🇼🇸🌺Samoan Language Week🌺🇼🇸 at TPS

Talofa Lava and greetings to you all! As it says in the title, it is Samoan Language Week! YAY! When we celebrate any culture at our school it usually includes each class preparing an item for a special assembly that is held after a week of embracing the cultural differences and identities. 

In this case, Samaon Language Week. For Samoan Language Week, Room 9/10 have prepared two items. The first item which is a Siva Samoa will be done by the room 9/10 girls while the room 9/10 boys will be showing the Samoan haka. 

The song that we will be dancing to is called "Loimata o le fia fia"  we've been practicing this Siva Samao since last week Wednesday, I think that the girls have prepared well and everything is going great. I would say the same as for the boys. Here is the version of the haka that they have been practising. Enjoy the rest of the week, Samoan Language Week!!

🕊️😃🤗Kindness & Kaitiakitanga🤗😃🕊️ by Falakika

This week we have once again been focussing on our school values. Hence, our Cybersmarts lesson linking to that. Ms. Collins shared a google presentation with us that that we had to edit and add images/pngs of what kindness meant to us. As you can tell, the value that we focussed on was kindness, especially what this looks like, sounds like and feel like within the school context.  

Kindness is the endearing quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. It is all the different ways, both big and small, when  we express care, concern, and consideration for ourselves and those with whom we share the world. 

If you've ever struggled to know what counts as "kind," this post is for you. Keep reading to discover the true meaning of kindness. I have put together a brief but meaningful presentation about what this means to me through images and pngs. 

 

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Feel free to give me feedback and feed forward!

Politically Correct by Carra

Our first Inquiry Model is coming to an end. Thus far we have been learning about early European Voyages, Polynesian Discoveries, Wars and the impact it has had on landscapes across the world.

Today I have made a slide about a famous peace activist who promoted to world peace. The person who I selected is a lady called Aung San Suu Kyi. She famously said, "to make the world a better place were it is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it, The only real prison is fear."

She also explains further that the only real freedom is freedom from fear and Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a truly inspirational leader and was award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.

I am really looking forward to complete the rest most my inquiry and value any feedback or feedforward that you may have.

Exploring BEDMAS by Lydia

📘BEDMAS - The Order of Operations📘

IALT: Blog about Algebraic Computations

Talofa Lava and welcome to my blog! Yesterday for Maths Room 9, we learned about BEDMAS which is an acronym for:

BEDMAS is a Mathematical Operation that you would use to solve an equation. Here is an example of a BEDMAS question: 

6 - ( 9 - 2) + 3 x 6

Before learning about BEDMAS I always thought that you simply solve the question in the order that it is presented. But then I discovered the BEDMAS principles and how you should apply it when solving equations. This is how I would normally solve the question before I learned about BEDMAS:

6 - 9

But since I couldn't do that I would get stuck in the equation and the answer would've been wrong. After learning about BEDMAS and what it is, this is how I would solve the problem:

6 - ( 9 - 2) + 3 x 6

Simplify:

6 - 7 + 3x6

6 - 7 + 18

6 - 7 + 18

24 - 7 

= 17 

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I really enjoy learning about BEDMAS because it teaches me how to solve various equations using multiple operations.    I can't wait to learn more about BEDMAS!
Question of the blog: Have you ever learned about BEDMAS? How has it helped you in your Mathematical Learning?

Thank you for reading this blog! Make sure to give me some POSITIVE feedback and feedforward! Bye :)

Houses at Tamaki Primary by Hevani

👥⭐Alamein Day (Thursday)⭐👥

Guten Tag and welcome back to my blog! Just letting you all know this blog will be a short blog so let's start this blog off by introducing Alamein.

Alamein is one of our house groups here at Tamaki Primary School, you may or may not know but, we have 4 house groups at our school:

Tripoli - Blue

 Alamein - Yellow

 Benghazi - Green

 Tobruk - Red

Above are the house groups and their colours. An interesting fact is that each house is named after a street or road around our area which in turn is named after various war campaigns.

Every week we are awarded token for displaying the school values and being true ambassadors for Tamaki. The house group who accumulates the most tokens get to have pizza and sundae's for lunch and a day were the whole school has to wear the winning house colour. 

So because Alamein won last term they got their day were the whole school had to wear Yellow and pizza/sundae's for lunch!

That is all for this blog and thank you!

Manaiakalani Survey by Carra

Today, in Cybersmart Mr Janse sent us a link to access a Manaiakalani survey that we had to complete. In the survey, we had to answer questions about our learning thus far in 2019.One of the questions that I felt challenging was how the " Learn Create Share" has helped my family know more about my learning. This is because at first when I read the question it didn't make sense to me. Then Mrs Collins read it out and then it made sense. I think the rest of the questions were easy.

Here is a screenshot of the Manaiakalani Survey!

The survey included the school you attend, year group, gender and other things to do with LEARN CREATE AND SHARE. As we have to use our netbooks to go onto surveys and our work I think that every school and college should use netbooks because it is more efficient and easier to get on to your work plus most schools and colleges don't use Netbooks.

This survey came just at the right time for me as it got me to reflect on my learning and the processes involved. It also gave me the opportunity to engage with the Wolf Fisher Organisation in a meaningful manner. Hopefully the responses from the Kia Manawanui Syndicate is useful and looking forward to seeing what the data shows. I really like the fact that students are included in your process. I feel proud to be a part of this cohort in the Panmure District!

TPS Student Leaders at NYLD 2019

This week on Wednesday 8th May our student leaders attended the National Young Leaders Day (NYLD) at the Vodafone Event Centre in Manukau with other leaders from different school all over Auckland. This is a one day conference to celebrate and empower young leaders as they participate in leadership activities and become inspired by national guest speakers.

Press play and let our student leaders show you how they were inspired and empowered at NYLD this week.


Our student leaders have also reflected about this event on their blog. Take a look:

Falakika

Hiria

Coralee

Lydia

Stephney

Grace

Fe'ao

Hevani