Nga mihi from the Turanganui Teachers

Thank you to all of our whanau for attending tonight's 'Meet the Teacher' evening. We had a thoroughly enjoyable evening with you all and look forward to working together this year. Many thanks for filling out the aspirations sheets which will be proudly displayed in our rooms - please return these to school as soon as possible if you took them home to complete.

Today Rooms 20, 22 and 24 had an enjoyable day at the Museum learning about 'Our place - The Horouta and the first meeting in Turanga of two people and Taonga Puoro - Traditional Maori Instruments. Rooms 19 and 21 will be heading to complete the same lessons next week. Half of our team will be following these lessons up with a historical walk run by our Museum educators and completing some pre camp assessments at the Olympic Pool. We will be archiving this learning in digital format using our individual student blogs that we are in the process of setting up. Here are a few snaps from our first museum excursion. 

Vaelyn Maurirere aka 'Fish' and his delicious morning tea

 Gorgeous Turanganui Taonga

Monaro and Mairangi 

 Who's taller? Phoenix and Koka Trace having a measure off

Matua Aaron taking Room 22 for their 'Horouta' lesson

Room 20 hard at work

A great spot for collaborative learning - Room 20 boys

Hard Workers - Room 20

 Manaia and Irie

Lena Baty-Akurangi and Maysha Koia checking out the hull of a waka

 Chanelle Kiwara-Bishop checking out an old Whaling Boat

Attlee Waitoa and Tori Spooner checking out a model depicting the arrival of Europeans to our region.

Room 22 enjoying the exhibit

Koka Julie teaching room 22 about traditional Maori instruments

Tori Spooner and Attle Waitoa

Paddy Evans- Rangiwai

Thanks to all of our whanau who indicated they can assist us with careers planning and other curriculum support - we would love to have as many of our whanau as possible sharing your expertise with our kids. If you did not get a chance to offer your support - please email your child's teacher to arrange best dates. 

All Turanganui Students start tech tomorrow so please remember your gear.