Healthy School Lunches

 Thank you Jacinda Adern

Earlier this term we wrote a letter to Jacinda Adern thanking her for the lunches we get delivered free to school every day. We also sent some photos. Our favourite lunches are Macaroni Cheese, Butter Chicken and sandwiches. Some of us love all of the meals!

We received a thank you letter back from the Prime Minister who thanked us for our letters. She said she really enjoyed our stories and neat handwriting. 

Te Whare Kiwi's Assembly

 Story Telling Through Dance

Paparore School has two large carvings at the main entrance by the office. The carvings on our Pou tell the stories about our local area and the history of the school. One tells significant stories from the West Coast and the other from the East Coast. We have loved learning about the stories told on our Pou. 

Te Kakano, Te Pihi and Te Putake each performed a dance about a part of the Eastern Pou. Our dances were created and directed by clever Miss Koland. Last Friday lots of people watched our spectacular  performances and we were very proud of our efforts! 

Te Kakano class presented a dance about a wheke in the Rangaunu harbour. The wheke turned into Puwheke Maunga. First we learned the poem and then practised very hard to perfect our dance. We made and decorated cool octopus masks and wore ribbons on our wrists for octopus arms.

The Fearless Wheke                                              

In the Rangaunu harbour                                               

Down beneath the sea,

Many wriggly wheke                             

Jiggle merrily.

Wriggling, jiggling

With the currents they float,                                                    

Up and down the eastern coast.

Now, the story tells us long ago

Down, in the, Rangaunu,

One fearless wheke, took a massive breath        

And he grew, and he grew and he grew! 

Wider than a rugby field,

Taller than a tree,

The octopus became a mountain

At the edge of the sea. 

Puwheke te maunga

Joined to sea and land

With eight long arms

Reaching out on rock  and sand.

So, whenever you visit Puwheke

Remember what happened to the little wheke.            

This enchanting story belongs to you and me.  

Carved on our pou, for all to see . . .

 . . . it’s our history!

Te Pihi's dance told the story about the annual migration of the godwit to Alaska to breed, and the return journey back to new Zealand.

 

Te Putake's dance told the story of the ancestor Tuwhakatere and his crippled son Hoka, who secretly went off to join his brother in battle and died.

Term 2, Week 7, 2021

Tree planting at Lake Ngatu 

Today all of the Paparore School students, teachers and lots of adult whanau members went over to the lake to help DOC, Bushlands Trust, Summit Forests and Ngai Takato plant trees. The adults dug the holes and the students planted the small trees. Then we got to have a barbecue lunch. It was a beautiful winter's day and we had lots of fun being kaitiaki.

Our Place, Our Stories!

In the junior classes we have been learning about the Paparore School pou. 

Below is a photo of our school pou. The pou are wooden carvings that tell us the important stories of the school’s history and the history of the area. Paparore school has been located in three different places. The two early locations were on the east coast. Today our school is located near the west coast.

The Western pou has stories about the west coast.

The Eastern pou has stories about the east coast.

One day we all got to create some different parts of the pou using art and craft materials, play dough, sand, shells and construction materials like blocks, lego and magnetic shapes. Some of us took photos of our creations and made an audio recording telling the story of who or what we had made.

Mila is showing you her crayon rubbing mask of chief Tohe.
Brax created chief Tuwhakatere from Duplo bricks and Ahinui 
built a fabulous wheke [octopus].

Puwheke te maunga, Tuwhakatere and Ra the sun!

Busy creating!

Can you see what these students are creating?
What materials are they using to make their creations?