Congratulations to Week 3’s Kauri certificate winners. Thank you for being such good role models for your peers and displaying our school values. Keep up the awesome work!
Year 6 Graduation trip to Pt Erin Pool
Year 6 students had an amazing day at Pt Erin Pool yesterday.
They bravely flung themselves off diving boards, hurtled down slides, bounced off the inflatable confidence course, soaked in the hot tub, enjoyed spending time in the playgrounds and in each other’s company.
Thank you to the parents and caregivers who were able to come along and join the fun!
What was your favorite activity at the pool yesterday?
Our Ako Hiko Film Festival Entries
Kia or Bloggers,
Every year Kauri Team students write, film and edit their own original movies. Here are the 6 we chose to share at the Ako Hiko Film Festival. The rest can be found on our individual learning blogs. Check them out! We are so amazed at all the incredible ideas students had! You can see each student’s own edited film on their blog. So what are you waiting for? Go check them out!
From the Pod –
From the Den
From the Hive
Have you ever made a film?
The Den’s Maritime Museum Trip
The Den had a fantastic time at The Maritime Museum on Tuesday! The weather was perfect, and our sailing trips took us under the Auckland Harbour Bridge, where we saw bungee jumpers leaping off the bridge which added to our excitement.
At the museum we learnt about the migration of people throughout the world, and how Aotearoa was the last landmass to be populated. People are still choosing to come to New Zealand to live, as it is such an amazing place.
Check out our day in pictures….
We also got to count down the cannon that is fired at the museum every day at 12noon. The museum staff were VERY impressed when we did this in Te Reo Maori!
Can you count down backwards from ten in Te Reo?
Pounamu Art in The Den
The Den have been learning about different pounamu shapes and meanings. They have also discovered that pounamu are a taonga (treasure) that is gifted to others.
The pounamu shapes and meanings we looked at were:
Each student learned about the different qualities each shape represented. They were asked to think of a friend or whānau member, who might possess some or all of those traits. That helped them decide which shape they would like to give them.
Which shape best describes you?
School Values – Manaakitanga
Our focus for School Values is Manaakitanga.
Remember our school rules are: Be Safe, Be Kind. That will help to keep the hundreds of people at this school happy. What can you do to show Manaakitanga in your life? (not just at school!)
Here are some thoughts from our fabulous Kauri students about Manaakitanga:
Success in The Den Term 3, Week 2
Congratulations to our Merit Certificate Winners from The Den.
You have all shown fantastic manawanuitanga towards your learning. Keep up the great work!
What does manawanuitanga mean for your learning?
Have you ever played string games?
Kia ora
Have you ever played string games?
In whai (also called māui, huhu and hūhi), each player creates patterns using a loop of flax string held between their hands, accompanied by particular chants.
Some of the students in The Den were learning to create different patterns (Venus, Two Stars, Many Stars and Parachute) with the aid of a video clip and using wool. Some were definitely more challenging than others, but their great focus and persistence paid off and most students were able to complete at least one pattern.
Kicking off Term 3 With Some Music!!
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Room 22 thoroughly enjoyed their first music lesson with Mal, and what a fantastic way to end the first day back of Term 3.
By the end of the lesson, and after lots of persistence, most students were able to complete the drumming pattern. Well done Room 22!
Do you know how to play a musical instrument?
Mastering Rakau in The Den
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Each week since the beginning of this term, while half of The Den were out for kapa haka, the remaining students had been practicing rakau (a Māori stick game played by six or more people with wooden rods which are thrown by the players to each other in time to a song).
They have been learning a routine along to the Māori song E Papa Waiari. After lots of practise and persistence, the students were very successful in completing the routine while singing the song at the same time.
Have you played rakau before while singing a song? It’s not as easy as videos make it look!
