Te Whare Tui Camp 2020 - Coopers Beach

WOW ... what a spectacular 3 days we had on the Te Whare Tui Camp at Coopers Beach. The students in Te Tinana and Te Manga were amazing campers who took part in all activities with enthusiasm. 

The students on our camp were aged from 7-9 years old and they conducted themselves in such an awesome manner. Some of these students had never been away from home without their whanau. They each showed our Paparore School Values of Hiranga (Excellence), Rereketanga (Diversity), Ngakau (Integrity), Porihanga (Community and Partnership) and  Kaitiakitanga (Caring for the Environment) in everyway. 

The students took part in all the camp activities; giant water slide, confidence course, slippy hockey and kayaking. There was also good old camp activities like table tennis, trampolines, board games and court games plus we all got to spend our afternoons at Coopers Beach. The students were able to swim, build dams, sand castles, use the playground and chill out with each other.

Our school camps are such a pleasure to be part of and these would not happen without the support of our school whanau, staff and our BOT. We were so well supported on camp with a great group of parents and staff. Thank you so much to all of you for everything you all did.

A super special thank you to Mrs Davan and Hannah for being our 'Camp Chefs'. You both did such a great job running our camp kitchen with all the great help too! Also thank you to Sir and our BOT for paying the full costs for our camp as we were unable to fundraise. We all really appreciate this. 

To check out more photo's of our camp please click on this link

Waitangi - Raranga Matihiko

Our class had the opportunity to travel to Waitangi last week to take part in the Raranga Matihiko digital learning classroom and visit the Waitangi grounds and museum. This term we are learning about NZ history with a focus on traditional sailing and navigation methods used by early Polynesian voyagers and European Explorers.

We looked closely as the pou surrounding the waka, Ngātokimatawhaorua and did sketches. Whaea Kristina told us about Kupe and we saw his pou with a wheke (octopus). Ngātokimatawhaorua was built to mark the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi’s signing in 1940 and was built by members of New Zealand’s northern and Waikato tribes. The waka is launched every year in February as part of Waitangi Day celebrations. 

The Waitangi Museum was an amazing learning experience with so many hands on experiences about NZ history. The students were so engaged with every part. In the classroom we had the chance to use the VR glasses (virtual reality), Tinkercad, Sculpt GL, Book Creator and Paint 3D. It was great to visit Waitangi where our learning really came to life. We look forward to visiting again in Week 5. 

Thank-you to Whaea Kerry, Whaea Monika and Whaea Kristina for a fabulous day of learning outside our classroom.

Te Hiku Film Festival 2020

 Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 Film Festival 2020

Our theme for the movies this year was “Life in Lockdown” The movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Monday 19 October 2020. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to Zana, Alani and Koda for the production of this movie.

Click on the link to view other Manaiakalani Film Festival movies. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below for the students.

The following film was made by Te Manga for our Term 3 Class Assembly which was ironically cancelled because of Covid. It was not entered into the film festival but we really enjoyed making it. It's called the Lowdown of Lockdown.