Kia ora koutou oku ākonga pukumahi

I have enjoyed reading your journal entries, particularly the understanding you are developing about the impact your experiences in your chosen physical activity are having upon many dimensions of your Hauora. Many are insightful, detailed, coherent and personally meaningful. Pai rawa atu!

1. I would like you to select one of your journal entiries, edit it scrupulously and post it here for your classmates to enjoy and learn from too.
2. Once you have posted your entry, please read and give positive feedback, and, if needed, feed forward for improvement on any post that resonates with you.

WE ARE ALL LEARNERS AND WE CAN ALL BE TEACHERS

This term, we wrote, acted and directed a movie called The Three Little Builders. It is a narrative based on The Three Little Pigs. We learned lots about camera angles, adding mood through special effects and working together.

The Film Festival screened on the big screen at Cathay Cinema in Kerikeri on Wednesday 16 September 2026. This is one of the lucky movies chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie.
Please enjoy, and feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below for the students.

Check out other Kaikohekohe films here.

Mauri ora e te whānau,

If you weren’t lucky enough to come to our kura film festival then you’re in for a treat today.

Today our Movie goes live for the rest of the ao to enjoy.

This year our kura has been learning about our tūpuna and when they arrived to Aotearoa. This is where the inspiration for our movie storyline came from. With some help from Gemini and Chat GPT we were able to put together a short story with illustrations that show the arrival of our tūpuna and some of the main happenings during the initial years they settled in Aotearoa.

Valley and Te Aumihiroa were AMAZING narrators and found out that retelling a story isn’t as easy as we think it is. They had a strict director (Whaea Camille) who made them practice many times and had many takes to get the outcome we did AND they both did FANTASTIC!

You will hear the awesome tamariki of Rūma 1 speacking, singing and using different soudns for the background sound effects. This gave further detail and enticement to our movie.

We enjoyed making this movie and were humbled to be one of three classes who won our Tautoro Kura Film Festival for 2026, might we add that’s two in a row now. Paiā Rūma 1!
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Mauri ora

Kia ora anō e te whānau,

Rūma 1 have been learning how to code, with Whaea Monika, by using simple but effective algorithms. They have learnt the importance of paying attention to detail and being descriptive with their language/ words (in turn becoming the algorithm).

Our tamariki also learned how to “debug” their algorithms too which means to “fix” their code if there were directions or instructions that needed fixing.

It has been enjoyable to watch our tamariki explore offline, online, and physical Bee-Bot coding.

Have a nohi at our coding experts in the making.

Kia ora e te whānau,

Since the beginning of the term our tamariki have been training for Cross Country. We trained and prepared to hold our oma in Week 4, however, the rain didn’t let us go ahead.

Monday, Week 5 – Monday, came as our postponement day and we were blessed with good weather for all our tamariki to put their training to the test.

We are proud of ALL our Rūma 1 tamariki for giving it their best effort and making it right round the track! Even some of our whānau who ran/walked the track with their tamaiti said that the run is a long one so well done tamariki maa.

Ānei rā ētahi whakaahua o ā tātou pēpi e oma ana.

Congratulations to Tumatahi (1st), Ardie (2nd), Andre (3rd) and Heavenleigh (1st), Te Ahikaa (2nd), Kaleia (3rd) who will represent our kura for the 5 year olds at Ohaewai School this Wednesday.

Ka mau te wehi tamariki maa.

Mauri ora e te whānau,

Over the past two weeks we’ve been learning about number bonds (that’s basic addition for us older folks lol). I kid you not, our tamariki in Rūma 1 are great MATHEMATICIANS!!

We used resources (our fingers, teddy bears, and also connective blocks) to show different representations for a total number. For example the total is 6 different representations for the number bonds would be 6 and/ + 0 (0+6), 5 and 1 (1+5) , 4+2 (2+4) , 3+3, all of these are representations of 6 within a number bond.

Tirohia ngā tamariki e kōrero ana mō ā rātou hononga nama.

Look at our tamariki explaining their number bonds.



I really enjoy listening to our tamariki talking about their learning and watching their confidence in explaining their learning develop.

Ka mau te wehi tamariki maa!

You all rock!!

Kia ora anō koutou

For this post I’d like you to :

1. Choose a reflection you have written on applying a biomechanical principle in training.
2. Edit it carefully so it is coherent, informative and has accurate punctuation and spelling.

Then share it here.

As always, I’d like you to read the posts of your hoa mahi and give them feedback and gentle feed forward for improvement.

Ma te manaaki ka pai ake tātou katoa

Kia ora anō e te whānau,

Rūma 1 LOVE reading and their time spent in our school library with whaea Annie is very precious. Each Wednesday afternoon, Rūma 1 heads off to our kura wharepukapuka. They are always blessed with a story read aloud to them by Whaea Annie. Next, all our aakonga get to browse through all the books, sit and read, before choosing their favourite book to issue. We get to take those books back to our akomanga to enjoy for the week until we return the following Wedneday.

I wonder which books our tamariki have decided to bring back to class this week…

We read the story The River That Wolves Moved: A True Tale from Yellowstone.

