Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Cross Country Running


Our cross country event is coming up for the juniors and we have busy practising running around the field. Wow, what a great way to develop our value of hauora!
The event itself is on Monday 10 April at 11.00am and you are welcome to come along and support your child. There has been a notice come home, or you can check out the details on website.



Friday, March 17, 2017

Lāvalava

This week we read the book "Lāvalava" together.


We enjoyed sharing the story - and were especially lucky when Nofoaga and Adoration brought in lāvalavas from home to show us. They were beautiful!

We looked at lots of pictures of lāvalavas and listened to some music from Samoa.

Nofoaga wore her lāvalava and showed us her wonderful dancing.
It was a very special time.

Look at the picture of Nofoaga in her lāvalava, and the video clip of her dancing so gracefully.







Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Buddy Time

Each Thursday we join with our older buddies in Dudley to share learning activities and build relationships across the school. Activities can include; reading to each other, physical activity, designing and making. This helps build a tuakana-teina relationship, with tuakana referring to the older buddy and teina referring to the younger buddy.

"Ma te tuakana ka totika te teina, ma te teina ka totika te tuakana”

“From the older sibling the younger one learns the right way to do things, and from the younger sibling the older one learns to be tolerant”