Samoan Language Week

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All week we have been celebrating Samoan Language week. Students had a lot of fun learning about Samoan culture and new everyday phrases they can say in Samoan.

At the end of the week, students came dressed in their Samoan/Pacifika wear. An assembly was held at the end of the day where we all sang the Samoan National Anthem together and they students got to come up on stage to show of their beautiful Samoan/Pacifika wear.

Confident students came up on the stage to show off their beautiful Samoan dancing.

Make sure you check out the below slideshow for pictures and videos from our celebration.

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Assembly time

At the start of each assembly, we always sing the New Zealand national anthem. Thank you Room 9 for presenting such a lovely assembly and singing our national anthem so proudly.

KIWICAN

Thanks to the amazing Kiwican instructors who come every Tuesday to teach students a lot of important things. They love have lessons with you!

Creating with our hands!

In Room 9, we love creating things with our hands! Play-dough is a great way for students to have fun and learn with at the same time!

Karate

Here is a short video from the karate classes that students in Room 9 had the opportunity to do.

KARATE: self defence

  

Room 9 has been learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We were lucky enough to have some karate instructors come in and teach the students some self defence moves they can easily use.

The students had so much fun learning new skills.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

In Room 9, students have been learning about Keeping Ourselves safe.

They are learning lots of important information about how to be confident, express their feelings and how to be safe.

It is important for student to learn these skills as they begin to get older. 

This is supported by NZ Police and we were lucky enough to have Constable Paul come in and talk to the kids about safety.

Keeping Ourselves Safe enables children and young people to learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. 

Anzac Art

Our inquiry for the first 2 weeks of term 2 has been about ANZAC day.

Students have been learning lots new information and have been really enjoying learning about such an important occasion in New Zealand history.

 Students have started created some wonderful ANZAC art to display in our classroom.

They started off by sketching a hill, covered in poppies with crosses on the top.

Then they painted the sunset background using warm colours.

Students painted the poppies red and the crosses and hill black.

I look forward to seeing the finished paintings.

Well done room 9 for being such creative artists!

Assembly by Room 9

On Friday the 10th of May, it was Room 9's turn to present assembly. 

Seven confident students practiced their assembly script all week to they were prepared.

Room 9 did a great job of presenting and all of the students spoke clearly and confidently.

Well done to the Dance Club for performing a wonderful dance to Shotgun by George Ezra. Here's a short preview!

Sailing

A few lucky students from Room 9, 10 and 7 got to go sailing for the day Okahu Bay. They had a great experience learning new skills and trying something completely different and out of their comfort zones. Below is a piece of writing done by Alyanna which explained her day at sailing. 

On early Thursday we went sailing.

Before we had to go sailing we had to wake up before 8:00 because we weren’t allowed to be late.

Some of the students were almost late, lucky they made it on time before the bus came.

When the bus came, of we went to Okahu Bay.

We needed wetsuits so we won’t get that wet and we also needed a partner to go to sailing.

First thing we did was sail to the end of the bay which was a road I didn’t really understand the name of the road but it was so fun sailing.

My friend and I who went on a sailboat together were struggling a little bit then after a few minutes we got the hang of it.   

We had to follow John and Justin who were the instructors and they were on a speed boat which can fit four students and more. 

At the end after lunch we went to go sailing again and we had to jump out of our sail boat and swim in the water it was fun and also scary but John was looking after the area I was in meanwhile Justine was looking in the other area.

It was so fun and I wanted to stay a little more but we had to go back to school. We received certificates and a sticker it was a super exciting and I liked the part where we had to swim.

     THANK YOU SAILING… HAVE A GO PROGRAM

            IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I HOPE I CAN COME BACK AGAIN.