Room 20

Whakaahua (Teacher Bio)

Maumaharatanga

Kia ora koutou, Talofa lava, Mālō e lelei, Kia orāna, Bula vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu!

Welcome back to another busy Term here at Te Rapa. Our hararei (holidays) always provide some much needed rest, and relaxation after the busyness of Term 2. However, I'm sure we are ready for another jam packed 10 weeks.

This term, our ākonga (students) will be diving into learning through our Arts Inquiry, preparing and sharing their whakaaturanga ā-waha (oral presentations), and working across different maths classes. Alongside this, we are training hard for our Cross Country in Week 5; while some of our students are preparing to shine on stage for our biannual production in Week 7. We are also in the process of getting ready for Camp Raglan in Term 4.

He wāhanga hihiri kei mua i a tātou – an exciting term ahead for us all!

Ngaa mihi nui

Isacc Hunia

RANGAHAU (INQUIRY)

This term's Inquiry focus is The Arts. We are wanting the children to be creative and see how The Arts are help us to understand things from a different perspective as well as allow us to have better experiences compared to just reading and writing.

The children will show this through a variety of different ways such as oral presentations, poems, debates and forms of drama.

Technology and Arts

In Years 7 and 8, children travel to Te Au o Tamatea each Thursday for Tech Arts. Throughout the year, they spend one term each in Food Tech, Art, Hard Materials, and Innovations.

Year 8 students need to be at school by 8:30 a.m. on Thursday mornings to take the bus to Tech.
Year 7 students depart at 12:00 p.m., after spending the morning at school, focusing on a variety of topics, including a focus on coding.

THURSDAY LEARNING AT SCHOOL

When children are not at Tech Arts on Thursday they rotate around each of the five classes at school.

Throughout the course of the year they will spend a 7 week block with each teacher.

Mr Louden - Science

Mr Trafford - Speechcraft (7's) and Debating (8's)

Mrs Hoskin - Spanish

Mr Hunia - Ukulele (7's) and Drums (8's)

Mrs Wilson - Dance (7's) and Dance and Drama (8's)

literacy learning

This term in writing we will be looking at vocabulary development and writing a strong sentence. We will show this to our Persuasive Writing as well as in our Oral Presentation written work.

During reading we will explore appropriate levelled journal stories and work on our deeper understanding of these.

We will also incorporate some typing, spelling, handwriting and oral language in our Literacy programme.

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

ihunia@terapa.school.nz

Mr. Isacc Hunia
Room 20 Teacher

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