LEGO time

Our school was very lucky and we got lots of LEGO sets donated by a company. 

During the afternoons in the first week of Term 2, we had LEGO time. 

Students buddied up and worked their way through a LEGO set together. For most students, this was the first time they had ever worked with LEGO before. 

We loved it!

Some students also learnt how to play chess during this time.

Watercolour poppies

We painted poppies for ANZAC day using water colour paint. For most of us it was the first time we had used this kind of paint, and we had to learn to always keep our brush wet, and be very gentle when getting the paint. Some of us pushed very hard and broke the water colour paint pieces. 

Learning journey!

Fractions

We have been learning about fractions. 

Because there is year 4, 5 and 6 in the same class and we all know different things, we had different things to learn and focus on.

Miss Ashley wrote up 100+ questions and we had to try and get as far as we could through it. 

For the year 4's, their goal was to try and get up to question 30. 

For the year 5's, their goal was to try and get up to question 80. 

For the year 6's, their goal was to try and get up to the last question. 

Most of us got there, or even PAST where we needed to get! 

ANZAC ceremony 2019

Every year we have an ANZAC ceremony. 

ANZAC day is on 25th April. It commemorates the soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who fought at Gallipoli, but also we remember soldiers that fought and died in the other wars as well. 

Sports rotation

Kia Toa syndicate had a sports rotation so everyone could try out the inter-school sports for this term.

We played

Ki-o-rahi (term 2 sport)

Soccer (term 2 sport)

Rippa rugby  (term 2 sport)

Netball (term 3 sport)

It was a beautiful day and we loved trying out new games and activities. 

Talking in detail/camera cameo

As a school we have been learning how to talk in detail. 

When we talk, we don't add details about what happened. Sometimes we talk like this 'and then... and then... and then...'

We have been doing camera cameo's to help us practice talking in detail.

How it works is one person will talk about something they did. For example what they did on the weekend. 

Miss Ashley draws pictures to help us remember the 'big' ideas, but doesn't record the details about that big ideas - we have to remember that all by ourselves. For example, the third picture below is a picture of a plate. It has food on it, but from the picture we can't tell what the food is. When Marlene told us her story aloud, she told us she had chicken sandwiches and lamb for lunch. That little detail is something we have to remember in our head.

Marlene's weekend

Miss Ashley's weekend

Dyzon's Sunday

Here is a quick video of students retelling Garth's weekend, trying to remember and add in the details of what happened.

New music teacher!

We were very sad when our music teacher Mr Caleb left last term, but now we have a new music teacher! 

His name is Mr Raldoph and he is a really good singer.

Today we had our first lesson with him. He taught us how to sing in tune with the song 'Doe Ray Me'.

Then we played some music games that Mr Caleb taught us, like 'beat dog' and the 'pitch' game on the piano. 

Parihaka

First we remembered everything we could from last week.

Last week we learnt that there was something called the New Zealand Land Wars that happened between 1845-1872. It was all about who controlled the land in NZ. It was complicated because some land was traded fairly and some was taken. The wars were imbalanced (unfair) because the Europeans had more manpower (people), and a higher quantity and quality of weapons (more of them and better ones). The Maoris were outnumbered so they had to use secret plans and some guerilla warfare tactics in order to fight back.

The big idea about this is that the two groups of people viewed the land differently - Maori’s held a collectivist viewpoint, where land and other resources (oceans, fish, forests) should be cared for and shared by everyone. Europeans held an individualistic viewpoint, and wanted to own the land in order to have farms and make money. Even today there viewpoints cause conflict around the world.

Parihaka

Our first questions -

Junefia - What does Parihaka mean?

Parihaka means it is the name of their village or their place.

Marlene - why did the people send the kids out?

They didn't want them to get hert.

Dyzon - why were the two guys sent to prison for 16 months?

Te whiti and his friend tohu went to jail cause the europeans thought that if they take the leaders of the tribe they all would run away, but they didn’t.

Marilyn - why was the village surrounded by soldiers?

Lynch - what people left the land that Parihaka was built on? (Who was there before them?) There was a Maori tribe that lived there but we don’t know who. They got sent off the land by the government and the land was claimed for Europeans but they didn’t build on it for ten years.

Garth - why did Te Whiti go to jail?

Te Whiti was sent to jail because he was the leader of the Maoris and the Pakehas wanted the land back to make farms. But when he was in jail, his people were scared but did not run away from the land. They protected it.

Anittah - was there a reason Why all the Maori men went to jail?

So when the men go the Children and the ladies will get scared and leave.

Ana - why were the protectors put in jail?

The government put the mens in jail so they could scare the womens and children away and they could take the land back, but they didn’t run away they protected the land.

Maria - why did the government promise the people land?

So the government promised to them a piece of land for them to live on. And in ten years no one claim to live on the land so they built a new village called Parihaka.

Moana - why did 200 children block the road?

Because the europeans did not want them to get harmed or killed them.

Wesley - does Parihaka still exist?

Yes the Parihaka village still exist and Maori people still live there and honour the history

Tisharn - why was Parihaka famous?

Because he was a peaceful man and he taught it to a lot of the maori.

Angellynah - why did the soldiers burn the peoples houses down and destroy their crops?

Cause they soldiers thought that the land was theirs and they wanted to get off the land.

Michael - How was the government able to keep Te Whiti and Tohu for 16 months without a trial?? The government was made up of Europeans so they had control. There was no Maoris in the government to defend Te Whiti and Tohu, so they just did what they wanted.

Tsai - Why did the Europeans want the land?

Because they were jalless that the maori had land and the parihaka did not. They wanted to make farms.

Joshua/Rakel - why did the Maori people build their new village at Parihaka?

They built land because the europeans government didn't give them land so they had to build some new land and they called it parihaka and their leader was called te whiti.

Janett - Why did the government let the men go out of jail?

Because the jail have to many parihaka mens in the jail and the they set them free.

Langiola - Why did the people offer the soldiers 500 loaves of bread?

So there kids can survie and themselves because there in a war so the can fight people to. They have to be full with food so they cant die cause they have to protect people that are in danger and not make themselves or anyone, else stave because together we are strong we are family because we all love each other so much.

Mathew - Why is this story famous in NZ?

The Maoris were peaceful.

Litia - Why was Te Whiti preaching to the people? What was he preaching about?

He was preaching by peace. Cause he wanted to make people peace full like how he is.

Rona - What happened at the end of the story? What did the people of Parihaka do?

Founded in the mid-1860s, Parihaka was soon attracting dispossessed and disillusioned Māori from around the country.

Miss Ashley - where is the village of Parihaka? Where were the prisons kept?

The village of Parihaka is near the coast by Taranaki. The prisoners from Parihaka were sent to jails in different places all over NZ. The most famous one was in Dunedin, and it was pretty much a cave. The men were kept in caves without trial. When they were released they went ship back to Taranaki.

Big ideas -

• Maori were peaceful!
• Europeans wanted land to make farms.
• Maori were kind and offered the soldiers food.
• The government promised them land, but they never gave it.