Students learning to play the gamelan in music during our rotations. What an amazing sound!

                                               Mahuta News Week 10

It was nice to finally see the sun shining today, as we come to the end of Week 10.  The students have had a very busy term and we know they are nearly ready for their well deserved break. Only one short week left!

Congratulations Gaby Smith!: On Thursday, Gaby represented our school at the Canterbury Primary School swimming meet. Gaby placed 1st in the AWD Backstroke event and 2nd in the AWD Freestyle event.  Gaby has demonstrated great rangitiratanga in swimming this term and we are all so proud of your fantastic achievements. 

Authors diary: A reminder that students need to be writing their sentence in their authors diary each night and making sure they bring it back to school each day. Students have already started sharing some of their awesome sentences with each other.

TK Challenges:  This is a list of some of the TK challenges your child could be completing

-Make in minecraft, the perfect ocean

-Make a family tree

-Bring some photos of your whānau to put on the wall of your learning space

-Make a shoebox diorama of the ocean or a habitat that interests you

-Make a visual mihi

-Learn to juggle or do something you've always wanted to do and be a Tuakana - write the instructions for someone at school or someone in your whānau to do

Important dates and reminders:

Ako Celebration Thursday 13th April, 11am -12pm: Please remember you are warmly invited to visit your child's whanau class during this hour and share their learning  from the term with them.

Thursday 13th April - Last day of Term 1 

Friday 14th April - Good Friday  (School will be closed, first day of the school holidays)

Monday 1st May - First day of Term 2

As this will be the last hail article for the term, the Mahuta team want to take the time to wish you all a very safe and happy holiday. 

Have a great weekend everyone !

From Urmi, Lisa, Peri, Francis and Laura