Whakatōtanga

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!”