On Tuesday the whole of Bulls School walked down past the Bulls Domain to visit Parewahawaha Marae.  We went to the marae to experience maori culture.

When we first arrived at the marae we were welcomed on with a karang then after that we went inside the marae and listened to the tangata whenua speak.

After that Papa Doug explained the hongi.  A hongi is when you gently press your nose with another person and for a short moment in time you breathe the same air.

Next we had our morning tea then moved into our activities.  The activities were string games, rakau, waiata with Papa Doug, myths and legends weaving, poi making, feathers and whanau koru art.

We had shared kai which was served in the wharekai.  The lunch was delicious!  We had fruit, savories and home baking.

Bulls School walked back to school at the end of the day.   We were tired but we had lots of fun.

By the awesome students of Room 4 literacy class (shared writing).

Statistics

Last week we started to learn about Pie Graphs.  We used the website Create A Graph to display our data.  This week we will be conducting our own investigation and displaying the data using a graph of our choice.

Thank you to my fabulous helpers who have been helping water and maintain our garden.  There will be some exciting investigations this year to plan, design and implement sustainable actions in our school.

Statistics Games

On Friday we had our Special Treasures Day in the Middle Hub.  This was a great time to share something that was really special to us so we can learn more about each other.  Keep an eye out on the blog to see some descriptive writing soon.

Our Class Treaty

Last Friday the Middle Hub got together to create our very important Treaty.  We read the "The Tree Hut Treaty" prior to this and learnt that a treaty is an agreement or a promise.  We discussed how we want our team to operate.  Lots of our discussion came back to our PRIDE values which was awesome!   Here is a short clip of a couple of students promising to follow the rules of the treaty.

A visit from a few chicks!

Mrs Morris' literacy class were super lucky to have a visit from a few cute and fluffy little chicks from Lauren's farm.  We were lucky enough to have a hold of them.  We talked about what we saw, how they felt and what we heard then did a shared piece of descriptive writing.  Mrs Morris was super impressed with the way Lauren showed the rest of the students how to hold and care for the chicks - thank you Lauren!