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 THREE 2019

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!”