Germ creators in Room 4

 My name is Microbe Jack. I can make you miserably sick. My powers are teleporting. My friends are Isaac the Pencil Chewer and Lisa the Nose Picker. What I really like is when germs spread quickly and what I detest is when people wash their hands with soap and warm water. 

ARGHHHHH!

By Malachi Nikolao

Hi! My name is  Squirmy Germy. I am tiny and invisible. I can sneak up quietly on you and I can make you terribly sick. I can spread viruses everywhere around this humongous world. You cannot see me because I am invisible. When you wash your hands with soap and water I will not be there. I have disappeared quickly.

By Ana Latuhoi   

Hi! My name is Firey Virus. I’m a terrible mysterious germ. I destroy everything with my powerful abilities. I am everywhere! I am invisible. I make people sick. I love my other virus friends. I am so tiny you can’t see me. I’m ugly and my friends are people who pick their nose, touch their mouth and don’t cover their mouth when they cough. I multiply in a flash! I don’t like people who wash their hands everyday because they shoo me away. NOOOOOOO! I’ve been destroyed!

By Ana Tauelangi.

My name is Virus Victor. I’m as mean as a dinosaur can ever be. My powers are multiplying and being invisible. You can’t see me, invisibility is my main key. Here are my friends Booger Eating Bob, Pencil Chewer Tina and Sneezing Suzie. When Suzie sneezes and doesn’t cover her mouth, I am happy as a crazy hyena. Do you know why I get so excited with glee? I spread everywhere and multiply happily. I will tell you what I don’t like are people who wash their hands and cover their mouth when coughing. I will no longer  be there because Virus Victor will be destroyed into smithereens. BOOM! BOOM!

By Azaleah Nukanuka-Puleheloto.

My name is Bad Racey Germ. I am invisible and disgusting. I zoom around the city. I am menacing and terrible. Watch out!

By Tu’akifa Fatai.

My name is Master Germ. I can teleport around the room. I am ugly and I can zoom everywhere and make people horribly sick. Here I come!

By Felix Tuaato.

My name is Germy. I am invisible. I am disgusting and I dash around the world infecting everyone.

By Neivi Finau

Mahi māra Term 2 2020

Term 2 started with the whole of the country in lockdown due to the Covid 19

pandemic. 

The school holidays had been brought forward and all of the planning and mahi

for that time had to be put on hold….. Although the country stopped

(with the exception of the amazing essential workers)

PLANTS/GARDENS DON’T STOP GROWING!  A bonus, we were lucky

to have had the beautiful weather that we did during this time.

Just before the restrictions were lifted, we were able to get back into the mara. 

The unwanted plants (weeds) had started to take over.  There were still kumara

and pumpkin to harvest and the seeds that were sown during the lockdown for our

winter crops, had grown into beautiful seedlings and needed to be planted out. 

It was a busy time with weeding, harvesting, planting and deciding the best way

to deal with our old plant material.

Broccoli, spinach and beetroot seedlings. From seeds sown during the lockdown.

When the tamariki came back to Yendarra, our sessions in the mara were organised

a bit different.  They adapted so well to it.  Our focus for the term was how we could

use this older plant material and that was by making compost and some of

the different composting methods available to us….

We talked about what can be used to make a good compost. 

You need ‘browns’…. small sticks, dead leaves, shredded paper and cardboard

and ‘greens’ …. fruit and vegetable scraps and chopped up plant material, to name

a few, plus temperature, moisture and time.  

Methods for making the compost include, trenching, where you dig a hole,

place the material in it and cover it back up with the soil.  It’s a quick and easy

way of composting and one of the only ways of getting rid of meat scraps

and dairy products.  

The boys digging a hole/tenching	Material is put in the hole and covered over

Our compost bins have been well used since the mara and wharekai were

developed, and the recent addition of another two has enabled us to

make so much more needed compost.  Material – browns and greens are

piled up and over time compost is created…

…and directly on top of the garden bed.  Although it puts an area out of action for a

little while, and can look a bit messy, there will be beautiful compost made directly on

the bed and ready for planting in the spring/early summer.  The finished crops from
the previous summer … corn, kumara, tomatoes and the various pumpkins and
squash have been chopped up small, and the fallen leaves that have dropped
throughout the school grounds and picked up by Ms Baker and Ms Filipo have been
added to the bed. 

As well as some cardboard and horse manure...… Watch this space.

Healthy homemade kai in Room 10

Room 10 have some wonderful homemade lunches and we thank your beautiful parents for the aroha they show us and you by taking a genuine interest in the kai you eat so you remain fit and strong and live a healthy life. Your parents are super stars and we are very proud of you and them! 

Room 10 Highlights of Term 1

Learning about gardening and contributing mahi to our Yendarra mara

Trench composting is a way to compost easily our kitchen and garden waste.

We used spades to dig a big hole in the garden.

Next we filled the hole with fruit and vegetable waste and covered this with a layer

of dirt. Overtime the waste will break down and give nutrients to the soil for new plants to grow strong and healthy.

Harvesting fruit and vegetables is one of our favourite things to do in the mara. We learn the best times when to harvest different kai like tomatoes, beans and corn. Eating the fresh produce we have grown makes us not only healthy, also happy that we have helped to grow all this delicious food. Yum!

Our Māra

Back to School Under Alert Level 2

Thank you to all our wonderful families for your support at this time. Welcoming home our tamariki today was an absolute joy! Seeing their smiles walking into school brought new life to our school as we have missed them very much.

We know there will be many new learnings, washing hands, surfaces and spreading out but we are just excited to be able to resume school and learning onsite once more.

Today we have already started singing in our music studio, learning in our learning gym and lego in our construction room.

Term 1 in Room 14

In Room 14 we celebrate the success, firstly by our attendance.  Over the weeks in term 1, we achieved over 90% attendance every week.  Superb effort whanau, keep it up!  Secondly, we appreciate and thank all our whanau, for sending our tamariki to school with healthy kai and in the correct uniform everyday. Ngā mihi nui kia koutou.

Along with healthy kai, correct uniform and brilliant attendance, comes exciting learning. We use materials to assist us in maths and in other learning areas, we read books for a sustained amount of time, we share our understanding using keywords, we identify main points, we also looked at, how to greet someone in Te Reo Māori ‘the hongi - pressing of noses’ As you can see the fun of learning ain't over yet. During the term, our Year 5 and 6 students had the opportunity to head off to the whare kai and mahi mara, alongside Mr Greig and our wonderful volunteers. Not stopping there, we also welcomed Coach Alister, Coach Mikare and Coach Jarot.  They are teaching our tamariki the fundamentals for the sport code, Australian Football League (AFL). Our students are loving this experience.