2021 Manaiakalani Film Festival

 It's here!

Despite the challenges Auckland is currently facing, the Manaiakalani Film Festival is finally here. Let's all enjoy the hard work of these talented akonga and their kaiako who have brought this Festival for us all to enjoy.

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Puppet FriYAY!

To explain our little Room 7 Challenge, Jamie said "We made puppets, because last lockdown one of our students went to school with some other school mates and did some challenges like 'Shiny Thursday' and 'Fun Socks Friday'. Our class wanted to try it too!"

Students were excited to attempt making puppets, but they initially felt a bit anxious with HOW to make them and WHAT to use. Room 7 have been learning, all year, about using questioning to help us understand things better and make decisions that will help us. With the help of YouTube and Google they found instructions, but some of them didn't have the right materials to make them. Thankfully their whanau were able to help these students and they improvised, using other materials. 

Here is a screenshot of our Google Meet this morning. Didn't they do well?

Meeting Black Ferns.

 Jamie, Nikita, April, Frances and Julio would like to tell you about this fantastic event:

During lockdown, the Black Ferns hosted a public Zoom Meeting and anyone who had the link could join in. There were two zoom meetings and one was hosted at ten o’clock and the other at eleven o’clock. Mister Bell told our class at our google meet that the Black Ferns were hosting a zoom meeting and the public could join if they had the link. 

Mister Bell added the link onto our daily timetable. Some of us were really excited to meet them and ask the Black Ferns questions. It was organised because September is the month of the Rugby World Cup. This huge sporting event is being held over thirteen different places across the United Kingdom. Everywhere, everyone is getting warmed up to watch it. Everyone mostly went to the eleven o’clock zoom meeting. It ended at eleven thirty three.

The Black Ferns who were at the Rugby Zoom Meeting were Eloise Blackwell, Vania Wolfgramm, Ruahei Demant, Liana Mikaele Tu’u, and Mai Kawana Aulani Roos. The questions that our class asked were, “What inspired you to join rugby?” “What dance moves do you know?” “What is your favourite smoothie?” I don’t think any of the Black Ferns answered our questions, but it is okay. The Black Ferns were talking about their culture, where they live, their hobbies, and what they like. 

After the Zoom meetings, everyone was happy because the Black Ferns’ fans and supporters got to know more about some of the Black Ferns. Next time when this happens again, maybe most of the class will go to the zoom meeting!

Safe And Sound In Lockdown

  As we head into another 2 weeks of Distance Learning, Room 7 have decided to make our morning Meets more fun. We have all assembled to show our stuffed toys together and issue a challenge to other classes to show theirs during their next Google Meet...

Sea Monkeys!

 As part of our Science work, Room 7 have been studying our new class pets: Sea Monkeys.

We are learning to identify the features of our creatures and explain how these features help them to live in the water. MRS GREN has been helping us as well, to understand what criteria life must fit into. 

At the beginning of last term we had 3 tiny creatures hatch but then they disappeared. Because we never saw anything moving in the water for the next week we assumed they must have died. This told us we were doing something wrong in how we cared for them. Our hypothesis was that our classroom was too cold for them, or that direct sunlight hurt them and they died. 

By starting over with our tank in a different spot in the classroom, out of direct sunlight, we are finally seeing some good results as many have hatched and happily swim around the tank while Room 7 learn more about them. 

We have learned that these creatures are brine shrimp, who like to live in warm conditions, eat algae and move using their feather-like fins on the sides of their bodies. One surprising discovery is that they actually don't look anything like monkeys at all!

-Good morning!

Water Skills For Life with SwimMagic

 For the past two weeks all Saint Patrick's students have participated in the Water Skills For Life programme delivered by the wonderful people at SwimMagic, CLM The Bays. They've had a fabulous time, learning important aquatic skills to help them stay safe in and around water. 

I'd like to thank GAAAP, and SwimMagic for making this experience one that all of our children will treasure. 

Mitey Sessions

 Today our learners have been exploring the story of "Tumeke Tui" during our Mitey sessions. Everyone is excited to have Mrs Barlow and Mrs Keely bring us new perspective in understanding our stories. Here are a few short clips from two of our sessions:

They've Hatched!

 This week has been an exciting one for our learners as Room 6 have started hosting some "Living Eggs". On Wednesday we all arrived at school to the news that...all of the eggs have hatched!

Here's a short video showing the experience:

Saint Patrick's Day 2021 Celebrations - by Jamie.

  This past Wednesday our school celebrated Saint Patrick's Day together. Here's what went down, according to Jamie:

First, we went under the canopy and had our mass/assembly. We didn’t go to the Church because there was still Covid- 19 level restrictions. After the assembly we first lined up in our houses and Mrs Bullot was calling our names to sort us into new teams. She said the team's name, and then their leader, co leader, and the other people in their team. Mrs Bullot said if you hear the bell ring, (the one with a stick at the top of it.) you have to go to the next game.

After that, my team went to the field to play Mister Bell’s game called Golden Child. He told our team that he was borrowing that Ki O Rahi kit, so we had to be careful not to break it. I showed some of the little people how to play the game, they learned quickly. We had a lot of fun in Mister Bell’s game. We heard the bell ringing, so we walked to the next game.

The next game was Miss Kyle’s one, in the top court. We saw that there were hoops on the metal wires around the court. She showed us that the numbers game and if she said a particular number, we could go and get the basketball to the person who could shoot, our person was Nixcent. We dribbled the ball and passed it to the person who could shoot. That was really fun! Then the bell rang again. 

We went to the last three, they were bowling, relays and the three legged race!  Those that I mentioned were my favorite games. After that, the teachers had a surprise for us. It was Popsicles! My favorite treat. The team leaders gave each one of us a popsicle. It was very delicious, I licked it very slowly because I haven’t had popsicles for a long time now.

In the afternoon we were tired but we came back to class but we were really happy that each of us got some popsicles.

Our teacher, Mister Bell said that we could have free time.

Mister Bell showed us some new games like, Knuckle bones, Pick up the sticks and Stop the bus. My favorite game was Pick up the sticks because you have to try to pick the black stick up but without moving the other sticks. Saint Patrick’s day was really fun and exciting. Next Patrick’s day will be the best as well!

Finding Maths In Everyday Life

Students in Room 7 have been working on understanding how different types of mathematics feature in our lives. They have discovered that a lot of the things they learn in the classroom are things that they will use each and every day. This slidedeck features what they have discovered about themselves in maths.