We learned about Trophic Cascades.
A trophic cascade in Yellowstone National Park occured when the reintroduction of gray wolves triggered a chain reaction: reduced elk numbers, recovering forest vegetation, and thriving beaver and bird populations.

We made a short movie to show what we learned.



Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

Term 3 has started off really well! All our tamariki have returned to kura well rested and ready to get back into our learning. It’s been GREAT seeing the enthusiasm from our tamariki regarding their learning.

Click the link here Tautoro School – 2026 Class Sites to view our Rūma 1 programme and what we are learning.

We’ve started Cross Country training already too and our tamariki have been trying their best to maintain their running/ jogging each training. It’s going to be a close race this Cross Country because there are a few tamariki who are coming in all at the same time! Paiā!!

Sometimes, we get outside for a few games of Rob the Nest. Not only is this game fun and gets us moving outside (to release some high energy too) but it also encourages teamwork, communication, and some healthy competition along with counting the total “eggs” in their nest at the end of each round.

Last term we started our pā site. We have been learning about Defensive Fortifications.

Context: “Because land was so special and food was scarce, Hapū built Pā. These were villages with high fences (palisades) and deep ditches to keep whānau safe.”

We have learned the importance of a pā site, what a pā site has, and how we can best defend it if our site comes under attack.

We started making ours out of papier-mache. We are still at the early stages, but will be adding details soon.

These kotiro share whole-class fun learning with Te Ara Korero. Matakitaki mai.

We have been combining traditional Māori tukutuku lattice-work with LEGO as an engaging way to blend cultural art with modern construction. By using Lego bricks and plates, we can map out classic geometric patterns like the “stairway to knowledge”. This refers to the traditional Māori Poutama pattern used in tukutuku panels. It features geometric, stepped diagonal lines that resemble the steps of a stairway.

We worked with a buddy and planned our design. We had to work together and communicate in a constructive way.

Here are some of our designs.

Mauri ora anō e te whānau,

This week for Pāngarau (Mathematics) we have been concentrating on counting forward and backward from 1 to 10 and 10 to 1.

We have practiced our forward counting by watching, listening, and learning waiata on YouTube that help us count to 10, we have had running relays where we had to run and count each number on the court (both forwards and backwards), we have built towers from 1 to 10 and noticed different things as we counted up and as we counted down. We noticed that as we counted up the towers got bigger and as we counted down the towers got smaller. They reminded us of stairs

Look at some of our tamariki and their towers

Look at Rhia-Amarni and Valley counting to 10 using their awesome wooden block towers.

We are learning that Maths discussions are important! Questions and discussions deepen our mathematical understanding. We can learn from each other and feel validated, which creates a powerful foundation for connection and growth. When we validate someone, we communicate that their feelings and experiences make sense and matter, even if we do not share the exact same perspective. This happens in maths too. We might solve problems in a different way than our friends and thatś ok! When you share strategies, you don’t just learn new concepts; validating each other’s ideas builds confidence and breaks down math anxiety.

Mauri ora e te whaanau,

Wow, how time flies. Term 2 and week 8 already.

This week is a special week as we celebrate a huge 120 years for our kura, Tautoro School.

This week, we’ve been looking back over the 120 years and how things have changed over the years. We looked at the writing tools that were once used at kura to the tools we have now.

Have a nohi at the pukapuka we read below.

We also had fun with some “old school” games such as hopscotch. Our Rūma 1 tamariki really enjoyed learning, practicing and playing their “new” but “pastime” game of hopscotch.

Last week, our class started doing STEAM for the first time. What is STEAM, you might ask? STEAM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths.

To start off with, we were placed into 5 groups. Our goal is to work together, to communicate well and achieve success in our task.

Some of the activities we had were Beebots, Lego, Brainbox circuits and Minecraft Education.

At first, with the Beebots, we had trouble programming them. We realised the code put into it prior had not been deleted, so it wasn’t following our commands. After we figured this out, we had no problems.

With the electrical circuits, we had trouble learning the names of the equipment, which made it hard to talk about.

The LEGO group was meant to make a Pā, but they didn’t understand the task very well. In the end, it was not successful, but they reflected on how to make it better next time.

Finally, the Minecraft group had trouble making a hill for their Pā because they had an issue with a group member not working properly as a teammate. He was evicted from the team, and we hope he has learned his lesson.

We think STEAM is amazing because we get to challenge ourselves, be creative and learn new things.

Kia ora e te whānau,

We have been learning about positional/ locational language using on, above, below/underneath, beside/next to, between, and through.

The beauty of learning positional language is we got to play at the park and talk about where we were located in the different parts of the part.

Have a look at these photos, do you think you can guess the position/ location of where our tamariki are?

This week, for reading, our learning intention was to understand the prefixes un- and mid-. We found it easy to understand the meaning of these prefixes and locate them in our book. The book we read was A Midnight Roam. The follow-up activity was to draw a kiwi with a thought bubble showing how Kiwi felt when she lost her food.

We also practised reading the story with expression and trying not to sound boring or like a robot.