First Mass of 2021!

 

Today we celebrated our first Mass together as a school for 2021. It was awesome to be back in church and to hear the lovely singing from all of our amazing students and to hear the gospel shared from Father Larry about being welcoming to one another. 

A highlight for me was seeing our fantastic Te Kahu seniors leading our Mass whether it was as altar servers (or Knights of the Altar), singers, powerpoint managers, readers, leading prayers of the faithful or just setting a great example on how to reverent during church from their seats. 

Well done Te Kahu! 

WELCOME TO 2021

 We are so excited to be back at school and to start our learning for 2021! 

Te Kahu is a fantastic class of Year 7 & 8 learners. Over the first two days of school we have had a whakatau to welcome all of our new students and whanau, we have created our class Treaty and have been learning a lot about Catherine McAuley and the Acts of Mercy. 

This morning we participated in a prayer rotation based on our Mercy Charism; for this we rotated around 10 different prayer stations where we got to pray for ourselves and pray for others. 

TE KAHU TONGUE TWISTERS

Today in literacy Te Kahu looked at alliteration and creating tongue twisters. Check out the tongue twisters in our slide deck below and try them out!

SIMILES & METAPHORS

Today in Te Kahu we began looking at different language features. We focused on Similes and Metaphors that can be found in music. Check out our padlet to see what we came up with!

WELCOME BACK

Welcome back to term 3, this term we will be covering a lot more exciting learning!
Check out the DLO below to see some of the key things we will be up to :) 

MANU TUKUTUKU

As a part of our Matariki learning the students of Te Kahu were given the task to research, design and create their own Manu Tukutuku (Maori Kite). Everyone worked in pairs and communicated well with each other. They all problem solved and were sustainable with the resources they used.
I am so proud of how their Manu Tukutuku came out. How do you think they did?

Inertia & Acceleration

For science we are focusing on the physical world and have begun looking at different types of motion and force. Today we focused on inertia and acceleration. 

Here are a few pictures of the experiments and tasks we completed. 

In the comments write your definition of acceleration and inertia. 

As we approach the end of our online learning from home journey I thought it would be nice to celebrate 4 stand out students from the past week. 

 Well done! I am very proud of the home learning you have been producing!

CREATIVITY in MATH

Creativity is something that can be used in all areas of learning, especially in maths. This week we looked at creating Pixel versions of ourselves and also different superheroes. When focusing on symmetry and reflections we had the task to draw the reflection of an image.  

Below is the mirror drawing made by Indi, how awesome did she do!

 Measurement can be used in the kitchen, this week we made playdough and created different creatures. Check out some of them below. 

Celebration Station!

Last week we held our first online school assembly, during this assembly we got to reconnect as a whanau and share some awesome celebrations as a school. 

Here are Te Kahu's great learners who received certificates at last weeks assembly. 

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!

In Te Kahu we looked at articles and newspapers from around the world. 

Students were then given the task to create their own newspaper front page article and publish it to their blogs. Check out some of Te Kahu students amazing work! 

Blake 

Calista

Ebes

Mitch

Therese

Ryan

WEEK 5 MAHI

WELCOME TO TE KAHU

PROBLEM SOLVING

In maths we have been working on our problem solving with additive and multiplicative questions. Each student was asked to choose 2 questions as a part of their contract and film themselves solving the problem and explaining their thinking. If you would like to check out our mahi try this link or try the QR code.