Aroha 6: Celebrating Cook Island language week and National Green Principal day!!

Kia Orana Aroha 6 whanau and friends this term being week 3, we have had so much fun celebrating Cook Island language week. Such as exploring the Arts through learning to make our very own Cook Island 'Ei katu,  by using assorted flowers,  coloured paper,  glue and glitter, along with dancing to the beat of Cook Island songs,  creating and recognising the colours and symbols of the Cook Island flag.  We also had fun learning how to pronounce Rowandale PRIDE values in Cook Island language...

To top it off we were treated with an amazing closing ceremony for Cook Island language week. Wow!!! Thank you to the Cook Island group for putting on a fantastic performance. You sure got everyone up on their feet moving to the beat. Wahoo!!! Well done to our Aroha 6 dancers Lucy-May and Zjayden who also made us proud watching you perform in confidence in front of the whole school. 

Chee Hoo!!!

On another special note we as in ROWANDALE   stood loud and proud wearing green in support of Green Day! National day for principals from all over Aotearoa.  Especially to our amazing inspiring leader our Principal Mr Vasau who's heart is also for our school and local community... We also would like to acknowledge Mrs Mulipola  for doing a fantastic job being our acting Principal / Deputy Principal leading the teaching and learning in our school. 

We support you all because we care and you deserve the best !!!  

Thank you to all our Aroha 6 whanau for the delicious shared kai made with so much love.

Aroha 6: Wahoo! It is Whetū and Nick time!

This week the whole school were privileged to go on an excursion by travelling by bus to watch a fun educational,  dual language performance showcase written in both Te Reo and English called Whetū & Nick!!!

Whetū & Nick is about a young Māori girl and a British orphan cabin boy who set out in search of Jame's Cook’s map, a flying kite and the sacred maunga (mountain).  

Along the way they discover their cultural differences and similarities, their people’s voyages and their shared love of Aotearoa.  Their young lives will take a significant turn as they go through the forest and find themselves on the top of the sacred maunga.

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What a great learning experience it was for Aroha 6.  We sure had fun on the bus, sharing our ideas all the way back to school.

Here are some of our learner's voices about the Whetū and Nick performance show...

Giana : I liked how Whetū  was singing and how she spoke Te Reo Māori and how she made the boy go sleep

Ivana: I liked going on the bus and how Whetu went through the storm and it was dark

Kiran: I liked Nick because he looks cool

Pratik: I liked Nick when he had a bleeding foot he was so funny screaming

Seira: I liked the wind lady because she was funny

Aroha 6: Exploring Physical Education and Mathematics and Statistics

 Being young explorers in Aroha 6, they learn new things about the world around them as they work together to investigate into the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math!

Here is a sneak peak of our young explorers  investigating with their peers in becoming confident competent learners through problem solving, sharing their ideas, turn taking and being risk takers...

Through Mathematics and statistics strategies we learn to explore the use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space and time...For example as part of our Maths warm up,  we sit in a porowhita (circle) we carefully  observe each number from an active board, identifying and using the tools to make up the digits in the appropriate place value boxes 

( hundreds, tens, ones).

 We also explore other Maths curriculum areas such as fractions through cutting up fruits and vegetables and cakes into halves and quarter pieces...

  It is FMS time!!!

Thank you Counties Sports Fundamental Movement skills team for another great experience having fun exploring physical education through playing games and learning to balance on our own two feet...

Well done Aroha 6! Keep it up!

O