Meeting Margot

Baby Boyd Pays Us A Visit

Last year we said see you soon to Miss Johnstone as she headed off to prepare for the arrival of Baby Boyd.  Lovely little Margot was born on our last day of school in 2019 and this week, we had a lovely surprise.  Miss Johnstone brought Margot in to meet us.  Here are a couple of photos of Whakamanawa, Miss Johnstone and little Margot.

Kelly Sports Fun

Kelly Sports Session

This week we were lucky to have Hugh from Kelly Sports come in and take each class for a session.  We had four fun activities and were able to have a go at each one.  Here are a few pictures of Whakamanawa's time.

Prize Giving 2019

End of Year Prize Giving

The end of year prize giving is always a highlight of the year.  This year, we were forced indoors as the weather was not on our side.  It was however, quite good to be able to share a slide.

Check it out:

Year 6 Camp 2019

Living at Living Springs 

Camp 2019

Oh, how we love camp.  This year was particularly good at camp.  We had a great bunch of kids and awesome adult help.  Here are a few pictures of our time there.

Oh, how we wish we didn't have to leave Living Springs.  We are so grateful to CERT and Storetaste for helping to make camp 2019 possible.

Year 6 Final Assembly

Sensational Year 6s

Today we had our final Year 6 assembly.  Every Year 6 student that was at school today, stood in front of the school and shared about their time here at Ara Tū Whakatā.  It is hard to believe that we only have a week and a half left.

Here is a slide we shared for our assembly.

Talk about adorable.  

Mindfulness

Self Compassion

This week our Mindfulness sessions have been focusing on self-compassion.  We have been learning to identify our thoughts and focus and keep the positive ones and push the negative ones away.

We did quite a personal and difficult activity where we had to acknowledge some of the negative thoughts we might have about ourselves.  We also highlighted and identified some of the positive thoughts we have.

In our creative activity, we had to show our negative thoughts being destroyed and our positive thoughts being larger and held on to.

Here is an example of Miss Waho's.

Mat Manners

Mat Manners~Our School Expectations

This week we are looking at our mat manners expectations.  We have thought about what we sometimes do that needs to change and set goals to work towards so we see a class-wide improvement.  

This is the example of the activity we did.

Our focus now is to make sure we actually show these changes.