Akomanga RUA

Senior Swim Day

2012-02-29T13:18:00.002+13:00

The 6 tamariki that represented our class at the senior swim sports did really well. Most making the finals in their chosen races.
Taiko was our guest competitor when our tamariki competed in the year 6 relay. He was able to give us a good lead that the rest of the team maintained. Our team was just pipped at the post to come in second. Well done team.

Karakia Kai

2012-02-13T19:31:00.000+13:00

We are learning a new karakia this week to say before kai.

Naumai e ngā hua e hora nei

O teao, o te wai tai o te wai Māori

NaRongo, nā Tāne, nā Maru

KoRanginui e tu atu nei

KoPapatuānuku e takoto iho nei

Whakamauakia tina, Tina Haumi e, hui e, taiki e.

Karakia

2012-02-13T19:28:00.001+13:00

Our new karakia for this weeks minenga.

Karakia– He Hōnore

He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua

Hemaungārongo ki te whenua

Hewhakaaro pai ki ngā tangata katoa

Hangā te Atua, he ngākau hou

kiroto ki tēnā, ki tēnā o mātou Whakatōngia tō wairua tapu

Hei āwhina, hei tohutohu ia a mātou

Heiako hoki i ngā mahi mō tēnei rā

Āmine

2012

2012-02-13T19:08:00.001+13:00

Tena koutoukatoa

Nga mihi nui

Ko Te Reinga temaunga

Ko Waimirirangite marae

Ko Hokianga temoana

KoNgatokimatawhaurua te waka

Ko PatrickParker toku matua

Ko Maria Te Waketoku whaea

Ko Mere Toiaahau

I am privileged to be the Kaiako in Akomanga ruathis year and I look forward to working with you and your whanau.

I can becontacted by email on mary.brunton@stalbans.school.nz(preferred) or phone school 355 9132 ext 701 and leave a message to arrange atime to meet to discuss any concerns you may have. If you would like toreceive newsletters electronically, please let the office know.

Whaea Mary

Year 6 Camp 2011

2012-02-13T19:03:00.000+13:00

The two hour trip to Wainui was long but entertaining, because I was calling Jacob names in samoan and he didn't know what I was saying. Whaea Kate and Mrs Wilson stoped to get a coffee and some lollies they bought me and Jacob a Fruju. Once we arrived at the camp site we went to our cabin and unpacked, our cabin was right next door to the teachers cabin. It was time for our 1st activity, it was raining and we had to do kayaking. We all thought we were going to get a wetsuit, but all we got was a spray jacket and a life jacket. Kayaking was a great experience. When we were out in the sea I jumped out of the kayak. Only a couple fell the rest of us jumped. When I jumped out Callum ditched me, I just managed to grab onto the back of the kayak. The second time I jumped out it was shallow and I cut my knee. On the beach there was a huge white jellyfish. We were all freezing cold, I was dripping from head to toe in ice cold water. We went back to the camp site and washed our life jacket and our spray jacket. Then we had a hot shower. For dinner we had pasta, veges and a chicken stew for desert we had walnut ice cream and fruit salad. We also had supper it was biscuits, cake, cupcakes and a cup of milo each. Then we went to bed in my cabin was Lucas Marshall, Jacob Gaskin, Jacob Gant Cowen and Finn Polick.

Tyreice Tuliau

On Wednesday, the 23rd of November, My Tribe for camp, Tribe 3, were on Low ropes at the yr 6 camp. Low ropes is a team work effort so before we could start we played a few games, games to help trust each other. We headed into the outdoor chapel to play in. One of my favorites was a buddy game. You blind fold your buddy and lead them to a tree. You had to comfort them to know they trust you. A while after most of us were moaning because we really wanted to start, so we did. We walked to the shed full of all the gear. We all chose a helmet each then went back. I felt only a smidge excited to be doing low ropes as some said it was boring and some said it was fun. Once we got to the obstacles we started to touch the equipment, then the instructor told us off. First of all she told us how to do our first activity. We had to balance on a rope with a buddy and move across to the other side. The pair that goes the furtherest wins. I paired up with Sofia and we won. It felt good. Secondly she explained the next two activities. One was a tyre course and the other was a spiderweb. My absolute favourite was the very last, a flying fox. We had to get the whole team into a tire which was on the ground. After, we returned back to the camp. I had such a great time. Everyday at camp was the best.

Ngahiraka Dallas

On the second day of camp my tribe did co-stearing for our second activity we jumped off rooks, kelp surfed, swam with the dolphins. We also had a swimming race. Our teaches name was Anabelle she was cool she like Dolphins just like I do.

Waimarie rawson-Grffthis

Camp Wainui

2012-02-13T19:01:00.002+13:00

On the 20th of November the yr6 and yr5 students of St Albans went to camp Wainui. Once we were all there we got organised in to our tribes. We went to our first activity. I was excited because my tribes first activity was archery. Even though it was cold and wet we still went to Archery. After the instructor told us how to be safe and how to use the bow and arrow we took a few test shots then played two game. One was called 'Taking a Holiday' and the second game was called 'Toppings for a Pizza. My favourite was the Holiday game. To get an OK holiday was to get an arrow either in the blue or red three times. To score a great holiday you needed to hit the yellow part of the target three times, then you get to visit France with a movie star with a $1million budget. We had two chances to get the perfect holiday. We then played a similar game but with pizza toppings. Then we packed up and went back up the muddy trail to camp for a rest and food.

Aue! Awhina mai tiakina te wai!

2011-11-10T14:17:00.000+13:00

Me whai tonu tatou hei oranga. Na te taenga mai o te raumati ka pai mai te raru o te kore wai i runga i a tatou. Kua oti i te kaunihera o "Tautahi" te tuku a ratou whakarai wai ki te katoa o nga hunga e nohonoho ana i te hapori whanui o "Tautahi". Me te ki kei te rapua e ratou he ara ki te tohu wai kia kore e maumautia. Ko tetahi a ratou whakaaro anoano ki te waiho nga paepae hei hopu i nga wai ua. He wai hei tapiritapiri atu ki te wai e rere ana ki nga whare. Ko enei tu ahua na te ruirui a Ruaumoko i a Papatuakuku ka pakarukaru nga paipa kawe wai ki nga wahi katoa o 'Tautahi". Ko te wai te tino taonga o nga mea katoa o te ao. Mena kaore he wai, kaore he oranga mo tatou me nga mea katoa e noho ana, e tipu ana, i tenei ao. He tino kauapa tenei ma tatou ki te whakaaro.

Na Ngahiraka

2011-11-02T15:33:00.000+13:00

I te Rahoroi i haere matau ko Ngahiraka ko Kayleb ko Nikolau ko Kahu Kea ko taku mama

me au ki te moro i haere matau ki te moro na te mea i haere matau ki te whare

pikitea.i kite matau te pikitea meki "smurfs".he pai ki au te pikitea.I te Ratapu i

matakitaki matau ko Kahu Kea ko taku whanau i te kemu whutupaoro [ALL BLACKS vs france]

he kemu mo te meki "webalice cup" i wini nga ALL BLACKS.i matakitaki matau ko Kahu Kea

ko Tyreice i nga fireworks i mahi nga fire works i te wa ka wini te kapa o pango i te

WORLD CUP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sofia..............

RWC Parade

2011-10-26T12:30:00.002+13:00

Check out our photo taken at yesterdays Parade at the 'Fan Zone'.

NZ Army Band leading the parade.

Whaea Lesley enjoying the atmosphere

Term 4

2011-10-25T20:15:00.001+13:00

Tena Koutou Katoa. Welcome back to our last term of 2011. I hope you all had a restful time over the last 2 weeks and managed to get in some 'All Black cheering' to help our boys.

I went to Sydney to check on how beautiful my twin moko are growing. They are 11 weeks old now; making baby noises and smiling - too cute.

There are a lot of happenings this term, camp for years 4, 5 and 6, Athletics, Friday summer sport, music festival that our school choir participates in, as well as our BDO.

Tomorrow our Year 4's join the mainstream for their camp at Living Springs. I know they will have a wonderful time, learning heaps as well as having lots of fun, we wish them well.

Manu Korero Breakdown

2011-10-03T15:28:00.000+13:00

Te Wharetutu breaks down when nerves get the better of her. The nerves and expressions you see on her face did not stop her from doing a fantastic job.

by Te Wharetutu

Fan Zone

2011-10-03T15:15:00.002+13:00

We are outside of the Fan Zone. This picture is of the kids.

by Kayleb

Rugby World Cup: TTRR supports the rugby world cup.

by Sofia

The Fan Zone: on Friday we had a photo at the Fan Zone, this photo was taken on the World Cup.

by Ngatai

This is a photo taken in the Fan Zone where TTRR had fish and chips for lunch.

by Waimarie

On Friday Tyreice, Kairau, Hawaiki, Kayleb, Te Kaia, Jacob, Hone, Jai, and Sofia are playing touch rugby on the small field.

Rugby World Cup

2011-10-03T14:43:00.001+13:00

TTRR in front of an enlarged sculpture of the Webb Ellis Trophy (Rugby World Cup). This photo is taken at the Fan Zone in Hagley Park.

by Tyreice

Heart of Achievement awarded in Week 6

2011-09-13T08:54:00.001+12:00

Te Koha Soryl and Kayleb Hunter. These boys have been working hard to improve their written work.

The Adventures of Captain Cook

2011-09-05T08:45:00.000+12:00

This coming weekend, check out the       Court Theatre Production in our school

hall.

The tickets are a mere $3.00 for children,parents free, for a top quality production.Tickets can be purchased from the office.

Friday Hui

2011-08-30T12:46:00.000+12:00

Kayleb Hunter received an award at Friday morning hui for the great effort he is putting into his work.

Rugby Tournament

2011-08-25T17:40:00.000+12:00

Today the Year 5/6 School Rugby A Team went to South Hagley to play in the North-East Zone Winter sports tournament.
We arrived at 9:30 and had a snack before played our first game. We played against Banks Ave A and .
lost 4 tries to 1. We put up a great efort but in the end they were just too good.

Our next game was against Burwood B. We won that game 7 tries to nil, we put on a great performance for a good win.

We also won our third game by quite a lot, the score was 8-0 it was a splendid show of solid defence and strong attack.

The fourth game didn't go as well as our third game but we still gave it a good crack against Windsor. They held on great and pushed a win against us 4-1.

Our only chance of heading to the Canterbury tournament relied on our last game against Burwood A. They scored 3 early tries in the first half but we held them down to 1 try in the second half. In the end they were too strong for us and ran away with the win 4-0.

We came to have fun, and we succeeded in that. Our second task to win the tournament was close but it was taken fairly by Burwood A.

After a great day of footy it was great to cool down with a game of touch. Even without the big win we had a fun day playing footy.

The player of the day went to cullum who played awesome.

Tyreice

KŌHUA

2011-08-24T21:41:00.000+12:00

After lots of research and discussion about traditional kai our tupuna grew, hunted and gathered,

we celebrated today with a Hakari.

Museum Visit

2011-08-18T15:14:00.000+12:00

Matua Anthony came to school today from the Museum to share some of the taonga they have there. We learnt about the technology used by early Maori.

We had a turn with some of the tools Matua brought from the Museum.

SNOW DAY

2011-08-15T07:30:00.000+12:00

Stay warm and safe today.

How about a snowman competition.

Get your whanau involved in building a tumeke snowman, take photos and we'll post them on our blog.

Have fun in the snow, take lots of photos and also do some writing about how you and your whanau spent today in the snow. We can share when we get back together.

Whaea Mary

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori - Maori Language Week

2011-07-06T12:14:00.000+12:00

I tenei ata tino makariri, ka haere a au, me Ngaru kia ruma waru.

Ko te tikanga ka haere a Niko kia ruma iwa. Engari kei roto a ruma iwa a ruma waru. Ka mahi a Niko ki toku taha.

Ka mahi e rua nga kiwaha ko 'tau ke' me 'koia kei a koe'.

Ki au he reka ki te rongo ia ratou reo, na te mea, he pai ia ratou whakahuatia me ta ratou harikoa ki te korero te reo maori.

Na Tyreice

Listening to Jane Buxton read

2011-06-28T18:34:00.000+12:00

Today after morning tea we went to the hall to see Jane Buxton. Jane is an author. She read us her newest book called 'Harrys hair'. It is about a boy called Harry who never wants to brush his hair. Bugs, birds and insects make their home in his hair. The story is very funny and Jane is a clever writer who writes lots of rhymes in her stories. Harry becomes famous in the book because of the zoo in his hair!
In the end he brushed his hair to get away from the paparatzy.
Jane Buxton has had way over 100 books published. She also writes lots of stories for the School Journals that we read at school.
I like her stories.
Written by Tyreice.

Yummy Pikelets

2011-06-24T19:29:00.000+12:00

Our Science Investigation involves lots of cooking.
Akomanga rua and toru are joining together to find out why bread and cakes rise.
Some great questions came out of our initial discussion.
   Why does bread have holes in it?
   What makes the holes in bread?
   How is baking powder made?
   How does yeast work?

We started by making Pikelets using the standard Edmonds recipe.
Next week we will experiment with other rising agents.

