Positive Jar By Sam

Positive Jar

The positive jar is a jar that you put notes in. On the note you write something positive about a person who  might of shown one of the Strive virtues.The notes are anonymous so the person doesn't know who wrote it.You can write the note in the day and at the end of the day.  The teachers will read them out at the end of the day.

By Sam.

                                                Taonga Table

The Taonga table is a special table located in the Waka in our classroom. The table is used to display other peoples special belongings.

The Taonga table

Each week, at least one person brings an item that is special to their culture or them. They share their item to the whole class, then put it on the table to display.

The purpose of this is to understand everyone more and to see what people are good at and what they like. This also relates to the Culture of the week activity we are doing in class. Through this we hope to improve our social and spiritual well being. 

By Noah

3D Graffiti letter art.

Last week we had a teacher come in and relive for our teachers. His name was Mr R. He tought

us how to turn letters into 3D graffiti letter art.The majority of the class created the art. The finished ones look amazing.

This is my one ,it is not finished yet.

This is Mr R's one it looks awesome.

By:Emily Connell.

olivers taonga

My Meadels and Trophys 

I brought in these Meadels and Trophys.I brought them in beacause they are preashese to me.

They are my amazing taonga beacause they help me remember my special events and help me understsnd the reason why I did these special events thats why they are my taonga.                                                                                

Oliver Daniel and jenson courtesy

TKT Art

This term we used the view out of the windows in Ranginui, to inspire us to create these amazing pastel drawings. 

Zero waste Documentary

The Rumbling Rugby


"And it's a try!" At the moment it is five try's to one. Six try's later, "honkkk!" It's over. Hokowhitu wins eleven one. The next match is College Street vs Hokowhitu. "Honkkk" tackle, pass. It's all up to me. "Kerrrthump!" "Ow!" Try to College Street. The whistle blows "high tackle by College Street". Penalty to Hokowhitu. "Go Isaac go! Hit them hard!" "Boom" Isaac gets a try. They win five one. Our next game we missed out on the final and at the end of the day we came fourth.

By Jordan and Isaac G

Production

Tonight's the night it's Dare to Dream!

Hokowhitu School had an awesome production at Regent Theatre.
The production was based the Olympics. Each class had a different culture and country to dance to. The production was linked together by a group of children having a sleepover and dreaming about being at the Olympics.  

The music was fantastic, it made the audience want to get up and dance with us because it was upbeat and energetic. Students had made up dance routines with a Professional Dancer. Each dance had big and self-expressive actions and all the students looked really enthusiastic about their dances. The costumes were colourful, bright and happy and they made the dancers standout on stage. All the outfits were glowing, beautiful and self-made. A special mention has to go to staff and parents who helped make the costumes. TKT's dance was specially outstanding with their African theme and awesome dance moves.

Altogether the show was spectacular and everyone had a whole lot of fun!!!!

                                By: Rhianna

Making Tables

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" the drill is drilling through the brackets into the wood. For Golden Time some people were making tables to go into our classes. Firstly, we had to sand down the table tops. Secondly, we had to sand the base to get all the bark off. Thirdly, we had to figure out where the four brackets would fit then, we had to draw where that was. Fourthly, we had to drill holes in the holes of the bracket. filthy,we had to screw the screws into the bracket holes that we drilled. Finally, we will varnish them next week, then "Bam! Pow!" we have a table.

By Quinlan & James

Making Tables in Golden Time

At Golden Time we did table making. First of all we got the stump. Then we got the table top, it was heavy. Next we connected the heavy stump to the top of the table. Next we made holes in the stump. Then we screwed in the screws in the stump. After all of that we made holes in the top of the table.Finally we screwed the stump and top together. We did a lot of team work. It was beautiful and soft. We enjoyed building the tables.

By Katerina, Emiliya and Shama.

Cherfull Chinese Langauge Week

Ni hao. In case you haven't noticed, it's Chinese Language Week. The city library is packed with Chinese lamps and posters. My friend Yu Yet, who is from China, taught the class how to pronounce Chinese words. Then that moment "ding!" I had an idea. I was going to teach the class about Chinese writing. I made a poster of the Chinese alphabet. Then I asked Miss Bisset if I could show the class my poster and teach them the Chinese alphabet. She gave me the permison and, at sharing time, I showed the class my poster. The poster had some sentences in Chinese and my name writen in Chinese.

By Leo

Making lemonade

How to make lemonade.

First we got two lemons each.

Then we cut the lemons and squeezed them into juice.

We all get a cup and Mrs Higgs poured the lemon juice in our plastic cups.

Then we put 2 teaspoons of sugar in the lemonade and stirred the lemonade.

After that Mrs Higgs got some fizzy soda and poured it into our cup until it fizzed over our cups.

And that's how you make lemonade.😀

By Melissa and Amnah🙄

Zero waste

On Monday the 11 Zero waste came into our school to teach us things like recycling and taking care of the earth. It was a really fun learning experience. After zero waste I know a lot more things about recycling and how it can effect us in different ways. The activities were fun but they also taught us some things we didn't know. So all together it was fun and we learnt heaps of stuff about recycling. THANK YOU ZERO WASTE!!!!!!!!!!! By Paige 

PRODUCTION

"OH LA, OH LA" The music is blasting in my ears, almost deafening me. I jump up and wave my arms in the air like a windmill. I jump down again, back into a crouching position. "OH LA, OH LA!" I hear again as the boys jump up and wave their arms. I hear it again one more time and everyone jumps up all together. My heart starts racing in excitement as the audience starts to cheer. 

"YOUR ON THE FRONT LINE" a huge smile spreads across my face "EVERYONE'S WATCHING" I search the audience for my families faces, but they are nowhere to be seen. "oh well" I think " at least they can see me. Now it is our time to shine!!

BY: CHARLOTTE AND HANNAH. M

This week is Chinese Language Week and I have taught the students and teachers to speak Chinese because there is lots and lots of Chinese students at Hokowhitu School.

This is the poster that I make with lot and lot useful phrases

By Yu Jet and Andy

Chinese language week.

This week is Chinese language week. For Chinese language week Mr.Hawkins told me and Yu jet to make a poster on the computer about Chinese language week. We made a poster about usefull phrases. When Yu jet and I were finished Yu jet gave it to Mrs. Stella so she could teach her last some phrases. We also printed one and put it in papatuanuku for the children to learn.

Ricoh Hockey Tournament By Sam

On Friday the 9th of September the Ricoh hockey team went down to the Hockey Manawatu turfs for the Ricoh hockey tournament.When we got there we walked in and the organiser from CSNS invited us upstairs where all the other teams were.The organiser started telling everyone when all the games were and how it was going to work.
Our game was after the first one so we had time to practice.The team went down on to the aqua turf and we started taking hits at goal.Then we started practicing our left to right until our next game started. It was now time to play our first game and we were playing against Russell Street and we won. Then we played CSNS and lost 4:0.We then went back upstairs to have some lunch and our next game we were playing was Riverdale and they got so much goals we couldn't even keep count of the final score.We were now playing for 3rd place and we were playing against Central Normal School.The coach started yelling out to his players to put there stick down,get back and heaps of other stuff.After the exuasting game that we won we went down to the B&M Centre.Once everyone got up there and was sitting down in there lines we got started.They started with hockey and Riverdale came 1st, CSNS came 2nd and Hokowhitu came 3rd.Then suddenly out of nowhere they called my name out for most valuable player so I came up shook hands with a 4 time Olympian and got my prize a drink-bottle.After all the sports had been said it was time to announce the overall school winner and it was CSNS.We then went back to school to go home.By Sam H.

The wonders of modern learning...

Modern learning,

As you may know classes have evolved from one teacher classrooms to much more!

Over the past two years classes have been redesigned to fit over seventy five children

Amazing right! They have changed from one teacher to three teachers!

So if you want a safe learning enviroment come to Hokowhitu school!

-Brayden and Che (Yr 6 TKT)

 

AM i in AM i not

As you all know that the ricoh tournament is all about sports
its not just about winning it all about trying your best. The hard
thing is getting pushed to the limit.

am i in am i out

As you all know that we have bean trailing well training for RICOH. It is a competitive thing so you are supporting your school in a sport you enjoy but there could be a slight chance  you can make it in or out !!!


This is the school that won the RICOH last year us Hokowhitu in hokey nice work you were really powerful !!!!!!!!!!!
RICOH is really puffing but luckly we have a good chance of winning if you do not know what sports there are the sports are soccer hokey netball rugby non competitive and basket ball. RICOH is a big tournoment. I like soccer more then I like tec because I am supporting the manawatu in soccer for goaly
but now I stepped up and made it into RICOH.

By Brandon.W

TKT production dance

2 weeks ago we started our production dance. Our school production is called Dare to Dream. Each class/kete got given a country.  TKT got Africa. We practice everyday. Yesterday was our last practice with Ezra. We learnt how to get on and off the stage and he helped us to get out moves even sharper than what they were before.  We have matching outfits.  Girls and boys are different. We each have boy lines and girl lines from shortest to tallest.  Some tall people are at the front because they are good at dancing. It took us 2 days to learn the whole dance with the help off Ezra. From being a dancer myself I think it's a pretty good dance for beginners! 

By Kiilani and Bella

Mini Olympics

On Thursday we left school at 9:00 and walked down to Milverton Kindergarten . When we got there we set up our activities and when it was 10:00 we had an opening ceremony. For the opening ceremony we sang the National Anthem and danced to Waka Waka. Then we started the olympic games!. There were lots of different kind of activities for the children to try.

First we taught them the activity and then afterwards every kid got a turn. After the games we had a closing ceremony were we gave out medals to every kid who took part. Everyone had a great time and had lots of fun.

By: Amnah and Shama 🍉🍪🏆🏅🏅🏅🏅

Production Dance Practice Has Begun!!!!

Here is a little sneak peak at some photos from production dance rehearsal with Ezra. We have had two session already and we have pretty much learnt the routine and now it is time to polish up the performance.

 

Ruahine Speech Finals

Ruahine Speech Finalists 2016

On Monday 8 August 2016 we had the Ruahine Speech Finals.  The speeches were presented by Year 4, 5 and 6 students. There was a lot of interesting types of speech such as persuasive speeches and informative speeches. The topics ranged from soccer, predators, passions and dance, to name a few. We had three judges, Mr Butler (Ross Intermediate), Mrs Dixon, Mrs Sewell (Massey University). Very did an amazing job!

Year 5 Winners L to R (1st to 3rd)

Year 6 Winners L to R (1st to 3rd)

Art

Assembly

On Monday TKT  had an assembly and they shared there art and passion projects, because last term our inquiry was on exploring  our passions We all did a passion project and we all did a different thing. We got to choose between a poster or ICT to present our findings. For art we had to do a piece of a picture each, we then connected it all together. At assembly we all sat on the stage and we shared all our awesome things we had been up to.

BY:Oliver

Mini Olympics

In TKT the students are running a mini Olympics for milverton kindy. Our students are designing a range of activities around the concept of learning around challenge, active movement-(health and brain development) 'hard is good' with focuses around the STRIVE values of courage, perseverance, resilience. Last week we tested some of the juniors to find out what sort of skill level they have and what types of activities would challenge them. By Riley .S

Amazing Art

The art below was made in the timeframe of three Fridays. We made it look easy, but it's not.

It was hard because we had to collaborate and be patient. We had to work as a team and

get the colours right too. Everything had to match, if it didn't it would be out of order.

It took time but in the end, it was an amazing work of art. By Elisa 

Award winners

Well done to all our hard working students who have won our Kete awards this week.

                    

Sir Peter Blake Trust Young Leader Award

 

This award went to one Year 5 or 6 student that shows outstanding leadership skills. In Te Kete Tangaroa, the children nominated people that they thought exemplified Sir Peter's beliefs - that inspiring leaders of any age could be found in every corner of New Zealand. 

She was nominated, by a fellow student, for the following reason:

"I think she really deserves this award. She lives up to her position as a house leader and is an excellent role model in the classroom and out. She doesn't waste time chatting and simply gets on with what she's doing quickly and quietly. She always persevers  She never complains when the run is too long or gives up when a question is too hard. She always just gets along quickly in her own way. Being an excellent house leader and role model, she really deserves this award for all of her great qualities!

Ka Pai!

Just Zilch Fundraiser

Last term as part as our inquiry we looked at and learnt about 'Citizenship'. We looked at how to be a responsible citizen and how to help out our community. My decision around 'Citizenship' was to help out Just Zilch. I wanted to help the poor and sick and that's when I found out about Just Zilch. I had a small idea to run a mufti day and raise money for Just Zilch. I looked into it more. I emailed Rebecca (owner of Just Zilch) to see what she needed. She said they needed money and food. I thought cans  would last for a while so we could gather food and money. When it came to the day, we raised $326 and 192 food items. Good job Hokowhitu.

PNBHS Band

Today we had the PNBHS band come and perform for us. They were awesome!

Certificates

Well done to all our super certificate winners in week 8.

Inter-School Cross Country 2016

Passion Projects Exploration

Over the past couple of weeks the children have been given opportunities to try a variety of activities to help them find something they are passionate about as part of our Exploration Inquiry Unit. Activities have included: Physical, Coding, Technology, Animation, Art, Craft, Tinker, Green Screen, Lego, and Science to name a few. Here are some photos of the children engaged in the activities.