TRY-athlon

Today our teina participated in the junior TRY-athlon. They did such an amazing job, giving it all and really showing mana when waiting for their race.

It was great to see all of their hard work from practice really pay off.

       

Christmas Parade

Ngā mihinui ki a koutou katoa i haere mai ki te tautoko i te rā whakanui o te Kirihimete. Thank you to everyone who came along to support us during the Christmas parade, we really appreciate everyone who gave up time on their Saturday to come along. We sang our waiata to a huge crowd of people and the kids did a fantastic job. Tau kē!

   

Mindfulness with Erica

During mindfulness with Erica this year we have covered a range of very useful mindfulness tools to help keep us calm and focussed in class. During our last session Erica talked about the survival brain which is centred in reacting quickly when we feel scared, threatened or upset. We then talked about times that we all might have gone into our survival brain and how we can come out of this mode in order to be calm and active learners in class. Erica then talked about our pre-frontal cortex or our calm brain and how it is responsible for higher level thinking like learning, planning and making good decisions. We used mirimiri or massage to bring us into a calm state, and we then looked at mindful eating and paying attention to the smells, sounds, texture and taste of our food. Thank you for an awesome year of mindfulness Erica!

   

Day of Action

Our kura has learned so much about what Kaitiakitanga means this year. We have wrapped up our learning with a day of action.

Our day was full of activities that demonstrate many different parts of kaitiakitanga. Like growing a sustainable mara, cleaning up our wahi, upcycling, repopulating our green spaces with native manu and creating chemical free products.

We ended our day with a market to raise money in support of many different causes.

Ata Hāpara sold some upcycled items, a recipe book with many chemical free household products, as well as some of the products we created.

It was such a fun day sharing our learning with whānau and learning what others are doing in their studios.

Up-cycling crafts

A big thank you to Jen who came in and helped our tamariki make a catching game out of plastic bottles, and another thanks to Angela for coming in and helping our tamariki to make Jelly fish out of plastic bottles. The kids loved these projects and we will be showcasing these creations on our day of action coming up on Friday.

 

Athletics

This week we have been training for our upcoming athletics day. We started our training with long jump.

For some of us it was our very first time doing long jump and we were a bit scared. But, after a couple of tries, we grew our confidence and really enjoyed this new learning.

It was so much fun running up to the pit and then leaping in.

What is your favourite sport to do on athletics day?

Beach Clean Up – Kaitiakitanga In Action

Ngā mihinui and massive thanks to our awesome tamariki and parents who came out to help do a beach clean up last week. We managed to collect 4 sacks full of plastic in between North Beach and the Pier. Well done! Our marine environment will be healthier thanks to you. Remember, microplastics or very small pieces of plastic can harm wild life too, as these pieces are small enough for animals to swallow. Once swallowed, these small pieces of plastic stay in the animals stomach until it dies. So no matter how small the piece of rubbish might be, always make sure you place it in the rubbish bin.

 

Poi practise

Our kōtiro in have been learning a new poi for the next Kapa Haka performance coming up towards the end of this term. You can find the waiata called Rona on YouTube if you would also like to practise at home. See link below.

Waita Poi – Rona