Films from other schools

Have a look at the link below to see a few of the other amazing films that children from other schools have created.

https://sites.google.com/manaiakalani.org/manaiakalani-te-hiku-cluster/te-hiku-film-festival

Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 First Movie Festival

This year has been our first Te Hiku Movie Festival, the movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Thursday 7 November. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a comment below for the students.

BEE - BOTS

Kakapo had a great time this morning programming our Bee-Bot! Lots of learning about directionality and angles.

Daffodil day

Kakapo are proud to support Daffodil Day this year - we started with a prayer of gratitude and thanks. Such a beautiful day - Happy Friday everyone.

SPECIAL CHARACTER TEAM

These are the children from Kakapo who are in our special character team here at Pompallier. They did an amazing job today organising the talent quest. Great stuff!

Pompallier Talent Quest

A huge congratulations to our KAKAPO students who got up and gave it a go in our Talent Quest today. Awesome stuff!

MAHI TAHI TASTE CHALLENGE!

We had a great morning this morning at Mahi Tahi. Students were blindfolded and had to describe what they tasted. It was a very fun morning!
Great teamwork, collaboration and use of your senses team.

Tuakana-Teina

We had a wonderful session today with PIWI who are our buddy class.
Buddies had to take a photo of them together and write all the things they had in common. Check out Kakapo class pages for the results.
Lots of skills being used:
- Co operation
- Collaboration
- Relationship building
- Connections
- Tech skills
- Teaching
- Communication

Well done Alyx, Jayme and Indi

A NOTE FROM HEATHER COLLINS who visited our class last week.

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to these young learners for taking the time in sharing their learning with me last week when I visited from Auckland.  

They were knowledgeable about the content, clear about its purpose and receptive to some constructive criticism…

They had taken a muti-model approach to their project and how to extend it or differentiate it for any given audience.

They were very mature in their approach to the content and rightly proud of the outcome they had achieved.

Well done team - this is great feedback!

Religious Education

A TEACHER’S PRAYER God our Father and Creator You have made yourself known, for this we give you thanks. Little by little we have come to know you, for this we give you thanks. Through people and all creation you have made yourself known, For this we give you thanks. Through spectacular events and quiet moments You have revealed yourself, for this we give you thanks. But through Jesus all that was known took human form. Through him we can see you. Through him we can come to know you better. Through him we give you praise and thanks forever. Amen

Our religious education lesson today related to the image of God in the New Testament. This created some great discussion about how we imagine God to be based on verses from the New Testament. Great team work Kakapo!

Mathematics learning at home

Your screen time usage over a week - Mathematics

As part of our maths learning you will be tracking your screen time use over a week. Week 5 will be collecting your information. Week 6 will be presenting your information in a graph and writing statements about what your data tells you. You can record your information anyway you like. Your final piece of work needs to include: - record of how much time you spent in front of a screen over a 7 day period. This could be in the form of a chart or table to record the data (week 5) - Put your data onto google sheets. From here create a graph which clearly shows they information you have collected - Screen shot your graph and put it onto google drawing. - Write 3 statements about your data and a recommendation for moving forward - Post your google drawing onto your blog and onto Seesaw. Remember what makes a quality blog post. We will be sharing this information at the end of Week 6. Whaea Emma

Cross Country

Kakapo had an amazing time at Cross Country. We have all been working really hard at challenging ourselves to beat our personal best times. The Cutler farm was an amazing place to be able to run - no other cross country like it!
Lots of mud, cheers and fun. Well done team, a wonderful team day.

A special visitor

A special visitor to Kakapo

It was so lovely to have TANK visiting us today. Tank is Mitchell's new puppy. We have all decided we need a class mascot to represent our class and Tank would be perfect!
If you could have a class mascot who or what would you have and why?

MAHI TAHI

Today we created human bulldozer tracks. Communication and Collaboration were vital in this task. 

Communication and collaboration are vital skills we all need to develop moving forward.

Blogging

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

We have started our blogging with another school. Our partner is


Matawai School in Gisborne.


We are excited about getting to know our new friends!

Prayer in Kakapo

Here at Pompallier we always start our day with a prayer. This is a time for us to reflect on our faith and offer our intentions for the day. It's a very special part of our day.

Mahi Tahi Session

Yesterday we had a collaborative art task for Mahi Tahi. It was a real test for our 4c's: Collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. The end result was fantastic!

Mahi Tahi session

Yesterday we had a collaborative art task for Mahi Tahi. It was a real test of our 4 C's: collaboration, creativity, communication and critical thinking. The end result was fantastic!