World Happiness Day

Monday was World Happiness Day and what a day it was. After sharing with our friends the things we like doing, the people we love and that make us happy, our favourite places and colours we worked on a poster to share these with each other.

Some of us learned new things about our friends and made connections with people that we didn't know so well. Discussing what makes you happy and why is a valuable discussion to have at home and it helps to build on what we are doing here at school.

 

More on Manaakitanga

 This week we have continued unpacking Manaakitanga and how we can use this when working and playing with our friends. This is an important, and tricky, skill to learn. 

On Tuesday we shared what a good listener looks like and one aspect that came up was sharing and adding onto others ideas.  In a short group discussion we practiced looking at the speaker and building on the speakers.  ideas. We call this 'piggy-packing'.

We followed this up with a discussion on the character strengths that we could dial up when spending time with our friends. This also includes our new friends. Kindness, Creativity, Honesty and a Love of Learning were stand outs.  Many of the students shared that it was OK for friends to like different things and to have different mates and that it didn't mean they don't want to play with us or be our friends.

We finished the session creating friendships hands. These will include the Character Strengths that we can dial up in order to be the best friend but also when showing Manaakitanga.

Check out our Manaakitanga bags!

 We are well and truly getting stuck into creating the bags for Whānau Festival next weekend! 

This term, Tautoru have been doing lots of learning about Manaakitanga. A few weeks ago on the Tautou blog and on Seesaw you would have seen some beautiful artworks created by the kids that symbolised Manaakitanga.

                               

Recently, the teachers have been busy photocopying, laminating and cutting out these artworks.

The next step in the process is getting the kids back into the action by screen printing the artwork onto bags. 

So much learning has gone into these bags! Learning about the concept of Manaakitanga and how we can show it to our friends, by listening to others and by using lots of different character strengths. Learning to create bold, colourful symbols inspired by Keith Haring. And last but not least, learning about the art process of screen printing. We are so proud of the finished product too.

(The next step, not seen in the pictures, is to screen print the word, 'Manaakitanga' on the bags and iron the print. Then it will be ready to go for next weekend!)

These beautiful, unique bags are available for you to purchase as part of the Whānau Festival Fundraiser. You all have the chance to purchase your child's bag before they are all sold at the Whānau Festival.  

If you would like this one of a kind Calico Bag that was made with love and care, you will need to purchase it for $10 via Online Payments by 9am on Wednesday 24 March. After this date, the bags will be sold at the Whānau Festival and we can not guarantee your child's bag will be there to purchase on the day - so don't wait! 

Girls Futsal Festival

 

We had 3 very enthusiastic teams representing Worser Bay at the Girls Futsal Festival on Friday. All of our teams showed huge amounts of Teamwork, Leadership and Kindness in every game and also when off the court.

Thanks so much to the parents that helped out with transport and managing the teams on the day. You guys were fantastic and really made the day run smoothly.

All of our teams played hard but fair and we managed to win a majority of our games!