Friday 24 March 2017

Parents New to Netbook Evening

A warm welcome and thank you to the wonderful, supportive parents of Room 5. As Room 5's teacher, I was blessed by such a massive turnout to this evening. It was inspiring to see students working alongside their parents showing how they use their netbooks to LEARN, CREATE AND SHARE!

A special thank you to Yayleen from Manaiakalani Netbook training for joining us and to Ana Tui for letting us use her classroom and being a camera person from time to time. Thank you also to Debbie Williams for attending and supporting the evening.

Once again, thank you to Room 5's parents for their great show of support. It was a special night!


Sunday 5 March 2017

River Talks at Omaru Creek Point England Reserve


River Talks - a Recount by Silia Pulotu


After school we went to the Riverside talk. This was on the other side of G.I. It was me, my Mum, Sia and Mrs.Middleton. I had a ride in my teacher’s car. When we got there we were just standing on the footpath because we didn’t know if it was the right place. We walked up and went to see if that was the river talk when the lady came she asked us if we are joining  the river talk and we said yes so we went and stood by the tree.


There was a Maori man who did a Maori talk about the river. I wanted to know but I couldn’t understand. I was at the very front with Sia and Aaliyah. There was a man in the dirty river. He showed us how dirty it is. It looks like a muddy puddle and it is muddy. We went from there to two Tongans who came from Tonga. They did a poem and it was very sad because the girl cried saying the poem. There were Cook Islands who did a drum thing. I liked it because I danced. We went to the last lady and she sang songs. I will try and help to save my environment.