Whakapono 20

What can we say??... A big thank you to our samoan community in our school and classrooms who were able to cater for our classes. In our ILE hub, we were catered by Anita's mum, Joseph's family, Wendy's family, Sonya's grandma and Mr Sagote, who brought in authentic samoan food, also with our New Zealand chips, cakes and biscuits that were brought in.   Fa'afetai lava mo mea'ai. During our week we were able to make Suafa'i withour buddy class Aroha 6. This was a good acheivement, as children had not really eaten it before. We are happy they gave it a go. We also did Art, our inspiration was a Samoan Painter Fatu Feu'u. He reigns for Poutasi Falealili. We really enjoyed doing our Art. Our Ingredients Peeling off the skin to mash our bananas Jesslyn & Lavinia with her buddy The buddies peeling their bananas  Christina and her peeling Patsi, Artell with their buddies mashing the...

‘Lalaga le si’osi’omaga mo se lumana’i manuia’ ‘Weave an environment for a better future’ Welcome to Whakapono 20 blog. Today is the 27 May 2019. At our school we officially opened Samoan Language week with the raising of the Samoan flag, with prayer and acknowledgments to our community, teachers and children of our school. Here are some photos taken of the morning. we will be doing more things through our week so watch this space with our children's blogs and our class blog. OUR FLAG RAISING CEREMONY Our panel of speakers Taniara Enjoy our blog

This week we had a safety talk in the hall about how to react to anything that could cause us harm. We were asked questions of 'do you know what you  need to do if you were in a lockdown?' what do we do if the fire alarm bell went off? or if we sighted a fire? The children then without warning put in a lockdown situation. It was very scary remembering what happened in Christchurch in March and knowing that many schools had been put into lockdown. We lay on the ground waiting until we were told it was going to be safe. Once we were told, we then moved to our safety evacuation place out the front of the school. Once all children, teachers, support staff, Senior management staff and office, nurses we were then told we did a fantastic job. But we know we can do better. Thank you for checking out our blog. DOWN  LOW  AND OUT OF SIGHT!!! SAFETY AREA MEETING PLACE Thank you for reading our blog

What is G.O.A.L you may ask? It stands for Growing Our Amazing Learners!!! Our great learners inside the class and outside the class have done really awesome, with our year 5s still at school and our year 6s out at camp.. Here is what they have been up too... This week Whakapono had 11 Year 6 children go to camp. They went to Camp Lakewood Lodge in Huntly. They have a superb time, from horse riding, climbing wall, mud run, survival of the toughest hehehe... starting a starting a fire to cooking sausages over, kayaking and the all mighty flying fox!!!...  sleeping in tents and in cabins, sharing with our peers and just being away from family was fun but we missed them heaps..  here are some photos and videos of our camp time!! Horse riding - Ryan  Ryan ready for Kayaking Ryan and his groups cooking the sausages... they look cold Miss Parry - Shy hehehe  J-Lynn W19 Sophie and her group before sleep time...