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No one wants to feel sad and alone.   So spread a little kindness as it goes a long way and brighten each others day.  Include others in your play, learning and daily life by treating everyone equally.  It's always a nice feeling to love and to be loved.

My Weekend at Parakai

Rugby - Tonga Vs Australia

I can believe the Tongan's won!

By: Eloida


Tonga VS South Africa! ENJOY


By: Sunita


By: Eva


Tonga vs Australia was the Best Game Ever!


By: Jessie

Tonga won against Australia and I was really happy and overjoyed. The whole stadium was red and full of flag. It's was the best game ever.


By: Ilaise




By: Christian




By: Alefaio



By: Adhitya



By: Finau

Rugby World Cup 2019

I can't believe that South Africa won !



By; Ahou



By: Tavita



By: Pippa

This is what i wrote about because the rugby world cup happen and it was the best because south africa won and i was going for south africa and i all ready new they were going to win.

By: Jeminye

Happy Halloween

The flying ghosts was an art work done in class. Learner's used remove bg image website to remove the background and then inserted the art work on an image.

By: Ahou


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By: Alefaio




By: Cassia



By: Christian




This is my work I did this to celebrate halloween. I was been more creative by using different websites and placing my art work image in it.

By: Tavita

Cap Day in Room 8

This is my favorite cap. We get to wear it in the class just for today. I want to wear it in the class because to me it feels like a pet. I love my cap so so much.

Cap Day - Eloida

Christian's Cap

Christian has been very creative.

Tavita's Henna

Henna patterns are cool on my hands!

First, my teacher was talking to us about what we had to do for work and then she noticed something and told us “ we are going to have a henna too. It was old I had it at my house my daughter has it on her hand and then hanna  came to my house and saw it on my daughters hand and I said do you want one and she said” yes.” When Mrs Kumar said to pippa” go get hanna please” and pippa went to get hanna.

When Mrs kumar said to pippa to get hanna she told us to” be quiet and wait for her” so we did we were quiet like ants. When pippa got hanna she showed us her henna that Mrs Kumar did on her hand. When Mrs Kumar told us to go on our chromebook we had to do our work she was doing the girls first and then the boys she did the boys after morning tea because she didn’t have enough time for the boys.

After morning tea she did the boys Mrs Kumar only did two girls after morning tea because they didn’t get there one done before morning tea because there was a lot of girls than boys but when it was the boys turn one of the boys didn’t get done because he was being bad and his mum got him for an appointment.

Finally it was lunchtime and the lunch bell rang for lunch time when it was lunch time I washed my hands and ate my lunch. I felt amazed of how Mrs Kumar was good of make patterns for us we had to take a photo of our hand.

Room 8's Henna

Today Room 8 learner's had experience with henna. They were so excited that they wanted their whole hand decorated with henna design. Due to time constraint the teacher was able to design simple but loveable designs. The learners were given experience to research and look at some patterns online. 

People mainly have Henna designs when there is a celebration such as weddings, engagements, diwali, certain prayers and so on.

Because it was Diwali the class was also told and shown video about Diwali and why people celebrate Diwali. Every single child took keen interest in knowing about Diwali Festival and have the Henna done. 

Christian's Henna

My henna

Best henna I have got

On Wednesday 2019 room 8 got a henna from Mrs Kumar. The girls got it first but Rolex done it together with the girls . Then the boys got it. The girls heena was different to the boys one. 

Some boys got a square one and some boys got a diamond one and it was so cool. Mrs Kumar told me that especially indian girls do it. Pippa went to room 2 to get aahana we saw her heena mrs kumar said “it takes for a little bit long  to do the henna. When it was almost lunch room 11 came and mrs kumar said to room 11 “ they can get a henna after lunch. It tickles when mrs kumar do it. Mrs kumar said “it will only  get of  when 5 days past" . I felt like an indian.

Henna for Diwali Celebration

My Henna

My henna looked so incredible when my teacher put it on my hand !

