Health and Physical Education Topic Term 2 

This term Te Hapua will be completing our Health and Physical Education curriculum topic - ‘Staying Safe as we Grow’. This program will cover the following focus areas of learning:

I am unique, He taonga ahau - Getting to know our name, address, and the names of people we live with. Learning to share our feelings especially when we feel unsafe.

Relationships, Ngā whanaungatanga - Learning about respect and how to be a good friend as well as identifying and expressing feelings.

Growing and Changing, Te tipu me te huri o te tangata - Learning how our body moves, the different parts and how to care for our bodies

Staying Safe, Te noho haumaru - Learning how to stand up for ourselves and others, who can keep us safe, safe and unsafe touch.

We will also be teaching the students a form of aerobics based fitness called ‘Jump Jam’ during the physical section of this unit. This is a fun movement to music activity which supports gross motor skills. Alongside this we will have planned lessons around skipping and big ball skills. This should be an enjoyable term of learning and growing in this curriculum area. If you have any questions around the Health Unit of work please touch base with your pakeke teacher or if within school time Mrs Fordyce or Mr Retallick.

Swimming Term 2

In week 5 and 6 this term, the students will be having swimming instruction at Dudley pools. The year 2 students will be swimming 10 am - 12 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and the Year 1 students will be swimming 12.30 pm - 2.30 pm. Monday - Friday. The children will be going to and from the pools on a bus. If you have any questions around swimming, please touch base with your child’s pakeke teacher.

News in Te Hapua

Every day a new student is chosen to be STAR for the day. From Term 2, the student who is STAR for the day will also get to bring in news to share. The students will be notified the day before who is STAR the following day.

Assembly and Whare Manu Day

This Friday is the Te Hapua assembly.  This will be held at 9.50am at the Community Centre.  Whānau are invited to this event.  If your child is receiving a certificate at this event, parents will be notified via email.  This Friday will also be our whare manu day. The whare manu groups are our house groups which are based on birds. They are family groups so all children from the same family are in the same group.

Each bird house or whare manu group is also attached to a colour. The students will be starting to learn these as we sit in these groups during morning whanāu time however if you are unsure of your child's colour or team please see your pakeke teacher. The students come to school on Friday in their house colours or wearing something that connects them to that group. Here are some reminders of the whare manu names and their colour.

Tui - Black

Korimako - Yellow

Weka - Red,

Kōtare - Blue

Tauhou - Green

Kererū - White

Please feel free to come into class with your child in the mornings and share this time to connect with the teachers and other students. We do encourage parents to leave at the first bell to enable the program to start and for easy settling during this time.

Te Hapua Team - Jo Bartlett, Adelle Thompson, India Graham, Logan Moore