At Wharenui Provision, we enjoy learning, and we enjoy it even more when we have our friends and teachers helping and guiding us.

This is what Belonging looks like to us at Wharenui Provision - We hope you enjoy seeing and reading about our learning and the support we give each other.

Be friendly and kind
Encourage others and be encouraged myself
Learn alongside my friends
Own my culture and know who I am
Never give up – keep trying
Give everything a try, even when it's tricky

Be friendly and kind

Being with our friends at Wharenui is fantastic. We like sharing, having fun, playing games, especially UNO and reading books quietly. Being friendly and kind shows respect for others.

It's so nice being friends with others as we can laugh with them, learn with them and most of all have a lot of fun at school. We also love being friendly with our partner school students as well.

Encourage others and be encouraged by others

Encouraging others is such a nice feeling. We can help them with skills we have or something that we feel confident in doing, and then they get confident as well. When we do this, we are helping everyone feel awesome. In the pictures, we are helping with reading, swimming and retelling the story of The House that Jack Built.

Learning alongside my friends

We love learning at Wharenui Provision, and we especially love learning with our friends. We can discuss what we are doing and get their help if needed. We have so much fun in our learning.

Owning my culture and knowing who I am

Lyla, Jannah and Maraia are part of the Wharenui School Kapa Haka group. They love going to this every Wednesday. The girls dressed in their Kapa Haka uniform at Riccarton High School for the Cultural Festival. We were so proud of them for performing on stage.

We have also been learning about our history and that of the pakeha and Māori through the Aotearoa Histories Curriculum. It’s been fun looking at what New Zealand was like many years ago.

We then made a play of all we had learnt so far.  

Never give up and try new things

Sometimes the work is tricky, and sometimes we think, ‘I can’t do this’. But we keep trying at Wharenui Provision and “Never Give Up”. We learn new things and become successful. It’s great that our friends also help us along the way. When we have friends, we feel like they want us to be successful and happy.

Give everything a try because our friends and teachers will help us

Sometimes our learning is tricky, but we must not give up. Our friends help us to do this.
Friends show respect, and kindness, work together, and build encouragement.

We could never do it alone, so we need our fantastic friends and teachers.