Hornby Sports 2020

Team Hockey

Hornby Winter Sports Competition has been shortened this year but has now started.  On Friday, our hockey team had a bye so we played games with a couple of other schools.  

We decided to take a couple of photos on our return to school and are all looking forward to having our first game next week.

Kia Kaha

Kia Kaha with Constable Brad and Constable Jess

Today we welcomed Constable Brad and Constable Jess to introduce the Kia Kaha programme.  We had some key questions that we discussed.  
What makes us the same?

What makes us different?

Using the photo, children identified things we could see that make us the same and different.

Shields~ I Am Unique Because and Our Class is Special Because...

Shared ideas as unique individuals, origami, learning languages, cultures, own room, being good, different from others, different talents,  go to Mindplus, like arts and crafts, can speak different languages, 

Class-Oldest in the school, artistic, play nicely together, people are born in different cultures, we are all different, we are tidier than other classes, we show empathy, we are role models, 

When we bring all of our differences and uniqueness together, we create a special place.

Takitini Awards

Awards Celebration

In May, we were finally able to have an awards assembly to celebrate and acknowledge some of our fantastic students.

Our welcome awards.

Ngākaunui Award Recipients

Manawaroa Award Winners

Whakamanawa's Award Winners

Kiwi Can Reward

Whakamanawa Wins

At the end of term two, Whakamanawa were so happy to find that we had won the Kiwi Can reward for the term.  Each week, we compete with the other classes in Takitini to earn points based on our Kiwi Can focus.

Here we are enjoying some games as our celebration.

Reading Celebration

Midyear Super Power Reading Celebration

To celebrate our Super Power Reading throughout terms one and two, all of the classes in our school ended our term with a class celebration.

In Whakamanawa, we had a special guest in to read a book to us.  Hamish is always entertaining and has the best expressions when he reads so having him with us was a real treat.

All students in Takitini were able to choose a book to keep.

Food For Thought

Nutrition With Sophie

In week one, we had three days of learning about nutrition and healthy eating with Sophie from the Heart Foundation.  We learned about food groups, reading food labels and how much of certain foods to eat.

Here are a few pictures of things we did.  Students in Whakamanawa are working on a blog post to share more details.

Whakamanawa Photo

Trying to Capture Our Best Pose

Penny and I have been working on updating our school website, particularly our photos.  In week one, when all of our class were here, we took the opportunity to pose for a Whakamanawa photo.  

It took a little longer than expected and we took loads of pictures.  We had so many funny moments as this picture shows:

Dancing Like the Stars

Dance Lessons

We have been so excited to start our Dancing Like the Stars programme for 2020.  We are lucky to have Sandy Gray to teach and work with us.  Here are a couple of pictures of our first week of dance learning.

Collaborative Art

Pasifika Art

In term two, for our Visual Art unit, we worked on a Pasifika pattern collaborative artwork.  Each of the classes in our learning hub created one that used specific colours that show the colours of that learning space.  

We chose green and purple because our two spaces have a splash of those colours on our walls.

We used pastels and had a section of the artwork to colour.

Here is our work in Whakamanawa:

Inquiry and Arts Reflections

Art: I thought our Tapa Art unit was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our art unit, I would give myself a…

In our Tapa Art unit, I learned:

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Inquiry: I thought our Social Science unit about inventions throughout time was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our Inquiry unit, I would give myself a…

In our innovations unit, I learned:

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3)

Visual Arts Unit

Designing Our Own Tapa

This term, our visual arts focus was on Pasifika designs and the process of making tapa or siapo.  Click on the link to our hub Arts page to see what we learned.  Takitini Arts Page

We used a template to develop our designs before working with brown paper, black marker and dye.  To get inspiration and ideas, we used the resources and displays in our learning space, out Visual Arts unit and the internet.

When we had an idea of what we would do, we started drafting designs on brown paper.  We then went over the pencil lines changing the thickness to give different effects.  Once we were happy with our designs, we started using yellow and brown dye to colour.   We then scrunched up our paper to create a textured cloth look.  

Once we had done one design each, we put them together to create a mat.  This is now proudly displayed in our learning space.

Our final piece of art displayed in our class.

Our next step: We have created more than one piece each so that we had more opportunities to develop and explore ideas.  Our next step is to mount these individually and display so we can have an artwork that we can take home.