Ideas for the school holidays

Me mahi tahi tātou mō te oranga o te katoa.

We should work together for the wellbeing of everyone.

 

For all children, we will be supporting their learning from your home in the new term through online learning via Seesaw, class blogs and via links on Facebook.  For the next three days and during the school holidays (that have been brought forward to next week 30th March to 15th April) learning resources will be available on class blogs. We are currently developing online programmes with some degree of connectivity to begin after the school holidays.

A message from Nathan Wallis:

If I can leave you with one thing, it’s this: at the end of all of this, your kids’ mental health will be more important than their academic skills.  And how they felt during this time will stay with them long after the memory of what they did during those weeks is long gone.  So keep that in mind, every single day…

This is just to say...

This week the learners of Akomanga 19 had a great time sharing some of the naughty things they had done, as part of our writing focus on poetry. We used the template from William Carlos Williams’ poem to come up with our own piece of poetry. Keep an eye out for your child’s poem coming home this week in their poem book. 

Let your imagination run wild.

This week as part of our chapter chat activities learners were invited to put their imaginations to work. They could chose from redesigning the book cover, creating a scene with the BFG, Sophie and the Queen, or recreating the giants cave.  

As you can see each learner put their own twist on the brief and the results were fantastic. 

Ko wai au? Who am I?

Learners in Room 19 have spent the last couple of weeks creating their visual pepeha. A pepeha is a way of introducing ourselves and tell where we have come from. The children all have an individual pepeha as well as a school pepeha that we use. Their pepeha includes their maunga (mountain), awa or moana (river or sea) and their whānau (family). Learners have taken these pepeha and created a visual representation which includes themselves, their maunga, awa and where they are from. You may have seen this on your child’s seesaw. Below are some examples and how we use these pepeha during hui.