Term 3 Wiki 1

Nau mai hoki mai! 

Week 1 has started with learning our new ako routines for our akomanga. 

We also set a learning goal which we included on our kites to make sure they are high up and we will strive to reach them. 

Here is what they looked like at each step. 

Term 1 Week 9: Te Aranga

Kia Ora!

Week 9 was a short week due goal setting meetings and Easter Weekend but we did our best to use our time to the best of our ability. Students started swimming lessons this week, discussed why we celebrate Easter, which students all had different reasons for this.  We designed our own Easter egg and practices our weaving skills.

Term 1 Week 8: Whanaungatanga

 Ngā Mihi kia koutou katoa,

The tauira this week have been busy getting on with our core subjects, Te Reo, pūtaiao and learning about Ngā atua Māori, their responsibilities and which of our New Windsor Ways they show. The tauira have realised they all show different attributes which depend on their actions during the creation story or what their role is. 

We also learn't about how to take good photo's on our ipad and then took pictures of tauira displaying the kawa of care.

          

              

                      

Tauira like doing Just Dance

We always make sure to do pūtaiao which this week was Suck it up learning about how water and minerals are sucked up via the plants roots into the stem for the plant to live but if a soil pest is added this can stop the water and minerals been sucked up. Which has an impact on the health of the plant. Tauria really enjoys these hands on experiments.

                              

                        

 

Term 1 Week 7: Whakamātautau The Week of Testing

Tena koutou katoa!

Akomanga 16 has a very busy week of learning and testing our reading, writing and math's skills. We had a really engaging and exciting pūtaiao lessons where we made tube tornados.

Also we have all been discussing and working on one of our New Windsor Way learner profiles Manawaroa (resilience). We have done this by not giving up when we find our work a challenge and when we do our karakia or kōrero. The students learn't about Tane and he showed resilience when he split his parents Ranginui and Papatuanuku by being fearless, tough and he didn't give up when it got hard.  The tauira are developing mahi tahi (collaboration) in all areas of our school work.

This week we finished off our self portraits, which have developed in great pieces of students self perception. The students also really enjoy doing just dance for fitness time.

In week 9 we have parent student goal setting meetings, so we have been setting goals visually.

Setting Goals

Teina doing a tuhituhi session

Buster reading to the class

Connor and Tui's Self Portraits

Frankie showing Manawaroa by leading our Karakia with Sione

Buster, Connor, Siuta and Levi ready to make a tornado in a tube