Growth Mindset Videos

Base groups in Tautoru have been spending time in Autahi over the last 2 weeks talking about their goals, sharing their strengths, and watching videos about a growth mindset.


The videos can be viewed at this link growth-mindset.

They are fantastic short clips that the students have enjoyed and are pitched perfectly at their level. Please spend some time with your children and talk about their own strengths and goals.

Greetings from Taipei/ Taiwan

At Worser Bay School, we are excited to learn about different places and cultures. We have started a project that is linked to International Friendship Day (this is celebrated in Singapore to celebrate collaboration and connections with other cultures). Schools from across the world have signed up to share a short movie about their country. The movies will be posted on this site. Here is the first one from Taipei/ Taiwan: 

If you are a teacher, you can sign up here.

Character Strengths

We have been talking about Character Strengths. We made some posters showing what they mean to us at school.

Bravery in Tautoru means trying new things, standing up in front of the whole school, answering questions in a big group and being strong when you fall over.

Perspective means thinking "I can get better at this some day" and when you think you're not good at something, just thinking that you will get better.

Perseverance means sticking at it, never giving up, not stopping and trying to keep doing your best.

Songs for the Powhiri

Utaina Mai Nga Waka

Utaina mai Nga waka

Nga waka o te motu

Toia mai a ki uta

Ki te takoto ranga

A hiki ‘nuku hiki e

Hiki rangi rangi e

Tena Tena ra

Koutou Katoa

Tihei mauri ora

Tihei mauri ora

Tihei mauri ora

Ngä iwi o te motu e

Tü ake, karangatia

Tü ake, manaakitia

Ngä iwi, kia ora ra

Ngä iwi, kia ora ra

Takiri by Irini Melbourne

Takiri ake te awatea

Haruru ana te manu

Whiti mai te ra i te pai

Hei whakaoho i taku moe

Tutahanga nei

Tutehu ake nei

He tekoteko  e tu nei

I te koko o te whare

Hei matakitaki noa e

Takiri ake te awatea

Haruru ana te manu

Whiti mai te ra i te pai

Hei whakaoho i taku moe

Tutahanga nei

Tutehu ake nei

He tekoteko  e tu nei

I te koko o te whare

Hei matakitaki noa e

Hei matakitaki noa e

Hei matakitaki noa e

Nga waka e whitu

E tau nei

Hoea hoea ra

Tainui Te Arawa

Mataatua

Hoea hoea ra

Takitimu Tokomaru

Kurahaupo

Me Aotea ra

Nga waka enei i hoea mai

E o tatou tupuna

Nga waka e whitu

E tau nei

Hoea hoea ra

Tainui Te Arawa

Mataatua

Hoea hoea ra

Takitimu Tokomaru

Kurahaupo

Me Aotea ra

Nga waka enei i hoea mai

E o tatou tupuna Tīhore mai te rangi tīhore mai mao mao mao te ua whiti mai te rā, mao mao mao te ua whiti mai te rā, E rere te kōtare ki runga pūwharawhara ruru parirau kei mate i te ua, ruru parirau kei mate i te ua. e rere e noke mai tō pokorua kai ki i te wai kai mate i te ua, kai ki i te wai kai mate i te ua, e . . . i . . . e . . . whiti mai te rā e . . . i . . . e . . . whiti mai te rā. Tīhore mai te rangi tīhore mai mao mao mao te ua whiti mai te rā, mao mao mao te ua whiti mai te rā, mao mao mao te ua whiti mai te rā.

Tane and The Baskets of Knowledge

We have been reading the story of "Tane and the Baskets of Knowledge".

Tane got attacked by all sorts of insects, reptiles and man eating birds on his way to the heavens to get the baskets of knowledge. We have been talking about how sometimes our learning is tricky and how we have to be brave and persevere, like Tane did, so that we can reach our goal.

Growth Mindset

 Today we were given some challenges to try something new, using a tennis ball. We had to use our Growth Mindset, because although some of the activities were easy, some we couldn't do....YET!!!

