Maromaku sports day

In Te Ngahere 11 student’s from Paihia school have been training for Maromaku year 7&8s sports day. The group that got chosen have been training for the past 2 weeks. We have been training to build up our confidence for tackling, fending, and getting better at blowing over, we are also learning how to kick and how to run onto the ball, Plus learning a few set plays so we have a good chance of winning. There is one more thing we are learning and that is good sportsmanship to our group and to the group that we are playing.

Marble Challenge Reflection

Marble Challenge reflection. In Te Ngahere we have been doing a thing called STEAM. If you are wondering what steam means it means Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and maths. In steam this week we have been testing out ways how to make a marble run. In a marble run we had to build a ramp from scratch, making from material around our class. What I found challenging was getting the right materials and getting a ramp that has no creases in it. I liked making it because it was cool looking at the marble hitting 110cm over and over again. What I need to do better next time is making my instructions better so people can read them.   

Maths DLO

Maths DLO. This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. In maths this term my teachers group are doing rounding and compensating. I liked doing rounding and compensating at first because I thought I would know what to do straight away because it sounded easy and looked easy. When we got into it some more I started to find it hard to do. When I didn’t know what to do me and my mete worked together and got all the questions written down. What I think I could do better at is know what to do before I do it. What I think I need to work on is listening to what the teachers and telling me.

Pepeha

In Te Ngahere we have been learning were we came from to put in our Pepeha and how to say our family names in our Pepeha. We also had to do our Aunts and Uncles, I only done my Aunt because my Dad don’t have a brother, we had to do our Parents Parents and our Brothers and Sisters. When I was making my Pepeha I didn’t know what to do, so I asked a friend of mine to tell me what to do and they didn’t even know what to do. So me and that mate worked together on each others Pepeha and we somehow managed to get them done. After we got them done me my mate and my other mate went out of the class and screen castefide them because we we were in a rush. What I think I called do better is listen on the mat and not talk to my mates, what I think I done well at is getting it done and getting it screen castefide after I didn’t know what to do.  

In Te Ngahere 2 days ago the year 7&8's went to Moerewa school to do Technology. In Wheae Dots class we were making cottage pie and apple crumble. One thing I did enjoy about these dishes was make them and mixing in the tomato sauce and mince together and making a mean feed. I liked putting the dishes together because It was cool watching it cock fast and watching it disintegrate into little pieces of mince. I liked putting the apple crumble together because I liked watching the apples going mushy and nice and golden. I also liked putting it into the dish and putting it into the oven and watching it go a nice gold colour. I saw a couple of things the the year 8's made. My mate Kingi made a tomahawk and my brother made a Fortnite pickaxe. My brother painted his project  blue and black and Kingi had some mean Maori design on his project and he just covered his with oil. What I didn't like was getting my white T shirt stained.

Kapa Haka in KawaKawa

On Friday we went to KawaKawa School to represent our Kapa Haka group and our Teachers and Principal. We went to KawaKawa School to do Kapa Haka and to do the bracket that we've been learning for two weeks. When we got there I was embarrassed to go up on stage to do the bracket because of this thing on my head. When Matua Pep asked me to go up I didn’t want to. Then he said do it for our Kapa Haka group because you've been practising and practising for this moment. I said ok took my jumper off then done Kapa Haka. After going up I had the Mekerest day doing Kapas and I didn’t even know I had the thing on my face anymore. That’s all thanks to Matua Pep Wheae Roni and Wheae Lisha. I liked KawaKawa boys Kapa Haka because they went harty and they done Hakas that we didn’t even know. I think I could do better next at is toughening up and going up even though I have embarrassed things on my head. I liked doing Kapa Haka because we had a mean as feed after it. What I didn’t like was when I went in the door sat down and people looked at me and laughed. I think I could do better is keeping in time with my Kapa Haka group.   

How Kupe got to New Zealand

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about history about Kupe, Nukutawhiti, James cook and Abel Tasman my group was write about Kupe. When kupe discover New Zealand it was in the late 905AD when something was taking all there fish in his homeland Hawaiki. He eventually found out that the Te Wheke-A-Muturangi was taking all their Kai Moana and he wanted to slotter Te Wheke. He followed Te Wheke to a place now called New Zealand. That's why Kupe is one of the most important people of Aotearoa and to us known as Ngapuhi. On his arrival in New Zealand he found Te Wheke in a place called Cook Straight when it seeked refuge in a shelter and he slotter it. Nukutawhiti came back to Aotearoha on Mata Haorua to take back more people. Kupe is a great chief of Hawaiki. He was the first polynesian to wonder upon a country his wife named Aotearoa and he found Aotearoa on a waka named Mata Haorua. Know known as Ngatokimatawhaorua that most of us Ngapuhi came from or mostly all us Ngapuhi come of. Kupes influence to New Zealand was a beginning of a whole new connection with New Zealand. What happened with the past compressed the maori polynesian as well as society that we are apartheid just for know.

New Haka

In Te Ngahere we are learning a new Haka. The new Haka where learning is called Rite Ko Te Rite. We were learning our Haka with a Rakau and we were learning the Kupu steep by steep. After we sort of lernt our Rakau moves we put it into a Haka with the girls. We practised walking onto stage and getting set up straight away. We went though a couple of times so the Kapa Haka teachers seen what we were learning.