School Value Goals by Mahara

Today we learnt about our school values and what we can do to improve them. What I did was I write down what can help me with my values. And to know the importance of showing them constantly even after school hours. what I did was I had to write what I could do like manaakitanga what can I do to help improve my caring for others I also learnt how important you need to show these school values especially If you want to be a student leader you will have to show these every day

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Health and Well Being Programme - Tai Chi and Kung Fu Reflection by Perenara

Today we had our first ever Tai Chi lesson with our instructor Mr Gordon. First he told us a little bit about him and that he has done different types of Tai Chi and Kung Fu and has black belts in most of them. He has also been in the army for a number of years but then he left and went back to martial arts. He also has a son and a daughter at his daughter's birth the doctor said that she may not live but now she is 24/25 years old and is a doctor she has also done martial arts her whole life. Half way through our lesson we all got into a circle he told us this was the sharing circle we had to tell him our names, one thing we like, one thing we dont like and a random act of kindness that we have done recently.

He taught us some moves to help defend ourselves and maybe others. He taught us the Tiger pushing mountain, Inform and Open gate. Tiger pushing mountain would help us to push over our opponent and if they hit us we can protect ourselves. At the beginning 0f all our classes we go in to this form so that he can tell us what we are doing through out that lesson. And the Open gate this one will help us to face our opponents and be ready at the same time weather they are at the front of us or at the back of us.

He also asked us to share a random act of kindess he gave us an example to make sure that we knew what he was talking about. To me a random act of kindness is when you use your initiative to do things without being told to do it and doing something that will be helpful and not something that would make everything worse or bad.

He has taught us a lot of things but he said that whatever I teach you here you take it with inside of school outside of and out in your community. By that I think he means use all those skills he taught us how to breathe properly and I think that was to try and calm us down and in the community we could use this when we are angry. And if for any reason you get to a point where you need to protect yourself to use those stances that he has taught us because they are all to do with protection.

Attitude Program with Tony - by Edith

These are my 2 DLO's about the Positive attitude we learnt from Tony, Ms Kelly's (teacher aide) son .

Hauora by Edith

In the Kia manawanui Class we have been learning about the Hauora and what could happen if we don't take care of one if the 4 things. It is like a car if a tyre is flat you will not go far until you take care of it.

Waka of Strengths by Edith

Waka of Strength by Constance

WALT: Find what qualities represent ourselves

Kia Ora! and Malo!

I will now be blogging about my strengths.

What are strengths?
A strength is something that you are really good at. For e.g: I am good at communicating with others.

The challenging part of this task was, figuring out what my strengths are. Of course I have more then several strengths, but I needed to choose 2 strengths.

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Solo Taxonomy by Alethia

Solo Current Events!

So here today I have finished off my solo current events task which was about the cyclone gita that had hit Tonga with rain and winds that destroyed houses.In this task that I have finished writing down Who,When,Where,What,How and Why.I have not finished off writing down why because how I was not sure about what I should write in there.I have also written down a summary of what I have read and there will be sentence starters with their text highlighted which means that I have chosen something from the SOLO Summary Sentence Starters!

Here is my presentation about my solo current events that I have finished.

Enjoy!

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Show my presentation about my Solo Current Events.

Kia Manawanui Clas Treaty by Alethia

Kia Manawanui Class Treaty 2018!

This year we had waitangi day and we learnt about the treaty of waitangi which made us make our own treaty for this class.We all went into 4 groups and came up with some rules for each rule which was:

1. Working in groups
2. Entering/Leaving
3. Online
4. In/Out Activities.

I was in the group making down some rules in the online section.I really enjoy making the rules with my team because how we got to show it to our class so they could disagree or agree.What I did not like was having to be stuck and thinking a lot but then we asked a teacher which was very helpful.

Here is a screenshot of the Kia Manawanui treaty and below you will see the students names that they signed below.

Feel free to take a look but don't forget to COMMENT below!.

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Reflect about our class treaty for 2018.

Creative stories @ Te Tuhi by Cerenity

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog!

WALT: Write a reflection about our experience at Te Tuhi.

1. 3 things that I have learnt:

One thing that I learnt at Te Tuhi is that people can be inspired just by the things around them just like Gary Peter and he made an artwork that was inspired by a ventilation! This is his artwork!

Another thing that I learnt was that Shannon Te Ao (an Artist) went to where he lived and he took lots of pictures, added different sounds and made a video about where he came from.

And last of all, I learnt that Shannon Te Ao made a video about his ancestors, one of his ancestors was sick and she ended up in a relationship with a man that she loved so much.

2. Explain two ways you can take what you have learned to give back to our TPS community?:

Coming back to TPS, I brought back a positive mindset and a can do attitude!

3. Name one thing that you would have liked to spend more time on?:

One thing that I would like to have spent more time on was our Role play because people didn't really know there lines so we kind of just made it up as we went through it. 

4. What was one thing Salome did that you liked?:

One thing Salome did that I liked was when she showed us Gary Peters artwork because it was very colourful and I liked that he got inspired just by this on little thing which was the Ventilation.

Here is a picture of my collage that I made!

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THANKS!

Kiwisport & Softball Reflection by Cerenity

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog!

Yesterday we got into our home groups  and one group did kiwisport and the other group did Softball. In kiwisport our sport that we are learning is tennis and I learnt about how to bat properly by using your forehand and backhand swings.

In Softball, I learnt how to catch the glove when being on one of the bases. This week we are having a Softball tournament and by playing Softball, it's helping me get better and better when I keep learning. One thing that I think I'm good at in Softball is being on base one where I can get people out quite easily if someone passes it to me properly.

Here are some pictures of what we did Yesterday!

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THANKS

Self Defence Reflection by Alethia

Self Defence Reflection!

Last week on Wednesday we had our frist lesson of self defence about protecting ourselves whenever we get abuse or hurt by somebody.We did this because how in New Zealand lots of women get abuse from 

Women and this programme wants everybody to participate and learn how to defence there self when somebody is out to get them.In my reflection I have written down:

1. What I enjoyed?
   
2. What we did?
3. What we learnt?
4. What I have improved?

I enjoy doing this because how I got to learn some moves on how to defence myself.

What I found chanllenging was trying to shout when we had to do this type of move and we had to also scream like we were actually been hurt by someone.

Here is my reflection.

Feel free to take a look but don't forget to COMMENT below!.

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Reflect about our self defence lesson.

Kia Manawanui Bio Poems

One of our first tasks this year was to complete a bio poem about ourselves. This is a great task that helps us describe who we are, our likes and dislikes, fears and emotions. Look through our Google presentation below.

P.E Lesson - Softball

For the first two weeks of school we have been focussing of softball skills which helps to prepare students for the up and coming softball tournament in week 4.

Here are some awesome snaps of our P.E lessons.

Welcome Back - It's 2018!

It's great to see all our students and teachers back at school. We look forward to creating new learning journeys with each other and creating new memories with each other in the Kia Manawanui syndicate. There is a lot to look forward to this year.

All Year 7 and Year 8 students will be learning in the Room 10 this year which will be the Kia Manawanui learning space.

Here are some captivating snaps of our first week back at school:

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