Rere Atu

We had a wonderful time at the Whole School Cultural Parade.
We enjoyed sharing our Māori poi song, Rere Atu, and dressing in the headbands and flags we had made to celebrate our different cultures.
We also enjoyed watching all the other classes share their items.
The Avonside Girls' High School and Shirley Boys' High School Pasifika groups were fantastic!
The sun even co-operated and shone on us.
Here is a photo of us just before it all started.

With Thanks

We would like to acknowledge and thank those of you who were able to collect your children early on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week while we both went to Paid Union Meetings.

We do realise that it wasn't possible for everyone, but the lower numbers of children in the classes certainly helped manage the day while we were operating on a skeleton staff.

"If it is a skeleton staff, will we hear the bones rattling?"
Ethan (and his Dad!)

Dancing

Part of our learning this term has been about dance. Why do we dance? When do we dance? Who dances? How do we dance?

This will lead in nicely to our whole school Cultural Celebration.

We had fun doing some dance about a poem called 'The Dancing Cat'. We read, danced and did some art work.

The art work looks so good that it is up on display in one of our school entrance ways.