Kahurangi Reading Group - Story Review

Shine
by Makerita Urale

Shine is about a band and a boy who dislocates his shoulder at rugby before they are just about to perform. The story is based in Auckland. The name of the band is poetic Dynasty.
They enter into a music competition and... you will have to read and see.

Papura Reading Group - Story Review

Taiaha
by Ian Trafford

Taiaha is about a group of boys who go to Mokoia Island to learn about the ancient ways of the Taiaha.
Koro Mita welcomes the boys to the island.
The boys learn to use the Taiaha and work towards doing a performance for their whanau.
Taiaha looks very skillful and meaningful.

Our score for Taiaha is: 3 1/2 /5

A Disaster - By Sol

On a hot sunny day at the local skate-park in Nelson, the ‘youths’ were chilin out.
All the cool kids were doing all sorts of tricks and then I heard something from behind that made me stop what I was doing.

I looked over to where the noise was coming from. It was a bulldozer! It was coming straight for the skate-park. We quickly rushed over to it waving our hands and telling it to stop.
“What are u doing?’’ I said.
“Well I'm turning this skate-park into a mall,” said Jake. “Dont ask me, ask the council”,said the old man.
So the boys and the pet pig named Kuni Kuni rushed down to the council.

Half an hour later the youths arrived at the council building all feeling rather wound up about what was going on.
“You speak to them Jake”, said Amon “What do I say?” said Jake
“Just tell them like it is Jake!” “Thats our skate-park and we need it to stay there” “Kuni Kuni needs this park too!” “Where else will he get to practice for the world Kuni Kuni skateboarding competition coming up next month?”
“Go do it Jake” I said
“Auk” said Jake.
Jake smashed his fist on the desk and said. “I want to see the manager of this place!”. The secretary said “You will have to make an appointment”.
So Jake got the earliest appointment he could and the appointment was 1:00pm So they went to Mc Donald's and ordered 3 big mac combos and 1 extra large bowl of chips for Kuni Kuni. While they were waiting for time to go by.

They were halfway though their Big Mac Combos when they realized that it was 1:00pm and time for there meeting with the manager of the council.
So they quickly skated ,scooted and boxed down to the council building.

They got to the building and went up to the receptions desk and she said he was waiting for us in room 2 so she showed us ho to get there.

When we walked into the office I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. There was a photo of Hemi on the desk.
MMmmm..... I thought , thats the kid who got second at the Top of the South Champs last year.
“Nice photo” I said to the councilor.
“Why thank you!”
“Who’s that in the photo over there?” “He looks really familiar!”
“He’s my son Hemi”.
“Well didn't he come 2nd in the Top of the South Champs”.
“Yeah he did. I was very proud of him”.
“Well he could come to our skate-park and practice for this years champs”.
“And probably come 1st”.
“Auk I suppose”.
“Ill just take down Nayland Primary School instead”. “There’s lots of other schools in the region”.
“NO!” screamed Ms Gulbransen smashing through the door.
“Here it goes again” said the councilor.

THE END

Home School Partnership - Matariki / Active Schools

Matariki and Active Schools was celebrated on Wednesday 24th June at Nayland Primary School and what an awesome night it was.
We had over 150 people attend our Home School Partnership evening and everyone enjoyed the night.
Naylands Active Schools plan was presented and children from Room 4 presented their Matariki power point and showed off the amazing art work made by students.
We had an expert astronomer called Robert talk to us about the stars in the sky and he brought the biggest telescope ever to look at the stars and Saturn.
Armed with torches and glow sticks we then walked up to the Reserve where our Sports captains had organized games for us to play in the dark like, Battleships, Dark Dodge Ball and a giant tug of war rope for us to all test our strength.
After a big walk we headed back to school for the whanau prize draw and a kai karakia to bless the food we were about to eat. The hot soup and sausage sizzle went down a treat.
It was a great night and thankyou to all those that attended the night and helped to make it happen.

Museum Trip - Fossils

The Nelson Museum is an amazing place and we were lucky to have a back up plan when the weather came in really wet and our trip to Natureland was cancelled.
We have been learning about living creatures that are endangered, so this was quite exciting to look at the fossils of animals and creatures of the past.

Akomanga Wha - 2009

Kia ora koutou and welcome to Akomanga Wha's Blog.

Our goal this year is to be the best that we can be and to give all things ago! We are a dedicated crew who are working towards being life long independent learners.

To date we have 27 students in our classroom with a recent new addition this week all the way from South Africa called Brendan. Nau mai haere mai!

This is the first time that my self and some of the children of Akomanga Wha have used a Blog site and a goal for us all is to be confident 21st century learners and use our Blog daily.

The term is nearly coming to an end and we all cant wait for the variety show coming up in two weeks time. The tamariki have all been very busy dancing, creating costumes, learning lines and being very patient with each other as have worked through the process of putting together a show that reflects our learning. Kei te pai to mahi!!

Term Two Events:

• Mihi Whakatau for Marty Grant - NZ Black Sox Softball Player
• Tree planting in Monaco
• Matariki art competition
• Home School Partnership - Matariki / Active Schools
• Rippa Rugby Tournament
• Winter School Tournament
• Museum trip - Nga Iwi
• Museum trip - Fossils
• Natureland Trip - Postponed until Term 3

Nicky Mason - Classroom Teacher

Mihi Whakatau

On Friday the 29th May the Maori Culture Group welcomed Marty Grant to our school with a special ceremony called a mihi whakatau.
A mihi whakatau is a welcoming ceremony.