Hauraki's Assembly

Assembly Time!

Bula Vinaka Bloggers! Today I am sharing my experience for my class' Assembly in our School Hall. It was fun but I was a little nervous standing in front of the whole school. If you don't do assemblies like we do then here is how we do it. 
Which ever class has their assembly, they should already have a Google Slideshow with lots of slides showing what the classes have worked. Then our technology team used teachers' laptop to click through the slideshow in our assemblies and play the music. In fact, I am one of those Tech people myself. All the students in our class had a few roles to do in the Assembly. This was an amazing Assembly! And thanks to our teachers, Ms Abedin and Ms Sands, we got our Assembly sorted out in 3-4 days practise. We used a microphone and speakers to help us be louder and clearer. My roles were: Saying a Poem sentence, Hand shaker for Merit Certificates and also saying a paragraph about our Litter Blitz Rubbish Street Pick-Up. Hauraki is an amazing class! My favourite part about this assembly was being a hand shaker because it was funny when I had to grab their hand because they held the wrong hand out to shake.

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

Malo Lelei,

On Friday 5th April we celebrated Gumboot Friday, Gumboot Friday is a day when all
New Zealanders wear gumboots to support Mental Health. Mental Health means to take
care of yourself especially if you just lost somebody special to you or you are very ill then it
would be very unhealthy for you if you just continue to be depressed and especially if you take
it out on other people. Waikowhai Primary supported Mental Health by writing uplifting,

kind and thoughtful quotes onto a piece of paper. Our Teachers and some Students also
brought their Gumboots along to school.

After we wrote some  positive quotes on the piece of paper we showed the teacher and then

they would give us another piece of paper to write more quotes on. So after we finished writing
our 2nd card we would end up with

two pieces of papers full of positive notes.

This also relates with our School theme which is Hauora, which means Well being.
On Tuesday the 9th of April we collected our cards and we got into 8 groups one adult and
8-10 children.Then we travelled out two different streets and then placed the pieces of papers
into the letter boxes that way when the owners of the letter box,
reads it they will feel very joyful and hopefully feel very good about themselves.
if you receive one of these notes then when you're finished with it please don't throw it away.
Share our love and post it into someone else's letterbox because you know how it feels to
receive a letter like that so if you spread that around to other people it will bring joyfulness
to the world. Here is the card that I wrote along with other different photos:

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SWOOSH Soccer Zones

Football Zones

Malo Lelei students, parents, caregivers and teachers,
Today's blog is going to be about Waikowhai Primary School’s Soccer Zones at
Eden Park Stadium.

Our Waikowhai Primary School students were transported with the
Teachers & Parents vehicles.

The first few seconds I had on the field, I felt a little nervous because it was my
first time actually playing against another school for football. While I was playing,
I got a lot more used to it, then I started to enjoy it is really fun and I would want
to do it again.

We tied one game and we won all the other 6 games. The boys team had
one every game they had. At the end we got pink wristbands that said

#Get in to girls and women's football.

We grabbed our bags and walked back to the vehicles then we drove back to
school then got ready for home time.

Have you guys had your Football Zones?

What is your favourite Zones?

Here are some photos of the day: