Kia Ora, Hello, Ni Hao, Bonjour, Kia Orana, Dia dhuit, Ciao!
We are Poutama 2023! We have 21 students; 14 of us are girls and we have 7 boys! Our teacher is Miss Salton.
This year, we are doing some tech lessons with Miss Salton and the Year 6’s from Tuakana, while the Year 7 and 8’s go to Manawatu College for their tech lessons. We have started with art by making mosaic tiles and clay sculptures. We will also be doing collage art. Throughout the year, our tech lessons are going to cover: music, dance and drama, cooking, science, design and digital! We are excited to learn these new skills!
In literacy this year, we are doing Structured Literacy for our spelling; our writing this term is narratives – where we get to make up our own stories! Our reading is all different depending on our groups.
In maths, this term we are learning addition, subtraction, place value and we will get to multiplication as well!
We love going outside and having PE or swimming sessions! We have our swimming sports in term 1, which some of us are looking forward to (some of us aren’t though!)
We are a PB4L school and use our 4 C’s to make sure we are following the rules. These 4 C’s are: Communication, Collaboration, Consideration and Creativity! At the end of each week, we might be lucky enough to have our name pulled out of the draw, at assembly and win a prize!
In our class, we are allowed to eat throughout the day, whenever we are hungry; however, our snacks have to be healthy in the morning. We also have weetbix, fruit and muesli bars in class that we can eat whenever we need to.
We will be updating our class blog, and our own blogs every week, so we look forward to hearing from you! Please ask us any questions you would like to know about our awesome little school – Poroutawhao, or our class – Poutama!
Kia ora koutou Poutama Class!
Greetings from South Auckland! How wonderful that you have a class blog and plan to share your learning with a wider online audience! It’s a privilege to hear about learning in your context including Tech opportunities, Structured Literacy approaches to develop spelling rules (and sound patterns) and that your writing will have a focus on narratives.
It looks like you are going to be super busy as well this term with swimming sports! Do you plan to upload photos of the day? It would be fabulous to see you all in action. I am sure parents and whānau will enjoy this too.
As a facilitator with the wider Manaiakalani Network it is always special to see a new class blog kick off. All the best and I look forward to coming back to visit soon to catch up on your class learning.
Nga mihi nui
Naomi Rosedale
Manaiakalani Literacy Facilitator
Hi Naomi,
Thank you for commenting on our blog post! We are excited to have our own blogs back up later this term.
We are LOVING our tech lessons, it’s really cool to learn new things (it’s also new for Miss Salton).
We will definitely post pictures of our swimming sports as well as our interschool swimming sports, that some of us will compete in.
What is a facilitator? Do you go into lots of schools and work with students and other teachers? Last year, lots of us had Mrs Murphy come in to help us with our Manaiakalani journey.
Kia ora Poutamu Class,
Thank you for visiting our blog and leaving a comment. We are very excited to be connecting with you this year. We enjoy sharing learning we are excited about and proud of on our blogs. So far this year we have shared a post for our blog profile. We had to think carefully about what information we are sharing. If you look at our blogs, links in the class blog widget , you can see a link to the blog profile. We also like sharing our Cybersmart learning too. At the moment we are learning to be confident with our keyboard and touch pad. We look forward to exploring your individual blogs too.
from Room 6 @ Saint Patrick’s School, Panmure
Thank you for sharing the links to your individual blogs. When we all have our own blogs, we will individually look at yours to comment and share with you, and hope you will do the same for us! Thank you for sharing the types of things you put on your blogs as it has given us some inspiration for ours!
From Poutama @ Poroutawhao School