Today for Maths, Room 11 learnt about Position and Orientation. With the use of the Geogebra website, we created a shape using different co-ordinates. We then had to choose to reflect or rotate the shape to all 4 quadrants.
Here is an example of what we did for Maths. Not only to explore the tool of Geogebra but also to have fun exploring Rotation, Reflection and Translation.
For Samoan Language Week 2025, Team Tui was invited to partake in some amazing activities organised by Ms Minna and Ms Helen to help us celebrate SLW.
One of the activities required us pairing up Samoan and English words, names of objects and places. Next part required us to play dress-up where we were given pieces of Samoan clothing and we had to dress up someone in our group, and the last activity was an eating competition that required our groups to race who would eat Samoan food the fastest. The food included keke pua’a (pork buns), panikeke (Samoan pancakes), Bongo chips (Pacific Island snack) etc.
Then on Friday, some of our girls performed a few Samoan siva in front of the school and the wider community. We also shared a kai after the event with some of our Samoan parents.
This term for topic, our focus was “Ko Wai Au?”. It entailed of looking into our background and sharing our story of where our families came from. It also meant that we unpack the place we call home – Aotearoa. Our class was split into small groups and we were all given a region each to study. We had to find information about our regions, including information on the local iwi, marae and awa, information on it’s history etc. At the end of our research, we then had to CREATE something momumental to our region. Here are some pictures of some R11 learners creating their ‘art’
Hi Everyone,
Today (Tuesday 18 March), Room 11, Room 5 and Room 8 enjoyed our first block with Junky Monkeys. This organisation utilises good junk and takes it to schools, encouraging students to play with it.
This allowed students to bring out their creativity and use their imagination. It was great to see so many engaged students. We watched a student video yesterday so we know what to expect from todays session. We also learnt of the 5 Junky Monkey rules:
Here’s our photos 🙂
Hi Everyone,
It’s been a while but we are finally here with our first blog post for 2025. It’s a new year, a lot of new faces and new teachers have joined Team Tui. We have gone back to having 3 classes this year – so it’s a huge team of Year 7 & 8 students.
Our focus for this term is KO WAI AU? So we have been learning a lot about ourselves and sharing this information with our class. We are beginning to look at the journey some of our families took to arrive in Aotearoa. Exploring push and pull factors and understanding the sacrifices that were taken.
So, be on the look out. We will regularly post our learning with you all from now onwards.
MALO
This film is about having a positive attitude towards any challenges you may face. Whether in the classroom or in a sport – the message here is to “Never give up”.
Let’s see how a tag group welcomes a new team member into the squad. At first the new member is shy and reluctant to join in, but members of the team encourages her to give it a go. She proves herself that she is just as good as the team and it boosts her confidence.
Everyone can do anything if they put their mind to it and persevere 🙂
Enjoy!
Part of our Maori Language Week learning this week also involves us looking at a bit of history. Some students were curious about Maori arrival into Aotearoa, where they came from and how long it took before British settlers appeared.
Team Tui teachers decided to created some content about that so we can do some learning about it. We watched a video called “He Whenua Rangatira – A Maori Land”. During the video, we’d stop and discuss some things ie. What is Iwi migration? Trade routes? Who are British explorers? etc
After watching the video, students had to create a timeline to highlight the main events from the video. The timeline below was created by one of our Y8 students.
Students got a better understanding of what Maori arrival referred to and how the arrival of British settlers impacted the way Aotearoa was and shaped it to the Aotearoa we live in today.
It’s Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori (W9) and Team Tui have some fun things lined up for our learning this week. We set up a padlet for the learners to have a say in what they’d like to do this week and one of them was Harakeke weaving.
We had some of our learners walk down with the teachers after midday to our local community park (Crossfields) to cut some flax. We followed protocol and ensured we did our Karakia before proceeding.
Check out some of the photos from the Team Tui students who started on their Harakeke weaving.
We’re in week 8 and for our HALs session this week, we’re learning how to play ‘Four Circle Balls’. The focus of Four Circle Ball can be several things. It is a game that helps develop strategic play, as well as encouraging tactical hitting and moving of the hoop. At the same time, it is also a game that teaches children to work collaboratively in order to referee themselves and play fairly.
The students had a great time and decided this will be our game for this week before we move on to our next ‘Move well’ game called ‘Michael’s vs Magic’s – 6.8 from the Challenge games’.
