Snapshots of our Learning in Whakatōtanga …
Sprouting Seedlings… 
Throughout the year, we engage in rich learning activities.
Check out these photos to see what we have been up to:
TERM FOUR 2020
Pink Shirt Day
“Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying!”
The Cultural Parade
The official opening our Nature Wonderland 🍁
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TERM THREE 2020
Tūhuratanga Tāima Under Oma The Oak Tree
Dear Bob, The Rotary, Susan and Savory Construction. Thank you for making our Nature Wonderland. My favourite part is playing in the teepees. I can’t wait for the loose parts. I am going to build stuff with my friends. I can make loads of things with the loose parts. Stanhope Road School is very lucky to have a new play area! Yours Nelson Room 9.
Dear Bob, The Rotary, Susan and Savory Construction. I would like to thank you for building our fantastic camping area. The teepees are wonderful for playing a new game called ‘teepee tag.’ We make obstacle courses with the logs and rafts. We love jumping from one to the other just like ‘The Floor is Lava!’ The gardens are magnificent and the plants look lovely. Oma the oak tree is very happy to watch us all play. Yours Talulah Room 8.
Fun Run
Art Gallery 2020
Room 8 Weaving
Room 6 Turtle Pictures
Room 9 Clay Mobiles
Room 4 Paper Mache Bowls
Room 7 Splatter Art
Room 3 Tangaroa’s Gift
Room 2 Masks
Room 5 Germ Art
Room 10 Wire Sculptures
A story from The Art Room – Te Moko Ika A Hikuwaru. A taniwha with eight limbs which came to Aotearoa with the Tainui waka and fell in love with the Panmure Basin.
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Hautūtanga Leaders
(S.O.C) The Social Offline Club organised a special paint mixing experience for Room 9 and Room 3.
The TREEmendous Tree Makeover 🌳
Buggin’ with Ruud 🐝🦋🐞
Book Week – Book Character Parade 📒
Book Week Guest Readers 📗
Mrs Bristow read to Room 4
Mr MacDonald read to Room 9
Our Continued Dedication to Learning Online During Lockdown II
The Whakatōtanga Team have embraced online learning for a second time! We have kept
our teachers very busy with all of our creative posts on Seesaw. This time around it has
been lovely to spend time catching up in daily Zoom sessions!
Thank you to all our wonderful Whānau for all the support you have given! Homai te pakipaki!
Gymnastics
We have been improving our coordination, strength, power and flexibility. Our discipline, listening and determination while having fun when participating in Gymnastics.
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TERM TWO 2020
My Kitchen Rules Bake Off!
Making George’s Marvellous Medicine
Taekwon-Do
Creating a fun experience of the sport while at the same time introducing martial art style discipline and training
Bumping Bubbles Art
Dedication to Learning Online During Lockdown
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TERM ONE 2020
9 – 13 March Safe Walking with Constable Gordon
Dance Across the Curriculum
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Cooling off in the Pool
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Gardening with Susan
Whakatōtanga Kapa Haka
Inquiring into ‘What makes a great community?’
Tūhuratanga Tāima Teamwork and Play
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TERM FOUR 2019
On the 8th December Whakatōtanga experienced a Water Fun Day to celebrate the end of the year. This event was all planned and organised by the Hautūtanga Sports Leadership Team! Congratulations to our school leaders, what a superb day!
We thoroughly enjoyed learning all about our Stanhope Bees and how they make delicious honey!
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TERM THREE 2019
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ show
Where the Wild Things Are mask design project
Junky Monkey 🐵
Investigating Floating and Sinking in Room 6
We have been developing co-ordination, physical fitness, and strength through the Gymnastics programme…
Whakatōtanga Tree Planting – thanks to the ‘Love Your Neighbourhood’ fund and our Parent Group the school could purchase 22 fruit trees, enough for every class in the school to plant one! The students enjoyed getting outside, getting dirty and learning how to plant a tree. We can’t wait until our students have fresh apples, pears, peaches, plums, peach cots, guavas, mandarins, lemonade lemons, figs, guavas and cherimoyas to snack on during morning tea and lunch times.
Room 3 planted a ‘Packham’s Triumph’ pear tree
Room 7 planted a ‘Silverhill’ mandarin tree
Room 2 planted a ‘Yellow’ guava tree
Room 9 planted a ‘Winter Nellis’ pear tree
Room 8 planted a ‘Billington’ plum tree
Room 5 planted a ‘Beurre Bosc’ pear tree
Room 10 planted a ‘Peach Cot’ tree
Room 6 planted a ‘Brown Turkey’ fig tree
The Whakatōtanga Room 9 Garden Club have pulled a large radish out of the garden. They all pulled
together just like in the story, ‘The Gigantic Turnip’! The Garden Club also harvested some celery,
sugar snap peas and salad leaves to take home to share with their whanau.
From garden to plate…
Off to the farm….
And then there were two…
We just loved learning about, holding and watching our chicks grow!
We have started Term Three with the arrival of our 9 chicks from The Living Eggs Programme.
On the 8 and 9 August the Whakatōtanga Team went to The Auckland Museum and The Auckland National Library. The groups rotated around the ‘Stars in their Eyes’ education programme and explored all the exciting other exhibitions. Our learning focus was around the journeys people have travelled to get to New Zealand in the past.
The Auckland Museum
The Auckland National Library
On the 5th August, 406 students and 51 adults climbed aboard eight buses travelling to Manukau to see the Whetu and Nick Show. This was an entertaining performance that linked directly to the school Inquiry this term – “If Aotearoa could speak, what would we discover?”
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TERM TWO 2019
On the 14 June Whakatōtanga hosted the School Assembly. Room 8 taught us the body parts song – Māhunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae. Room 3 recited class poems and Room 9 entertained everyone with a circus made up of ‘loose parts.’ Thank you to our 2 announcers from Room 10! Loads of fun was had by all as we had a ‘Baby Shark’ dance off!
Congratulations to one lucky Whakatōtanga learner! He won The Minstrel’s fishing rod for his writing!
“Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying!”
On Friday the 17 May the whole school participated in Pink Shirt Day. Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day began in Canada in 2007. Pink Shirt Day aims to create schools, workplaces and communities where all people feel safe, valued and respected.
Sunday 12 May – Happy Mother’s Day to all our wonderful mothers and amazing caregivers. We appreciate our Home School Partnership and all your support – From the Whakatōtanga Team.
On Wednesday 8 May The Minstrel, his wife and Hiwi the Kiwi came to remind us how to be a kaitiaki of the oceans and fish for the future. We learnt how to keep marine life safe when we go fishing and how to keep ourselves safe too!
On Tuesday 7 May St John came to visit us and taught us all about identifying obvious hazards in our homes, school and local environment and how to adopt simple safety practices. We even got to administer some first aid on each other!
On Friday 3 May Kelly Sport came to provide us with Cure Kids Donation Promo Day. It was an exquisite sunny day with loads of fun had by all!




















