Fun times with Matua Zion

Today Room 5 had an awesome game of Ki o Rahi with Matua Zion. They learned about playing fair, encouraging each other and playing as a team. 

Link tag & Capture the flag

Today Kaleb, Izayah, Te Ariki and Cohan  from Kaitaia College came to our school to do a P.E assessment with Room 5. They taught Link tag and Capture the flag and had lots of fun. 

Room 5 were also very lucky enough to receive some ice blocks from them, yum!

 

Ki o rahi

Matua Zion came today to take Room 3 & 5 for games of Ki o Rahi. 

Here is a link to how you play Ki o rahi.

The competition was fierce!

Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach Third Film Festival 2022

Our theme for the movies this year was “Northland History” The movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Wednesday 14 September 2022. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie. Please click on the link to view other Manaiakalani Film Festival movies. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below for the students.

 

Taonga Tākaro

Yesterday Matua Wiremu and his helpers Whaea Ange & Whaea Amy came to teach us Taonga Tākaro. They were awesome traditional Maori games using natural materials such as taiaha, rope, and rakau.  

Here are some photos of some of us enjoying the games we played. 

Following instructions

This week our focus has been on Listening to and following instructions. Sometimes it's been a challenge, but we've been preserving. Here are some of the activities we've done this week. 

Follow Instructions - Go noodle

Team work

Today Matua Paulo came and taught our class games that relied on Teamwork. There was noughts and crosses using hoops and bean bags.  Then there was a passing game where you had to pass the ball to your team mates but not the person on either side of you. It wasn't as easy as you think it would be, especially when Matua started adding more balls. .1

Watersafety with Whaea Nancy

Whaea Nancy was with Room 5 and was teaching us about boat safety and what to do if your boat capsized. It was a very cool experience and gave you a sense of what it feels like to be tipped out of a boat and how challenging and tiring it can be to get back in. It brought home the importance of wearing a life jacket and working as a team. 

Definitely a great life lesson. 

Morning tea shout

Room 3 and Room 5 got shouted a delicious morning tea from NZ Rugby for being test pilots in the Tākarokaro programme. We had tasty wraps, fruit and muffins. What a great way to start the week!

Games on!

This week Room 5 have been playing some pretty cool games with Room 3 and Room 4.  We played Capture the flag which is a syndicate favourite.

Yesterday we played a game with Room 3 where you pass the ball to your teammates until you get to the end of the field in the rectangle space played out with cones. 

We've also been playing Dodge ball with just our class, which was very competitive.  Then on Friday we had Matua Paulo come and teach us some super fun games. The game had no name but it involved passing the ball to your teammates for a set amount of throws. 

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Women's Rugby world cup @ Ahipara School

Yesterday we had the Women's Rugby World Cup visit Ahipara School. Our tamariki were very excited! 

Room 3 and 5 have been testing the Tākarokaro website which promotes being active and making connections between students, schools and sports clubs in the community. 

We wish the the Black Ferns Women's Rugby team all the best for their campaign in October 2022.

End of year Pool trip

We chucked our masks on and leapt onto the bus. It was going to be  fun as day. When we arrived Nikau and I threw off our t-shirts and spirinted over to the dive pool to pop some fat as manus.

It was starting to get cold so we jumped out to have a feed, Nikau fell asleep within five minutes, while I dived back in to have some shoulder wars with Ken and Hemi. Next we went to pop some more fat ones and to watch the bottle pops.

A little while later, we jumped back on the bus and cruised back to school to have a sausage sizzle and to play some games. It was a mean as day!

By Hunter Marsh

By Hunter Marsh

Fun games with Paulo

Monday morning Room 5 learned some cool games from Matua Paulo.

Game 1 - Pass the ball to your team without dropping the ball 10 times.

Game 2 - Pass the ball to your team member then they touch the ground with the ball. Then  they can run and pass the ball to your next teammate. Do this 10 times without dropping the ball.

Game 3 - Pass the ball to your teammates 10 times without passing it back to the person you received it from.

Game 4 - Pass the ball to your teammates down the court. Then a teammate has to have 1 foot or 2 feet in one of the 5 hexagons. You have to throw the ball to them while they're in the hexagon. Once that's done the hexagon is removed. The team with no hexagons left is the winner. 

 Here are some photos of Room 5 playing.

Learning in Lockdown

 Here is some of the mahi Room 5 student's have been doing during Lockdown.  

Check out these student's mahi from Room 5 by copying their blog links into the toggle bar at the top of the page.   We hope you enjoy!

Madie's Algebra mahi - https://apsmadisonm.blogspot.com/ 

Ken's Niue language week mahi - https://apskentarom.blogspot.com/

Tabby's Zespri - Young and healthy mahi - https://apstabithar.blogspot.com/

Dylan's Niue language week mahi - https://apsdylanc.blogspot.com/

Kahurangi's Manaakitanga mahi - https://apskahurangih.blogspot.com/

Tillie, Sam, Unaiki and Kahurangi's blog comments to Anika @ Paihia School (one of our Tuhi mai Tuhi atu blog buddies)  - https://psanikam.blogspot.com/2021/10/pal-day.html

Tait's Prototec maths

Watersafety Dryland sessions with Whaea Nancy

Today Room 5 had our a Water safety Dryland session with Whaea Nancy. She was very interesting and shared fun games we'll be doing in the Watersafe lessons next term. 

She gave us good ideas about not swimming in the local Wairoa awa because it's dirty and polluted. Her advice is if you go, make sure you go with someone older (ideally an adult), make sure someone knows you're there and don't jump in unless you've checked first. 

Whaea Nancy said if you go to the beach or river this summer take a flotation device, towel to name a few things.

Whaea Nancy also said to use the scull technique to swim in a river.  She also said if you get into trouble at the beach or river to ring 111 and ask for the Fire Brigade who will direct you to the Ahipara Surf Life Rescue.  

Ahipara Ag day 2021

This year we had a different Ag day compared to the usual.  Due to being in Alert Level 2, we couldn't have our pets come in to school like they usually would.  So we made a compromise where tauira (students) could take photos of their pet and write a story about them.  The other option was they could make a movie about their pet.

Every class made a variety of cool Ag day creations which were judged by our Teacher Aides instead of out of school volunteer judges.  Here are photos of creations Room 5 made together.  They did Biscuit decorating, made Recycled creatures/creations, Handwriting samples, Potato characters and Mural - Whakataukī (sayings) Art.

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