First Week Back - 2016

Room 9 had an energetic start to the school year.

We learnt that each student has their own unique strengths and created our own word art;

we created a mandala, which included drawings that represented our identity and what was important to us;

we analysed a children's narrative 'Baby Bear and the Big, Wide World' and began drafting our own narratives for our 'Buddy Class', which is Room 2 this year;

we started reading 'Once' by Morris Gleitzman and began to learn about the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights;

we worked on our own mihi/pepeha, which we will present to our class next week;

we discussed two current events issues - the Zika Virus and the TPPA, using the 'SPEECH' model, which will help us develop deeper understandings of issues such as these;
Social
Political
Economic
Environmental
Cultural
Historical

we re-visited our school values - Manaakitanga, Rangimarie, Tukumarie and Whanaungatanga, and we were introduced to the new school value - Ako, which means shared or reciprocal learning;

and we briefly talked about our hauora or well-being in relation to Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapawha.