This week in Potiki we have completed our waka and talked about how we need to all paddle in the same direction for us to succeed.

Preview YouTube video My Movie 2

My Movie 2

Here is a video of the display in Tuakana that reflects our cultures

Preview YouTube video Tuakana culture display

Tuakana culture display

Last Friday our Catholic Character team including Julia Toma, Kirdan Tofilau, Mikayla Bishop, Kace Fata Tolai, Alex Single, Roma Fa’amausili-Mckenzie and Libby Duncan went to St Thomas More Church to learn more about what a leader is and how we can show leadership in our school as well as learning how to perform a liturgy.

To understand what leadership meant we looked into leaders like Pope Francis, Cardinal John Dew, and members of the clergy by researching and identifying what makes them good leaders.

The catholic character team then went on to split into four different groups. Prayers of the faithful, liturgical dancing, proclaiming the word and dramatizing the gospel (specifically the last supper).

Overall we learned many things about how to be a leader and what sort of attitude we should have towards organising things like liturgies and events for our school!

In Tamariki Tuakana we have been learning about each other and setting up class expectations for the year ahead.  This video shows some of what we have been doing.

Well done to Makaio and Logan for winning Humanity Awards from the Fred Hollows Foundation for showing our school value of service. Great example, boys!

A number of Year 7&8 students took Te Reo as an online extension subject at school, through Te Kura. Congratulations to Serene for being awarded Achievement in te Reo Māori in Years 7 to 10 across the country! Good on you!