Ngā uaratanga-ā-kura - Our school values

Nau mai, haere mai ki te Rangitaki o Ngā Rau Puawai 2019. Our tamariki kick started our term by revisiting our school values, Whakaiti (Respect), Mana Motuhake (Responsible) and Manawaroa (Resilience).  Here is the planning slide from our Māhere Ako:

Firstly, we did a bus stop activity in small groups, each paper had a different area in the school and it was our job to discuss what our 3 R's looked like and sounded like in each area. Whaea Sally took all of our ideas and turned them into word clouds using wordart.com, they are hanging up in our class where we can always see them.

Next, we acted our different scenarios and showed what the 3 R's looked like, and also what it didn't look like.  We thought about a really neat way to share this learning with our kura and decided to create an advert - we were inspired by the links ads and wanted to make our own.  We had to come up with our own scene, and together we thought of a funny slogan "if you don't have it - it stinks".  Here is our ad that we showed the kura at our assembly, we used our ipads and movie maker.

We look forward to reading your feedback and feedforward. Ka kite ano.

Class of the week!!! Class of the week!!!

via GIPHY

We are proud to announce that we were chosen as class of the week by Nga Rau Rangatira. The reasons that we were chosen was our singing during taumata, the way we sat in taumata.

This week we have the job of looking out for the class of the week, we are looking for the class who shows respect in taumata, who sings our waiata proudly and who lines up ready to learn.

Class of the week!! Class of the week!!

We are proud to announce that we are the class of the week this week.  Thank you Whaea Toni for gifting us the trophy this week - you are a legend.

The class of the week is usually given for showing our school values - Respect, Responsibilty and Resilience.  Next week it will be our job to look out for the next class who we think shows these values. 

Project Put ups at the KEN 2017 Movie Night

While most of us in Room 2 were having the time of our lives at our Marsden Bay Camp, our class movie for the 2017 KEN Movie Night was being showcased at Northland College in Kaikohe. 
This short film was based around people who have experienced "put downs."  

Our class chose 3 of our students and decided to treat them to something very special.  

Have a look below. 

Thank you to Tunisia and Jacqui who went and introduced our movie at Northland College.  

We knew you were very nervous at the time and we are so proud of you both.

CLASS OF THE WEEK! CLASS OF THE WEEK!

Hooray! We were chosen as class of the week again.  Thank you so much to Room 1 and Mrs Norman for choosing our class this week.  Whaea Sally was so proud of us and gave us a little free time as a reward.

Next week we will be looking for the best class who:
(1) Shows respect and sings proudly in Taumata,
(2) Takes pride in our school by keeping it clean, and
(3) Shows respect and encouragement in next week's assembly.

He is a photo of Dayton and LJ posing by the trophy.

Class of the week

We are proud to announce that we are the class of the week this week... Hip hip, horay!
Thank you Nga Rau Tipuranga for acknowledging us this week, Whaea Sally was so proud of us.

Room 2's Treaty

Last week, our class had a special "meet the teacher" evening.  This was an opportunity for 

our family to meet Whaea Sally and see what kinds of things we do during our school day.  The first thing that Whaea Sally mentioned was our Treaty.  Have a look at our video of our promises.

In small groups, we talked about promises we could make by relating them to our school values which are Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.  Then together as a class we decided and finalised what our treaty would say.

Then together, we all signed our treaty.
Our treaty is hanging on our wall where we can always see it.