Samoan Language Week

Talofa I lo'u ingoa o Ayva

(Hi, My name is Ayva)

For Samoan Language week, Senior Students  answered a bunch of questions about the Samoan language on an app called Kahoot. All of the 3 Senior classes gathered together to do the quiz. First we had to type our name in so the teachers would know who is playing the game. Then we would play the quiz. The quiz was lots of fun, some of it was tricky but not to hard. We have lots of Samoan Children in the Seniors, and I am one of them. There was 11 questions in the quiz, I can’t remember but I’m pretty sure that I got 9 questions right and the other 2 wrong.

What did your school do to celebrate Samoan Language week? What culture are mostly?

I love being Samoan and I am very proud to be Samoan. You should also be proud to be who you are and what culture you are. Hope you enjoy this blog post! Remember to smile and be proud of who you are. Blog you later.

Blog Post made by Ayva!!!

Student Led Toolkits!!!

Student Led Toolkits!!

Students from all 7 schools in Ako Hiko, attended an amazing event called
Student Led Toolkits runned by Gerhard (our Cybersmart teacher) and some
Hay Park students that had a necklace around their neck that said
“Ask me for help”. Waikowhai students travelled by some of the teachers cars
because it was pouring with rain that day. We first started off in the hall and
opened our Chromebooks and connected to the Wifi then we split off into the
groups that we chose to be in for the first session. I chose to go to Kahoot for my
first session. Straight after we finished our first session we came together in the
hall then went off to Morning Tea. Then when the bell rang, everyone just went
straight to our second session. My second session was learning how to use
scratch. After I finish learning how to use scratch, When I had finished I decided
that since I have spare time I can finish off my Student Led Toolkits challenge
which was a slideshow that had nine challenges to complete. I only got to finish
5 of them because I was too focused on my sessions instead of the challenge.
For my third session I went to the Google Drawing Art Session. After that some
kids won some prizes and it was time to drive back to school.
Here is a screenshot of the challenges

Blog You Later bye!!!

Positive Letterbox drop

Positive Letterbox Drop

Friday 17th of May was a brilliant day because Waikowhai Primary School Senior students had an amazing time dropping off cardboard shirt cards.

Most of us made 2 or 3. All of us split up into 5 groups with one adult to take care of us because we would be crossing roads and there was a lot of us.

It was a really fun experience but I felt a bit nervous doing it because we were going out of school. Two things I didn't enjoy that day was that I was really looking forward to delivering my cards because I spent a lot of time on them and I would of felt very proud of myself for doing this but then I found out that we had to deliver what ever cards the teacher gave us which wasn't too bad for me but it would have been nice to deliver my own. The other thing was that the teachers put my best friend (Faith) and I in different groups.
Other than that Friday 17th of May was amazing I felt so happy about what we did, we have also done this in the past and a lady that got a card said that it uplifted her son because he had trouble in school and that card really helped him.

This is my card, I couldn't find the images for the other 2 cards.

This is the back of the card:

The New Adventure

Aloha intelligent people,

Have you ever written a Narrative before?

Because in Waikowhai Primary School our seniors has been writing magnificent Narratives.

My Narrative is called “The New Adventure”

It is about a Father and his son spending some boy time together at a fun place called the

“Green Grass Kingdom”

Then things flipped around at it wasn’t so fun anymore,

It’s started pouring down with rain, they were really hungry but there was no food and they were lost! But they kept trying and soon they found shelter with a Cafe inside.

During this part another classroom came over to help us write our Narratives,

I had a buddy who really likes Curry & Rice so he thought of writing so he said they bought 2 Curry & Rice meals so that is what happened.

As they were eating their meals it stop pouring  so they went to the car

and called the son’s Mum.

Here is the link and photo for my Narrative:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TM8p2CfH1mA74AeLj2VE

JxvwCWAqfQ0ztbgTKYlRCv8/edit