Weekly Notices, Week 8, Term 3, 2017

Room 16, Weekly Notices, Term 3, Week 8 (11th-15th September 2017)

THIS WEEK IS MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK SO IN RUMA WETA WE WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT FOCUS EACH DAY. WE WILL ROTATE ACTIVITIES ON THURSDAY SO ALL STUDENTS GET TO DO SOME NEW ACTIVITIES AND LEARN MORE ABOUT MAORI CULTURE AND CUSTOMS.

STEAM PUDDINGS FOR SALE WEDNESDAY – Yummy Yummy!

Steam pudding with custard will be for sale at school on Wednesday the of 13^th September for only $2. 

Please order through your classroom teacher.

Proceeds will go to support activities run by the Whanau Group. 

If anyone is available to assist with the delivery of the puddings on Wednesday. Please come along to the hall kitchen at 1pm. 

FYI:

Within an area that a marae stands on, you are going to have a set of buildings. The main buildings are the whare tipuna, the ancestral house, the wharekai, or the dining room, and those are the key buildings. Apart from those buildings there will be an ablutions area, there will be cooking facilities, there will be other buildings that may or may not exist on all marae. Nearby there may be a whare karakia, a church. There may also be other buildings like whare kaumātua, kaumātua flats. There could even be a kōhanga reo, so beyond that also then there might be homes. Some marae may have a memorial, a memorial to soldiers, a memorial to a particular tipuna and, you know, there are some marae also that may have prominent tipuna buried on that marae and, you know, in a way it just helps I suppose consolidate the collective or the whānau's responsibilities to that marae. Depending on the purpose for gathering, the flag will be raised. Again it indicates to a community that something is happening at the marae and it’s generally up for the duration of that gathering or that hui. For tangihanga, where I come from (and probably in most areas as well) the flag will be raised to the top of the flag mast, but once the corpse or the tūpāpaku arrives on the marae then it will come down to half mast. Then again it indicates to people going past there is a tangihanga in progress. So all of those things, whilst it may not be known, they are all signs that communicate certain things to people who are aware of that.

Brian Morris – Te Reo Māori and tikanga expert

MATHS GAME OF THE WEEK:
KNIGHT AND PRINCESS MULTIPLICATION-CLICK ON HERE TO PLAY!

THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME TO MASS ON FRIDAY TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF MARY. WE WERE IMPRESSED WITH THE CHILDREN'S ANSWERS AND SINGING...WELL DONE!!

MONDAY
MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK -BASIC MAORI-MUST KNOWS
SPELLING TEST
TUESDAY
CALENDAR ART BEGUN
WEDNESDAY
SINGING
GO 4 IT
THURSDAY
KAPA HAKA
MANDARIN
FRIDAY
GOLDEN TIME-WHEELS DAY
ASSEMBLY