Malo e lelei BMPS Family. 

We had some beautiful students dressed in their cultural clothing to celebrate Tongan language week. 

Take a look at the junior school, aren't they fabulous!

We have been learning about how to keep our waters clean and safe for the animals, and for ourselves!

We had a very special visit from Sally , she works for the Watercare team.  Sally taught us all about where our dirty water from our household goes and the process it goes through to be re-used or disposed of.  We learnt that there are special tanks with Super-Bugs that help to clean dirty water so it is not wasted. 

Looking after our water is so important, we do not want it to be polluted and yucky. We also hope it never runs out!  

We learnt about how most pieces of rubbish dropped go down the drain, which leads out to the ocean, and can kill sea creatures.  This made us sad. 

Here are some photos of our learning and some fun experiments we did with Sally from Watercare. We made rivers and had a race to see who could reach the drain first!

Here are some pics of our favourite  time of the week. BUDDY TIME! We love our senior buddy class and teacher. This week, we spent time in the library together reading to one another and listening to a great story read by Miss Bedford. We can't wait for some more fun with Room 8 next week. It is a very special tuakana and teina time, the seniors interacting and helping their younger peers.

Kia Orana

We had lots of fun for Cook Island Language Week.
We learnt lots of new words and celebrated this beautiful culture. The students in Room 13 thought the best part of the culture was the FOOD!

We made maynaise (pink cook island potato salad) with potatoes, eggs, beetroots, mayonnaise, chow chow pickle, slat and pepper. We LOVED it!

Here are some pics of us peeling the potatoes and cooking all of our ingredients, We took turns and it was tu'i (deeeelicious)!!

Tena koutou,

Happy Matariki celebrations.
We have started our week by learning all of the names of the seven stars in this lovely waiata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqEwg2jJbQ

We also have planted some silver beet, as the Maori people always used Matariki as a time to harvest and grow crops, as well as collect kaimoana.

There will be lots of photos to come through the coming weeks.

Kia pai to wiki. Kia kaha to reo!

Arohanui,
Room 13

Fa'afetai Lava BMPS Aiga!

What a great week we have had. Today (Friday), we celebrated by making Sapa Sui together as a class. 

It was a lot of fun to do some cooking together, and we had very happy manava! (stomachs)

All of the students looked beautiful in their traditional wear. Here are some photos. 

Enjoy the long weeked, and some of our photos from this beautiful Samoan language week :) 

Tōfā soifua