Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Save our Awa - Newspaper article!

Kia ora Whānau,

This image below is a link to the Gisborne Herald news article that shows what we have shared with Matua Willie Te Aho from Te Aitanga a Mahaki. Click on the image to check out the full article.


Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Nga Toa O Nga Awa


Our Presentation To Willie Te Aho - Te Aitanga a Mahaki



Kia ora whānau,
We had an awesome morning this morning with Matua Willie Te Aho from Te Aitanga a Mahaki.
We presented to him our concerns from our Science Experiments. We found that the Taruheru River, the river behind our school had an EColi reading of 1200 MPN / 100ml (the safe limit for this is only 200 MPN / 100ml).
You could imagine the horror and shock from this.
Te Aitanga a Mahaki has 'Mana Whenua' where our school is situated and are keen to progress our research into this kaupapa.
We are very lucky!!!
Enjoy.
Matua Rick.

Science ON!

Kia ora whānau. Here are our Science Projects we completed last week. The tamariki are really proud of their mahi. Well done tamariki mā. Have a wonderful evening. Matua Rick.




Monday, August 26, 2019

Eels

Kia ra whānau,
This term we have learnt about Eels, their life cycle and where they live.
We have also looked at the implications for their environment if their environment is polluted.
We have based our experiments on this kaupapa and tested our local rivers for their EColi levels.
Have a great day e hoa mā.
Peace.
Matua Rick.




Monday, July 22, 2019

Mind Blown!!!

Today we started to make an animation.

We will still be working on this in the next two weeks.

It will have our pepeha, whakatauki and mihimihi.

This is awesomeness personified.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Digital Powhiri

We are excited to share that we have connected with our Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu class from Tamaki Primary, both in writing via comments on blogs and in a very special way. Through coordination and collaboration we have been able to connect via a Digital Powhiri using Google Hangouts. This was a unique and creative way of coming together in an authentic way. We have a little bit of video of us practising a waiata and some photos below that.

What an amazing experience, learning opportunity and application of Tikanga in a digital space that would not have been possible otherwise.





Matua Herman was able to pop past Room 5 while visiting Auckland at the end of Term 2. We are all looking forward to continuing to collaborate and connect with each other.