Who are we?

Te Ara Angitu is a group of Year 5 and 6 students at Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2022.
You can also see sharing from Rimu and Whakamanawa students from previous years.

Monday, 28 August 2017

Week Six Value-Being Organised

Being Organised


This week we are focussing on our week 5 value of being organised.  In week 5 we were not so organised and got busy with a lot of things going on.  Being organised when things are really busy is a skill that helps our self management and ability to cope with stress.  
Check out the shared slide used to help generate our thinking and learning.

Thursday, 17 August 2017

Friday, 11 August 2017

Week Three Quality - Empathy

Make Someone's Day by Showing Empathy

The quality that we are focussing on to help us show our value, Make Someone's Day, is Empathy.  

To help our learning and understanding of what empathy is and how we can feel it and show it, we used this slide in our learning phase.

Senior Hub Assembly

Awards Presentation


At the moment we don't have a space where we can all meet for our hub assemblies.  We have been creating slides to show who has received awards that we would usually present.  
For week two, our awards went like this...

Sunday, 30 July 2017

Week Two Values- Care for Others



Caring for Others


For week two, we are looking closely at caring for others, how we can show this and how we can aim to make someone's day by showing this caring.




Play Day at Timbernook

Terrific Times at Timbernook

At the end of each term we have a Play day.  In term one we ventured out to Timbernook and explored a variety of creative play activities.  Check out a few of our pictures:

Values-Friendliness

Friendliness


For week one, we have been learning about and reflecting on friendliness.  Being friendly helps us show our FISH! Philosophy value of making someone's day.