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2023 Wekas forgiveness and healing

In Religious Education, we have been talking about how people experience forgiveness and healing when they have hurt or been hurt.

We have discussed situations which cause hurt to people and how we can avoid this and why it is important to forgive and be forgiven.

We have discussed how when we show forgiveness and grace to others we help them to restore their tapu (self-dignity) and in doing this we can grow in holiness.

The best ways to grow in holiness are to fill our hearts with the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The Weka children had heaps of fun planting their own sunflower seeds.  We discussed the best way to look after their plant and what it

will need to grow.  This was likened to ourselves.  How can we grow in holiness and flourish with beautiful hearts?

We hope that you enjoy our pictures and work, and we look forward to seeing our sunflowers reach the highest heights!

Happy growing!

Love,

The Wekas

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2023 Takahē Writing

Celebrating Father’s Day - past, present, absent and future Dad’s.

Takahēs Taniwha inspired images that the children created - with their own personalized message to honour and celebrate their special Dad!

 

Why My Dad is Awesome by Henry Roberts

 

Why My Dad is Awesome by Luna Sierra Vanegas

 

Why My Dad is Awesome by Charlotte Coxhead

 

Why My Dad is Awesome by Jacob Parker

 

Father's Day by Jacob Parkinson

 

 

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2023 Tūī ASSUMPTION

On August 15th, the feast of Mary's Assumption was celebrated.  As part of Tūī's learning, they created collage pictures to show that Mary, both body and soul, was assumed into heaven.  They ensured that they selected blue fabric for Mary's cloak to represent the divinity she carried; a sacred and valuable colour.  The glitter represents the twelve stars that surround Mary's head.

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2023 KIWI HUB Persuasive Writing

This term Kiwi Hub has been working on persuading others as a part of our speeches. We have learnt about hooking our audience in and gaining their attention through using persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, emotive language, rule of three and repetition, show don't tell. We have some examples of our sizzling starts for our speeches about Guardianship. We hope you enjoy our sizzling starts and we are looking forward to finishing writing and sharing our speeches with the Year 5 and 6s all about Guardianship.

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2023 RURU ART

“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee.”

Sacred Heart, also called Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is celebrated on the Friday of the third week after Pentecost, devotion includes acts of consecration and honour given to the image of the Sacred Heart.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus shows us God's love and mercy. In fact, that love, and mercy is so intense that the symbol of the sacred heart is a human heart encircled with a crown of thorns, crowned with a cross, and radiating flames: this is how much Christ loves us.

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2023 Pukeko Matariki Kites

Let’s fly a kite.

The Pukeko children listened to the story The Seven Kites of Matariki. Following this beautiful story, we made Matariki kites out of natural materials. Kite making and flying them teaches children about science and weather patterns while  developing hand and eye coordination, kinesthetic awareness and gross motor skills. Above all flying a kite is fun and the sky is the limit.

Horo Matariki

Happy Matariki

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2023 PIWAKAWAKA ART

Piwakawaka’s Kadinsky inspired Matariki fireworks pictures.

The Piwakawaka children have been very busy this term learning about colours, in both English and te reo Maori. For our art project we decided to weave this into our science topic and explore how primary colours are mixed to form secondary and tertiary colours. The children really enjoyed mixing the colours together to see what colours they could make and how they made them feel. Kadinsky exclaimed that “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
We continued to look at Kandinsky's work, in particular his famous Concentric Circles painting.
The Piwakawaka children worked extremely hard to replicate this painting for themselves. Once they were finished; they cut the circles out and used them to represent Matariki fireworks in the sky. With their wonderful fine motor skills they drew a silhouette of Auckland city, cut it out and pasted it onto their picture. To complete their masterpieces the children sprinkled it with glitter and drew some more fireworks on. They were so excited and very proud of their finished artwork that now hangs with pride on our classroom wall.

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2023 KAKAPO ART

Moment In Time!

Kakapo spent three weeks learning to write and publish some ‘Moment In Time’ pieces of work using Google Docs to publish. 

A ‘Moment In Time’ is like a recount but it is happening right now.  We used present tense to describe what we could see, feel, smell, taste and hear.  

Here are what some of Kakapo's students had to say:

 

‘It felt fun to publish my work and see it displayed.’  Charlotte

 

‘It was hard to spell the triple scoop words but I gave it a go!’  Jonathan

 

‘It took a long time to type it but I felt really proud when it was finished.’  Jake

 

‘It was complicated to change the font and sizes of the letters.’  Daniel

 

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2023 KAKARIKI ART

In Week 2, Kakariki enjoyed celebrating the King's Coronation.  The children wrote about what they would do if they were a king or a queen for the day and they made beautiful, sparkly crowns complete with glitter, scrunched tissue paper, felt tip colouring and gems.  There was a lot of careful work needed to stay inside the lines, especially when painting with pva glue, but I think you will agree that Kakariki's crowns turned out royally.

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2023 Weka Art

Weka have been hard at work in preparing their gifts-with heaps of love and care-for their special mums this Mother's Day.

They enjoyed the process of being able to make a gift using recyclable materials and using their own designs to create their own unique expression of love by adding acrylic paint to brighten it up with soft pastel colours.

Each child was eager to share what they love about their mums in detailed sentences with a beautiful illustration of them.

We thank our mums for all your love, selflessness, nurture, care, support and encouragement in all that we do.  You will 'always' be the light of our lives.

Happy Mother's Day!

Love, Weka

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