Talofa lava everyone!
Our theme for this year is TOITU TE MANA which comes from the Maori whakatauki “toitu te kupu, toitu te mana, toitu te whenua”. Here is a short video of what mana looks like to Potu 6. Toitu te mana to us is strength in our identity which is our family and culture.
Enjoy!
Toitu te Kupu, Toitu te Mana, Toitu te Whenua by Gillian Yeng Tung
Talofa lava ma Malo le Soifua.
Potu 4 have been very fortunate to be a part of the Manaiakalani Film Festival this year. It is our first time ever taking part in the Film Festival so we were quite nervous especially after watching all the awesome short films from previous years. Last term Potu 4 had been working very hard to try and put together our short film. Being in a Samoan Bilingual Unit, we often forget that we have a Superpower which is our first language or our heritage language. We have noticed that some students are ashamed to use the Samoan language in class because they are afraid that they will be made fun of. However, our purpose for this film is to encourage and empower those students who speak more than one language that being bilingual or multilingual is a Superpower and to use it. Speaking and using your mother tongue will definitely help you grow with your learning.
We hope you enjoy our short film. CHHHEEEEEHHHHHOOOOOO!!!!🇼🇸
Malo e lelei,
This week we celebrated Uike Katoanga’i ‘o lea faka-Tonga. We have really enjoyed learning about the Tongan culture but most importantly, adding to our lea faka-Tonga kato. Our class created some Tonga Ngatu using tools on Google Draw. We also created posters of classroom items in the lea-faka Tonga. We have tried our best to sustain the Tongan language in our classroom this week.
Malo aupito!
In Week 4, Fotu o Nu’u Pule went to the Auckland Museum. We were able to explore different Pacific Nations in the Commonwealth Games we have been learning about for Unit Topic this term.
This week we celebrated Maths Week and it was lots of fun. We had a lot of challenges within the school that we were able to take part in. Here are a few highlights of what we had done. Enjoy😊
Fakalofalahi atu,
This week we had Fotu o Nu’u Pule’s Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. Each class is representing a country from the Pacific Nation. Here are a few videos to show how fun it was for us and how we felt like superstars as we walked through our school.🤩
Kia orana,
This week we celebrated Te Opetoma o te reo Maori Kuki Airani (Cook Island Language Week). We enjoyed embracing the Cook Island culture and we have to say, we really love singing the Cook Island National Anthem❤️ We had our online school assembly on Friday and one of our favourite teachers(Mr Cuthers) was able to join us from Rarotonga. That was really cool to see him!
Talofa lava,
Today we were learning how to promote ourselves positively online through creating a blog profile. This was fun because we were able to remind ourselves what sort of information we are allowed to post online about ourselves and then go over some of the skills we have been learning within cybersmart. We are slowly becoming confident with Google Drawing. Feel free to check out our Blog Profiles and leave a comment😊.
Talofa lava,
This week for Cybersmart we have been learning about Kawa of Care. Students watched a video and then they learned how to make a copy of 3 files where they had to add in the missing word to a sentence and also add an image of themselves. This was a good chance for us to test our knowledge of Kawa of Care.
Here are some examples of our work.
