Ko te Mauri Ora ki a Koutou Katoa!

We do our very best to make sure that the learning your tamariki do is challenging and exciting so that they actually enjoy coming to kura and doing their mahi. To achieve best results pouako try for a good balance between doing their whakaako (teaching) inside the akomanga (classroom) and outside the akomanga.

Both forms of teaching are important but being outside is something we are doing more of because the inside four walls learning model has been the most used one, hence our haerenga for the Whānau Tauira to Te Tai Tokerau at the beginning of the year, and other daily outings and camps for the Whānau Mātāmua and the Whānau Pōtiki.

The Kōparepare overnight camp was a practice for their one up at the Whirinaki Lodge in two weeks-time. Their Kura one was an outstanding success, sleeping in a tent with their mates, a new exciting experience for them.

This type of experience is called Direct Learning. Direct learning engages all the senses - sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, emotions, and wairua. As such, tamariki will have lots to talk about, write about, and sing about. The Akomanga learning is Indirect learning which is more about reading and listening. Indirect learning tends to dominate.

As a general rule we try to do one haerenga per term. We look forward very much to what unfolds over the rest of the year.