We were proud to celebrate Tumeke Tumuaki Day by showing our appreciation for our wonderful principal, Whaea Saane, and all that she does for our school community. During the special Papa Team assembly organised in her honour, we presented Whaea Saane with a card signed by every student in Room 10, filled with heartfelt messages of thanks and appreciation. It was a lovely opportunity to recognise her kindness, leadership, and the care she shows every day. We hope our messages brought a smile to her face and reminded her how much she is valued by all of us at Weymouth Primary School.

Room 10 proudly represented Malaysia in our WPS Commonwealth Games. We were excited for the day and gathered for the opening ceremony, dressed in our house colours and ready to compete. Unfortunately, heavy rain led to the morning events being cancelled. Although we were disappointed, we didn’t let the weather spoil our day. Instead, we watched New Zealand’s proud Commonwealth medal moments and enjoyed a range of fun indoor games together. In the afternoon, the weather cleared enough for us to try fencing using pool noodles and take part in gymnastics in the hall. Even though our day didn’t go exactly as planned, we learnt an important lesson about resilience—staying positive, adapting to change, and making the most of every opportunity!

We welcomed 2 new chickens to school so Room 4 had the job of making sure their new home was nice and clean for them. We changed the hay, gave them some delicious food and made sure they had fresh water.

The pigs needed the same treatment as their house was a bit of a mess, luckily room 4 has some very hard workers who got the job done.

It was Tumeke Tumuaki day, a day to celebrate our amazing principal so we decided to spoil her with produce from the māra. We harvested and gathered eggs, honey, lettuce, silverbeat, rhubarb and avocados. When we delivered them with our class picture Whaea Saane was very happy and decided she might need to cook dinner for her family.

Room 4 loved spending time in the māra today and probably would have spent the whole day there if they didn’t have to finish early.

We started our day by going to the māra to feed our pigs and chickens.

Next we went hunting for small bits of concrete and wood to put in the bottom of the tyres. The tyres are going to be made into garden beds inside the chicken coop.

Before we left the garden we harvested oranges/tangelos for our cake.

Back in the classroom we learned to make a bridge with our hand so that we don’t cut our fingers while cutting the fruit. We each cut our fruit into quarters , we were allowed to eat half of them and put half of them in the pot for the cake.

Whaea Deirdre then put our oranges on to boil. Once they were soft we used a blender to mix it up. As we took turns blending we added sugar, almond flour, baking powder and eggs.

Once it was all mixed up we put it in the oven to cook.

After lunch it was all done so we got to eat it!

“Our cake was tasting so yum!’ – Revathi

“Cake smelled good” – Hazel

‘The cake was too minty so I am going to give it to my family.” – Presheeka

“We can share cake with our friends” – Raheeb

“The cake was too sweet so I want to give it to my family’ – Emma

What an awesome time we had at our school Matariki Market!  Room 1’s stall was selling raffle tickets, freshly popped popcorn, lolly jars, delicious baked cookies and MORE! The atmosphere was full of smiles, and laughter!  All of the money we raised will go straight back into our classroom. We’ll have a discussion and brainstorm ideas together to decide what we’d like to spend our money on.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along, supported our stall and helped make the day such a success. We appreciate you all!

Ngā mihi nui

Room 1 have been working so hard on their phonics and spelling this term!
We are so proud of the effort and progress they are showing.

Look at our superstars!

Through phonics, our tamariki are learning how letters and sounds work together to help them read and spell new words. These skills are helping them become confident readers and writers.

Today Room 12 did the very important job of analysing the two science experiments the Maunga Team have been doing this term.

The first was compost in a jar. We were surprised to see that the contents of our jar had changed significantly over 6 weeks. Have a look at one of the photos to read the amazing observations the students made. We concluded that the compost in a jar was very successful and something easy enough to do at home.

We also wrote up the findings from the buried rubbish experiment. We found that the fork, cardboard, paper towel and lunch packaging had completely or mostly decomposed. The fruit cup and lid had not changed at all. The orange was the biggest tsuprise as it had ripened but nothing had started to eat it.

It has been incredible learning to watch these experiments over term 2.

Tēnā koutou

This week we became movie makers!

We learned how to use Google Vids to create our own digital movies. We added texts, pictures, voiceovers, and background music to make our videos interesting and engaging. Our movies were all about ourselves, helping us share who we are in a creative way.

We developed our digital skills by learning how to plan, create, edit, and present information using different digital tools. We also practised speaking clearly, being creative, and using technology responsibly.

This was a fun way to learn new skills and express our ideas!

Check out my short movie about me! Enjoy!

Ngā mihi

Mrs Rubena

The Papa Team have been learning about habitats this term, this was very apparent when I spoke to Room 6 this morning. The students were able to explain what a habitat is, identify what it provides for a living thing and name some types of habitats.

We explored the idea further in our māra by searching for and observing micro-habitats. There were shouts of excitement as students uncovered centipedes, slugs, worms, snails and even spiders hiding cleverly in our garden. We talked about how important it is to leave these living creatures safely in their habitat and to put the item back that they had lifted to find it.

If we leave these creatures uncovered they may be found by a predator.

We also talked about the ways we as humans can help these creatures by providing habitats like bug hotels and lizard lounges.  We had a look at the ones around our māra and restocked them so that they are safe and inviting for insects and skinks.

We finished the day planting and weeding.

It was a fun day of solidifying Room 6’s learning.

Not only did Room 22 get to explore compost and its changing states of matter in the māra but they also had their Tread Lightly Caravan session this afternoon.

They got to visit stations teaching them about sorting rubbish and why it’s important, what should and shouldn’t go down our drains, how much energy it takes to run different electric items, our carbon footprint and the importance of some of our very small garden creatures. The activities were a lot of fun, not surprisingly the VR headsets were the most popular.

Without all of the parent help we got this would not have been possible so thank you so much to them.

The students wrote a letter each to the Lorax which was a lot of fun and something I think I will do again.

I hope that some of this learning was shared at home as we were reminded that our learning and knowledge is far more powerful when it is shared.

As you can probably tell, we’ve been busy preparing reports to go home this week, hence the late entry for Week 8! There are still a few reports to be handed out on Monday for those who weren’t at school to receive them today. I am looking forward to meeting Whanau at our Student Led Conferences on Thursday next week. I know your tamariki are really excited to show you all the hard work they’ve been doing in the school garden.

The Matariki disco was definitely a highlight of Week 9. It was so good to see everyone enjoying themselves with such huge smiles on their faces. We checked on our recycled paper that we were working on last week. It’s nice and dry and resembles the cardboard that egg cartons are made from. We’re very proud of our efforts!

Last week, Tama went home with Azyla, and this week, he has gone home with Bob for the weekend. Well done to both of you for demonstrating our school values!

Kia ora whānau,

SWEET 16 is currently working on their speeches based on Roots, Voice and Future. They had to come up with a main idea and integrate all 3 main points. Yes, they did use AI as a tool, why not? I’ll be assessing them on their delivery seeing as Orators is our year theme.

Check out one of SWEET 16’s speeches by Selanau.

Whaea J

Kia ora e te whānau,

A lot has happened since our last post!

We celebrated Samoan Language Week, we even won the best dressed challenge for our Maunga team, and boy did we look matagofie while doing it!

We said farewell to our class pets. It has been a roller coaster, but after emailing DOC it was confirmed that they were best returned to the farm that they came to us from.

Most recently, our tamariki wore their jammies for Jammies in June. Those gold coin donations went to Middlemore Foundation which provides winter pyjama’s for South Auckland tamariki. Thank you for that generosity!

Looking ahead we have Tread Lightly, a learning experience about looking after our environment, Papatūānuku, as well as our Matariki Market day. I’m sure your tamaiti has come home and told you about what we’re creating, and I know that they can’t wait to share photos of all our finished products in 2 weeks time!

This week, our learners developed their understanding of angles by estimating and measuring angles using degrees. They learned that a right angle is 90°, a quarter turn is 90°, a straight angle is 180°, and a full turn is 360°. Students confidently used mathematical vocabulary such as acute, obtuse, right angle, degrees, quarter turn, straight angle, and full turn to describe and compare angles.  

In writing, metaphors were a huge hit! Learners enjoyed identifying what two things were being compared and explaining the meaning behind them before creating their own imaginative metaphor sentences. In P.E., students practised dribbling, passing, and shootingin basketball while demonstrating teamwork, perseverance, and enthusiasm.

Celebrating the Publication of Our Book

Today marks a very special milestone for Room 12 as we celebrate the publication of our book ‘Weymouth Way’ we have worked so hard to create. Seeing our ideas, learning, and creativity transformed into a real book is an exciting achievement that we are incredibly proud of.

On behalf of Room 12, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.

A special thank you to David Riley for publishing our book. Your support and encouragement have given us the opportunity to share our work with a wider audience. We are proud to see our writing and learning brought to life, and we are grateful for the belief you have shown in us throughout this journey.

We would also like to thank Whaea Saane and our Literacy Team (Mrs Miers, Mrs Johnson and Mrs Reddy) for their guidance, dedication, and unwavering support. From the very beginning, you believed in us and encouraged us to do our best. Your patience, hard work, and commitment helped us turn our ideas into something truly special, and we could not have achieved this without you.

This has been an exciting, rewarding, and memorable experience for every student in Room 12. Through this project, we have learned new skills, worked together as a team, and gained confidence in our abilities as writers and creators.

We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity and will treasure this achievement for many years to come. Thank you to everyone who played a part in making our dream of becoming published authors a reality.

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