Kia ora readers,
Today for Cybersmart Mr Goodwin told us to go to our history and put it in to a Digital footprint It’s kind of like us leaking our secrets. It was footprints on a sunny beach but the beach had palm trees for some reason. If you did this challenge would you have been doing the right thing at the right time.
By Tavake
Dear reader,
Today we have launched into Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu. Firstly, Mr Goodwin reviewed what makes a quality blog post. It was great for me to be a learner and edit my blog posts with the rest of the students. The students then had a chance to refine and make their blog posts even more amazing!
Mr Goodwin then explained the exciting Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu programme, a chance for us to read blog posts from our partner schools. We are excited to find out all the exciting things they are doing.
We will make sure to promote our Smart Footprint- by leaving positive comments. Our partner schools are younger then us, so we need to be responsible and be role models.
Our hearts were pounding with excitement as we celebrated our very first school assembly as a team for 2024. The students did incredibly well; introducing our assembly with a haka powhiri, and Toia!
Then we moved into sharing about our busy term; learning from Mt Taurere, our best parts about us as a link to MITEY, and our trip to the Maritime museum! Of course there were celebrations too!!
Overall, an amazing assembly and we thank all the families who came along to celebrate that special morning.
Let us know if you attended and what your favourite part of our assembly was.
You can check our our assembly live on the school facebook page 
Wow!! The mana that was on display last Thursday for our official school powhiri since 2021 was OUTSTANDING.
We were proud of all our tamariki today; and particularly those students who led us in the waiata, and haka powhiri. After the powhiri (welcome) was over, Team Kereru sat together and had a food break. We talked about how having kai after the powhiri is so important as it breaks the “tapu” the sacredness of the ceremony.
We then identified other tikanga that was on display today.
Let us know in the comments below:
Have you ever been a part of a powhiri? If yes, tell us all about it.
Remember whanau to leave a comment; you could go in the draw to win an Easter Hamper next week.
Last week, we talked about the importance of looking after and respecting our belongings in the classroom. Matua Atama was disappointed to see one of the cherished books had a ripped cover.
That frown was turned upside down when Nathan took it upon himself to take the book home and fix it in his own time (even when he didn’t rip the cover)
Thanks so much Nathan!
What is one way you can show respect in the classroom? Comment below. 
Kia ora Room 3,
WOW!! We have had an action packed last few weeks, and this week is going to be even MORE exciting!!
Tomorrow (Tuesday 5th March) we are heading to the viaduct to explore yachting and navigating on the ocean. I want to know
Whanau, today we finally climbed up Mt Taurere today!! It was so much fun. It was a great opportunity for our tamariki to connect to the land around us; use our senses and hold onto this experience. We are working on providing our kids with more language experiences that they can write about. They even slid down the Mount!!
So much fun!!
Kia ora Room 3 and whanau, We are climbing up Mt Taurere tomorrow. Hopefully the weather is fantastic. Let me know in the comments by answering the questions below:
Have you ever climbed up Mt Taurere? If yes, how was the experience.
Have you climbed up another mountain before? Would you do it again?
I look forward to seeing your responses.
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