Term 4 week 9 - Graduation

This week is graduation week for the year 6's.  It is their time to shine and reflect on the year.  Here is the video of Whakapono 21 & 22. 

This year for our graduation dinner we decided to have it at school with a follow up disco.  What a night it was.  The hall looked amazing and so did our kids.  We are very grateful at our school for our Board of Trustees and Mr Vasau who made it happen.  Honestly watch the video, it was such an epic success.  The kids will raving about it for years.  Memories to cherish.  I'm going to miss my kids but I hope they leave Rowandale School with a great work ethic and a sense of self belief!

Prize giving

What a day!  As the last few weeks pass us by it seems bittersweet that our class for 2019 will all go their different ways soon.  It’s been awesome seeing all my kids grow in some way.  Always wishing them the best and hoping that they become independent people who work hard.

Our winners today were Micah Hayes for the Year 6 academic excellence award in Maths, Reading and Writing.  He topped his year group and I can only be proud of him!  He’s going to be a doctor one day and I can’t wait to see.  He also got our academic award for Whakapono it.

Next we had Taniara Lavea for most improved.  She has worked so hard on fixing the little things to make her grow as a learner.

Our Participation certificate went to Kanume Kautai.  She has been actively putting her hand up and giving everything a go  and just brings her own flare to her dancing too.

Our Respect award went Toko Aviri.  She is an amazing kid that always exemplifies our PRIDE values.

Our Integrity award went to Utumaoe Pilimai.  She always makes good choices and has high standards.

Our Determination award went to Heleina Kirkwood.  She has pushed herself to be better and she has succeeded.

Our Empathy award goes to Ayden Steven.  He is one of the nicest kids I’ve ever met.

Term 4 - week 8

The end of the year is fast approaching.  Kanume, Taniara and Utumaoe were on lolly lei duty.  They totally volunteered for it and were so excited to do them for our prize winners this week for graduation.  I literally just gave them everything they would need and let them just go for it. They did a great job, excited as for Friday!

Term 4 - week 7

This week saw us doing Art.  Our focus was going from dark to light using pastels.  The kids did a great job of blending their colours to give it a better effect.  All in all the kids loved it and it really looks nice up on our windows.

Term 4 - week 6

What an experience it has been to work with our kids and Miss Parry to put together a Tongan performance for this year.  The kids gave it everything they had and all their practices paid off!  So grateful to be a part of this community.

Big thank you to Mrs LoLo and Mrs Kautai for helping us heaps and to all the parents that came to dress our kids.  They looked absolutely amazing!

Here are a few pics from today.  I hope someone videoed the performance.

Enjoy!

Term 4 - week 2

Powhiri

On Monday, 21 October we welcomed all of our new students and teachers to Rowandale School.  This is a tradition at our school where the students take a leading role in welcoming everyone.  Our boys were lead by our Head boy Peni Kautai for our kai haka and our girls were lead by Roslyn England for kai karanga who is our head girl.

We had two new teachers that joined our staff last term.  They are Bobby Peacock who is a release teacher and Sandra Jenkins who joins Team Tumanako.  I hope they enjoy being a part of our community and helping our children grow!  We also had many children that have started their school journey by reaching the great age of 5 and we have others that have moved into our community.

Netball tournament at Bruce Pullman - year 6

Proud of our kids today they did a great job!  We are only three weeks into our netball season and every single lady played great.

We came 2nd in our section to Cosgrove who won all their games.  It was a good learning experience for our kids.

Cosgrove 11-7 to them

Papakura Central 7-2 to us

Clevedon 14-1 to us

Randwick Park 9-1 to us

Big thanks to all the parents that came to support and also our rugby boys who came to cheer us on for our last game, they were noisy as but it was awesome!

Who is your champion?

In class we have been learning about champions.  Here are a few pieces of writing from the class.

Samoan language week

Here is some of the art that students made during Samoan language week.

Students used repeated patterns.

They also used different line work.

Fractions in Whakapono21

This term we have been working on fractions.  This group were able to show their working out using pictures at first and then they moved to using addition to solve the problem.

This group used a different strategy.  Using proportional thinking they used halves.


We have come a long way in fractions but we still have more to learn.  Watch this space as we learn about mixed fractions and improper fractions next.

Taniara is off to represent Rowandale School in the FAGASA national speech competition!

Hip, hip, hooray to Taniara who participated in the FAGASA Samoan speech competition in the year 6 category.  She worked very hard with Mrs Uelese and her hard work paid off by coming first.  What a great achievement at such a young age, Taniara is the epitome of a young Samoan girl who is growing in confidence and is always proud to put her culture and heritage at the forefront of her life.  Taniara will now represent Rowandale School in the FAGASA national competition.   

Her class and the whole school are so proud of her and wish her well when she goes to compete against others around New Zealand.