Thursday, February 18, 2016

Manaakitanga

A big focus for our class all year is manaakitanga - kindness and empathy. As part of this, our students spend a few minutes each afternoon filling in manaakitanga notes, where they write about kind gestures other students have made or given them that day. On Fridays, we share these notes with the class, and we draw out Manaakitanga winners to win prizes. Rania, Poppy and Ethan have already won this year with their kind, caring ways.

Here are our winners this week - Noah, Mahalia, Naeem, Nadia and Dylan. Mahalia also picked up the Duffy Award for a great attitude this week. Nga mihi nui ki a koutou!


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Garden to Table

We had a great time at Garden to Table this Wednesday - corn fritters were on the menu!

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Nau mai haere mai!

Welcome to 2016 in Room 23! We're already into our third week and it has been great getting to know everyone. Here we all are practising our mihimihi - introducing ourselves in Te Reo Maori. I've been really impressed by the effort and ability shown so far. Tau ke Room 23!