Space Week in Tī Kōuka

 

Take a look as we 'launch' into our new topic this term ... SPACE!! We have had so much fun already. 

Assembly Certificates for this week

 Congratulation to these wonderful learners in Tī Kōuka who have done a fantastic job showing our school values this week.

Pause, Breathe, Smile

 This week we continued Pause, Breathe, Smile; a mindfulness wellbeing programme. We talked about lots of different feelings that we have, we listened to the story In My Heart: A Book of Feelings and talked about feelings that are in the green zone and feelings that are in the red zone.

The Chain of Positivity

This week is Bully Free week. We have been focusing on giving compliments and not being a by stander when we see something happening that is not right. On Tuesday for writing we made a chain of positivity with Whio.

Today's Assembly Certicates

 Well done to these children for showing our school value whanaungatanga!

The Playground Project- encouraging our value Whanaungatanga (growing connections)

This week we have launched 'The Playground Project' which is designed to encourage the children to play with a wide range of different children from within our studio. Each child has a booklet with their own individual coloured spot. They get to collect a spot (and give out one of their own spots) when they have played a game or sat and had lunch with someone different. Hopefully by the end of the term the children will each have a rainbow of spots. It's been wonderful to see the children playing with different children in the studio. 

Te Whare Tapa Whā- looking after our wellbeing

This week we have been exploring with the children the wellbeing concept of Te Whare Tapa Whā. The children have helped decorate their T group's whare with the 4 pillars that make up Te Whare Tapa Whā: 

Taha tinana (Physical wellbeing), 

The children did a great job working together using the app Book Creator to show ways they can keep their bodies healthy.

Taha wairua (Spiritual wellbeing), 

The children thought of different ways they could look after their spiritual wellbeing

Taha hinengaro (mental and emotional wellbeing)  

The children did a brainstorm of the things that make them happy and chose one to publish on the whare.

Taha whānau (Family and social).  

In the photo frames, the children drew people who are special to them.

We talked about what would happen if one of the walls of our whare was missing. The children understood that to be happy and healthy we all need to focus on all 4 parts of wellbeing. 

 

How full is your battery? Building whanaungatanga...

For our school value, whanaungatanga, we have been looking at how we can feel different emotions during the day. We have used the idea of a battery to help show how we feel. When our battery is low we may feel sad or lonely. When our battery is full we may feel happy, excited or focused. Each T group has a battery where children can show how they are feeling using their coloured dot. 

We looked at the relationship map and discussed why some children's batteries were low. We also talked about how we could help make people's batteries get charged to full again.