Kapa Haka Performances

We had an exciting week performing our whole school Kapa Haka firstly for whānau and then for a Facebook livestream as part of the Cultural Festival. 

Pūkana! Shaniadawn and Ahzaria-Lee.

Lee-Ayla

Tamati

James

Calaise and Ashleigh 

Anahera

Māori Language Moment and Edison robots

Our School joined the Māori language moment at 12pm on Monday. We sang Toro Mai and did a quick haka to mark the day and hour 48 years ago when a petition was presented to parliament demanding that Te Reo Maori be taught in New Zealand Schools. We are very grateful!

On Friday we got out the Edison robots that Room 3 and Room 11 won from Genesis Energy last year. We had a lot of fun coding them and having sumo wrestling tournaments.  On Tuesday we will be teaching our teina in Room 14 how to use the robots.

Our experience with Scratch made the coding easy.

Ashleigh and Calaise were two of our experts.

Lots of critical thinking and problem solving!

The boys getting ready for their sumo tournament.

Project Island Song

We had the most fabulous day at Urupukapuka Island on Thursday. We learned about our precious marine environment and how to protect our endemic plants and wildlife. We planted some trees and made traps. On the trip back to Paihia we even saw some Bottlenose dolphins! 

Koroua was our biosecurity officer, checking the bags to make sure we didn't translocate any pests to the island.

Shaniadawn was in charge of Health and Safety, checking the passenger list.

Tamati showed us how to put on the lifejackets.

Caitlin enjoying the boat ride out to the island.

North, south, east and west.

What a view!

Climbing the fence safely.

Proud karo tree planters.

Group photo. Awesome Room 3.

Lots of collaboration needed to construct our traps.

Anahera driving the boat back to Paihia.

Mangamutu Stream and an origami dragon

This week we set out up Omapere Road to do some water quality testing of the Mangamutu Stream. We had fun using all of the equipment -  the thermometer, bathyscope, periscope, gravelometer, classification sheet, measuring tapes and stopwatches. We had to carefully record the data we collected.

Lee-Ayla trying out the periscope (to test water clarity).

Nesta getting ready with the measuring tape.

Calaise and Ahzaria-Lee checking the water temperature.

    

Time for a snack!

Measuring the width of the stream.

Manakitanga using the bathyscope to see what is under the water.

Mei putting an orange into the water to test water flow.

Monique was our origami expert and made a fabulous black dragon (one of our NZ Read Aloud tasks this week):