Year: 2025

Wiki 1 – Wehenga 2 2025

Ka tahuri atu rā te kaupeka whakatā, kia hau mai nei he kaupeka hou ki runga i a tātou. Te Wehenga tuarua o te tau 2025. Nau mai rarau mai te Wiki Tuatahi o te wehenga 2.

This week is all about grounding back into the kopa with the many amazing kaupapa this term.

Kaupapa 1: Te Whenua is our school wide kaupapa. A part of Te Whenua, we teach sense of belonging and kaitiakitanga within our kopa and Te Kāhui o Ngā Mātā Raukura, where we build tikanga within our tamariki. One of their many roles in the kura is hosting our manuhiri at our Marae (Owae Whaitara Marae) where many kura go and learn about our hītori. A tikanga our tamariki are lucky to learn, is putting up our haki which symbolises who we are as Te Atiawa and lets outside world know that there is a kaupapa ora happening at the Mārae. Our tamariki sat on the paepae with Matua Tiaki and done the haka pōwhiri for St John Bosco School who had their marae noho at Owae. Was a grounding feeling.

Kaupapa 2: Pāngarau – Te Ine, Te Utu. For Pāngarau this term, our tamariki are learning about Te Utu, Pūtea, Tārā, Hēneti….etc. To build their sense of finance we are learning all aspects of money this term.

Kaupapa 3: We have joined the Milk bottle cap challenge with many other schools around Taranaki and our tamariki are doing awesome. So if you have spare milk bottle caps please send into school so we can win some prizes for our Kura.

Such a great start to our wehenga 2. Pai Mārie e te whānau.

Hanga Waka Hourua – Tānga Kūkara

  • We have been learning about how to create a waka hourua using shapes and lines.
  • What you can see is a rangatira standing on his waka.
  • We created it by using Tānga Kūkara – Google Drawings
  • I am proud of my work because it helped me to create a picture using shapes and lines.
  • Something I found quite challenging about this was using the line. I forgot the name of the line we had to use (Polyline). The hard part was making the line, clicking off it and then clicking again to do another line.
  • Something I learned was using the Polyline to make the shape of the boat and using different shapes to make the sails.
  • My tips about creating a waka hourua is to use both hands to move the arrow around. Its faster.
  • Do you know the Māori ingoa for boat, Post and sails?

Artwork Credit to: Anahera.

KO WAI AU STUDENT PROFILE – MATIHIKO

This wehenga (term) Te Mātā Puawaitanga will be navigating the digital aspect of learning and using Ako, Hanga and Tohatoha as a foundation.

AKO – Kei te ako te tamaiti ki te rāweke me te whakamahi i a Tānga Kūkara (Google Drawing) hei whakaputa pānui whakaahua ākonga. So tamariki are learning to explore the Google Drawings function to create a Student Profile for our kaupapa o te Wehenga ko Ko Wai Au. With a step by step guidance from myself as I utilize my digital inclass teachings, and the awesome manaakitanga of our tuakana tau 6, our tamariki were able to complete a student profile.

HANGA – Hanga is a section of digital learning where they create their own style of profile. They go through the learning (Ako) and then they hanga (create) which is the beautiful slide of mahi you see.

TOHATOHA – Tohatoha is an important aspect where our tauira tohatoha (share) their creation / learnings with others which we will do through this class blog. This helps our tamariki to be proud of what they have created and allowing other tamariki to also have a chance to adore their mahi and even leave a positive comment for them.

Have you ever used Tānga Kūkara to create a student profile?

TEINA TUAKANA – WHANAUNGATANGA

Wiki 2, Term 1 2025, we started our first Teina Tuakana afternoon where we mix our 3 kopa to create 3 ropu of tuakana teina. It is very important that our tamariki experience the manaakitanga of teina and tuakana. Ko te nohotahi o te tuakana me te teina ki raro i te whakaaro kotahi! Koia! Koia! This kotahitanga gives our tuakana the greatest opportunity to role model and also learn to be compassionate towards our tamariki. This also gives our teina the opportunity the feel the safety as their tuakana show their manaakitanga and also to learn how to role model aswell.

Our tamariki where divided into 3 rōpū; Peita, tunu kai and Hākinakina.

The whakaahua above show our tamariki creating huge banners for our local kapa haka rōpū ‘Ngā Purapura o te Tai’auāuru’ who will be representing Whaitara and Taranaki at the up and coming Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga which is held here in Taranaki, Ngāmotu. Our tamariki have whanau who are performing in this rōpū so creating a banner for them to show our tautoko has been a fun and exciting process.

Will you be attending Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga?

Who is your favourite rōpū kaopa haka?

Hauora – Koiri (Hākinakina) Term 1 2025

We have been blessed with great, hot weather and our tamariki have been utilizing the puna kaukau. Kaukau is also a part of our hauora – Koiri this term as they learn water safety and learning different techniques for swimming. Tau 3 & 4 have utilized the kura puna and the Tau 5 & 6 have been joining seniors down at Waitara Pools.

We are very grateful for Whaea Mia who is skilled in teaching water safety and swimming drills, who has been mentoring our tamariki at kura and at Waitara Pools. Nōreira e mihi ana ki a koe Whaea Mia xx

Have you learn’t new swimmiing skills this summer?

Kawa of Care 2025

This week (week 1, term 1 2025) we welcome Tau 3 into our kopa as tuakana. As our teina navigate the routines of a senior class, they also have the opportunity to venture onto a digital learning space as Te Mātā Puawaitanga is a Digital Class Room.

Tau 3 are not the only year level that are new to using Pokarangi (Chromebook) or more so in a digital classroom, Tau 4 and a few Tau 5 are also very new to exploring the aspects of digital fluency.

We understand that our tamariki thrive on digital gadgets, however this took a turn when exploring the important parts of digital fluency became a part of our lesson. KAWA OF CARE.

  • Kawa of Care is a framework developed to guide students in being Cybersmart within digital environments. It is often used in New Zealand schools, particularly within the Manaiakalani Programme, to promote responsible, safe, and positive online behaviors.

We have been learning about – how to properly care for our Pokarangi in the most respectful way. We have also learn’t to determine what tikanga we are meant to follow and what doesn’t align with Pokarangi Care (Poster below). We were all given a sentence or a picture to decipher which category it belongs under. We were all successful at completing this exercise and we done it as a class.  We then moved to Digital footprint and understanding what that means for ourselves and for others around us. We have learn’t that when we add to social media in a positive or negative way, that its permanent and it may affect others.

It is important to look after our chromebooks because You have to pay for them because they are expensive.

Do you have Kawa of Care for your devices?