Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Our school is involved with looking after the Rangikapiti reserve. 

Some students help with the trapping of pests and planting trees.

Some senior students - Tyrell, Nico and Nikki-Boy learnt how to plant a tree properly then they made a video for us to watch so we could know too. 

We went to Rangikapiti and learnt about the importance of looking after our native bush and how we can help by planting trees.

The senior boys helped us with the planting.

It was really good to feel like we are helping!

When were finished we walked up to the top of Rangikapiti Pa and looked at our Moana ataahua (beautiful Moana).

Matariki Celebrations - Kite Making, Mahi Whai, and Sharing of Kai

Matariki Celebrations with our Whanau.

We had fun celebrating Matariki. Whanau came in and helped us to make decorative kites. They look beautiful. We also made the most of tuakana teina and had some wonderful older tamariki come in and help the kids with no whanau in that day.

           

           

We all bought in some vegetables from home and made a big pot of soup to share with our Whanau.

We did mahi whai - string games. We got pretty good at this!

Kaitiaki of Others -Have you filled a bucket today?

We have been learning about being Kaitiaki (kind and caring) to others. 
We read the story  - Have you filled a bucket today. This gave us lots to think about. 

Click here to hear the story.

We identified ways that we could fill people's buckets to make them feel good and to make us feel good too!

We decided to make a chocolate slice to take home to share with our whanau. We invited Nga Ringa to join us too. We had fun working with this class. 

  

We cooked it in the oven. Then made icing for it. We put sprinkles on the top too. 

We also decorated cards and wrote to our whanau at home. We wrote about how they do nice things for us at home.

When we wrapped up our slice and took them home. We couldn't wait to share them with our whanau.

Hope you enjoyed them whanau :)