By Mason and Emma

We have had our student teacher, Miss Peacock teaching us for the past 10 days. We learnt about te whare tapa wha. This is the marae we made. We learnt about the four walls that hold up our whare. Taha whānau means the social and family connection. Taha tinana means physical health. Whenua means the land and the roots. Taha wairua means spiritual health, and taha hinengaro means people's mental and emotional health. Without all these walls holding the whare together it would fall apart, so we need to take care of all of those parts of ourselves to make sure we keep ourselves happy and healthy. All of these combine to make the Te Whare Tapa Wha. We really enjoyed learning about the whare and what it meant.