But we kept trying!!!

Buddy reading

Today we showed kindness, curiosity and team work when we were buddy reading in Autahi.

Dragon Music and Dance

Dragon music and dance.

Today we used the character strength of "Creativity" to make up a tune with instruments, 

using a Dragon score.

Then we walked around the school sharing our Chinese New Year dragon dance. 

Tautoru Tadpoles

We have been so lucky to have some teeny tiny visitors in Tautoru since school started! Thanks to Solly and his mum, we have had three tadpoles to watch over. 

Last week after one had turned into a frog, Solly thought it would be a good idea to release it back into a pond before it grew too big. 

There are two tadpoles left and they are growing bigger everyday. All of us in Tautoru have been observing them closely to see how they change as the days go by.

This week Eloi (a very keen observer) drew the life cycle of a frog and wrote a great piece of writing about what he has noticed happening to the tadpoles. 

Where's Wally? No, Where's FROGGY?

Since the beginning of the term, Tautoru is super lucky to have some "friends" to join us.  Thanks to Solly and his family for sharing them with Tautoru!

We are all very excited to have these little friends, tadpoles.

Here is a photo of one that turned into a frog!

Wait. WHERE IS THE FROG??

Here it is if you didn't see it in the first picture!

We will have more updates on our little friends from some writing! 

Goal Setting

We are preparing for goal setting meetings. We need to make sure that our goals are SMART goals. 

Watch this clip that explains what SMART goals are: 



Watch the video below to help you with writing your goals...

Power .... Who has it? What is it?

These are some of our first ideas about power.

He waka eke noa

This week we have all been learning about the importance of the waka. We watched a video that showed us how each person in a waka is part of a team and responsible for making their waka travel fast through the water.


Tautoru is our waka. It is the place where we come together to discover, learn and achieve great things. We all need to work together for our waka to succeed.

We have each decorated our own waka paddle. On our paddle we have written something we can do to help Tautoru succeed.

Next week we will put our waka together. Make sure you pop by and have a look at our collaborative project. We can't wait to see how it will turn out.

He waka eke noa - A canoe that we are all on together

Powhiri practice

In preparation for our powhiri next Friday we invited Autahi to practice a number of songs for the day.

We look forward to seeing lots of whanau next Friday, lets hope the weather is kind.

It has been great spending time with the students in Autahi and getting to know them.

Family Picnic

The family picnic was lots of fun. It was great to play some games, old and new! It was great to see so many children, teachers and parents joining in.  

Chinese New Year Dragon.

We have been learning about Chinese New Year. We watched a video about the dragon. Have a look here: Chinese New Year Dragon
We are now creating our own dragon to display in the classroom. It is going to take some perseverance, because it is a big job!

A sea of hands.

We have been creating a sea of hands for our class waka to sit in. 

I can ....

Scott's base group visited Autahi this week and shared our thoughts about what we are confident doing.



Some children worked on art, others on music, and lots of students started to build structures.


We are going to keep building on our strengths but also begin to identify what we can't do yet!

新年快樂 Happy New Year!

This week we are learning and celebrating Chinese New Year! It is the year of Rooster.

We watched this video on Tuesday about WHY people celebrate this special event.





We will also learn a song called Gong Xi Gong Xi.
The title of this song, 恭喜恭喜(Gōng xǐ gōng xǐ) means "Congratulations, Congratulations". But in the song it has the meaning "Good wishes to you for a happy and prosperous New Year". 




There are some events in the weekend in Wellington City such as fireworks and special art/music performances.
Check out this link to find out more!

We wish you a very happy 'rooster' year!


Here is something extra if you want to find out more about Chinese Zodiac:
Wanwan is a dragon, what are you?

Power

How are you powerful? Write in the padlet below your ideas.

Team building

We are learning how to work in a group. We decided that we need to discuss, listen, share, compromise, reach an agreement and include others who are on their own. We had fun building all sorts of things in Autahi.