We are lucky to have our music teacher Whaea Jen at Paparore School. She encourages a love for music, making each lesson an enjoyable and interactive hands on experience for the students. Our class not only learn valuable musical skills but also develop a deep appreciation for the beauty of different types of music that sheintroduces them too. We all look forward to Wednesday with Whaea Jen!
Today we had a tuakana teina day as the junior school teachers were all taking part in some learning in the whare. A tuakana class teamed up with a teina class and we had a lot of fun supporting each other and learning in different environements throughout the day. Click on the link to check out some of the learning that took place on the day.
During our reading session today, the students teamed up to complete an information scavenger hunt focused on The Treaty of Waitangi. Working in pairs, they searched for information around the classroom to learn more about the treaty. Click on the link to check out our Treaty of Waitangi learning on the class site.
Congratulations to Alex, Mila, Sylvie and Billie-Jean for completing over 30 nights of Summer Reading. Each of the students received a chocolate and book as a reward. Kia tonu pai to panui e ngā kōtiro.
Introducing Te Manga 2024
We have 24 keen, enthusiastic and positive students, ready to embark on their next learning journey. Independence and self-management are key focus areas in our classroom environment. In Te Manga we work to the best of our ability everyday, make positive choices in our learning and we follow our school values!
Tēnā koutou katoa
Today we had the privilege of sharing some of our music learning from this year with our whānau and Te Tinana as our audience. The tamariki led this themselves and chose what learning they wanted to share with you all. We had been learning some waiata Māori – E Minaka Ana and Ka Pioioi which the tamariki wanted to perform in kapahaka costume and with moko. We also performed a drumming piece – Seven Nations Army that Whaea Jen had been teaching us.
The proudest moment for me as their kaiako was watching their pride, passion, courage and commitment leading up to and including their performance today.
Ngā mihi nui to the whānau who were able to make it in person, our tamariki were very appreciative as was I, we know it is not easy to make these events with our busy lives.
We hope you enjoy watching these videos of our group performances and those tamariki who were brave enough to do solo performances will share to their individual blog on Friday.
Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa,
Ngā taitamariki me ngā kaiako o Te Manga
This week our class has been reading a shared text about the History of Rugby.
We are learning to think about questions we could ask a top rugby player if we got the opportunity to meet them.
First tamariki had to choose a top rugby player who they could ask three questions of. We needed to think about what questions would be appropriate and that our questions did not need to be about rugby itself.
For some tamariki this was an easy task and for others this meant a little bit of online research into top rugby players.
As part of our learn, create, share kaupapa the tamariki needed to write three questions they would ask and then record these with a buddy on our class ipads. We then use imovie to edit our recordings so we can share to our class site, class blog or individual blogs. Below are some of our finished videos our tamariki were happy to share.
For the past 4 weeks, the students have been very busy making movies. The students came up with different ideas for movies and decided on making three. The students chose which movie they wanted to be part of and got straight into it.
Each group had to decide the ‘where, who and what’ of their movie; setting, characters, plot! This was a huge task which the students did really well. Everyone worked together to come up with (and agree) on what their movie would look like and then got started on the script, introducing dialogue and actions for the actors! A huge task!
Then the next step was creating and producing each movie in a short time frame. The students had the chance to act, direct, instruct, operate the camera and think about all the things that happen behind the scene to make a movie. Everyone had a lot of fun and are looking forward to entering the Manaiakalani Film Festival next year.
Idea and concept – Alex
Crew and Cast – Alex, Pranshi, Liam, Te Miringa, Azalea, Te Reinga, Aaraitanga and Indi
Roger is a gamer, hates school and doesn’t have any friends. He plays tricks on his teacher and always gets into trouble. One day Roger decides that he needs needs to change his ways! What will he do?
Idea and concept – Whole Group
Crew and Cast – Arlen, Nathanael, Toby, Harley-James, Grayson, Bostin, Cameron and Thomas
Ritchie is new to rugby and his team mates don’t think he has what it takes to play in the big game. Will Ritchie believe in himself?
(Guest appearance from some of the Te Kauru Boys – Ashton, Jaxon N, Garielle, Kieran, Ryan, Daniel and Jesse)
Idea and concept – Whole Group
Crew and Cast – Halo, Nova, Alyssa, Tahli, April, Mia, Shaylyn and Sophia
The kids from Te Manga care about the environment. They discover a turtle when they are doing a beach clean up. Their discovery helps the environment more than they ever could have imagined!
(Guest appearance Te Ahuru the Honu)
Te Manga have been learning about persuasive writing and speeches for the past 5 weeks. Each student has presented a speech to the class which will be posted on their individuals blogs. Today our speech finalists had the opportunity to present their speeches to Sir, Mrs Windleborn, whānau and friends.
Speech Topics
Te Reinga – NZ should be pest free
Shaylyn – What I would do with a billion dollars
Pranshi – My Dream School
Nova – Kids should be allowed to play video games
Indi – I should be Prime Minister
Nathanael – If I was Sir
The speech topics were varied and interesting. Each student presented their speech with enthusiasm, confidence and passion! Sir and Mrs Windleborn had a very difficult decision to make.
1st Place went to Te Reinga, congratulations!
A huge congratulations to all of our speakers today and to all our Te Manga students who worked so hard. We are very proud of all of you!
Click on this link to go to our individual blog links. Each student will have their speech on theor blog by the end of term.
Tēnā koutou e te whānau o Te Manga
We wanted to share some kupu Māori we know and what we love about learning Te Reo me Tikanga Māori.
Check out our video below with some tamariki sharing their whakaaro.
Kia pai tō rā whakatā koutou!