Measurement - Pepa Wakarererangi

2011-06-24T19:00:00.000+12:00

Making pepa wakarererangi so we can measure the distance they will fly.

If mine flies over 10mtr, I will win a prize

My plane will fly a long way.

Ready, set, GO!

Ready for take off!

Almost 5 mtrs

My plane flew all the way to HERE!

Another big shake

2011-06-15T07:40:00.000+12:00

Well done everyone for taking care of each other and staying calm during Mondays quake.
I hope everything is OK at your whare and your whanau is well.
Keep looking on the school web site for updates from Mrs Warren about when school will start again.
Hope to see you at school soon.
Take care of each other.
Much love, Whaea Mary

Noho

2011-05-31T19:42:00.000+12:00

What a wonderful wonderful experience spending the night with whanau at our kura. As I lay in bed last night I felt so comfortable being exactly where I was, sleeping beside the tamariki I teach. I am so proud of the amazing behaviour of our tamariki and the positive response from parents. A very special thank you to Matua Rawiri for his informative presentation. His talk has given us all a better appreciation of the knowledge our tupuna used to travel the Pacific with such accuracy.

The Magic Egg Experiment

2011-05-24T08:42:00.000+12:00

On Friday our class did a science experiment.
What we needed was a hard boiled egg, matches and a glass bottle.
The egg has to slip in the bottle without breaking.
We all tried to predict how the egg would get into the bottle, and what to do with the matches.
But we had no good ideas. We followed the proceedure:
1. Peel the shell off the egg. 2 Light a match and put the lit match inside the bottle. 4. Place the egg on top of the bottle. Then the egg will slowly slip through.
We talked about how it happened and why it happened. Fire needs oxygen and fuel and the reason the egg fell into the bottle is because fire used all the oxygen in the bottle causing a vacuum and the egg to be sucked into the bottle. In the afternoon we showed our experiment to rm 3 while some of the year 5 and 6's explained how it worked.

By Ngahiraka and Sofia

Term 2 - Back to School

2011-05-04T19:25:00.000+12:00

Tena koutou katoa

Welcome back to a very busy term. It was so good to see all of our children back to school on day one, on time and rearing to go. We are all looking forward to a very productive term, it feels like the beginning of a new school year.

This week we have been working with akomanga toru discussing our school values and working on a variety of activities to gain a better understanding of them.

This term year 3/4 join with the mainstream sports programme each Tuesday afternoon. We will be practicing ball skills to help us learn to play soccer, hockey, basketball, netball, playground games and Mrs Hunter will take a group for dancing.

Tanesha came in to visit us earlier this week, before she heads back to Wellington again.

This Friday is Tawhais last day. He and his whanau are heading off to join his Dad in Australia. We wish them well.

Dinner with whanau

2011-04-13T12:21:00.000+12:00

Hi Hilary its Sofia here. This is my story I wrote at school.

It is a true story that happened on Monday the 11 of April.

On Monday night almost every one in Te Tikanga Rua Reo went to Caesers for dinner.I went with my Mum and my Brother. When we got there the first person I saw was Whaea Mary who looked just wonderful. When the adults sat down on a long table and they told us that we had our own special tables with colouring pencils to our the activities on our place mats. There were word finds and loads of other stuff. The first thing I did was run into the playroom. There were an x-box and play station. It was an awesome playroom. I had a traffic light drink which was really nice. It came with a little toy balancing on the side of the glass. I kept stealing everyones that were left behind on the table. I had ribs for tea, they were served with carrots cut like flowers and BBQ sauce on them. It was so wonderful that I wanted to have more. When we got our dessert, the adults just started eating their main course. I had an ice cream Sunday with raspberry sauce. After that I played with Dejah and Ngaru. They looked so pretty and cute dressed up for dinner. I was hoping Ngahiraka was going to come to Caesers but thats alright. It was so much fun I would definitely go there again.

Miss you so much, I will write to you again. Please tell me how my story was as I tried my best. Sofia xoxox

Week 9

2011-04-03T16:11:00.000+12:00

We said our farewells to Hilary this week as she set out to travel the world. Her last day was Thursday and she treated us to ice-cream cones after lunch. I was so proud of her for participating in the x-country, knowing she could not make it into the school team because she would be away. She did so well by running all the way. In fact I was so proud of all our tamariki, not one of them developed x-countryitis.

Autumn has certainly taken a hold on the temperature in the morning making for a chilly start most mornings, which is a reminder to wrap up warm and then when it does warm up, to put sweat shirts, polar fleeces etc into our school bags to take home again for the next morning.