On Wednesday the 30th of october, 2019 our teacher brought a Henna from her home so she can put it on us and design our hands just for Diwali but Diwali was on sunday but it is still fine. It was a very hot and sunny day.

Firstly we were all on our chromebooks and we were playing Coding. Before we were about to play coding our teacher told Pippa to go get Aahana because in the weekend on saturday Mrs Kumar put a Henna on her daughter and on sunday Aahana came to Mrs Kumar's house and Aahana was playing with Mrs Kumar’s Daughter and then Aahana saw Mrs Kumar's daughter’s Henna  and Mrs Kumar asked Aahana if she wanted a Henna Like Mrs Kumar's daughter and Aahana said ’’sure ’’ so Mrs kumar put it on Aahana. When Aahana came she showed us her Henna on both of her hands and she went back to class.

Next, While we were playing Coding our teacher was calling some people one by one to get their Henna on their hands. When some of us finished getting our Henna we Mrs kumar, which is our teacher she said we can take some photos so we can write about it and post it on our blog.

Later we it was morning tea and the bell rang so we went to wash our hands but the people who had their Henna had to wash 1 hand so their Henna doesn't get ruined after we finished washing our hands we ate our morning tea. After that, morning tea was over, we went back to class and Mrs Kumar was finishing puting the Henna on who she didn’t put it on.

Finally Rm 11 came and Mrs Kumar asked them if they wanted a Henna and they said ’’sure’’ so Mrs Kumar put it on them and they liked it like how we liked it. I felt super happy about my henna because the way my teacher made the henna in a design it looked so incredible.

Maori Language Week

Whole of this week we had Maori Language Week.
The whole class was super excited to do slides either in pairs or on their own.
Below are some of the slides we did.


By: Eloida and Mokoia By: Sunita and Estalina By: Cassia By: Te Wai and Pippa

Tongan Language Week (2/9/2019 - 6/9/2019)

This week we are recognising Tongan Language Week at school.
So today Mrs Tuakoi - a Tongan teacher came to our class and taught us few Tongan words, alphabets and numbers. You can see below in the pictures some of the words we learnt today.

Good Bye

On 24th of August it was Ilm's last day at school. He is flying off to Australia on Friday night. The reason why he is going to Australia is because his father works there for quite sometime now. He will be starting a new school there as well.

Ilm loved dancing, creating good jokes, he was very funny and everybody loved him. Though he was a Year 2 but he adjusted really well with Year 3/4. 

We want to wish him all the very best for his future ahead especially with new school and his learning. 

Farm Animals - Habitat

Farm Animals is a very interesting Inquiry topic this term. We all love farm animals. We have been learning lots of different things about farm animals such as their babies, how different each farm animals look like, sounds different farm animals make and so on. This week particularly we are looking at their habitats and for that one of the activities we had to do was to create our own group farm animals habitat. For that we were divided into 3 groups. We then were given some plastic farm animals and were asked to make habitats for the animals. Watch the video and see our group creation. We had loads of fun doing this activity.

Happy Birthday Ms Lammas

It was Ms Lammas's Birthday today. We got in groups of 3-4 people and made her a birthday card each using Google Drawing. Just because we worked as a team by sharing our work we were able to finish doing the cards super fast. Our teacher printed the cards and then we invited Ms Lammas into our class for 10-15 minutes. She was very kind and accepted our invitation to come to our class. She was not sure what's happening. Wwe made her sit in front and we all sang her a Happy Birthday song. She got very emotional and had tears in her eyes. We also had some questioning and answering time with her as well. 

We discovered that she has been with our school for 19 years. 

These are the cards we made for Ms Lammas.

Farm Animals

This term our Inquiry topic is Farm Animals.

One of the tasks we had to do was to use Google Drawing and publish a Farm Animal Book Cover So basically we were in the shoes of an Illustrator. We saw some example and produced our own illustrations. We felt proud of using Remove Background from Image and then inserting the pictures of animals too.

Below are Room 8's final piece of work.