MANAAKITANGA

In the wake of the dreadful events of last week we came together as a school to commemorate the loss of so many lives within our community of Aotearoa. The children all dressed in bright colours and bought coins to add to our coin trail. The total donations were $1013 - a great effort by our tamariki and their families.  We also held an assembly with much singing and a minute of silence. This was followed by 2 minutes of silence at 1:40pm, which much of the school attended.

The word manaakitanga is one of our values, and simply means 'I respect and value others'. A good sentiment at this time when our lives have been thrown into turmoil.

STEM

Science, technology, engineering and maths. We are currently using a great resource which covers all these areas. Our year 6 group are seen here making simple projectors and discussing how light  is absorbed and can create shadows. These kids love experimenting, researching and making. Always a fun class to work with.
TASK: Design and create two symbols for a superhero signal that can be projected onto the wall.
Some how they forgot about the superheros along the way but had fun creating their own 'signals'.

Seed Swap

Recently we had Lesley in to talk to our class about the seed swap program at the library, and enlist the help of our students to collect seeds, make bags for them, and put them into packets. The kids learnt a lot about what to plant and when, and all about the benefits of the seed swap program. Our payment was some seeds for our own garden here at school.