Purekireki Marae visit

All of Te Pahu School had an awesome trip to Purekireki Marae just outside Pirongia today. It was such a new experience for many students and so much was learnt about Maori culture, the Marae, Mt Pirongia and the surrounding areas. Students got to give their first hongi, experience a Powhiri, learn how Mt Pirongia got its name, how to weave harakeke (Flax) and all sorts of other things. It was such a valuable experience for the children. Well done guys, you showed respect and a positive attitude throughout the whole day. It was great to see you guys looking out for the younger ones. This was definitely noticed by the parents as well as myself. Well done.

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Golf

Today we had a golf taster session with Jason from Sport Waikato. Lots of learning and lots of fun!

Back in my day...

Inspired by a Monthy Python skit the students had some fun imagining they were grumpy old men or women talking about life back in their day. Here are a few excerpts from their writing. It makes for entertaining reading.

Back in my day, we didn't have those fancy clippers for our hair, no we had a match and a bucket of water. Ya light your hair on fire to singe it to the right height, then take a plunge in the water to cool off, and that’s the way we liked it.

If we didn’t listen to Mum, she would cut off our ears plant them in the ground in hope of growing us some good ones.

I had to bike 30 miles on a three wheeled trike which only had two wheels, to school.

I had to do my homework with a feather and a dollop of warm, gooey, cow manure.

I used to have to walk without shoes every day across melting tar roads, leaving my feet so black afterwards, that I couldn't get it off even if I scrubbed it off with a steel tooth brush.

We had to walk 5km to just milk the cow for breakfast. For dinner we would spend all afternoon catching flies with our tongues.

Back in my day, we didn’t have any fancy whiz bang gizmos to help us, Ya no what we had… Bricks!!! Brick phones as big as 5 cassette tapes! Although I suppose you don’t know what they are, with all your new fancy wireless CD’S, and CD players. We didn’t have those fancy vacuum cleaners, No no no, we had to wipe our feet before we went outside, that’s how dirty it got.

Back in my day if we wanted to watch a show we would stick a piece of glass in front of us, have someone dancing behind it and Bing Bong Bangliboo, you had a TV. 

Back in my day when we went to war there was none of these bang bang things, all we had was a rotten old bone and some sunflower seeds.

For games, we had a thing called a cucumber, you plant it in the ground and watch it grow.

Back in my day all we had for television was to go out into the field and watch the planes get shot down during World War 1.

TPC SAIL

We had an awesome day sailing today. A first for everyone! Half the class attempted to go yesterday but we didn't get on the water as the wind was too strong. Today's wind was perfect. Today did help us realise how difficult it would have been if we had gone yesterday because the wind we had today was plenty enough to get some speed up and learn the basic skills. The students learnt lots of new sailing language, gained knowledge of reading and using the wind and they also had loads of fun along the way. Well done guys. You can be proud of your effort and attitude towards something completely new. I hope some of you take up the cheap Learn to Sail programme the Ngaroto Sailing Club is offering. Check out links for more information Website,   Information on Facebook.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
When you want something you have never had, you need to try something you have never done.

TPC - SELL Market day

At the end of last term we had a market day to raise money for those in Nepal still recovering from the earthquake. It was such an awesome night with an amazing turn out of people. Room 7 was responsible for food and entertainment which kept them very busy. It was great to see the students having to be organised and thinking carefully about everything that needed to be done. They looked for all sorts of ways to maximize profit and had many things donated. We did make a massive profit of $915. The school made a profit of about $2400. All this money will be going to people desperate need of help. Here are a few photos.

Ag day

We had an awesome Ag day today. A great effort from all of Room 7. Most students had either a goat, lamb or calf this year which was awesome and the rest were the runners for the event. It was great to see how much work some of you had put in over the last few weeks and months with your animal. It will be the last Ag day for some of you so it was great to go out with a bang. Well done!