We had a fantastic first week back at school and already our school calendar is filling up quickly.
Congratulations to all of our tamariki who competed in their respective finals or games in the weekend. Many of the Turanganui teachers popped down to Rugby Park on Saturday to check out the action and it was neat to see so many of our awesome children on the field. Well done!
A few highlights from our first week back at school
Mathletics...holiday..what holiday? so many Turanganui kids kept up with their maths over the break. We will continue to monitor and celebrate each week. Well done to our syndicate leaders for week 1!
Helping Koka Tarn to dye room 16's harakeke flowers that they made at Focused Friday
McKenzie, Koka Tarn, Hurene, Taine and Lena-Marie
Wananga with Papa Pura at last Fridays kapa haka extension session.
Our school and syndicate send our aroha and sympathy to the Wehi whanau on the passing of Koro Bub Wehi. Every Friday our tamariki are proud to learn and sing waiata that he composed. We are very sad to hear of his passing and will be sending a representative roopu out to Waihirere on behalf of the school. Arohanui to Papa Pura and Koka T as well.
Room 20 boys - Maths in action - Statistics
Woodwork Pinball Master Piece - Well done Anna Manuel
Room 19 and Koka Jodie hard at work last week and some of their awesome 'Cry of the Taniwha' reviews and art work.
Room 21 and Matua Bruce just settling in to their morning Maths session..lots of quality learning taking place. Our Turanganui classes have started the term off with a Statistics unit for maths. We had a lot of great results last term and will be continuing to monitor our Mathletics improvements each week and celebrating at team assembly and on room 22's windows. Practise makes permanent and the children who are investing extra time are seeing huge improvements with their learning.
Eve and Nathania working on their Olympics Reading tasks together.
Room 22 playing Ki o Rahi. Thanks to Hurene and Tamati who taught the class how to play. This week Matua Shane from Turanga Health will be in to work with Koka Ana, Koka Jodie and the Tekau ma Rua around Takaaro Tawhito. Our Tekau ma Rua will then be sent around the school to offer the other classes an opportunity to learn these games with them as the teachers.
Last week we started our Kaitiaki unit off with a syndicate Wananga lead by Matua Puri in room 19. Our children are all mixed into six groups and will spend two consecutive lessons with each Turanganui teacher on a different kaupapa based around Kaitiakitanga. We are very keen to get whanau on board and will use the information gathered from our consultation forms and conversations to share your skills with our children. Next week each class will also be picked up to head up to Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) to assist with planting new native trees up there. A separate panui will come home in the next couple of days with all the info you need. Thank you to Koka Trudi Ngawhare for offering this to us. We are very keen to give back to the community and assist where possible so please get in contact if you have more suggestions for us.
Life Education
Room 22 completed their three life education sessions last week and covered the brain, cyberbullying and making decisions. Each child also receives a workbook to reinforce the learning done in these sessions. The rest of Turanganui will complete their three sessions over the next two weeks.
You may have seen on Facebook that we were lucky to host Miss Amber Church in room 19 last Tuesday. Miss Church departs for Rio at 9:30am in the morning and she delivered a hugely inspirational speech to our students. Some of her key messages were to listen to advice, to work hard, to not let your location or situation affect your desire to achieve your goals, to use negative comments from those who say you can't do something to drive you, to always remember where you are from. We wish Miss Church a safe and prosperous trip and will be looking out for her in the opening ceremony...she showed us her stylish outfits that she has to wear for official duty!
Turanganui Heritage Trails with Turanga Health
In week 4 two of our classes will begin three sessions around the Turanganui Heritage Trails. These trails are designed to increase physical participation and knowledge around the history of our area. These will be fantastic for building on the knowledge acquired at the start of the year with our Tairawhiti Museum 'Our Place' lessons. Turanga Health will pick each class up and return them to school at the end of the block. All students need covered shoes to protect their feet. We are very grateful to Turanga Health for supporting our tamariki again.
Room 20 girls hard at work on their reading
What's on in Turanganui this week?
Monday
- Maths Extension
Tuesday
- Australaisan English Exam
Wednesday
- Attitude Presentations Click here for attitude information
Thursday
- BOP/PB Winter Tournament
- Tech
Friday
- Assembly
- BOP/PB Winter Tournament
Things on the horizon
- Kaiti Hill Tree Planting
- Turanganui Heritage Trails - with Turanga Health
- Maths Week - Next Week
- Olympics Week - Next Week
- Science and Technology Fair
- Action Week - Out of town payments due 2nd September
- Variety Show
- ERO visit week 4
Good luck to all of our Turanganui Taonga who are heading to Tauranga this Thursday and Friday for the Winter Tournament. We hope you all have a safe and enjoyable trip.
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