While the weather is nice we like to get out and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Te Puawai enjoy playing games, especially Basketball. Today for our Pit Stop break we played 'Golden Child' where one team shoots goals to stop the other team from running all the way around the court and tagging the next person. Once the whole team has run around the court that team is the winner.
As a school we practice the waiata that we will be singing at our end of year prizegiving. These songs are in English and Maori, celebrating two of the official languages of Aotearoa. It is a great time for the Te Puawai students to show their excellent role model skills and for the school to participate in an activity together, showing our school value of Porihanga or Community and Partnerships.
Congratulations to all the hardworking 'Maths Whizz Kids' in Te Puawai! We have won the Top Mathletics Class two weeks in a row. Well done Te Puawai!
As part of the reforestation and clean up project undertaken by DOC, we were asked to help plant some Kanuka and Manuka trees around Lake Ngatu. As Kaitiaki of the lake we also walked around the lake collecting rubbish and having a general clean up, showing our school value of Kaitiakitanga. Our students show a lot of pride in keeping our lake clean and protecting the ecosystems, plants and animals that call Lake Ngatu home.
Today we were lucky enough to have James Coleman come in and teach us how to play Football through some really cool, fun activities. We learnt how to dribble the ball, control the ball, shoot goals and keep fit while playing Football.
After our senior syndicate assembly we practiced our waiata and singing with Te Kauru. We had great time and learnt some new waiata.
Woohoo! Te Puawai were Top Class of the week for Mathletics this week! To achieve this we had to work hard to gain new gold bars by doing Mathletics activities as a class. We worked together showing our school value of Porihanga or Community and Partnerships.
In Te Puawai we are learning about what makes a thoughtful, helpful and positive Blog comment. By commenting on other peoples Blogs we aim to help others learn and improve their work , just like they help us when they comment on our Blogs. In our class we use the following sentence starters to help us write our comments.
We are very fortunate to be part of the Sport Northland Project Energise program. Over recent years our Energiser has been Garth, but we now have a new Energiser named Morgana. Students across the school have enjoyed learning how to stay fit, healthy and active every second Monday with Morgana. She has taught our students how to stretch before and after games or physical activity and fun, new games that they can play. The students have thoroughly enjoyed having Morgana at school and look forward to learning more from her.
