What an amazing hub I belong to! The last Saturday of the school holidays I turned 30. When I got to school on Monday morning I found that my classroom had been decorated by some amazing teaching colleagues and they had made a birthday cake and had planned party games for all the students in the hub. What an incredible day we had together celebrating my birthday. We had a party in the afternoon where we had delicious party food and we played party games. It was amazing to see so many of the students had not played pass the parcel before. Over the first week back, we played a range of party games so the students would be able to play these at their own birthday parties in the future. We had so much fun!!!                                                                            ...

This term Te Ara Whakatau have been beginning to learn about different fairytales. We have started by learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The students have been blowing us away with how they can retell the story to others. Here is a video of Luka sharing the story to his class, he cut out all the pictures himself and glued them to make his own story page! Fantastic retelling Luka!

During the last two weeks of term we were learning about Matariki. Te Rōpū Kura Pounamu, Te Rōpū Whakaute, and Te Rōpū Wawata learnt about many different versions of the stories on how Matariki began. We sang songs and also learnt about how people celebrate Matariki. We ended the term by making our very own Matariki kites. We had to draw the seven stars on them and then fold them carefully to make the kites. Then we got to fly them, it was loads of fun!