explain this fortnights focus to the rest of the school community.
This academic term our school-wide Inquiry has been based around Mātauranga. We have been learning about the history of the voyagers in the Pacific and all the stories of how our Polynesian ancestors navigated the Pacific to migrate to Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Here is a video overview of all the great learning that happened school-wide during this unit.
