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. 

Raps & Music Production

 Over the past few weeks we have been focusing on music and music production. We had Floyd from Serato come in and talk to us about music production, we even got to have a turn on his equipment! 

After playing with his beats we then made our own using either groove pizza or incredibox and wrote our own lyrics with the theme of Aroha- Love. 

Everyone did such a fantastic job producing, writing and preforming their piece of music. 

Check out our link below to give them a listen!

TE KAHU MUSIC HUB

Te Hiku Film Festival 2020

 

Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 Film Festival 2020

Our theme for the movies this year was “Life in Lockdown” The movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Monday 19 October 2020. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie. Please click on the link to view other Te Hiku Film Festival movies. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below for the students.

STATISTICS

Today Te Kahu started their Statistics learning. Check out our Jam Board to see our prior knowledge. 

What do you know about statistics? 
Where have you seen statistics being used? 
What can statistics be used for?
What is it's purpose? 

 

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!