Room 10’s visits to the Wharekai and Kumara Patch

Yendarra School is very lucky, we have a new classroom. But it isn’t the same as our other classrooms, this classroom is a kitchen and garden. It is called our wharekai and ‘Kumara Patch.’

 Room 10 students were feeling very excited. The day had finally arrived! We were going to the wharekai and ‘Kumara Patch’ to learn all about growing our own food and how we can cook it in the kitchen.

Our lovely chef Mrs Powell taught us how to be safe in the kitchen. We also learnt about food safety and hygiene.

On our first visit to the Wharekai, Team Tahi created delicious picnic pies. We chopped the vegetables carefully and worked as a team to get our picnic pies into the oven. When we sat down together and shared the kai, we all agreed that they were scrumptious, delicious and nutritious! Our water jugs had lemons in them to make the water taste even better than it usually does.

If you would like to make them at home, here is the recipe:

PICNIC PIES
Makes 12

Ingredients:

3 sheets frozen flaky pastry, thawed

1 tablespoon oil

1 chopped onion

1 cup of grated cheese

1 cup finely sliced vegetables eg: leeks, silverbeet, spinach, mushrooms, corn, tomatoes

4 eggs

1 cup of milk

Salt

Pepper

Parsley, chopped

Microgreens, to garnish

Method:

1.                Preheat the oven to 200^oC.

2.                Cut each pastry sheet into 4 pieces.  Place each piece into greased muffin tins.

3.                Gently caramelise the onion and mushrooms in a pan with oil.

4.                Sprinkle a few shreds of grated cheese into the base of each case (this waterproofs the bases)

5.                Add cooked onion and mushrooms to the pie cases.

6.                Add sliced vegetables to each pie case.

7.                Whisk eggs and milk together in a jug with the salt and pepper.  Pour evenly into your pie cases – just enough to cover the vegetables.

8.                Sprinkle the remaining cheese and chopped parsley on top.

9.                Bake 15 to 20 minutes until golden, puffed up and set.

While Team Tahi were busy in the wharekai, Team Rua were working hard in the ‘Kumara Patch’. They worked together to carefully plant seedlings so we can grow our own fruit, vegetables and herbs. Our gardener, Mrs New showed us how to carefully plant the seedlings so that we don’t damage the plant's roots. It was really interesting seeing all the creepy crawly bugs that live in our garden. We loved using the tools like shovels and spades to help us dig the soil. It is great to visit the garden regularly to see what new plants are growing.

Room 10 love visiting the wharekai and Kumara Patch. It is a great place to learn together and show our school values. We can’t wait to visit again and work with our amazing helpers who come and work with us each week.

 Diadre practises his knife safety, he keeps his fingers tucked in while he is cutting carrots.

 Team Tahi carefully plant the seedlings into our garden.

 We found lots of long worms crawling through our kumara patch.

Yum! We loved sitting down at the table together to share our delicious kai. 

Autumn Leaves

To celebrate the end of Autumn, room 13 drew leaves. We coloured them in using oil pastels and blended the colours together. We learnt about using warm and cold colours to make our leaves stand out. We also wrote similes to describe our leaves.

I am rushing down like a superhero saving the world – Kelepi

I can hear the wind flowing like waves crashing into the sand - Tapu

I swoop down like an eagle getting fish from the sea - Ivalani

I am falling like a feather - Xialo

I am chilling on a tree like a billionaire- Fuea

I am colourful like a rainbow shining bright - Hosea

I am crispy like corn flakes - Aaliyah

I am falling like an angel - Toren

I am sitting on a tree like a king on its throne - David

I am gentle like a new born baby’s skin – Kami

I can hear the wind like a werewolf barking – Lorielle

I am floating like clouds in the air – Manaia

I am dropping down like an apple falling from a tree - Andrew

Noho Marae with Room 11

Noho Marae

We were welcomed into the Whaiora Marae with what is known as a powhiri. After the Tangata Whenua welcomed us on, we sung waiata to them.

The Tangata Whenua talked in Maori and English about the Maori Ancestors and he was funny. He talked about the amazing Pou and carvings in the Marae.

After the Powhiri, we assembled together and got into our groups ready for our activities. My group was He Taonga Aroha.

Some of the activities we did was clay modelling where we used clay to make structures of Maori shapes. I did a whales tail. Next was art with Miss Kelly. We used putiputi (flowers)Huruhuru (feathers) and uga uga (rocks) to make Maori art.

Another awesome activity was Ki O Rahi which was a fun game based all about Maori legends. It was great to sit down and learn some waitata as well as Rakau.

The next day we were a little bit tired, but we still had amazing activities like poi to complete before our poroporoaki. What a great trip.

By Kayla

Room 13's Te Ao Maori experience

Haka Powhiri

“Haere mai, haere mai, haere mai koe” the lady chanted as she welcomed us onto the Te Waiariki Marae. We were at the Marae and my mind blew with excitement and fantastic wonder. When I walked into the Marae it had beautiful carvings, one of them symbolised peace, strength and new life.

By Aaliyah Taulu 

He Oranga Poutama

As me and Manaia were scampering on the game Ki Oma no one could pull the tags off me and Manaia. On the last round of Ki oma we were delighted that no one ripped the tags of us. After that we played a game called Poitoa. We learnt to perform an underarm

throw with the poi. Whaea Keri gave us a really tough challenge and told us to catch with the tail. I felt very blissful because I could catch the tail of the poi.

By Ivalani Latu 

Accelerating and chasing my peers frantically. I was speeding to rip Xialo’s tag. Whaea Keri from He Oranga Poutama taught us how to play Ki Oma.

By David Moimoi 

Room 15 at Noho Marae

Whaiora Marae, Kara whiua

We got pohiri onto the marae by Nanny Una.

We learnt that we have no kai in the wharenui, we have to take our shoes off.

“The kai was yummy” 

After our kai we got to play Ki-o-rahi, that was fun.

Road Safety Rap in Room 12

ROAD SAFETY RAP

Stop look and listen are the three key words.

Stop look and listen is what you need to know.

Before you cross the road you need to 

1: STOP! 

2: listen for their engine 

3: look left and right then when the coast is clear you safely cross the road.

Stop look and listen are the three key words.

Stop look and listen is what you need to know.

When you come up to a car park you need to be careful because there’s traffic going ccrraazzyy 

1: STOP! 

2: listen for their engine 

3: look left and right and at the back for their brake lights then safely cross the road.

Stop look and listen are the three key words.

Stop look and listen is what you need to know.

When you come up to a sneaky driveway you need to 

1: STOP! and be rreeaallllyy careful 

2: listen for their engine and 

3:look left and right and at the back for their brake lights when the road is clear you need to safely cross the driveway.

Stop look and listen are the three key words.

Stop look and listen is what you need to know.

John-Paul Shelley

Welcome to Room 16!

Welcome to Room 16!

Term 4 has been our busiest term! We have had a lot of enjoyable events happen throughout the term.

Ms. Cornhill and Beach Haven Primary students came to visit us for a day. It was good to see Ms. Cornhill again, who was a past teacher of our school.

We also had Constable Matt. Greene who came in to talk to us about road safety. He comes in to visit us every Wednesday. We enjoyed learning about how to cross the road safely.

Bettel Rm 16

Our class has also enjoyed learning Taekwondo skills this term. We learnt about self-defence and had plenty of fun!

Senetuli Rm 16