Ice cream, lollies and chippies THANKS WHAEA ANA

Wow! We are so lucky to have whaea Ana in our classroom. She gave our students a lovely treat for being so awesome in class and working hard with our art work. After Pukeko students hung their art work, they were given their treats. Mauri ora Whaea Ana!

Te Roopu Kapa Haka o Te Puawai First Public Performance

A big shout out to all those students in Te Roopu Kapa Haka o Te Puawai. They did their first public performance in front of several classes in the hall. It was part of their bracket that they will be sharing on Fiafia night. We look forward to seeing many more performances from Te Puawai. After their performance, students from Pukeko class did a haka to support this prestigious event. Nga mih mahana!

Our Place Our Photos

Check out "Our Place" and "Our Photos"

Te Whanau Awhina Pride!

For some reason the students in Pukeko and Kereru classes decided to haka it out during lunch time. They had their shirts off and were showing their TWA pride. Of all places to haka, they started doing it at the playground and then went around the school. It is awesome to have pride, but we must also remember to be humble too. Nga mihi nui!

Our Place

Our topic for this term is "Our Place". In Te Whanau Awhina, when we talk about this, we like to show off our whare nui, waharoa and all the carvings around our lovely school. We also enjoy our playground, the school field, harakeke bushes and so on. We are very lucky that "Our Place" is so special. 

Welcome Whaea Ana!

We have a lovely trainer teacher in Pukeko class for the next 4 weeks. Pukeko class look forward to the many new learning opportunities that they will have with Whaea Ana. She is of Tongan descent and comes from Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Tomorrow some of our students will be learning how to cook in our lovely whare kai and later she will be playing some new ball activities. Next week, whaea Ana will be teaching the students about procedure texts in literacy and fractions in numeracy. Watch this space for upcoming photos and videos. Mauri ora!

Haka Time!

The boys just love doing haka for the many guests that come to our kura. This time we had whaea Miriama and Whaea Renee come and talk to our class and the boys wanted to do their thing. Mauri ora!

Have a look at some photos of our past MARAE NOHO. The girls were learning how to do the karanga for welcoming guests for dinner and supper while the boys were learning how to use the mau rakau. Mauri ora whanau!

Orchestra - Check it out!

Merani, Devontae, Izayah, Toka, Puna, Calais and Shannon are showing their music talents during orchestra time. Mauri ora!

A WORD FROM THE WISE - MATUA TUIONO SPEAKS!

Why do we do IKAN TESTS?

What does IKAN actually mean? and why do we do IKAN at the beginning and at the end of the year? IKAN stands for Individual Knowledge Assessment of Number. The students are given a test of their instant knowledge for math that they definitely need to know. The stages for this test start from stage 4 through to stage 8. The students record their answers on a sheet and then the teacher can tell what stages they are at for particular domains such as how good they know their numbers in sequence and order, how well they know their fractions, how well they know their place value and finally how well they know their basic facts. This information is useful as it allows the teacher to organise specific activities that can help students reach higher stages in their knowledge. So students look at your sheet and tell me what your stage is for a particular domain and what you need to work on. MAURI ORA!