ANZAC biscuit making

Today in class we made ANZAC biscuits. They were very easy to make and were delicious. Thanks to Miss Atuahiva for helping us make the yummy biscuits.

History of ANZAC biscuits.
Some believe the wives of the soldiers made the biscuits and sent them to the soldiers in tins. However, recently researchers have found the biscuits were not eaten at war by soldiers but were sold in NZ to raise money to help with the war efforts.

Danny Joe reflects on his learning from the MADD workshop about TALENTS

Today in Madd we learnt about TALENTS. 

The first thing we did was talk about our intelligence and our skills intelligence. People are born with skills intelligence which means you practice it.

Then Petia ask Fusi to come up then Petia ask what she she was good at then she said piano.

Then Petia asked us to get into groups and act out skits showing people working on their skills. My group did a sports skit about this person called Moses who did not pay attention to training and kept dropping the ball during the game making the team lose.

Then it was the next group they did New Zealands got Talent their story was about this one girl name Fusi she went to go audition for New Zealands got talent the first time she went to go audition she said she just learnt this song about a week ago when she played she was a disaster but then a year later she came back then when she played the judges said they were speechless.

Yesterday I learnt that we are born with talents. I think the talent I was born with is being good at sports.

Then Petia drawn wonder woman then we went back to class.  

Reflections of our Term 1 journey through Lennyx's eyes

During term 1 our class had good, bad, and ugly times we started of the term with a familiar teacher Mrs Tofa.

Our class were going to M.A.D.D workshops where we learnt about our cultural beginnings and how everybody is unique in their own way. Mr Petia, who was one of the teachers at the M.A.D.D workshops donated his art work, which he would draw after the workshop. He drew Superman, Hulk Flash, and Captain America and today he drew our first female character - Super Woman.

We also had our last ever Life Education session in the Life Education Caravan we learnt about how drugs and Alcohol can affect puberty. We also learnt about the 5 body systems which are the Respiratory  system, Digestive system, Circulatory system, Nervous system and the other system.

After our lunch breaks we would then go to the pool and swim when we were swimming some of the class learnt new swimming styles and improved on Freestyle and Backstroke like Butterfly and Breaststroke.  After we had done our swimming exercises  we would get free time to play in the pool.

This year Mr Nath picked 16 players to go the Tamaki Cluster Cricket tournament. During our lunch time we would play cricket and he would coach us on what we need to work on. We won all our games except one against St Pius. But our team still came first out of the whole Tamaki cluster. It felt pretty cool to win the tournament.

The senior school also participated in the welcoming of two waka that came from Hawaii using the same tools that the Maori people used to get to New Zealand. We had to walk to the Point England beach and sit on the grass only a few meters away from the shore of the beach. After about 5 minutes of sitting and looking around we started to see another boat coming around the corner. We were watching the waka and the people come off it using a little boat carrying the people in about groups of four, soon after all of the people were on land all the school, which was most of the ones in the Tamaki cluster stood up and did a haka and repeated it about 8 to 10 times. Once we finished our haka we sang some songs and listened to some speeches. After everybody had finished speaking we stood up in lines and went down to meet the people that sailed here from Hawaii.

The term has been a busy term and a good start to the year. Next term will be another busy term of learning, having fun, working together and growing up. Now we will go and have a good break and prepare our minds for what Mrs Tofa has in store for us next term.