Wairoa College Enrolment Presentation
- Wairoa Primary School – Tuesday 18th May 3:00 to 4:00 at Wairoa Primary
- St Joseph’s School – Monday 24th May 2:00 to 3:00 at Wairoa College
- Te Kura o Waikaremoana – Tuesday 25th May 11:00 to 12noon at Te Kura o Waikaremoana
- Te Mahia School – Wednesday 26th May 11:30 to 12:30 at Te Mahia School
- Nuhaka School – Thursday 27th May 11:30 to 12:30 at Nuhaka School
- Frasertown School – Tuesday 1st June 1:30 to 2:30 at Frasertown School
- Putere School – Wednesday 2nd June 2:00 to 3:00 at Putere School
- Mohaka School - Thursday 3rd June 1:30 to 2:30 at Mohaka School
At Wairoa College on Thursday 10th June from 5:00 to 6:00pm we will hold an enrolment presentation for Tiaho School students and caregivers.
Year 7 & 8 Department
Term 2 has been jammed pack creating wonderful learning experiences for our Year 7&8 students. Our Integrated Learning Unit for Term 2 is - Where to for us? Ki hea rā Mātou?
Speeches
Year7&8 students have been focusing on speeches and persuasive writing encouraging our students to persuade, convince and share their opinions about specific speech topics such as:
Maori
- Ko te wheako te Kaiako matua o tōku ao
- Me āta tiaki te wairua o te tamaiti, ahakoa ko wai?
- Te mate urutā e kore e warewaretia!
- mā te tamaiti tāna ake kaupapa)
English
- Covid 19, I will never forget!
- An investment in knowledge has the highest return
- Family is like music, some high notes, some low, but always a beautiful song.
- (Students may determine their own topic)
Last Friday we were able to show case our students talent and celebrate their successes. We had over 20 students from our Year 7&8 classes compete in our departments speech finals. Our 20 participants displayed our school value, Aumangea – Resilience. They stood with confidence and engaged their audience. We would like to thank Sandy Hardie & Wendy Stone for taking on the hard task of judging our students’ speeches. Congratulations to the following students:
Year 7
- 1st – Te Maioho Matai
Year 8
- 1st – Ashlin Swann
- 2nd – Maisy De La Haye
- 3rd – Ngareraumati Hau
These students will represent our school at the Wairoa primary District Schools Pukorero – Speeches 2021.
Year 7 & 8 Kotahitanga
Term 2 is all about Kotahitanga, with the main theme of “We are all in this together”. All teachers have been building strong relationships with our students by encouraging positive behaviour.
Rippa Rugby
Rippa Rugby has been the Wairoa District Primary Schools sport event for Term 2. The whole Year 7&8 Department have been working together to learn Rippa as a team, displaying Whakamana – Respect and Kindness. On Wednesday 19th May, 11 teams from the Year 7&8 Department represented Wairoa College at the District event.
Kapa Haka
This year we will be hosting the Wairoa District Primary Schools Kapa Haka Festival in Term 3. We are now preparing for this event with our focus on learning our Kapa Haka bracket. Our drive for Kapa Haka is “We are all in this together”.
Adrenaline Week
As part of our unit Where to for us? Ki hea rā Mātou? we are incorporating our new initiative – Adrenaline Week. Adrenaline week will promote
- Good behaviour
- Striving for personal excellence
- Increasing students desire to learn
- Rewarding students for good work and learning
- Future focussed students / My Mahi – goal setting
This program will be taught once a week during period 3. Students will learn skills that relate to a North Island experience that they have selected. The objective with this new initiative is to give our students new experiences, have fun and encourage future focused students.
Adrenaline week–North Island experience camps will start Term 4
- Home is where it is – Outdoor activities within the local area
- Central North Island Adventure– Outdoors, Tongariro National Park
- City Adrenaline Rush – Police College, Te Papa & Adrenaline Forest
- Going Bush – Our Bush, camping, hunting, farming, animals, team work and building students confidence.
Junior Digital Technologies
Our Junior Digital Technologies course is designed to meet the requirements of the two technological areas in the Technology Learning area of the New Zealand Curriculum: Computational Thinking and Design and Developing Digital Outcomes. This is to ensure that all our students have the opportunity to become digitally capable individuals.
Junior students are doing very well to meet these requirements. They use Code Avengers study materials to develop Computational Thinking skills for digital technologies. They are developing an understanding of computer science principles that underlie all digital technologies. They also learn core programming concepts so that they can become creators of digital technology. By using Minecraft our students develop Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes skills to learn how to design quality, fit-for-purpose, digital solutions.
(Photo: Proud Year 7 students with their Code Avengers certificates.)
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Cooking with 7K Students in 7-K have been looking at the health benefits of apples. They enjoyed being able to make fresh apple juice. The funding for the juicer came from First Light Community Foundation for which the Foods Department are very appreciative of. | Textiles with 8K Students in 8K have been busy making aprons. Students really enjoyed the tie dying process. | AG Class Dagging Hoggets for shearing the next day. They also had the experience of using portable dagging machine. |
Cooking with 7K
Textiles with 8K
AG Class
Pink Shirt Day
Pink Shirt Day is recognised globally as part of an anti-bullying campaign. On Friday 21st May, Wairoa College held a pink (or rainbow) mufti day. Ākonga and kaiako looked fantastic all kitted out in their best tutus and scarves! In total, we raised over $350. This money will be donated to the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation. Thank you to the Year 13 prefects who helped organise and co-ordinate the day.
In the afternoon, some classes gathered together on the turf, where we built the shape of a t-shirt, kindly captured by Mr Hamblyn and his drone! For some of us, it was a timely reminder that bullying happens all around us, and it can have a major impact on people’s lives. It is important we can all identify how bullying is displayed, and ways in which we can prevent it from happening in the first place.
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Manu House | Year 7 & 8 Department | Staff |
Manu House
Year 7 & 8 Department
Staff
Employment Class 302/202
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Pūhoro STEM Academy“We meet a lot of new people and were doing a whole lot of activities learning about science “
“It was cool to meet new people and learning new things” | Help from our kaihautū“Meeting other people and working in small separate groups and getting to know some of the Māori tauira who are interested in the same things.” | Our Rocket“It was a lot of fun learning about interesting things like robotics and water rockets and how Pūhoro will guide us through our life” “It was fun learning about new things and participating in the activities in our small groups.” |
Pūhoro STEM Academy
“We meet a lot of new people and were doing a whole lot of activities learning about science “
“It was cool to meet new people and learning new things”
Help from our kaihautū
“Meeting other people and working in small separate groups and getting to know some of the Māori tauira who are interested in the same things.”
Our Rocket
“It was a lot of fun learning about interesting things like robotics and water rockets and how Pūhoro will guide us through our life”
“It was fun learning about new things and participating in the activities in our small groups.”
Getting Your Drivers Licence
Learner licence course just finished - 12 new learner drivers, Restricted licence instruction is ongoing 8 students have now passed and the instructor is starting with a new group. Any student wishing to sign up for any driving programme should see
Ms Hayward