We started math interchange for Year 5/6 tamariki this week. I know our tamariki enjoy working with the children in mainstream and with other teachers. Subtraction and addition problems is the focus for the rest of the term and working on smart ways to find solutions.

This Tuesday is Class and Individual Photo Day. Tamariki are asked to wear the correct school uniform and a big smile.

Matua Te Haere will be the class teacher on Monday while I will be assessing the Year 3 tamariki and preparing for our Goal Setting Meetings Tuesday and Wednesday.

Monday - Week 7

2011-03-14T11:48:00.000+13:00

It has been so good seeing the tamariki returning to our class.

For the first 2 days TTRR joined together for some fun activities.

We did some 'Seismic Art', shared stories, sang waiata, did our fitness together and shared lunch.

On the Friday morning, Whaea Maria shared her fried bread making skills with us. Very yum. The children had fun shaping a piece of dough to fry. We then made pop-corn and wrote about it.

After that a group called 'Funky Monkey' from Auckland came to entertain the children. We just had enough time to assemble some sushi to eat with our lunch.

This morning Room 2 have come in to join us for the day and work alongside us.

Whaea Mary

Quake

2011-03-03T20:29:00.001+13:00

Tena Koutou

Laine and I arrived back in Christchurch late this afternoon. We had such a wonderful time soothing our souls on Palm Beach, Waiheke Island, and being looked after so well. I hope you and your whanau are looking after each other.

Remember to do some school work if you can while you are at home. Keep up with reading and maths. Check out the school web page for math and reading activities you are able to do. Keep a journal of what you have been doing while kura is closed so we can share it when we get back together or you can e-mail me mary.brunton@stalbans.school.nz to let me know what you are up to.

Look after each other. Missing you all heaps.

Much love

Whaea Mary

Quake

2011-02-25T19:42:00.000+13:00

Tena koutou katoa

I'm hoping everyone is well and safe where ever you are. My thoughts and prayers are with you all and I am looking forward to meeting up with you all when kura opens up again.

Watch out for notices from Mrs Warren on the school website.

My daughter Laine and I are on Waiheke Island (Auckland) being looked after, with much aroha, by my big brother. We managed to get a flight out on Thursday morning and will be returning next week.

Take care

Whaea Mary

week 3

2011-02-18T08:52:00.000+13:00

Hi, My name is Serene and I am the class Rangatira for week 3.
This week we have been going to Aquagym with room 24 each day after Paramawana, we didn't get back to school until Wa Kai. We practiced freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke so we will ready our swimming sport next week on Tuesday. Also this week we did our Reading and Maths asTTle testing. I think we all did really well because this is the second time we have been tested on the computers with Mrs Warren, we did it for the first time last year. Today was our first day at Friday afternoon sports.
Hilary is in the cricket team and they won against Fendalton 73-11. They played at our school.
Tyreice is the captain of the A Softball team and Jacob, Serene, Sofia and Tanesha are in the second team. They went to Hagley Park to play.
The rest of the children stayed at school for Jump Jam and then played either Touch Rugby, Padder Tennis, Cricket or Scatter Ball for the afternoon.
Have a good weekend.

Week 2

2011-02-10T14:48:00.000+13:00

Hi, I have been Rangatira O te wiki in Akomanga tahi so I get to write this weeks blog.

We have had lots of testing this week; spelling, math and writing and Whaea Mary will be testing our reading next week as well as more math.

We are sugar free and lunch wrapper free in our class.

This week we have been learning how to make bar graphs during maths statistical research and we have been learning a lot about Brain Gym. Brain Gym is when you turn on both sides of your brain by crossing over your meridian line which helps us to learn better.

A part of our daily routine is to do Wizz Words and Word Builder. We have to think of as many 3 or more letter words as we can, and Wizz Words are words puzzles like BITTEN, SHY SHY.

Today was the day we had Hui hui nga tamariki. We gave out certificates from Akomanga 3, Ngaru Hepe, from Akomanga 2 was Kayleb Hunter, Storm Reeves and Marama Gray, from Akomanga 1 was Waimarie Wilson- Griffiths, Zyan Gillies and Tyreice Tuliau.

Have a great weekend.

Te Wharetutu

Nau mai, Haere mai

2011-02-02T11:11:00.000+13:00

Welcome to our blog for 2011. I am very excited to be the kaiako in room 1. I look forward to meeting you and your whanau.